Michael and I have just finished listening to “The Secret Garden”. We absolutely loved it. The story was so enchanting, it made me laugh out loud as well as cry. And the reading was extremely well done.
Actually I can only encourage you to go to Librivox and download the book for free (and totally legally). The lady who read the book, Kara Shallenberg, did such a good job that I even felt inspired possibly to start a weekly podcast, where I read a book … I’m reading a book for Librivox at the moment and I’m really enjoying reading out loud as well as the technical fiddling afterwards. What do you think?
Well anyway, I’m going off topic. We then wanted to watch the movie just to finish the whole thing off nicely and were really looking forward to it, since we’ve enjoyed the book so much. But we should have known better not to trust Hollywood to do justice to a book. I have to admit that it’d be a pretty tough task to condense a whole book into 102min and maybe they’ve done as well as is to be expected, but I was extremely disappointed. The film is missing the suspense of the book. Honestly, at its best it’s a poor summary of the book with even important bits changed and (I should have known it) a love story added into it. That was probably most off-putting. Why turn an innocent children’s book into some romance?
So any of you who don’t know the book yet: go read it. It is absolutely beautiful BUT do not watch the movie, it is a let-down.
if you enjoy reading aloud as well as the technical fiddling, then by all means, go for it! if others can enjoy your work also via podcast, then even better, it’s the icing on the cake and probably the only/easiest route for some to find enjoyment.
Hi Heather,
thanks for visiting. Yes, I’d like to hope it could be enjoyable for some people to listen to my voice for a couple of hours, though I find it hard myself to do that
Though podcasting right now is looking quite scary to me, I’ll have to learn a lot about it first. But until then I’ll still continue to record for Librivox.