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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 17:59:49 GMT
I just wish HP Lovecraft would come to Big Finish!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 19:14:50 GMT
I have 5 credits accumulated with Audible and a sixth due monday. Thinking of cancelling as i have quite a backlog, despite weekly listens. I do however have the following in my wish list: Any recommendations or thoughts? It has one read by David Tennant so no doubt it will have passed the headphones test with some of you on the forum. Attachments:
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Post by Trace on Aug 18, 2019 5:31:20 GMT
I just wish HP Lovecraft would come to Big Finish! It would be pretty tough to equal or improve upon the Dark Adventure Radio Theater/Lovecraft Historical Society and they’ve got his body of work pretty well covered, but I suppose if anyone could do it justice, it would be Big Finish. I would probably not get them because I really only need one version of any particular work unless it’s horribly done, and they are not.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Aug 22, 2019 6:27:15 GMT
Half way through The Time Machine. It's weird how you build up your own idea of something unread/unwatched/unlistened, etc, when it's something that's really famous. I kind of expected a mad scientist and a pretty girl jumping through time half a dozen times. But it's not like that at all. The first half is really heavy sci-fi that expects a lot from the listener as they visualise this 'strange new world,' it's inhabitants and it's way of life. Will hopefully wrap this up tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 16:15:43 GMT
The first half is really heavy sci-fi that expects a lot from the listener as they visualise this 'strange new world,' it's inhabitants and it's way of life. That's what captured my imagination many years ago when I first read The Time Machine...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 16:34:02 GMT
Half way through The Time Machine. It's weird how you build up your own idea of something unread/unwatched/unlistened, etc, when it's something that's really famous. I kind of expected a mad scientist and a pretty girl jumping through time half a dozen times. But it's not like that at all. The first half is really heavy sci-fi that expects a lot from the listener as they visualise this 'strange new world,' it's inhabitants and it's way of life. Will hopefully wrap this up tonight. Yes, as Stevo says though that's only being truthful to the source. I think some people new to reading (or in this case hearing) The Time Machine do expect it to be more pulp adventure-led than what it really is - quite a slowburning but very thoughtful exploration of one civilisation used as an allegory for Wells own thoughts on his contemporary society, utopia, greed and industrialisation. Even the more adventurish adaptation of the George Pal/Rod Taylor movie didn't change the single-time jump setting and as anyone who has seen Pal's other Wells adaptation, War Of The Worlds from 1953 knows he was not averse to taking massive liberties if he wanted. I think if Jules Verne wrote The Time Machine then the story would indeed have been more pacy, with varied locales, and perhaps what you'd expected (and Captain Nemo would probably have found a way in!) but it would have lost a lot of the depth and the prose. I love Verne but he's no Wells for me at least. I always thought it's the a-number-one influence on The Daleks serial from Hartnell's first year.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 11:08:23 GMT
Half way through The Time Machine. It's weird how you build up your own idea of something unread/unwatched/unlistened, etc, when it's something that's really famous. I kind of expected a mad scientist and a pretty girl jumping through time half a dozen times. But it's not like that at all. The first half is really heavy sci-fi that expects a lot from the listener as they visualise this 'strange new world,' it's inhabitants and it's way of life. Will hopefully wrap this up tonight. Yes, as Stevo says though that's only being truthful to the source. I think some people new to reading (or in this case hearing) The Time Machine do expect it to be more pulp adventure-led than what it really is - quite a slowburning but very thoughtful exploration of one civilisation used as an allegory for Wells own thoughts on his contemporary society, utopia, greed and industrialisation. Even the more adventurish adaptation of the George Pal/Rod Taylor movie didn't change the single-time jump setting and as anyone who has seen Pal's other Wells adaptation, War Of The Worlds from 1953 knows he was not averse to taking massive liberties if he wanted. I think if Jules Verne wrote The Time Machine then the story would indeed have been more pacy, with varied locales, and perhaps what you'd expected (and Captain Nemo would probably have found a way in!) but it would have lost a lot of the depth and the prose. I love Verne but he's no Wells for me at least. I always thought it's the a-number-one influence on The Daleks serial from Hartnell's first year. Oh, particularly that first episode exploring the petrified forest. The city dragging them further and further in. Down through labyrinthine corrdors. It's come into sharper focus since video games became popularised, but environmental storytelling is a wonderful little gift when handled just the right way. Both Nation and Wells show characters reacting to what they think they'll see as much as what they actually see. Their preconceptions shaping their behaviour. It's a dangerous, unknown world and the setting is treated as such. Gingerly. Carefully. As the characters grow bolder, more and more possibilities get dragged forward, like clawmarks through the sand. There's this really strong impulse the story puts on the audience to speculate and wonder (as the characters wander).
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Aug 25, 2019 9:03:41 GMT
Finished it last night and what a listen it was. The end of the world scenes are a realistic as they are bleak. And nicely open ended as well. I hope the traveller was reunited with Weena at the end.
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