Compliments

A place for the kind words that people have posted on my blog pages from time to time. I find it really inspiring and encouraging to read about so many appreciative ears in one place.

Audiobook recording is a peculiarly solitary business, so connecting with listeners is wonderful. 🙂

Thankyou all!!

163 Comments

It was a pleasure to record, Joel, and I’m so glad y’all enjoyed it too!

Hello,
Our whole family thanks you for your recording of Nine Unlikely Tales by E. Nesbit! We had an eight-hour car trip from Baltimore to New York and back and all of us were captivated: grandparent, parents, and children.
Your fans,
The Bader family

Yes, it’s happened a few times, Jim. Quite a number of Gutenberg texts (especially the earliest ones) have mistakes, from the transcription process — I just ignore those and read what I think it should be. (There are quite a few arid/and substitutions, for instance, that’s the classic example of a transcription ‘scanno’.) The cahn/calm is probably one of these, as you say!

Printer’s errors and author’s errors are different, and can be harder to resolve. If the meaning is ambiguous, I go back to a copy of the book, either a physical one or a scan of the pages (archive.org has many, so do Google and a few other places online.) If none of those help, I call in friends who have a lot of experience in the bizarre world of book errors and see what they think.

Cori, Thanks for the suggestion about Ruth Golding. I have a question about how to handle problems or errors in a text that I want to read for LibiVox. In the first sentence of “The Miraculous Pitcher” there appears to be a mis-transcribed word. It appears in the Gutenberg text as “…enjoying the cahn and beautiful sunset.” and after some hunting I believe it was incorrectly scanned or something and it should be “…enjoying the calm and beautiful sunset.” The notes for LibriVox say you shouldn’t change any words and I certainly understand that, but this appears to be an error that should be read correctly. Have you run run into this sort of problem in your reading?

Thanks,
Jim Sib (Grandpa Sib)

Good to hear from you, Jim! I’m recording as fast as I can. 🙂 May I recommend my colleague Ruth’s readings, too..? Another huge Nesbit fan, she’s had great fun with these: http://www.archive.org/details/magic_world_rg_librivox

Cori,

I just listened to your recording of Edith Nesbit’s Nine Unlikely Tales for Children. Your voice is absolutely perfect for those stories. I look forward to listening to some of your other recordings.
Jim

Thankyou so much for your comment, Anthony. I hope your treatment goes quickly and very well, and am glad you’ve found LibriVox to pass the time.

Dear Cori,
I am following a treatment for a serious desease with interferone. I feel too tired to read or watch tv, so I have downloaded lots of books from librivox. Your wonderfully soothing voice works wonders for me and helps me through this difficult time. keep on the good work, with all my wishes to achieve the success you deserve.
Anthony

I long for the sound of your voice.

Thankyou, Robert! I had a long pause in recording it, because I lost confidence with ‘doing the voices’ and also because the next chapter is quite violent. But I do love the overall story, and will be back to it pretty soon, I think. 🙂

Thankyou, David!

Walter, I’m signed up with one agency (Action Audio) and have finished one (as yet unreleased) audio book with them … I think I prefer longer readings to shorter VO work, but I hadn’t thought of wma.com, and with my last solo being his namesake, I think that might be a good omen. 🙂 Need to work on the ol’ demo …

Thankyou, Lorna, it’s a favourite of mine too, and I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

just wanted to say how much i love your reading. after a lifetime of consuming books with my eyes they are giving out and i have had to turn to audio books. i have mathilde on my ipod and listen to it frequently. for me it is one of those perfect marriages of book and reader which do not often take place in the audio book world, commericial or otherwise. it is a gift to be able to read in the same voice a book is written. and the joy to the listener is that the reader does not intrude on the experience. thank you ! Lorna

Cori – I followed the the links here to say how enjoyable it is to listen to your voice only to notice with suprise how beaten the path is. Good luck with your aspiration in VO.

all best regards,
david in brooklyn

If, as you say, you’re interested in doing professional VO, why not send a sample of your work to some of the big professional talent agencies? You can start with William Morris (wma.com). They have an extensive portfolio of VO talent.

Good luck!

Cori I have fallen in love with the sound of your voice!! I can’t express in words how listening to you read just makes my day.
Thank you for all you do for us listeners!
Danny

hi cori,

I’ve been listening to the stories you’ve read in LibriVox, and I must say i really like your voice. I’ve heard different stories being read by different people and you are the best! 🙂

It is so nice listening to book read with an english prononciation, I must say that books being read in english instead of american are best.

And you read with an insight and you use your voice so that the books get more “vivid”, but at the same time you don’t exaggerate it. 🙂

I have one little question… Are you planning to read Jane Austen some time? i am a little fan of her stories, but I haven’t found any reader with a good english pronunciation and pleasant voice as you have. 🙂

What a marvellous resource! You are a shining example of what can be achieved on the web for the benefit of all. Thank you.

Ah, Walter, my mum says I *am* as pretty as my voice. So there’s that. And I’m contemplating the Inferno, but have a irresistable queue of things before I could get to it, so, we’ll see. 🙂 Thanks for your comments, though!

And thankyou Kate, too. Virgil was read, ohhh, at least a year ago – in fact, I think it might be on my old headset mic. So I’m glad it sounds okay still … I’m always chary of going back to hear old things, ’tis odd enough listening to myself, without worrying about the equipment and technique I had too. Thanks too for the feedback about LibriVox … it’s impossible to know what effect the simple act of muttering into a microphone can have in general, so it’s fun to have it here, in specific terms. Hope you find your own way to contribute, too … it’s a lot of fun, and the project needs people doing all kinds of things.

Hi Cori –

You do have a wonderful voice. I’m sure, if you chose, you could become a professional reader for audio book recordings. I’m brand new here and librivox, and was listening to different voices to hear how people read for these sort of things, and was so enchanted by your reading of Virgil that I kept listening as I read through the site. I almost never do that – and I’ve never read Virgil, either. So there you have it – you made a difference in my life today, and I’m better for it. How’s that for the importance of projects like librivox!

Anyway, I just wanted to find more of your works, and found a place to say thank you. So there it is:

Thank you for your efforts and for your contributions here. I can see that I have a lot to learn!

Take care, and watch out for all those boys and their “pretty” comments…! ; )

–Kate

By the way, I pretty much agree with John’s comment about the Inferno. After hearing you lead it off, listening to the other readers was a trial.

And, yes, Denny Sayers *is* unbearable. It was hellish traveling through the infernal circles over which he presides. In other works as well, he often reads passages without regard to their meaning, and almost as often reads them as if he was laying eyes on them for the first time.

Thanks for listening – and reading!

Are you as pretty as your voice?

Thank you for your lovely readings! I just listened to your chapter in Mansfield Park, and you really stood out. As another listener remarked, you should be doing this professionally!

Just a note to thank you for your Librivox work – I loved The Hunger Artist, The Dead and Howard’s End.

Thank you so much for making your recordings! Of all the readers I’ve heard on Librivox your voice and all aspects of your reading are the best and most captivating!

Cori, you have the best voice I’ve heard on LibriVox. Keep up the good work. It’s marvelous to listen to.

Thankyou, Justin! That piece was requested by the starter of the project, Peter Why … I’d never heard of Nesbit’s adult stories before. She’s very good, though, a creepy pleasure to read.

I just stopped by to say that I listened to The Ebony Frame from Librivox today and it was absolutely fantastic! Your reading was outstanding.

Cori, how are you doing? I left you a PM on LV.

Thanks, Matt! It’s such a great piece of literature.

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