A Stitch in Time - Audiobook?

[David cgc]

Did it work something like these samples?

"Something like these samples" underlines itself when I move the mouse across the words, but it doesn't seem to be a true hyperlink.

Poops. Fixed in the quote. The edit limit has sadly passed for the original.

 

[Danoz]

Oh well, I figured as much when a Google search rendered absolutely nothing-- but given he was both the actor and the author, recording an audiobook for it seemed to me like a bit of a no-brainer.

I personally don't care for audiobooks in novels, but I enjoy them for things like history and political analysis over long commutes. Barack Obama personally read both of his major sellers and I enjoyed listening to those quite a bit while I drove my brother across the northeastern U.S. a few years back. This particular work seemed like it would be the perfect kind of material to be performed.

I'll just depend on my imagination .

 

[Techsean]

Nope. To the best of my knowledge, this one was never released as an audiobook.

Personally, I don't get the draw of audiobooks. 99% of them are abridged versions of the originals. I would hate that but they seem to sell well so obviously many don't agree with me.

Still, if you have absolutely no time to read and have a long commute or something, I guess it's better than nothing.

If you were into audiobooks though, this would've been a good one. I loved the story and if they could've gotten Andrew Robinson to actually read it, wow! I might've picked that one up just to hear the voice of Garak come alive again.

- Byron

P.S. The Complete Starfleet Library is an excellent resource for this type of thing and every true TrekLit fan should have it bookmarked. There's even an option to filter by type of book, including audiobooks. The information seems to be very accurate.

http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/

If you had long commutes like me you would understand being able to enjoy a book and do something with that time is priceless.

 

[David cgc]

If you had long commutes like me you would understand being able to enjoy a book and do something with that time is priceless.

This thread is from 2011. Eight years ago, the podcast revolution was in its infancy, and the revival of unabridged audiobooks was a distant dream. I'm sure we're all way more sympathetic to audiobooks now, especially since an unabridged version is a digital file that goes straight to your phone, not a folio full of CDs or cassette tapes.

It took me three posts to figure out why no one was mentioning that all Trek books are getting unabridged readings, these days. Luckily it was before I reached my own post, and got really confused.

I will raise a voice complaining pointlessly about the abridgments, though. I tracked down Shatner's Ashes of Eden audiobook for an animation idea I had, rendering some scenes from the novel paired with a few of the more evocative passages of narration, but not only were the lines I wanted from the graphic novel version and not the actual book (though they were usually more-or-less present in the novel, just in less-excerptable phrasing), not a single one of them was in the audiobook. Not that it mattered, with the wall-to-wall underscore, so it'd be difficult to make use of even if it did have the stuff I wanted.

 

[Techsean]

Totally agree on abridgements. Give me the whole thing.