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Jan 4Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

Good reading, Alexander! This will be good. Looking forward to listening.

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Thanks, Ron. Glad you enjoy it! Know someone else who might want to listen? Share share share! 😁

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Jan 4Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

What a great idea, Alexander. I would much rather listen to your voice than read this book. I will listen to this first part this evening. But, um, let me know when you put Lady Chatterly's Lover on your reading list...

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Thanks, Sharron! Lady Chatterly! It is indeed on the list of 1001 classic books (in Public Domain) I want to record before I kick the bucket, you know, join the choir invisible, pushing up the daisies and all that. I may have to speed up the recording quota! 😅

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Jan 14Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

I am enjoying reading slowly each day, but I think I will use these recordings when it's time to recap a larger section of the book. Thanks for your work!

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Thank you, Holle. Great to hear you find it useful! Enjoying the slow read tremendously as well!

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Jan 4Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

I tried to read the book in high school and gave up fast by its sheer volume. Now I'll get to sit back and listen to you instead. Very immersive reading!

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Thank you , Nadia! Let me know if I botched the Rrrrrussian prrrronunciations! Chapter 4 was the most challenging thus far!

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Jan 5Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

You got it! It's no fun without a challenge ;P.

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yeah, including Italian! 😅 Crazy book!

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Jan 5Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

XD I don't know how the readers and listeners are supposed to understand long sentences from dialogue of foreign languages. The author didn't quite think it through. Hmm!

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You need the book then while listening, it has the translated bits at the bottom 😂

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Jan 5Liked by Alexander Ipfelkofer

Hah, well, that is help! :D Fortunately I do know French and Russian. Phew. The rest will be lost in translation.

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The reading is very well done. I invested in this edition of “War and Peace” during Covid under the assumption that, now was as good a time as any. But I haven’t gotten around to it. So this is a pleasant surprise.

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Thanks a lot, Daniel! It was a surprise to me as well, I didn't plan on doing War and Peace now but Simon's project was the motivator I needed, albeit Nineteen Eighty-Four will take longer to record now but it's coming, too. All the classics. Will take a fair bit of time.

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