Comments on: About that Ulysses Recording

By: Andrew Kornylak

Andrew Kornylak — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:49:50 +0000

I tried to tackle Ulysses many years ago while in high school, then again in college but I think I was too uptight in those days. Today I randomly selected the Audiobooks iPhone app to give it another try as an audio book. Just my luck that I’d pick the one recording read by a bunch of rambling strangers in a pub.

Hell, I think I’ve got a shot at it this time!

By: shima

shima — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:18:22 +0000

Hi.EVERBODY
would you please send me a copy of text of ylusses and a copy of audio of It.I can not download it.I wrote my email below.That will be your kindness to send me this book.
ze_shima@yahoo.com

By: David

David — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:52:24 +0000

I havent listened to this yet, but having read the summary, I would like the whole of the libravox collective to know that I am both impressed and filled with respect for their non-traditional approach to such an enigmatic book. The presence of such thinking, feeling individuals who love the literature they work with only encourages me further to become involved with the audiobook project.

By: Estelle

Estelle — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:15:13 +0000

Gack. This has got to be one of the worst Librivox recordings I’ve encountered yet and I’m a great fan of this site. One wonders if the readers had pre-read the text at all. Or were they perhaps under the affluence of incohol? Maybe it’s that dreadful violin that evokes drunkenness, a night of drowning one’s woes. I do often wonder why a person would want to record in a foreign language in which they have strong accent from their mother tongue, no idea how to pronounce even slightly difficult words or where on earth to place emphasis in a sentence. The mystery remains, because there’s quite a lot of that about and some in this chapter.

By: James Mites

James Mites — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:37:19 +0000

Ulysses is a great book I read it in high school but it will be fun to listen to it as an audio book.

By: Ralph Mange

Ralph Mange — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:52:10 +0000

Call of the wild is a really great book I am certainly pleased to see it here. I visit the library often but love having the audio books for travel and vacations.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:07:39 +0000

It’s true that the quality of the recordings is relatively poor. There are many distracting sounds and misreadings. I had to stop listening shortly into the first chapter. Objectively speaking, the criticism is deserved, but how do you criticize a bad gift?: “Thank you.”

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:41:24 +0000

I don’t have home Internet access so the whole ftp thing is difficult for me but you’re welcome to add my recording of Ulysses to librivox if you wish – http://joycecast.podomatic.com.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:45:07 +0000

Thanks for this. Very good over all. Could have done with a little less out-of-tune violin, which was very distracting, but apart from that very enjoyable listening.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:53:13 +0000

Before I listened to this book, I did read the warning and I was ready to listen to it in the spirit it was recorded.

Aside from all the other criticisms others have given, the main issue I had with the recording was that there was too much background noise, and the volume level of the speakers was all over the place. Too bad, Ulysses is one of the great pieces of literature humanity has given us, I had already read it, seen the film, and I was looking forward to listening to it again and especially Molly’s soliloquy. Alas, I had to stop listening to it after a few chapters.

Y’see, I listen to Librivox books in the car, not the quietest environment. If there’s background noise in the recording, it gets added to the already too-high noise in the car and makes the words unintelligible and all the work that goes into the recording is lost…