Compliments

I just finished your audiobook recording of Frankenstein and have to say it was simply wonderful. As someone one who has listened to countless audiobooks since the 80’s, I want to tell you that you are one of the top three narrators I have ever listened to… and that is after only one book. I look forward to my next selection from you with great excitement. My thanks for our hours spent together.

Hello Cori,
Just here to say I love your narration. Your voice is so perfect for this – dare I say this may be part of your ‘vocation’ (Interestingly, the etymon for vocation has to do with voice!). My ideal world would be that you would narrate all my favourite titles! But I cannot ask any more than what you have already done. You have made Frankenstein come alive for me, a childhood book and a very key part of my learning English. Thank you for the joy and thrills you bring to all of us through your narration!
Gratefully,
Victor

Hi Cori, I ‘m an Italian preparing the anglo – american liretature exam. I would like to thank you (very much) for reading The scarlet letter as you do.
fatastica. we say in Italian.
take care.

isabella

Thank you for the wonderful recordings you make for Librivox! I enjoy them so much! 🙂

War of the Worlds. Great reading. Thanks. I’ve fallen madly in love with you, or at least your reading voice…..

Hi Cori! I’m WYSIWYG at L’vox. A long time ago, I started mining the catalog by reader as well as by author. I’d missed mining for Cori-books until today, when your reading of the opening chapter of Mysteries of Paris set the tone for the whole series….. which I’d just chosen as my next recliner-listen (as opposed to bedtime/insomnia listens, or drive-hears).

Of course in skimming thru your reads, I found two of my all-time favorites (Seacole and Nesbit’s Wings).

As far as isolation in book producton, here’s a paradigm of mine for the borrowing…..

In my worldview, you Librivox readers curl up on the edge of my bed all night, every night…. safe and wise and faithfully relaxed, through my night terrors and the dreams that process those terrors. It’s you readers as much as (and often more) than the authors, or the characters they’ve drawn. (Because…. you know, all the “isms” in them.)

So– just as hearing a book seems like that to me, I invite you to install a virtual Susan-cheerleader…. perhaps tiny…. just above your microphone in virtual space, dancing with delight as she crows: “Oooooooo…… ooo ooo oooh! Another CoriStory!!! Wheee! ”

Or if you prefer another form of motivation, I’ll be through your finished solos in about six months. Get on it, girl! 😉

Love and thanks,

~Susan
(A former proofreader)

If angels actually were, they would strive to sound like you.
Thank you for “Mysteries of London”.

JP

Beautiful reading of Dr. Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles, thanks for your work!

Dear Lady, thank you so much!

I discovered old-time radio & audio books in 1998-99, and have rarely encountered such a voice paired with the wholly wonderful understanding of how to tell a story!

Thank you, as well, for contributing to Librivox; most notably for the introduction to and the reading of “Mathilda”, by Mary Shelley. What an interesting, albeit slightly dark, story! (Mary Shelley would’ve made a wonderful dinner date!)

🙂

Thanks again.
M.

I have just finished Charles Kingsley’s “The Water Babies” (while knitting). I’m in my 50s but felt like a wide-eyed child listening to your delightful rendering of the story which I had never read before. Thank you very much for that. I’ll be looking into your other recordings.

I’d listened to Librivox before but until hearing you narrate “The Well Beyond the World” I hadn’t realized what listening could be like. You’re the only narrator I’ve heard (thus far) who understands that good narration adds something to the text, it doesn’t just faithfully reproduce the text. You truly inhabit the works and bring them to life. Extraordinary.

Hi Cori.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time to complete your recordings. I travel the UK and recently the world (Australia) working in hospitals every week and your voice now accompanies me on my travels. You have the voice of an angel and a fantastic gift and I can honestly say that your beautiful voice outshines most of the narrators on the audiobooks I have recently bought.
I loved your version of Frankenstein and also The Hound of the Baskervilles. As you can tell I’m into horror and science fiction so if you ever decided to narrate a version of James Herbert’s The Fog or Stephen Kings Salems Lot or Cujo or something along the lines of Robin Cooks Coma I’d be forever in your debt.
Yours in awe.
George

Am listening to Wood Beyond the World. Unbelievably well read. Couldn’t imagine a more perfect voice for that text. Thank you!!

Listing to Divine Comedy. With such old text it can be vary hard to follow as most of the words and tempo/style of writing is outdated. You not only read it flawlessly but made listing to this easy and very enjoyable, I even re-listen to sections just to hear your voice again.

Thank you for lending your talents to the free Public Domain. I can’t wait to hear more of what you have read.

Hi Cori,

Love the whispering. If you like to do another, not so long, consider Undine, there is a good English translation at archive.org-

https://archive.org/details/undine00lamo

WITH Illustration by Arthur Rackham.!

As a matter of fact, your whisper tale does not make me sleepy, but I listen to your reading at work,sometimes as a soothing background. (Also your reading of wood at the world end as well, among others).

I do listen intently to the story as well, and for WITW would suggest that Arthur Rackham’s fantastic Illustrations (too bad not available on Archive.org, unfortunately) would really enhance the experience.

So in the case of Undine you could directly link to those wonderful Rackham illustrations.

In a sense, another good whispered one would be a whispered Alice, or through the looking glass, complete with links to public domain volume with the Tenniel’s illustrations (available at archive.org)…….

so there it is, another suggestion- multimedia!

Thanks so much for your readings. I find it almost impossible to listen to the vast majority of those readings on librivox, prefer to read than listen……by the way, I am from USA and of course am familiar with “american” english accents. Do you have an identifiable “British” accent in any geographical sense? I can certainly make out the difference between Aussie and Kiwi, Irish and Scots Englishes, as well as the midlands accents, but not much else. I assume it is very diverse (sorry for my ignorance).

Cheers

Looking forward to hearing your new stuff.

JG