{"id":18475,"date":"2018-10-24T05:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T02:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18475"},"modified":"2018-10-24T05:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T02:32:38","slug":"out-of-the-aeons-in-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/24\/out-of-the-aeons-in-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Out of the Aeons&#8221; in audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A full reading of the 10,000 word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wKNdGYbQ7Xk\">&#8220;Out of the Aeons&#8221; by H. P. Lovecraft<\/a>, one of his best ghost-written tales and with the best reader that I could find offering it for free online.  It&#8217;s a May 2018 reading by Ian Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>The first half is Lovecraft doing Lovecraft-by-numbers for a revision client, but the second half is excellent.  To fully enjoy the story, it helps to know the historical context.  While today archaeology is rarely a topic for newspapers, and thus all the press palaver in &#8220;Out of the Aeons&#8221; may seem jarringly absurd to the modern reader, in the 1930s archaeology was front-page news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/out-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/out-w.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reading is delivered rather too fast for me, and is also a bit sibilant in high-response headphones. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/how-to-download-a-youtube-playlist-as-mp3\/\">an MP3 download<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/09\/audiobook-bookmarking-for-the-windows-desktop\/\">the AIMP player<\/a> a <strong>slower speed of O.92<\/strong> is ideal.  This speed setting also deepens the voice, moving the reading rather nicely from &#8216;peeved professor&#8217; toward &#8216;Wayne June&#8217; and the Bass-Boost slider can also increase this effect a little. The graphic equaliser settings for removing the sibilance are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/eq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/eq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"171\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full reading of the 10,000 word &#8220;Out of the Aeons&#8221; by H. P. Lovecraft, one of his best ghost-written &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/24\/out-of-the-aeons-in-audiobook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}