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[Kagus]

Is that the original or de-abridged version?

Only 50 hours? Must be the original.

[scriver]

...I didn't know there were dogs on the moon...

I gotta ask what typo I made that inspired this comment

M-O-O-N! That spells 'nah you didn't do anything I just looked at his location on his account page and it said "the dark side of the moon"'!

I spy with my little eye a muthafukin The Stand reference.
Which is great because I'm going through the (nearly 50-hour-long) audiobook right now.

Yup! Or at least I think so, in Swedish it's called "Age of the Pestilence". The m-o-o-n stuff is pretty much the only thing I remember from it.

[helmacon]

Tbh I did just move, do I probably ought to update that.

[helmacon]

Tbh I did just move, so I probably ought to update that.

[scriver]

Yeah, we don't want our personal pages to give misleading information.

[scriver]

Yeah, we don't want our personal pages to give misleading information.

[LordBaal]

Is there a bug on the forum?

[helmacon]

This is very odd. It posted my edit as a new post.

[Dunamisdeos]

Testing this presently.

EDIT: Test complete.

EDIT 2: Perhaps it is a problem depending on what platform you post from? I'm on PC.

[Sirus]

Is that the original or de-abridged version?

Only 50 hours? Must be the original.

Unabridged, sorry to disappoint you. I imagine the original must be somewhere in the ballpark of 30 hours, but I really have no idea.

[Kagus]

Is that the original or de-abridged version?

Only 50 hours? Must be the original.

Unabridged, sorry to disappoint you. I imagine the original must be somewhere in the ballpark of 30 hours, but I really have no idea.

Listened to the entire Dark Tower series on audiobook. I think the total length in hours was "nah, just sit down".

Quite jarring when you suddenly hop from Frank Mueller to George Guidall after a couple books and need to adjust to all the characters going through a sudden voice change, but I guess you can't really plan for fatal motorcycle accidents...

[Sirus]

Confession time: I could not get into the Dark Tower series. I tried, several times. I think I made it halfway through the second book before chucking it aside in favor of just about anything else.

[Lord Shonus]

Is that the original or de-abridged version?

Only 50 hours? Must be the original.

Unabridged, sorry to disappoint you. I imagine the original must be somewhere in the ballpark of 30 hours, but I really have no idea.

Pure curiosity. I listened to IT as an audiobook a couple of years ago, and have been going through Turtledove and David Weber series. Most of the Honor Harrington books (incidentally, the woman reading these has a very strange voice even when she isn't doing silly accents) are about 18 hours long, and I know how much thicker The Stand is than those.

[Rolan7]

Ooh, Harry Turtledove's alternate-history WW2 was lauded by my dad when I was young.  He talked up the idea of the Big Bertha, which maybe encouraged my interest in massive cannons.

As if everyone doesn't love cannons.

[Kagus]

Confession time: I could not get into the Dark Tower series. I tried, several times. I think I made it halfway through the second book before chucking it aside in favor of just about anything else.

It's a bit slow to get going (having it just playing in the background during dinner or long trips helped), it hits a nice rhythm where it's rather interesting for a good while, it starts falling a little bit apart towards the latter half/end, and then it ends...

And boy, what an ending. It's almost like he went "Uh, oh shit, something should probably happen, and I'll get in trouble if I write any more books. Damn, if only I knew how to write endings", and then just walked off to get a pack of smokes and didn't come back.


Funny thing, I mostly knew George Guidall for his "The Cat Who ..." mystery series, so I associate his voice with Siamese cats and small, unassuming men with luxuriant moustaches that all the elderly ladies titter about. Not exactly what you'd mix with Roland the Gunslinger. Took a while to adapt.