Comments on: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Audiobook https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/30/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-audiobook/ Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Charles Darwin and visual arts | Dear Kitty. Some blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/30/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-audiobook/#comment-495090 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:07:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13601#comment-495090 […] The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Audiobook [Greg Laden's Blog] (scienceblogs.com) […]

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/30/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-audiobook/#comment-495089 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:28:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13601#comment-495089 I just noticed that Greg Wagland recorded an unabridged version of the Heart of Darkness, and that it runs between 4 and 5 hours. That means that when my novel, Sungudogo, is made into an audio book, it will about that long as the length of Sungudogo is very similar to Heart of Darkness… not exactly a coincidence.

]]> By: Joe Marcus https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/30/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-audiobook/#comment-495088 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:32:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13601#comment-495088 A quick search of Amazon.com, Audible.com (owned by Amazon), or the iTunes Store — and many other distributers as well — will turn up a lot of Darwiniana for folks who’d prefer to listen to their books on occasion rather than read them. (I don’t drive here in Boston but I imagine, what with the ubiquitous cell phone bans, that it’d be legally even dicier to read a book while driving. I mean, really, try balancing any of Desmond and Moore’s tomes on your steering wheel or dashboard in heavy traffic … Also, listening to audiobooks at night is a good way to fall asleep.) Which somehow brings me to the reason for my comment. I simply want to point out that RICHARD DAWKINS (who for all his awesome talents has never (so far as I know), unlike Wagland, played Macbeth (http://www.spotlight.com/9013-6722-0125), has also recorded Darwin, namely, abridged versions of “On the Origin of Species” and “The Voyage of the Beagle” …

The always irrepressible, indefatigable Dawkins, accompanied by Lala Ward (his wife, a professional actress), has also narrated unabridged audio recordings of his own books. And they do an excellent job; not only are they better than most authors who record their own work, they’re also better than some of the professionals that most authors pay to read their books for them.

]]> By: Erp https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/30/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin-audiobook/#comment-495087 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:52:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13601#comment-495087 I think he wrote rather more about his uncle (and father-in-law), Josiah Wedgwood of Maer, than of his grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood who founded the pottery firm.

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