Comments | rotynd: and this is where it gets intensely cool

rotynd

and this is where it gets intensely cool

Aug 18, 2010 19:51

You know what’s good? Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter is good.

Oh my god. You guys. MINE MINE MINE FINALLY. I can’t even tell you; I grew up listening to The Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton over and over and over again at bedtime, so a kindly British gentleman’s voice reading stories for children does things to me on a sublime level, it’s ( Read more... )

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sekahyyh August 20 2010, 20:45:28 UTC

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rotynd August 25 2010, 04:52:20 UTC

I KNOOOOOW SO HARD. I think something inside me exploded when he did the Cheshire Cat. But it did deprive us of his physical presence, which is important because LOOK AT THAT FACE. LOOK AT HIS BODY. DOES HE BEG TO BE HUGGED YES HE DOES. I'D BE ALL UP ON HIM LIKE A SPIDER-MONKEY.

rotynd August 25 2010, 04:53:01 UTC

His expression is now even more appropriate. WHATEVS, FRY, I CAN'T TURN OFF MY HEART.

sekahyyh August 25 2010, 19:34:05 UTC

STEPHEN FRY IS OPPRESSIN' OUR LOVE.

I follow him on Twitter. He is so cute! ♥

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Stephen Freakin' Fry sobdasha September 8 2010, 01:46:06 UTC

Man that does sound intensely cool.

I suck at audio books, though... I hate being read aloud to. Katia shared Gaiman reading Coraline with me, but I still haven't listened to it... I am confident Gaiman will do it amazingly, but I can't just SIT AND LISTEN TO A BOOK. I have to DO SOMETHING. And I hate reading along because they don't match my pace, and if I do anything else I'll not be focusing on one or the other (like Mom TV-and-knits, and either she has no idea what happened in the show or she has messed up her knitting), and it is just sad. It really is sad.

Re: Stephen Freakin' Fry rotynd September 8 2010, 02:59:41 UTC

I can sympathize fully, but... I don't know, it's weird how my head works that way. I used to listen to a few stock books on tape over and over when I was little, and I actually started reading myself pretty late; Mama always read to me. She still does, in point of fact - just, we've moved from Burnett to Pratchett. So obviously I can do it for some things. But I also usually very much prefer to have a book in my hand, be able to take my time and concentrate; there's a weird control issue thing, and I sometimes can't pay attention...

You know, I think a lot of it might be to do with how things are written? Like, most books just aren't that well-written; when it comes down to it, you need your eyes on the page or your attention is going to go elsewhere, because it doesn't sound pretty read aloud. But then things that are epically wonderful, like classics, also take too much concentration and you need to be able to go back over things. So it's only stuff that's Good or at least Pretty but also Modern that can hold my attention - that ( ... )

Re: Stephen Freakin' Fry sobdasha September 9 2010, 02:13:57 UTC

Mom got mad at the library's summer reading program because I kept making her read to me so that I could win prizes. From then on I had to read my own books, over and over and over again ( ... )

Re: Stephen Freakin' Fry rotynd September 9 2010, 02:21:27 UTC

We were only allowed one movie a week when we were little, and Mama didn't work then so she had the time to indulge us, so reading was like seriously the entirety of our entertainment. And since I read late... yeah, it was all Mum. She busier by the time she got to Mimi, and pretty much couldn't do it with Fran, and by the time Fran came around and Mimi was little, the movie-watching went way up (one per kid per week, then... whatever, just please god let me get something done), and while it could be coincidence, there is an uncanny corollary to how much we like reading. (It is a way of life for me, Em loves it inasmuch as she expresses love for anything anymore, Mimi is pretty into it with the right book but finds it a bit of a chore, and Fran pretty much hates it.) But this is way off topic now, whatever ( ... )

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