Classic Gutenberg project books read aloud by Roy Trumbull

Roy Trumbull, a talented reader, is working his way through the best of Project Gutenberg's texts, reading them aloud in a podcast called "Story Spieler." He's got a lot of classic science fiction, Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary" and lots more. Roy read some of my work aloud and did a fantastic job with it, and I'm really enjoying listening to his work on these stories, too. It's a great way to mine the past for some of the great and forgotten works of literature.

Story Spieler Podcast

Podcast feed

[#1 posted by Jesse Willis , March 27, 2009 9:23 AM]

Roy is doing some terrific stuff. I especially recommend his reading of And All The Earth A Grave by C.C. MacApp, an old Science Fiction story from Galaxy magazine. It's got an adbusters sensibility and is actually funny.

http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=4077

[#2 posted by yesno , March 27, 2009 4:52 PM]

I hope he puts these up on Librivox.

[#3 posted by Roy Trumbull , March 27, 2009 6:34 PM]

Libravox only deals with public domain books. I work with public domain books and current Creative Commons books like Cory's and my own. In point of fact the files I do and the files Libravox does are both posted on the Internet Archive making them available to anyone.
I get much of my PD text from www.gutenberg.org. I hear from a number of people learning English as a second language who follow the text while I read.

[#4 posted by PaulR , March 28, 2009 4:20 AM]

Thanks Roy!

I do a lot of driving for my job, audio texts really help with the monotony on the highway!

Your reading of The Super Man and the Bugout was a killer!

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[#5 posted by Hicham , March 28, 2009 11:20 AM]

This is great not merely for busy people who have no time to read but also for other humans who have no choice but listening; i.e. they can not see.