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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Had to find a place to thank you for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein LIbrivox reading. Thank you so much for using your beautiful voice to bring this book to life (pun intented).
Hi Cori
I discovered you through doctor’s orders. I was told to take exercise so downloaded books onto an MP3 player and heard your voice. You’re brilliant and your delivery makes walking worthwhile. I’m an author and journalist and mentioned your voice on my website blog and in my Huddersfield Daily Examiner column. Keep up the good work.
Denis
Hi Cori, I “have” to read Dante Divine Comedy for a course and I am listening to your recording. You have a fantastically expressive voice. I am an avid listener to audiobooks as I drive a lot in my job. I often find the voices chosen get in the way of the story as they are overly expressive or loud. Your voice is very soothing and draws me into the story. I am sad that you hate your local library. I work P/time in a library and try under difficult external circumstance (ie funding cuts, wage cuts and staff cuts) to give the best service possible. with best wishes Jason
It’s been a while since i said how much i enjoy listening to you, but i hope the reviews I left on Audible are helpful (and not stalker scary) and attract more attention to the books you have read. I particularly liked listening to you read Tranquility’s Blaze. The magic practiced in the story is a lttle strong for my liking, but i love the characters, the conflict and your portrayal of such strong people in adversity. I can’t wait for the next volume! The Jane Lovering book was good fun and you character voice changes were amazing. You should really do a YouTube showing how you achieve such diversity in voices. All the fans you have hear would love it.
I dearly loved listening to your voice. I first listened to Frankenstein read by you, and I will never be able to read an excerpt from the book without hearing your voice in my mind. Thank you for adding to the librivox library (: You never quite know what you’re getting with free audio books, but this would have been worth hundreds.
really enjoying your reading of frankenstein. thanks so much!
I really enjoy your readings! The first I came across was the ebony frame, such a poignant story and read so wonderfully. Ever since I’ve been searching for things read by you, which has lead me to books i might never otherwise have come across. Currently enjoying the hound of the Baskervilles, you certainly make a far better Watson than Jude Law 🙂
Your voice is lovely and I wish I cold sound like that…but all I can muster is a singsong Argie/Welsh sound am afraid…
Would you mind telling me what equipment you use, your sound is pleasantly clear and bright.
I recently discovered Ms. Samuel’s voice on an Archive piece by de Quincey. A great voice and a flawless performance, expecially given de Quincey’s propensity to show off his Latin. Already many hours of enjoyment, and I look forward to many more. Thank you.
I absolutely love your voice! So appreciate your work! I cannot imagine a more perfect voice for all the literature I so love.
Hi there cori: I just finished Mathilda … It was a perfect performance by you. Excellently done, leo.
I met your voice from Black Beauty and I found your voice and reading excellent. Thank you very much!
~ Cori…
As I have read through many of these comments, I count a number of individuals requesting you to record the final cantos of Inferno… I don’t know what I could possibly offer you to fulfill these requests, but I beg of you to finish this work. The LibriVox readers who followed you are no match to your talent for bringing your listener into the story with your method of inflection and soothing meter. I must have read this story a thousand times, but I felt as if I had heard it for the first time listening to your voice move over its passages.
Again, I would be eternally grateful – along with the many others who share my sentiment – to finish the remaining cantos.
I wish you would record more podcasts, those were my favourites!
Your voice is so beautiful I want to marry you!
Hee! Thankyou! 😀
I agree with Astrid. I’ve also just finished listening to your reading of Frankenstein (well,l I have one more chapter to go) and you can count me impressed.
Years ago I attempted reading this text but soon abandoned it as I found myself zoning out for large portions of it.
So I was pleasantly surprised to find this time, as an audiobook, I actually enjoyed it the whole way through.
Such a literate, clear and pleasant voice – perfectly suited to the material it was reading. It was – in my mind, anyway – as if Mary Shelly was reading the story to me herself.
Fantastic! Thank you.
Thankyou SO much! I’d been dithering over recording it for so long, and am glad it was worth finally taking the plunge. 🙂
I have just finished listening to your Librivox recording of ‘Frankenstein’.
As I have to travel a lot, I listen to a lot of audiobooks in my car and normally I do not pay particular attention to the reader. But as your recording was so great, I googled your name and so I found this website. Really, this was the best recording I have ever heard. Your voice captivates everybody’s attention. Keep on the good work!
Oh, thankyou, Linda, you are very welcome! It’s such fun to read that that’s almost enough by itself — but to know that other people are enjoying the recordings too, is lovely.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read for Librivox.org.
I enjoy listening to your recordings while traveling, or hanging out by the pool here in Malaysia (enforced idleness and many plane trips due to husband’s overseas posting).
I’m English so its lovely to hear British classics read in what, to me, is the “right” accent and marvel at your diction. Thanks again.
Your voice is perfect reading the material that I love to listen to. Thank you so much for your contribution, such a pleasure to hear your presentations!
How about this for a future reading: Swallows and Amazons – the whole series. None more perfect than you for this job. I have heard the audio voices on offer -Gabriel Woolf, Alison Larkin- your voice is heads and shoulders above these professionals.
A mesmerizing performance of Water Babies. Simply superb. In the same way that Jeremy Brett became the definition of Sherlock Holmes, I have little doubt that your voice will become the defining one for this story.
Have you thought of a serious career in (first and foremost) children’s audio literature?
Hi Cori,
I just heard The beetle hunter read by you. Superb quality and the most charming voice 🙂
All the best,
Istvan
I was really pleased to find the Water Babies at Librivox, since I haven’t read it since I was a child. I found I had remembered hardly any of it at all. I very much enjoyed it, and it was interesting from the historical point of view. It did, however, shock me a little in places, and I don’t make a fetish of “political correctness”. So unnecessarily abusive about the Irish for example!
It thought it showed how much better George Macdonald was at fairy tales of this sort since he doesn’t weave in contemporary prejudices that were never very sound and have become dated in the way that Kingsley, despite much that is admirable, does.
But the book was very enjoyable. Very nicely read, too. You missed the the right pronunciations of a few archaic words — e.g. ha’penny (hape-ny), Mama (m’mah) — but your voice is both clear and restful.
Hi Cori,
God has surely given you a talent for reading! Listening to you is somewhat like going back to one’s childhood, and being read to by one’s mum. I think a greater compliment would be tough to come by! And I think we could all stand to become a bit more child-like. As for Dante–well, not everyone can read Dante; you are a gem of an exception, and sound like you grew up with Dante as your native language. I look forward to your next Dante installment! Have you ever considered reading The Story of a Soul by St. Therese? I don’t know how the copyright laws work in regard to reading books for Librivox, but I know there would be a big audience for that book, and that you would read it brilliantly.
What else can I say? I echo the words of others on this page–warmest thanks for being part of our lives 🙂
Thankyou, Keith! Once I’ve made it through Frankenstein and another Iambik project, Dante is definitely next on the list … and the credit will go entirely to Longfellow for making such an eminently readable translation.
The copyright laws depend on when (and sometimes where) translations were published and the date of death of their translator — so there is one version of St. Therese’s work in the LV catalogue already, but I don’t think that would be public domain for me, as the translator died in 1963.
Hi Cori,
I just sent a donation to support your work. I love your reading of Tender Buttons–the high technical quality, your careful diction, thoughtful inflection, and the musical quality of your voice. There’s perhaps something odd about hearing this American writer read in an English accent, but she lived and wrote in France, and your reading justifies the venture. She has an unusual accent of her own in the one recording I’ve heard of her. When you read her, Stein makes interesting sense.
Apropos, I wonder if you might be able to identify a particular flavor to your accent–it’s not exactly BBC but has a different sound from some other English accents I’ve heard.
Best wishes, and thanks for your contribution.
Robert
Thankyou, Robert, very much appreciated. Accent-wise, it’s probably a fair bit of Estuary sneaking into the BBC … I’ve been ankle deep in silt for about 20 years now.
Thank you for your work on Dante’s inferno.
I love to hear your voice while I work; it’s very soothing so I keep it in loop. This is the reason why I’m stuck in Inferno instead of moving on to Paradise 😉
Thank you for your contribution in my life.
*laughs* Thankyou, David! I promise that I will get around to recording all of it sometime in the not-too-distant future, and Paradise will be attained generally. 🙂
Hi Cori.
The Language I love is the very language you read on. Is’s great pleasure listening the music of your voice. I’d name you a painter of the sound. I see you words as the colourful ones.
Thank you so much.
Dimitry, from Russia.
I love hearing your wonderful voice, I discovered in the first chapter of the Divine Comedy and I can’t stop hearing, many, many thanks!
Thankyou so much, Maurix, I appreciate you taking the time to come here and post. 🙂
Dear Cori,
How very odd to be posting this message to the voice from
my iPhone! I stumbled upon you while looking for stories my children would enjoy, and am completely spoiled now. I truly can’t bear any other narrator, and listening to your reading of Nine Unlikely Tales is a nightly ritual in my house. I have no doubt E. Nesbit would be so pleased with your interpretation of her work. You have an amazing gift/skill. Keep adding titles, please! We are your adoring upstate NY fans!
The modern world is a wonderful place! Greetings from iPhones and bedtime stories from across the world and back a century. Some people are a little starry-eyed about the past, but I’m really very happy to be alive now. I’ll have a look around for other Nesbit stories, Julie — the Nine weren’t online, I came across them in an old library, and that was all they had. There must be more, though …