Tag Archives: Overdrive

TIL: About the Princess Bride

 
Leave a comment

“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

I didn’t know where this was from.

I feel really bad about admitting this.

I had a feeling it had something to do with an imminent sword fight, and assumed it was from something like the 3 musketeers.

Anyway I listened to The Princess bride audiobook through the Overdrive app on my android phone. great app by the way.

But it was such a great listen, I’m gonna find a real life paper book copy to read to the kids. And probably watch it on Netflix with them too :D

TIL: About Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

 
Leave a comment

So Today I learned that Frankenstein is not the name of the Monster on which the book Frankenstein is centred, instead, it is the name of the scientist who created him – Victor Frankenstein.
I feel like an idiot for not knowing that, Everyone I’ve spoken to seems to have known this.

I listened to the audiobook through the Overdrive App. It was a great listen, it seemed like every word was finely crafted to fit each sentence.

The version I listened to was read by three voice actors. Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki and Simon Templeman. It was really well done.

My favourite part of the book was probably Victors quotes of the monster’s first-person narrative.

I like this quote about the book.
Many critics have described the novel itself as monstrous, a stitched-together combination of different voices, texts, and tenses.