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| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 26 Apr 2015 : 05:56:07
As the subject line: do you read out loud, either to yourself or to a spouse, significant other or someone else?
If yes, where?
I am sure many of us read to our children, I am just curious if any of us do more than that.
I enjoy reading some (not all) of Neil Gaiman's stories out loud to my wife when we have time at home. I would like to read to her at a coffee shop someday.
Some of my author choices have been flops, too: I love reading stories by Steve Martin, but read aloud they don't have the same humor or effect. |
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 11 May 2015 : 21:12:09
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Originally posted by Finglas Leaflock
I read The Hobbit to my son, and now we're working on The Lord of the Rings. And I try to read Goodnight Moon to my daughter, but she often grabs it away and "reads" to me instead. :-)
Nifty thing about Goodnight Moon: pretty much every color picture in that book, there is a mouse, somewhere. A high schooler in Greenville, SC, got some inspiration from that... And as his high school project, he raised the funds and worked thru the obligatory red tape, and now there are several bronze mice scattered on Main Street, in Greenville -- one for every mouse in the book. There's even a website, with hints, for looking for the mice:
http://www.miceonmain.com/mousehunthints.html
I did this last year, with my son, and he enjoyed the hunt.  |
| Finglas Leaflock |
Posted - 11 May 2015 : 19:14:45
I read The Hobbit to my son, and now we're working on The Lord of the Rings. And I try to read Goodnight Moon to my daughter, but she often grabs it away and "reads" to me instead. :-) |
| Xnella Moonblade-Thann |
Posted - 11 May 2015 : 16:46:50
I read much faster than most other people (I have been known to read an entire Harry Potter novel (one of the thicker ones) in an entire school day when I was in high school, and this was with a full course load and no study-hall period--started the book in homeroom at 8:05 am, and it was finished before last bell was rung around 2:40 pm), and I pretty much never read out loud unless it's to my younger cousins/nieces/nephews and always to a book they want read. I do occasionally read dialogue out loud (still can't quite get Danilo's drawl right, but it's coming), and I always read riddles or songs out loud, to help with rhythm and flow (Elminster's Jest, in its entireity, is quite hilarious when read out loud), and to help figure out the riddles. I've had a few strange looks given to me from reading out loud, but I'm not bothered by it. |
| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 06 May 2015 : 01:56:11
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Originally posted by Cards77
I read out loud to my spouse on occasion either from Realms source books or from whatever realms novel I happen to be reading. I've gotten her hooked on the Realms as well so she is also reading a Realms novel while we go off to sleepy land
That's pretty cool.  |
| Cards77 |
Posted - 06 May 2015 : 01:52:06
I read out loud to my spouse on occasion either from Realms source books or from whatever realms novel I happen to be reading. I've gotten her hooked on the Realms as well so she is also reading a Realms novel while we go off to sleepy land |
| Scimitars of Drizzt |
Posted - 04 May 2015 : 04:12:51
Yeah, I'm pretty much with the consensus as I do not read out loud. I'd agree with Beast that on occasion I will find myself reading a passage out loud, only because it may help me in understanding what's going on. If I'm having trouble picturing a certain scene in my head, then I will likely read the passage out loud and slowly, as it helps me visualize and understand what is happening. |
| Drustan Dwnhaedan |
Posted - 30 Apr 2015 : 15:09:57
I rarely read out loud. |
| Delwa |
Posted - 27 Apr 2015 : 15:18:57
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
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Originally posted by Delwa
I'll do something like that for my D&D games when I'm DM; makes the "read this" text more fun. I also write dialogue for key NPCs that I'll mostly memorize and read as the character I'm portraying.
If I am stealing an NPC from a novel to use for D&D, I like to borrow dialogue right from the book and practice that NPC's voice ahead of time. My accents are not that great, but I try.
Mine aren't either. Especially among my English speaking accents. My Australian will morph into Irish accidentally from time to time unless I read the words in IPA, then my delivery slows down. |
| Jeremy Grenemyer |
Posted - 27 Apr 2015 : 05:06:47
quote:
Originally posted by Delwa
I'll do something like that for my D&D games when I'm DM; makes the "read this" text more fun. I also write dialogue for key NPCs that I'll mostly memorize and read as the character I'm portraying.
If I am stealing an NPC from a novel to use for D&D, I like to borrow dialogue right from the book and practice that NPC's voice ahead of time. My accents are not that great, but I try. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 27 Apr 2015 : 04:32:00
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
So reading aloud forces a major slowdown that I simply do not do well.
I took a decade before I moved on to my second Realms work after The Crystal Shard. I'm A-O-K with slow! |
| Artemas Entreri |
Posted - 26 Apr 2015 : 19:13:00
Never. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 26 Apr 2015 : 14:45:02
I can do the public speaking gig without too much of a problem -- but reading out loud, even a children's book, is not something I can do well. All of us read faster than we can speak, and I read a lot faster than most folks do. So reading aloud forces a major slowdown that I simply do not do well. |
| Delwa |
Posted - 26 Apr 2015 : 13:10:14
Most of the time, no. But given the occasion, yes. I did Public Speaking, drama, and theatre in High School and college, so given the right venue, I'll read out loud. I like to do dramatized readings.
I'll do something like that for my D&D games when I'm DM; makes the "read this" text more fun. I also write dialogue for key NPCs that I'll mostly memorize and read as the character I'm portraying.
I haven't read an actual book book aloud since I was a Respite Caregiver for the local disability board several years ago. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 26 Apr 2015 : 08:08:29
99% of the time, no.
But on occasion, yeah, I catch myself reading some passages out loud.
Sometimes it's because those passages don't seem to flow very well in my head as I read them off the page. So I try reading them aloud to see if I can affect an audible rhythm or cadence that had not occurred to me previously when merely reading silently. Sometimes that actually works, and I am able to prove to myself that the passage actually does flow pretty well, and then I can move on with the rest of the story.
Other times, I just get carried away with imagining a scene adapted for the big screen, and I find myself reading the dialog parts aloud and visualizing the associated actions playing out. Hearing dialog like that helps me to gauge which lines are really necessary to the plot versus which ones are effectively superfluous filler and can be dropped with no ill effect.
And anytime I come across a line by Bruenor or Arthrogate, I read those out loud merely because I loves me some pseudo-Scottish Brogue!  |
