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!!
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Hi Cori,
I have just listened to your E Nesbitt childhood memories audio book and, like the garden described at the end of its pages, was enchanted. You have the most marvelous gift of gracing every sentence with a beautiful, warm charm that, delightful as it is, never distacts the listener from the content of what you are reading.
The pleasure you take in reading becomes our pleasure, and for that I warmly thank you.
Hi Cori, I have listened to History of Holland by George Edmundson, for which you have recorded some parts, and I just want to compliment you with your wonderful reading voice. It’s just very pleasant to listen to. Thanks, Sander.
Oh, you’re very welcome, Sander. I knew very little about the Netherlands before starting to record, and it was an interesting read!
Cori,
Thank you so much for your readings! You have the most beautiful voice I think I have ever heard. I’ve been listening to Book 4 Part 2 of Paradise Lost over and over. Your reading of it is simply fantastic. Thank you
Matt
Thankyou, Matt! Eventually, I WILL make the time to record the whole thing … I’d never read Milton before, but think this particular work is just amazing.
Cori,
I discovered your reading of The Wood Beyond the World, Your reading of this book is so captivating and soothing to me that I wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed it. I am currently listening to it for the third time. Thank you so very much for this your voice is a treasure.
William Morris is amazing, Bill, I’m happy you’re enjoying him too! Thank-you for posting. 🙂
Dear Cori,
I am a big fan of your voice. Your diction is precise like a pencil tip yet your tone is soft like pillow. I agree heartily with one of the comments above that you should record the divine comedy in its entirety. After swaying to your first couple cantos, I now associate the text with your voice; it was painful to continue with the other readers.
Alex
I do plan to read it all, Alex, sometime. It’s an amazing piece of writing, for sure, and the translation flows beautifully.
Hi, Cori.
I’m currently listening to your recordings of Shelley’s Mathilda. You have a lovely voice, and I am thoroughly enjoying hearing your reading. I look forward to listening to more. All the best, and thank you!
Meghana
Thank-you for writing, Meghana. I love Mary Shelley, and was pleased to be able to help putting the text into Project Gutenberg; it was the icing on the cake that someone invented the wonderful LibriVox, just for me to record a version too. Happy listening!
You’re most welcome, Rachel; E. Nesbit is one of my favourite authors!
Hi Cori,
After searching for short stories I discovered Nine Unlikely Tales and have been listening to your wonderful voice. Great job!
Thank you so much!
Rachel
Oh that’s cool, Clay … brings Brooke interestingly up-to-date. Despite Wilfred Owen’s most common sense efforts, there’s still a lot of “Dulce et Decorum Est” around.
Soldier – Rupert Brooke
Loved it and loved your voice as always.
Here’s the video: http://www.vimeo.com/12572661
Such a hard question! One of my favourites would definitely be “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, because it’s so very well-written, and packs a real emotional punch for me. I really enjoyed Milton, because I thought he’d be a terribly fusty read, whereas the language of “Paradise Lost” is vivid and so elegantly put-together. I’m oddly protective of Mary Wollstoncroft, so reading part of her “Vindication of the Rights of Women” made me feel closer to her. And finally, the first LibriVox Community podcast I ever made, #54, was huge fun, even if it was so over-produced that I get regular podcaster’s block trying to live up to it.
Once a well-known songstress told me that she couldn’t pick a favorite song, because they were all like her children. If I may ask, do you have a favorite recording you’ve made, perhaps one that you were especially proud of or enjoyed the most?
Just wanted to say I love your voice – I’ve been seeking out your recordings (as well as a few others like Clive Catteral). You guys are very talented and we all really appreciate your contributions to the free audiobooks projects. Keeping the old texts alive is extremely important, and you guys make it so enjoyable! Keep up the awesome work!
Will do, Samanem, I enjoy reading them so much … I’m glad you enjoy listening too! Thankyou for writing. 🙂
Hello Cori! Posterity here ;-). Just dropping by to extend my thanks for the great work you’ve done both in recording books and in hosting the LibriVox podcast (LOVE the disclaimers!). Your karma is high. Or bright. Or whatever happens to karma when it’s good.
You have a calm soothing voice when reading dantes inferno, very very nice to listen to! I listen to it while surfing the internet. Thank you! – Tigershark
You’re very welcome, Tigershark!
Thanks, Josh! I had a Porta-Booth-style arrangement set up (made out of acoustic foam tucked inside a canvas drawer, around the back & sides of the mic) for most of my recordings in the last year or so … but as of last month, I now have a ‘real’ sound booth (formerly known as a hall cupboard) though I’m still working on making the sound nice for that. I noise-clean anyway, but it does help to have a nice quiet place to start with!
No opinion on the AT2020, as I’ve not tried it (I’m a happy Samson C01U user.) I think it’s been discussed a few times in the forums, though … do you have one / are you considering it?
Greetings! I enjoy your recordings both for their accuracies and clarity. Your librivox recordings sound very professional, and I’d be interested in learning whether or not you read in a sound booth. (Also, by chance, do you have any opinions regarding the Audio-Technica AT2020 Microphone?)
Anyway, I enjoy your recordings and appreciate the time you’ve spent in service of the common good!
You’re very, very welcome, Naomi … and what a brilliant mental image I’ve got of your newly-Englished daughter. 🙂 Will certainly check in with you once I’ve finished the ever-growing backlist of Forgotten Gems that I Must Record (which seems to be strangely lacking in Nesbit, must fix that, as she is one of my favourite authors ever.)
Cori,
I listened to you read Nine Unlikely Tales by Nesbit with my children and we just love, love, LOVE you! I am a homeschooling Mom in California and there are a group of us out here who love your voice and your lovely accent. Your reading is excellent and I had to smile with delight when my eight year old daughter was swirling around in her room imitating your lovely accent after listening to your audio that day. In case you aren’t sure what to record next, please do consult with us as we have a full list of books we’d love for you to do, starting with Pilgrim’s Progress and Our Island Story 🙂 Thank you!
Just to say Cori that I agree with all those who have set messages I have listen’d to Mysteries of London and was so captivated that I purchased the book which was not easy as it’s not in print I continue to admire what you do and can hear that it helps to enjoy it. Thankyou so much pray carry on doing it!
I’ll put in my word. “Tender Buttons” was what led me to this site & to the voice of Cori Samuel (or was it first the poem by Rochester––”Ancient Person of My Heart”?). I’d written a few things about Tender Buttons on my web-log & clicked the tag & here I was.
Anyhow, Tender Buttons is a book so often so poorly read aloud, that I was, well, delighted. And now carry around that recording on my Kindle.
Goodness, Amy — I hope they inspired more than they did anything else. I’m just me, with a microphone to mutter into, just like every other LibriVoxer. 🙂
I found your recordings through Librivox. I found them to be both crippling and inspirational. It changed a great deal in my life! I know they renewed my interest in podcasting.
To add to the long list of fans, I have to say you have the greatest voice I’ve ever heard. I recently did a 1000 mile ride on a sportsbike and your reading made it fly by!
Thank you!
when im not sitting down and reading or meditating… im listening to an audio book while gardening or something else. after listening to your section in The Divine Comedy, i wished you had done the rest of it.
i think your voice and enthusiasm is amazing and captivating, and i hope you continue.
Have The Best Day Ever ^_^
Cori, I have just listened to you reading the “Paradise Lost”. Your voice delights me, which is quite distracting while trying to concentrate on Milton’s sophisticated English.
Greeting from Poland.
You’re very welcome, Ashley! I hope I’ll never stop reading too … it’s so much fun.
Dear Cori,
English is my second language and I have looking for a great British reader like you. The first I heard you reading on http://www.librivox.org I was completely amazed by your gorgeous voice. I will listen all of your readings I can find and hope you will never stop reading! Please keep reading. 🙂 – Ashley
thank you !
I am really indebted to you for all the good recordings I ever heard in my life. I am a student learning English. Good stuff.