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Jun. 17th, 2009 12:46 pmIt seems people are very slow to return calls, email, or any kind of communication at all when they have something you want to know.
I'm set up to look at one apartment on the list right now, and hopefully others will get back to me today or tomorrow. I am rather impatient with the whole silly business already, but that's primarily because I don't feel like I know what I'm doing.
In other news.
I'm listening to the Dresden Files on audiobooks to pass the time. Partially, this was motivated by my fangirlish interest in James Marsters, who does the reading for the books. But there is a problem. He's kind of bad at it, actually. They did not check the pronunciation of Marcone's name (Mar-CONE, not MAR-cone-ee), so it's jarring to hear it said wrong so often. His intonation is off sometimes, making the reading of the sentence confusing until you get to the end, when you can re-construct what the sentence looked like on the page and figure out what should have been emphasized where. And sometimes he just mispronounces words, reading "spellslinger" as "spells-linger" instead of "spell-slinger", like "gunslinger", one who slings guns or spells around.
The little errors are small and they don't really deeply detract from my understanding or enjoyment of the book, but it seems to display a lack of preparation and interest with the material that wounds my little fannish heart. I really, really like THE DRESDEN FILES. They are a lovely fun and snarky series of books with a great narrator and layered characters, and I wish my delight in the books were able to be better communicated to Marsters. Harry's voice, so clear and sharp in the books, is rendered rather flat. In short, I wish he cared more.
But hey, it's the first book and he has to read the whole series. Maybe he gets better at it. At least he does the voices- Monica Sells's voice is amusing.
Anyhoo. I am going on a walk. Later.
I'm set up to look at one apartment on the list right now, and hopefully others will get back to me today or tomorrow. I am rather impatient with the whole silly business already, but that's primarily because I don't feel like I know what I'm doing.
In other news.
I'm listening to the Dresden Files on audiobooks to pass the time. Partially, this was motivated by my fangirlish interest in James Marsters, who does the reading for the books. But there is a problem. He's kind of bad at it, actually. They did not check the pronunciation of Marcone's name (Mar-CONE, not MAR-cone-ee), so it's jarring to hear it said wrong so often. His intonation is off sometimes, making the reading of the sentence confusing until you get to the end, when you can re-construct what the sentence looked like on the page and figure out what should have been emphasized where. And sometimes he just mispronounces words, reading "spellslinger" as "spells-linger" instead of "spell-slinger", like "gunslinger", one who slings guns or spells around.
The little errors are small and they don't really deeply detract from my understanding or enjoyment of the book, but it seems to display a lack of preparation and interest with the material that wounds my little fannish heart. I really, really like THE DRESDEN FILES. They are a lovely fun and snarky series of books with a great narrator and layered characters, and I wish my delight in the books were able to be better communicated to Marsters. Harry's voice, so clear and sharp in the books, is rendered rather flat. In short, I wish he cared more.
But hey, it's the first book and he has to read the whole series. Maybe he gets better at it. At least he does the voices- Monica Sells's voice is amusing.
Anyhoo. I am going on a walk. Later.
