If you enjoy these recordings you might also enjoy the books I've narrated that are available from audible .com. You can listen to an exerpt of my performance as "Orson Welles" in a 2 act play written by Michael B. Druxman. I also narrate: "The Threepersons Hunt" , James P. Hogan's classic sci-fi novel "Voyage from Yesteryear," "The Elephant Girl " written by Katherine LaFleur and the ecological horror-thriller "Season of the Harvest , books one and two of the trilogy" written by Michael R. Hicks.
This afternoon I found your "Its a good life" video and when I saw that it was from 4 years ago, I get sad thinking that nowadays you might not by uploading videos anymore. Seeing this one is a huge relief! Thanks for the wonderful work
jcn5898- I'm currently remastering, editing, re-recording,etc. some of the older recordings and dropping them anew to the F.F. Channel, but my main mission is to record new stories every week. Thank you for listening. E.E.F.
Your readings (and overall production) just keep getting better and better! Excellent choice of story as well, as much as I enjoy a James reading etc, you continue to delight with your curation of lesser known and more diverse stories!
Appreciate hearing that. When recording a new story every week, results vary. There's no question that M.R.James is the master of sublime and playful horror. But I also think there's audio gold to be mined in the pulpiest, cheesiest of stories. I'm shamelessly attracted to them! E.E.F.
@@FrenchEdward06 Your sensibility and craft are an undeniably perfect match for the American pulp tradition; you both valorize and redeem what is truly vivid and striking in these stories, while expressing every gradation (be it retrospective acknowledgement of changing sensibilities, or contemporaneous and intentional to the original work) of the droll campiness inherent to them without ever highlighting one at the expense of the other. I’d give you an Emmy for these too if I could. These are truly my favorite thing on the internet.
Absolutely brilliant. LP Hartley is an absolute master at contrasting everyday commonplace situations with inexplicably alien ones, and I think Podolo is his very best, though it hardly ever turns up in anthologies. The last section really is like something in a nightmare. And Mr French's reading is excellent, each of the three characters is performed perfectly, and he captures so well the gradual change of mood from a peaceful trip to an island to a really horrifying climax.
AI is fake it’s a psyop. EEF knows this. He propagates lies. All RU-vidrs are propagandists. RU-vid is propaganda used to either sell you something or to get you to believe lies, or to distract you into doing nothing, never having had done anything.
I find it so difficult to listen to a.i.-narrated stories because they can never match the emotion and interpretation of a real voice. Especially not that of a storytelling master like Mr. French.
@@briandouglasahern7067 A.I. generated voices are continuing to improve. My limited understanding is that if a large "crop" of my readings were processed via A.I. , a pretty good facsimile of my voice and style of reading could be used to make an Edward E. French audio book. I've heard a RU-vid A.I. generated reading of the "Fall of the House of Usher" that sounds remarkably like the late actor Richard Burton and a convincing ersatz Johnny Cash singing the "Barbie Song." I hope it's not annoying if I continue to include a spoken hallmark on my recordings that they are generated the old-fashioned way.... direct from my all too human vocal cords. A.I. will eventually become an issue that I and many other readers will have to confront.... E.E.F.
Perfect timing, I thought I was going to have to sleep without a new episode from you. I've been re-listening to some of your older recordings over the last few days while sculpting a raven and a frog, you've brightened (or darkened maybe?) a lot of long hours so thank you! Hope you're keeping well and safe, Mr. Edward, it's a crazy old world at the moment...
A lot of "Makeup FX" lab folk tell me they listen to the stories while sculpting and molding for long hours. I'm happy to hear that "Long Haul Truckers" are also my captive audience. Hippocrates has said "the roads to learning begin in darkness." Perhaps I've brightened someone's darkened day? E.E.F.
Thanks, maxscherzer9521. Like it or not, the time has come for me to "stamp" as it were, identify, what is and is not A.I. generated content on my recordings. E.E.F.
That was enlightening. I hope I remember it when I need it. I already have verification issues with all devices from my banks ATM to self checkout outs and the little online shopping I do. I don't know why. I suspect I have fallen into a reality that is not my original reality. Several years ago walking to .y house from my barn I was suddenly unable to take the next step. I did not fall, did not get too much sun, was hydrated, no fever just unable to take the next step. Mental check list was ok. Physical checklist ok except for taking the next step. I touched my toes even. Never had anything like this before or since, take no meds, my doc says I'm in better shape at 74 than I was at 50. True. But this is not my original reality. The machines know it. I know it. No one else has noticed. 😅😮
Gee that was swell father.. (me being transported to the 1950s watching a movie from the 1930s about an archaeological dig in the 1920s of a tomb from the 1000s bce). Checked all the boxes for me.
Excellent reading as always; can you read the Sumuru series by Sax Rohmer like you did with the Insidious Dr Fu Manchu? 😊 I have been looking everywhere for an audio recording of the Sumuru stories to no avail; your reading of Fu Manchu is my favorite.
I'm glad that's your opinion, Brewskin. I was concerned that it might offend someone. I think it will offend some listeners, but it was not intended to mock a handicapped person. E.E.F.
"White was constantly plagued with financial difficulties and in 1934, seven years to the day after the death of his wife, Agnes Gerry, he committed suicide by gas inhalation in the bathroom of his Baltimore home." Man, that's dark.
Interesting tale, though the ending was a bit abrupt. The narration, however, lifts it to another level. The almost unintelligible boy is very well done, and I particularly like the old coot at the end. You can almost see the overalls and lack of teeth.
I agree about the ending. The body of the narrative and the characters drew me to it. I heard someone else doing straight reading of it online- no vocal characterizations- and realized that the interesting challenge was creating a compassionate vocal characterization for that boy. I think the experiment worked, even though you can't understand everything he says. Cheers. E.E.F.
@@FrenchEdward06 Still struggling with issues left from the "other" C word, that of which we do not speak. And no it's not cancer...we can say that one, even if it is caused by humans looking to make a buck. But I shall stop there, in case my channel suddenly disappears.
