I love the darker tone to the comedy/general narrative in these books vs. our beloved TV version. It feels quite different, doesn’t it? Not better, just… edgier & more adult.
I wouldn't so much say edgier or more adult, just uncensored in the purest form of the word. More room for it all between the covers of a book versus the glow of the telly. Both are beautiful in their own right, but I find myself coming back to this book as well as it's follow up "Better Than Life", they just... Lister relates a lot heavier in the books to me personally and the overall darker tone makes the funny stuff stick out even more. Humor was always a form of defense, so it's poetic these books... But I am very aware of subjection and all that, just one voice in the crowd, blah blah blah...
Absolutely, I'd love to see the TV shows redone with the same tone and content as the books in the form of a miniseries or film series. With new actors etc. It wouldn't be easy, but it could be amazing and draw in a whole new generation of fans.
I listen to these audiobooks here on YT as I go to sleep, and it always seems like I'm finally nodding off when the snoring bit begins. It always jolts me awake. Thanks Chris Barrie :P Fer real, Thanks for posting Ace! What a guy :)
Christ, no wonder they didn’t include Lister’s effective mental breakdown in the TV series, it provides a great insight into his character but man is it dark.
Really enjoyed this. Went through High School here in the States, waking up in the Mid AM hours of the morning to catch Red Dwarf. I recall thinking I hated Rimmer until he had left the show for a sting, and thought the show was poorer for..or at least while...he was absent. Now, at 36 years old and find Chris Barrie to be a highly versatile actor. Really enjoyed listening to this
Barrie is a ledge - I went to a Red Dwarf convention years ago.. I arrived pretty late and he was not sat at his table and people were saying that he had already left.. so I solemnly went to the loo before planning to make my exit.. and whilst I was peeing in the urinal.. Arnold J Rimmer walked out of one of the cubicles behind me in a full Tweed suit.. I will never forget that moment.. stood there with my todger in my hands while one of my heroes washed his.. memories haha
I read this book so many times, it fell apart. It's interesting to hear Chris' inflection on some of the passages I remember and how I remember inflecting them.
Perhaps I'm just old and tired but I think Rimmer's stasis hobby makes some kind of sense. If the Space Corp has a final salary pension after 40 years of service then, based on his time saving, Rimmer could start collecting that when he was effectively in his early fifties. This means he could enjoy a long retirement starting at a point when he's young and fit enough to enjoy it. x
Thanks so much for posting this. I've wanted to hear this unabridged version again for so long. I've listened to all the audiobooks easily over 50 times each, and I never tire of them. LOVE THE DWARF!!!
The amazing thing about Chris Barrie isn't that he sounds as much like other actors/characters as he does, it's that I genuinely can't hear Chris Barrie in the other voices. That's a feat.
This is my favourite book, I've read it a dozen times along with the sequels. Ive always thought they are better than the TV series and its nice to hear Chris Barry reading it and doing voices. He can do those better than he does here btw
@@Lily_of_the_Forest yes, it has a different humour which the tv series cannot produce and it puts the series stories into 1 story which all flows along instead of several short stories.
I wish I could agree. If they just recorded a real guitar, I'd be cool with it. I always fast-forward through it, and it always plays twice. At least Howard Goodall still gets his performance royalties, no matter what version they use. He's my favorite modern composer.
What I wouldn't give to be Dave Lister! Most people would freak out if they found out they were the last human alive on an enormous mining ship, not me! All the things I want would be on that ship, all my favorite movies, music, everything!! And especially the solitude, oh the solitude!
Is it just me, or did these videos become monetized recently? I started getting ads a few months ago, but those little yellow markers in the time/progress bar thingy were never there, and they never interrupted the video. The ads were only when I started playing. Now the little yellow marks are there, and the program is interrupted really frequently. I can't listen to these anymore at bedtime, and that sucks!
s2 or s3? I remember him in s3 as the French revolutionary at the embassy who was holding Blackadder captive when he was rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel :D Did he also have a part in s2?
How do you go out tonight in space I wonder and why Rimmer didn't just move next door if he couldn't sleep bc of Lister snoring? wasn't like they were to many of them left on the red dwarf
You know, it occurs to me Holly could have kept the ship on a course looping back to Earth, not that there woukd be any point, unless droids could have extracted Lister after the accident.
The journeys expected to take several million years, his suits would be dust by the time they got back. Listers stuff must have been in vacuum storage when he was initially frozen
@Ejuice Vaper I think it would have been great if they'd had Claire Grogan continue in the part. She was far better suited to the character, but they were trying to get a movie deal, and they thought Chloe was more glamorous and sophisticated, two things nobody on Red Dwarf should ever be unless they're giant, slimy cockroaches in disguise (Pete Tranter's sister... oh my...). Props to Chloe. I mean she's a talented actor, especially in the new character they wrote for her (spoiled, sophisticated rich girl who likes Jane Austin and cottage cheese with pineapple chunks) and she's quite yummy. She fit in very well with the cast and the part they gave her, but it was that part I strongly disliked. Usually. Except when she makes me laugh.
Stuff past season 6 basically isn't the same partly because one of the writers stopped being involved. The first 6 seasons are Rob Grant and Doug Naylor together. After that, Grant left, and Naylor got a handful of other people to help. So, that might not seem significant, but clearly it makes a major transition point in the way the show was written. Some of it's still funny, but it doesn't seem on the same level as the older stuff.
@@KuraIthys I gotta say I like seasons 10-12, especially 12. It's more Saturday morning-ish, but for what it is, I'm into it. The characters are allowed to be older, and they make fun of it instead of playing the same regular characters and pretending they're not aging and gaining weight. They're still funny, and they feel like older versions of the same characters. Spot on.
I actually joined the Royal Navy in 1990 after watching red dwarf and reading the book because I thought it’d be the closest thing to being in this story. I actually adopted a similar persona to lister and used to do as little work as possible. Why couldn’t I have been influenced by a Napoleon biography instead, and then maybe I wouldn’t be smoking weed and binge watching Rick and Morty 😂
