Secret History of Star Wars- The Audio Book, An OT.com Production? — Page 3

doubleofive said:

CP3S said:

I was posting in these parts long before you came along, little yellow turd. ;)

Not according to your profile, P3S. ;-)

Dah, stupid lost password!

CP3S said:

Wow, it derails off topic discussion too!

You're right, I screwed that one up.

Eh hem!

Wow, it derails on topic discussion too! Like a yellow Swiss Army knife of derailment.

This guy? THIS GUY????

Yo dawg, that's harsh.

xhonzi said:

Sluggo, Frink, and Bingo-

You three have been active in this thread without quite volunteering, so I've left you off of the chapter list for now.  If I was meant to take your snark as volunteering to read, please let me know and I will sign you up.

Others- I made assigments in the order your volunteered.  Chapters 2 and 3 are quite long, so if need to split those up, let's do that.  If you're cool with reading all of that, then have at it.  If there's a different chapter you'd rather read, let me know and we'll see what we can work out:

From 1st post:

Forward/Intro: Zombie

Chapter 1: xhonzi (~24 pages)
Chapter 2: 005 (~88 pages)
Chapter 3: Gaffer (~52 pages) (nice to have a female voice here, methinks)
Chapter 4: xhonzi(~12 pages) 
Chapter 5: Akwat (~36 pages)
Chapter 6: Ziggy S. (~15 pages)
Chapter 7: <>       (~43 pages)
Chapter 8: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 9: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 10: <>      (~34 pages)

Conclusion: Zombie

*Chapter list and page length taken from e-book v 1.2.  Though the official text for this version would be either the first printed version or the revision due 2013. 

Well, a big h-e-double hockey sticks-hockey puck to you xhonzi.  

Sure, I'd like to contribute somehow.  I could try a chapter.  8 or 9 maybe.  Sluggo is busy with work, church stuffs and trying to spend time with the lady-friend, but I can make an attempt.

this guy said:

I heard you like on-topic and off-topic. So I put some on-topic in your on-topic, off-topic in your off-topic, some off-topic in your on-topic, and on-topic in your off-topic.

 

I see what you exhibited there.

xhonzi said:

Nice! Finished your five minute demo, right? I don't have an audio format preference, and I would think something like an MP3 would be good enough for Zombie to check out and make sure he likes where this is heading.

I don't actually think Zombie can check this out and say if he likes where it is heading or not.

Anything we do with this has to be completely unofficial. Like he said in his last post, if we looked for permission for everything we do here, the things that have made this site thrive wouldn't be here. My interpretation of his post was that he was essentially saying that doing something like this wouldn't bother him personally so long as the quality was decent.

I love the idea of an audiobook for The Secret History of Star Wars. If an official one existed, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat at full price. Libervox audiobooks on the other hand... I've yet to meet one I could stomach listening too. When I first heard about Libervox I thought it was one of the most amazing ideas anyone had ever come up with, but then I downloaded a few and discovered that listening to amateur readers with five dollar microphones for anything longer than a minute could probably qualify as a form of torture in many countries. That being said, every now and then you'll find a book with an absolutely fantastic reader, perfect voice and a great quality recording and think, hey, this is great, I could listen to the whole books like this... until chapter two and the shrill voiced girl takes over.

So maybe this could turn out okay.

Remember in my post when I mentioned the absolute fantastic Libervox reader with the perfect voice and decent quality recording equipment? I am afraid that wouldn't be me.

And then I'd never be able to listen to the book myself, because I can't stand to hear myself talk. So, I am afraid not. :(

I'm curious how this has turned out so far. You guys should post it on a public file-sharing site for feedback.

Also, this confused me a bit reading the previous page: is this being made from the e-book PDF from way-back or the actual published version? They are quite different.

As long as it is just the demo. The book itself is already long-winded in many places. I'm cutting out a good ten to fifteen pages worth of stuff just from reducing the repetition and by condensing things for the new version.

Maybe I am just slow here but...where can I find this mysterious Google folder?