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The Golden Compass, Project Gutenberg
Sep. 12th, 2007 07:34 pmI just finished the audiobook of The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman. I wanted to read it for a while after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sclerotic_rings and others told me to, but never got around to it. Then I saw they're making a movie of it with Nicle Kidman as Ms. Coulter. So when I saw an audiobook of it at a B&N, I grabbed it up. It's a short one, only 9 CDs total, unabridged, and it's narrated by the author with a cast doing the characters, which is unusual but interesting. It's definitely a young adult work, but there are elements of particle physics and ideas from quantum mechanics that I was shocked and delighted to find in such a book. It's worth reading.
And then it ended. At only 9 CDs and a 1:15 commute, that's around a week to finish the book.
So T$ reminded me of Project Gutenberg - a project to make all public domain literature freely available on the web. There are two sections or lists that I will find useful in the future and therefore wish to draw your attention to: the list of all Sci-Fi, and the lists of all audio works (broken down into sub-categories of human read and computer read).
I've also been wanting to read Beowulf, so that's currently downloading from Gutenberg while The Subtle Knife (sequel to the Golden Compass) is also dowloading via iTunes. Hooray for more bandwidth hogging! ^_^ Next task: burn as mp3's to CDs to play in my car.
sclerotic_rings and others told me to, but never got around to it. Then I saw they're making a movie of it with Nicle Kidman as Ms. Coulter. So when I saw an audiobook of it at a B&N, I grabbed it up. It's a short one, only 9 CDs total, unabridged, and it's narrated by the author with a cast doing the characters, which is unusual but interesting. It's definitely a young adult work, but there are elements of particle physics and ideas from quantum mechanics that I was shocked and delighted to find in such a book. It's worth reading. And then it ended. At only 9 CDs and a 1:15 commute, that's around a week to finish the book.
So T$ reminded me of Project Gutenberg - a project to make all public domain literature freely available on the web. There are two sections or lists that I will find useful in the future and therefore wish to draw your attention to: the list of all Sci-Fi, and the lists of all audio works (broken down into sub-categories of human read and computer read).
I've also been wanting to read Beowulf, so that's currently downloading from Gutenberg while The Subtle Knife (sequel to the Golden Compass) is also dowloading via iTunes. Hooray for more bandwidth hogging! ^_^ Next task: burn as mp3's to CDs to play in my car.
