Topic: Tell me a story! (Read 25317 times)

Drill King · « **on:** 21 Jun 2009, 10:27 »

So this is a fun little thread idea I've had for a while, basically. You take one of your favorite books that you don't think is really popular on the forum(no point in reading the book that everyone has already read), and you read the first chapter. No one expects you to be Stephen Fry(lord knows I'm not) but try and be clear.

Rules

1. Don't do the same book twice
2. Only the first chapter
3. Realize not everyone is comfortable reading, but they're making the effort(IE be nice!)
4. Have fun with it, if you wanna do voices, do voices! (voices are awesome)
5. Don't Spoil Chapters That People Have Read Aloud Without Notice. (it's kind of no fun to listen to someone ramble when you know what'll happen.
6. It's okay reserve books but when you do, try and have it done within the week and make it in big bold letters.

Pro tip: take a picture of you reading the book.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 10:30 »

Ooh, I am doing this when I get home. WITH A BOOK FROM YOUR COUNTRY, ANDY.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 10:53 »

I have a feeling it may be quite popular on this forum but I think I will read you all the first chapter of Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis because it is the most wonderful first chapter to a story ever.

Unfortunately I only have access to mics at work and I have taken the week off so it'll have to wait at least that long.

Drill King · « **Reply #3 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 10:55 »

The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold

Hey Guys I am super awkward when I read but I wanted to contribute!

My awkward reading will probably put you off this lovely book I am sorry

phooey · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 10:56 »

schimmy · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 11:02 »

Perhaps listening to her read the first chapter might tell you that?

Drill King · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 11:19 »

Thank you!

imapiratearg · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 11:23 »

Has anyone read anything by Jonothan Safran Foer? 'Cause I think his books are lovely.

Drill King · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 11:26 »

Art & Fear
Observations On The Periles(and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles & Ted Orland

THANK YOU EDITH FOR THIS BOOK ALL ARTISTS NEED IT

(that's it from me for now guys, I just wanted to get the ball rolling)

redglasscurls · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 11:27 »

The constant flipping back and forth between past and present stories that he does actually bothers me a whole lot. I've read Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but I don't know that I'd read any more from him.

I may be biased though, I really don't enjoy reading fiction.

michaelicious · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 15:39 »

Aww I really wanna do this but I don't have a microphone

SilentJ · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 15:44 »

Are we allowed to lay dibs on books now?

Because in the vein of wafflecone's post, I also love Chuck Klosterman, so either later tonight or tomorrow morning/afternoon I'll look into doing Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Also once my brother gets me my copy back from his roommate, I'll do The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

Yayniall · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 16:09 »

I'll probably do this, sounds like fun.
Also this has given me the wish i want to make to the make a wish foundation; Stephen Fry to read Half Life: Full Life Consequences

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 16:17 »

I don't have a mic either; I just wanted to brag that Chuck Klosterman was my ump once when I was playing softball against Wyndmere. I was the catcher and saying kind of mean things about him!

michaelicious · « **Reply #14 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 16:26 »

It's okay Brittany we can telepathically read books to each other. It will be like the Chrysalids. Someone should do that book.

Drill King · « **Reply #15 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 16:30 »

I think it's okay to take reservations just make sure you have it done within the week and you make it in BIG BOLD letters so people don't miss it.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #16 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 17:40 »

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Drill King · « **Reply #17 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 18:34 »

Khar I would like you to marry me and read me sweet sorrows every night.

sean · « **Reply #18 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 18:53 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 21 Jun 2009, 11:23

Has anyone read anything by Jonothan Safran Foer? 'Cause I think his books are lovely.

Yeah I read Extremely Loud for school the past semester and I loved it. However, I'd only do it if you can act out a frantic 9 year old really well.

MrBlu · « **Reply #19 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 18:58 »

Note To Self: Actually READ book beforehand.

ruyi · « **Reply #20 on:** 21 Jun 2009, 21:52 »

It's chapter 6 of Book Two, cos chapter 1 was much too long.

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I have a horrible monotone, I blame it on growing up with an autistic brother.

edit: The narrator, Toru Okada, is sitting at the bottom of a well, and his wife Kumiko has recently disappeared for reasons unknown at the time.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #21 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 04:11 »

Does it have to be in English? Cause I could totally read the first chapter of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater in Dutch. (It's the only book I have lying around)

EDIT: That and 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' but I think the majority of the people on this forum have read that.

jodizzle · « **Reply #22 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 04:18 »

Apparently my computer doesn't want to let any of you tell me a story because it comes up with a page error everytime I click the links

Stupid technology.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #23 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 04:27 »

Jodie, are you replacing the "!" with an "i" in the address? The forum substitutes that to throw off the googlebots.

Liz · « **Reply #24 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 09:16 »

Staedler, go for the Dutch. I will listen to it!

imapiratearg · « **Reply #25 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 09:27 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 21 Jun 2009, 18:53

Quote from: imapiratearg on 21 Jun 2009, 11:23
Has anyone read anything by Jonothan Safran Foer? 'Cause I think his books are lovely.

Yeah I read Extremely Loud for school the past semester and I loved it. However, I'd only do it if you can act out a frantic 9 year old really well.

Initially, I wanted to read Everything Is Illuminated, but my ex-girlfriend has my copy and I won't be getting it back for at least two weeks.

I could read the first chapter of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, I suppose.

Christophe · « **Reply #26 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 09:38 »

Quote from: StaedlerMars on 22 Jun 2009, 04:11

EDIT: That and 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' but I think the majority of the people on this forum have read that.

I was actually thinking of reading that one, but declined for the same reason you stated. Perhaps everyone reads a different chapter of the book?

I actually finished recording the first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick, but it probably won't get up'd until later tonight.

allison · « **Reply #27 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 10:07 »

Tonight you guys are going to hear me read The Birth House!

tania · « **Reply #28 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 10:24 »

please nobody read the first chapter of
Microserfs
by
Douglas Coupland
because i am going to read it for you all as soon as i figure out how close is too close to my stupid microphone so it won't distort my voice anymore.

(this is probably a pretty popular read on this forum but damnit, i'm gonna do it anyway cos douglas coupland is just too enjoyable to read aloud)

negative creep · « **Reply #29 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 11:34 »

I don't have many english books, but I'll try to find something on the weekend. Which is when I'm able to listen to your stories, because right now I'm at the library.

McTaggart · « **Reply #30 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 11:41 »

Roo that was far from boring monotone. I really like the way he writes (was translated?) and I'm going to have to find my library cards.

I want to try this tomorrow. If I can get a chance I will try Europe Central though I've not managed to finish it and probably can't do it justice anyway. If that turns out badly I guess I can do Don Quixote and not mention the translator so I'm excused of all blame of ruining the text.

snalin · « **Reply #31 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 11:44 »

The only readable thing I have in English around here is World War Z and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*. I'll try to get something from both, though I cannot promise anything. The first is particularly great. I'll have to check out how the mic is doing first, though

*Okay, I could also read "The wheel of time turns, and leaves memories that becomes legend" or anything else from my fantasy ~~library~~ shelve, but if you haven't read it, you probably won't care.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #32 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 11:48 »

Quote from: ruyi on 21 Jun 2009, 21:52

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I love Murakami! I can't wait to listen to this.

Dollface · « **Reply #33 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 13:04 »

There was a girl in with angry face but then corw sole her nose.

(continues when im soper)

scarred · « **Reply #34 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 13:14 »

Totally doing this later.

Liz · « **Reply #35 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 13:34 »

Alright kids, I have recorded a chapter for you! Here it is in all it's mistake-y glory (nobody's perfect) and joy. I hope you like it.

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

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EDIT: Take 2

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Thomas Edison · « **Reply #36 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 14:10 »

I will be throwing up Fight Club tomorrow.

And as Snalin is doing World War Z, well, I'll find another second book to throw up.

Coward · « **Reply #37 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 14:26 »

As I do not have a mic (they're 'for singing, not for swinging' after all), does anyone mind if I film a narration? It'll mean a bigger file for folks to download is all.

I'd quite like to have a crack at Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon if no one minds the above.

iamiam · « **Reply #38 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 15:00 »

liz, i have the volume on my laptop turned all the way up but i can barely hear you

Gemmwah · « **Reply #39 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 15:56 »

I wanna have a go at this tomorrow, I'm tentatively reserving The Search For The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, but I may change my mind after I pop into the library.

pwhodges · « **Reply #40 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 16:49 »

Paul Griffiths - Myself and Marco Polo

Paul Griffiths is an English music critic and writer who moved to New York about 15 years ago. He was instrumental in getting my son's career as a musician under way. He also gave me a proof copy of his first book, which I enjoyed - though it was a slow read, being rather dense in ideas. The narrator finds himself in a cell with Marco Polo, and ... well, you have to read the rest. The chapters are short, but here is just the first - all 2 1/2 pages of it:

reading

(book)

I also intend to do the start of another Murakami book - Kafka on the Shore - and a snippet of G B Shaw's early music criticism (much of which is very funny, I should say).

Ã¶de · « **Reply #41 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 18:05 »

I'm going to do Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom when I can, and The Rum Diaries.

tania · « **Reply #42 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 18:58 »

i am sorry i sound like a little boy and that you have to listen to my little boy voice for almost eight minutes

Liz · « **Reply #43 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 20:24 »

Quote from: iamiam on 22 Jun 2009, 15:00

liz, i have the volume on my laptop turned all the way up but i can barely hear you

I know! It is my bad, I'll try to re-record with my headset closer to my mouth or something.

(Also Gemm, when did my photo become your avatar (I look adorable, I know)?)

DonInKansas · « **Reply #44 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 21:11 »

Quote from: snalin on 22 Jun 2009, 11:44

*Okay, I could also read "The wheel of time turns, and leaves memories that becomes legend" or anything else from my fantasy ~~library~~ shelve, but if you haven't read it, you probably won't care.

I am in the middle of "A Crown of Swords" right now; book 7 of The Wheel of Time series. I'll probably get to the end of the series by the end of the year or so.

So, I care.

pwhodges · « **Reply #45 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 02:01 »

GB Shaw - Music Criticism (there are various selections and editions)

A note on the places mentioned. "Broad Street" is here the name of a station which is now closed, and which gave its name to Paul McCartney's album Give My Regards to Broad Street. Homerton was my local station, when I lived in Hackney, and all the other named places in the East End I know well. Bow is less than four miles from Fleet Street, where all the papers had their offices, and where the opening conversation can be presumed to take place.

reading

Gemmwah · « **Reply #46 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 02:08 »

Quote from: Misconception on 22 Jun 2009, 20:24

(Also Gemm, when did my photo become your avatar (I look adorable, I know)?)

(Yesterday. I found it while searching for a new avatar and couldn't resist.)

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #47 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 05:24 »

Thomas Edison Presents:

Fight Club
By Chuck Palahniuk

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Most that know me know I love this book with a passion. It's a great novel, and was even made into a must-see film.

I stumble slightly towards the end of the recording with the word "window", and then my sentence formation fails for a moment. But thats my only cock up really. Enjoy?

Dollface · « **Reply #48 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 05:52 »

Takaisin neuvostoliittoon

Tran: back to soviet union

(its book about russian humor)

Well hello there page break

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 Jun 2009, 07:27 »

I present to you: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Read in Dutch.

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I screwed up a couple of times, so if you speak dutch: shush. I also had to take a pause because someone started using a drill in my vicinity.

Also: damn photobooth and taking pictures in mirror view.

Quote from: Christophe on 22 Jun 2009, 09:38

I was actually thinking of reading that one, but declined for the same reason you stated. Perhaps everyone reads a different chapter of the book?

I would be down with that.

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