Literary Lapses


Gelesen von TriciaG

(4.1 stars; 11 reviews)

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia) (4 hr 40 min)

Kapitel

01 - My Financial Career 6:04 Gelesen von TriciaG
02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret 13:46 Gelesen von TriciaG
03 - Boarding-house Geometry 2:21 Gelesen von TriciaG
04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones 6:13 Gelesen von TriciaG
05 - A Christmas Letter 2:39 Gelesen von TriciaG
06 - How to Make a Million Dollars 8:56 Gelesen von TriciaG
07 - How to Live to Be 200 7:49 Gelesen von TriciaG
08 - How to Avoid Getting Married 7:23 Gelesen von TriciaG
09 - How to Be a Doctor 9:10 Gelesen von TriciaG
10 - The New Food 2:54 Gelesen von TriciaG
11 - A New Pathology 8:28 Gelesen von TriciaG
12 - The Poet Answered 2:24 Gelesen von TriciaG
13 - The Force of Statistics 3:02 Gelesen von TriciaG
14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me 9:24 Gelesen von TriciaG
15 - Getting the Thread of It 7:17 Gelesen von TriciaG
16 - Telling His Faults 2:50 Gelesen von TriciaG
17 - Winter Pastimes 8:36 Gelesen von TriciaG
18 - Number Fifty-Six 14:48 Gelesen von TriciaG
19 - Aristocratic Education 4:49 Gelesen von TriciaG
20 - The Conjurer's Revenge 5:02 Gelesen von TriciaG
21 - Hints to Travellers 5:51 Gelesen von TriciaG
22 - A Manual of Education 5:07 Gelesen von TriciaG
23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas 6:48 Gelesen von TriciaG
24 - The Life of John Smith 8:38 Gelesen von TriciaG
25 - On Collecting Things 6:04 Gelesen von TriciaG
26 - Society Chit-Chat 6:54 Gelesen von TriciaG
27 - Insurance Up to Date 3:26 Gelesen von TriciaG
28 - Borrowing a Match 3:11 Gelesen von TriciaG
29 - A Lesson in Fiction 7:55 Gelesen von TriciaG
30 - Helping the Armenians 2:46 Gelesen von TriciaG
31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel 3:51 Gelesen von TriciaG
32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan 12:16 Gelesen von TriciaG
33 - The Passing of the Poet 12:13 Gelesen von TriciaG
34 - Self-Made Men 6:44 Gelesen von TriciaG
35 - A Model Dialogue 3:13 Gelesen von TriciaG
36 - Back to the Bush 11:03 Gelesen von TriciaG
37 - Reflections on Riding 4:26 Gelesen von TriciaG
38 - Saloonio 6:44 Gelesen von TriciaG
39 - Half-Hours with the Poets 15:43 Gelesen von TriciaG
40 - A, B, and C 11:35 Gelesen von TriciaG
41 - Acknowledgments 1:53 Gelesen von TriciaG

Bewertungen

Can't Take It.


(2 stars)

The reader has a hypnotizing way of intoning all of her sentences the same way. She weirdly extends the last word of each phrase and raises her pitch a bit, in a way no one would do in natural speech. Pretty soon I'm listening to that pattern and can't focus on the words of the story.

Laugh out loud funny, on a regular basis


(5 stars)

The book didn't click for me, until about chapter 4. Not so much because of the readin, which is good or excellent depending on the reader, but because...well I don't know. It took me a little while to "get" the author. I mention this only to suggest to you that if you are listening to this and just don't get it, give it a little time. It really is excellent once you click to it. (His politics regarding the Armenians are abominable, though.)

So Relevant


(4.5 stars)

Stephen Leacock should be enshrined alongside, but slightly to the right and 1/4", lower, as Twain. He beats Twain out for sheer ridiculousness, and laughably mean insanity. His writings are fresh and modern. If Twain is The epitome of American humor, Mtr. Leacock is certainly Canada's

TricaG is great!


(5 stars)

For the first couple of stories, TriciaG didn't impress me. Then I 'got' her. Her reading is a wonderful combination of innocence and irony. Perfectly suited to Leacock's work. Hope she reads more of his stories. I've listened to her reading of Lapses many times.

Raycyst


(5 stars)

These stories, read by a great narrator, are whimsical and funny. Therein lays the problem. Whimsey is now out of favor. All the math jokes need to be replaced with observation on how Texans hate black folks.

Excellent


(4 stars)

Great humour! The reading is steady and competently, with a curious intonation well suited to the book.