Stephan Bullard
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Doctor Who and the Green Death
- De: Malcolm Hulke
- Narrado por: Katy Manning
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
The Green Death begins slowly. In a small Welsh mining village, a man emerges from the disused colliery covered in a green fungus. Minutes later he is dead. UNIT, Jo Grant and Doctor Who in tow arrive on the scene to investigate, but strangely reluctant to assist their inquiries is Dr. Stevens, director of the local refinery. Are they in time to destroy the mysterious power which threatens them all before the whole village, and even the world, is wiped out by a deadly swarm of green maggots?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stopped listening because of annoying music
- De Stephan Bullard en 11-24-24
- Doctor Who and the Green Death
- De: Malcolm Hulke
- Narrado por: Katy Manning
Stopped listening because of annoying music
Revisado: 11-24-24
Sigh. I was really looking forward to this one. Doctor Who and the Green Death is one of my favorite Dr. Who episodes. And this audio version is read by none other than Katy Manning! Unfortunately, they ruined it. For reasons that are beyond me, they felt compelled to include very loud, dramatic music to the recording. It is REALLY annoying. I've listened to a couple of audiobooks where there's music at the start. It's irritating, but it's always gone away after a minute or so. Not in this one. The intro music lasts a little over 7 min. Once I got done with that, I thought, "finally!" But no. It keeps coming back. Any time anything interesting happens, the music chimes in loudly and obnoxiously. It's so loud and overwhelming it makes it very hard to hear Katy. I had to repeat several segments a couple of times to hear what was said. I made it 1/2 way through Chapter 2 and gave up. There's no way you can listen to this recording and enjoy the story. All you can do is listen to loud, bad, out-of-the-box, dramatic music. What a waste. I strongly encourage you not to buy this audio recording. Alas. I feel bad for poor Katy Manning who clearly did a great job with the reading. I am so sorry they destroyed your fine work.
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The Shunned House
- De: H.P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
- Duración: 1 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
On picturesque College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, an old colonial house has sat empty for decades. No one would consider renting the house with its long history of woes and unexplained deaths. Can a young man and his elderly great-uncle get to the bottom of the unspeakable causes of the house's affliction? Or will their investigation bring them face to face with an enduring evil?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De M.Biblioswine en 06-19-24
- The Shunned House
- De: H.P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
A Great Series, The Shunned House Isn’t the Best
Revisado: 03-29-24
The HP Lovecraft Society is releasing an excellent series of radio plays based on HP Lovecraft stories. I have listened to nine so far and can recommend them all. I put off hearing them for a long time because I love Lovecraft. I was afraid dramatic readings would cheapen the stories. They do not. The radio plays are amazingly well done! All of them are compelling. A few are downright scary (the Colour Out of Space is particularly freaky).
Sadly, the Shunned House is my least favorite of the HPLS’s radio dramas. The Shunned House has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. The original is well-thought out and extraordinarily well-crafted. It’s subtle, compelling, and very believable. It’s almost an academic or scholarly horror tale. Perhaps that’s why it was hard to turn into a radio drama.
The radio drama is fine. But it’s very different from the original. The story has been embellished and expanded. And not in a good way (in my opinion). The subtlety is gone. Even worse, a fair amount of humor has been incorporated. As always with the HPLS, the radio play itself is well made. It’s worth a listen. But it’s not a great representation of The Shunned House. In fact, after I finished the radio drama, I went back and reread the story to confirm it really is a good story. It is. The radio drama is. . . something different. Enjoy the radio play for what it is.
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