Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama I still havent' got around to the focus on the family dramatisations, I'd be interested to give them a try. I did enjoy the bbc miniseries and indeed the audio adaptation, rather more than the Hollywood films truth be told, since Dawn treader, probably my favourite of the books, was totally trampled on in the film. In general the series is one I grew up with at a very young age, so I can't be %100 objective about it. I can say certain aspects now feel to me a little too dated and pedagogical, for example I get really sick of the "its very silly to shut yourself in a wardrobe" but I do love the immagery and the world. its also interesting to compare the books to Lewis's space trilogy, yes, C S lewis wrote science fiction, albeit these days with science being so much more advanced its more like science fantasy.I particularly love the first two books, especially the second perilandra, and what is interesting is a lot of the style is the same, for example he often talks of the aliens as talking animals, and even speaks directly to the reader on occasion. My only miner issue is with the third book, which is quite draggy and goes into arthurian legend, also while I can forgive some of the gender assumptions, EG when he talks about "the divine masculinity of god", or "the mother hood of all women" I do have to clench my teeth, likewise he does have some issues with the way he writes female characters, albeit I do feel he gets a bit too much flack because of this due to Susan in narnia, the books are nearly 70 years old after all. So, if you enjoy Narnia and want to see what a narnia for grownups is like, I can highly recommend the space trilogy, albeit the third of the series is definitely the weakest entry. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/405298/#p405298 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama I have the BBC ones and the Focus On The Family ones. I like the BBC ones better but it could be because those are the ones I heard as a kid. Both are well done though! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/405240/#p405240 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama I have the BBC ones and the Focus On The Family ones. I like the BBC ones better but it could be because those are the ones I heard as a kid. Both are well done though! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/405240/#p405240 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama The Focus On The Family one was a surprise gift from my mother a few years ago. I didn't know about GraphicAudio back then, so I was tickled pink by the concept of an audio book that wasn't the same guy droning on and on and on. The sound design is less impactful than, say, GraphicAudio, such as the fact that footsteps sound much more halting and sometimes the audio isn't as refined as predone sound libraries are, but Focus On The Family makes their own sounds so it's actually pretty amazing. I have the collection now, and it's in a nice shiny collector's tin with a Map of Narnia included. The stories are loved by all, no matter the age, though as I've grown up I have realized that the books are a bit boring the older you are, and shorter, the longest one is about 3 hours, so you could listen to a book in the space of time it takes you to watch one of the Lord Of The Rings movies. I'd get it, the Focus On The Family one, that is. It's quite fun. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/404974/#p404974 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama
Re: Chronicles of Narnia Audiodrama Wow, it is just amazing what you'll find on a random Google search! So I guess I'm digging this thread out of the very distant past. I actually don't remember being introduced to "The Chronicles of Narnia" until I was thirteen years old. My oldest niece, about four or five at the time, was living with me and my mom for the better part of a year. She was enrolled in preschool, and some days the kids would go to the library. One day, my niece had checked out "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and my mom read a chapter to her every night before bed. I think she ended up reading the whole series to her, in a British accent, no less! Then for Christmas that year, I got one of the audio dramas done by Focus On The Family, on CD. Then I got the whole series, and that was my official introduction to C.S. Lewis's world of Narnia. To this day, I still think the Focus adaptations are the best. The movies were okay, but I was disappointed that some of the events in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" were, for some reason, out of order in the movie. Yes, I'm picky. But hey, these are classic stories!Anyway, I still enjoy the series and still listen to the CD's from time to time. It's way better than an audiobook just narrated by one person. A dry narration is just not the same. Of course, it all depends on who's doing the narrating and how good they are at capturing the story in question. And the same goes for dramatized audio; it depends on how well everything is put together: the acting, the music, the sound effects, etc. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/404973/#p404973 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
