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By Eric Hill • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Recommended Artistic Consumption
Rattling the cages for audio books
Until recently, I was not a fan of audio books. Too many bad experiences with them on the long drives home to The Rock. Those audio books were often British mysteries with narrators who enunciated every syllable as if some child’s spelling bee trophy depended upon it.
Victims expired in manor house libraries, bedrooms or servants’ quarters, dispatched by objects that neatly fractured their skulls or poisons that turned their lips blue. The books were boring, the sound scratchy and the best thing about the experience was when the tapes snapped and spewed out of the player; then my sister and I would applaud and beg our mother to read to us, instead.
However, I have gained a new respect for the variety and quality of today’s audio books, and Rattling Books, of Tors Cove, N.L., has helped me in this.
Rattling Books offers fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s books, and more, as audio CDs or MP3-CDs, and as digital downloadable files.
Read the rest of Sharon Hunt’s article in the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Eric Hill is the editor of branta.
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