{"id":63,"date":"2009-02-14T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-02-14T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:56:42","slug":"review-breckenridge-elkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/02\/review-breckenridge-elkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Breckenridge Elkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breckenridge Elkins is a &#8220;tall tale&#8221; character, written by <a title=\"WikiPedia entry on Robert E. Howard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Howard\" target=\"_blank\">Robert E. Howard<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the same Robert E. Howard that wrote the <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em> stories, although these are quite different.\u00a0 Breckinridge is the biggest man in Bear Creek, and is one of those people that things just happen to&#8230; Howard wrote these stories in a mountain man dialect, and with a deadpan sense of humor which appeals to me.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across these stories via <a title=\"Visit Libri Vox in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LibriVox<\/a>, a source of free audio books.\u00a0 There are two volumes available: <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/bear-creek-collection-vol-01-by-robert-e-howard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Creek Collection, Vol. 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/bear-creek-collection-vol-2-by-robert-e-howard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Creek Collection, Vol. 2<\/a>, both read by RK Wilcox.\u00a0 He does a wonderful job reading these stories, flowing through the written dialect easily, and changing voices to match each character.\u00a0 I can easily imagine him &#8220;jest sittin&#8217; on the porch and tellin&#8217; tales&#8221; about Breck Elkins as if they were his own, he is so comfortable with the material.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to these stories while walking the dog, with a little car listening too.\u00a0 The stories vary in length from about 30 to about 45 minutes at &#8220;normal&#8221; speed.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s almost 13 hours of tale tellin&#8217; here, and very enjoyable hours they are.\u00a0\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breckenridge Elkins is a &#8220;tall tale&#8221; character, written by Robert E. Howard.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the same Robert E. Howard that wrote the Conan the Barbarian stories, although these are quite different.\u00a0 Breckinridge is the biggest man in Bear Creek, and is one of those people that things just happen to&#8230; Howard wrote these stories in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}