Posted by Sigismund on September 24, 2009, at 14:22:28
In reply to Re: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night » Sigismund, posted by Dinah on September 24, 2009, at 10:00:18
The version I have is very well read (although poorly copied).
An English voice, perhaps from the midlands, kind, somewhat pedantic and explanatory....the voice matches the character very well.Something that people used to do before all our functions were privatised was read to each other. There are so many books, just about all of them fiction, that I would love to have read for me because I don't have the concentration. (I haven't read Madame Bovary, for heavens sake, not to speak of his Dictionary of Received Ideas, let alone the Russian writers.)
You will get the jokes in this because they are explained. (You know there is a book called 'How to Make People Like You in 5 Minutes'). The joke that is a little subtler, as in the one I quoted, is that the explanation is another joke. No matter how literal you are though, you won't be as literal as the narrator in this book.
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