Free reading of Alice in Wonderland

Happy xmas! I've just posted a 2:23 reading I did of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland -- the first book I ever read to myself, and one of my all time favorites. The reading's under a Creative Commons Attribution-only license, so do anything you'd like with it! MP3 Link, Other formats

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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oliviab

Thanks for the lovely reading. I’ve got a copy of the book by my bed and was planning to read it over the holidays. Your way is more fun, plus I can lie down and close my eyes.
natalief

This is amazing! I love to listen to audio-books whilst knitting and this has always been one of my favourite books since I was a young child!
erindipity

Most excellent, eloquent elocution!
Thank you, Cory :)
TerrinTokyo

Sweet! thank you Cory. btw, I’m sure you must know about Neil’s kudos for ‘Little Brother’, but just in case: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/12/changing-planes.html

merry all to you!

Terri
Sue Grant

Thanks for the great reading for my late Christmas Eve, and that was a lovely compliment by Neil Gaiman on Little Brother. I can’t wait to read the book.
agnot

Thanks, Cory, for the interesting posts on Christmas day in Great Britain.

I may or may not speak for “woodsy types” hunkered down for the holiday in off-road cabins throughout the forests of North America. However, I find the fall=out of holiday season, the frenetic energy, the crowds and crazy driveres, the pseudo-giving and pseudo-caring, to be detrimental.

I noticed Christmas lights being strung on the day before Thanksgiving. On asking the mall employees, I was informed that they were two days behind schedule!

Let’s face it, the original pagan holiday, the Winter Solstice, will remain in the past so long as multi-national corporations claim Christmas as the season in which they get into the black.

My holiday is January 3rd, “Return to Normalcy Day.” Actually, “Normalcy Plus,” I can buy things and take vacations from winter weather at huge discounts.

For whatever etherical reasons, my cell phone lacks the bandwidth to listen to Alice in Wonderland tonight, but I will look forward to finding it on my computer when I wake on Christmas morning.

Happy whatevere !

–
freeman
lamarlowe

For real? The first book you read to yourself? I’m glad I read it when I did, after Curious George, Dr Seuss, the Happy Hollisters, and all the “See Spot Dick Jane” crap I sometimes literally cut my teeth on. But how special the book must truly be to you! I would love to hear how your perspective on the tale has evolved over time.

Thank you for the gift. You really shouldn’t have! :)

Merry Christmas.
devoinregress

librivox.org also has several audio versions of Alice in Wonderland under the CC no rights reserved license.
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=alice+in+wonderland&author=&status=all&action=Search

Merry Christmas BB!
mdhatter

Merry Christmas BB!
chazzbro

Downloading now, thanks!

You’ll find some Poe and some U.S. historical documents I’ve read here:

http://freemp3audiobooks.com/free-audio-books.html

Kinda fun!