Oh Look! Another Fan Letter!
Found in the comment trail:
Anonymous said...
I don't intend to be mean or anything, but I've been listening to some of your Librivox recordings, and finding them difficult to follow. A bit melodramatic, to be honest. You might think about listening to some of the other major readers and paying attention to their inflection, phrasing, and such.
5/16/2007 03:03:00 PM
Oh, and my fans are always so humble, they're anonymous.
I stopped volunteering for Librivox well over a year ago. Because I was getting hate mail, really violent hateful mail, that, I am not making this up, included death threats.
Some of you--just a few, probably, but they're very loud and very angry--are a little too critical of your free literature. And really really afraid of accents.
I could say a lot of things, but it so wouldn't matter. I can't make you hear what I hear.
It ends at this: we're all different. The world doesn't sound the way you sound. My story may not be your story. But, if you can't like it, at least get over it. Shrilling at me, or anyone, because they 'talk funny' doesn't *do* anything. It's not hurting you...
And it makes you look like a bigoted nitwit.
Just sayin'.
Anonymous said...
I don't intend to be mean or anything, but I've been listening to some of your Librivox recordings, and finding them difficult to follow. A bit melodramatic, to be honest. You might think about listening to some of the other major readers and paying attention to their inflection, phrasing, and such.
5/16/2007 03:03:00 PM
Oh, and my fans are always so humble, they're anonymous.
I stopped volunteering for Librivox well over a year ago. Because I was getting hate mail, really violent hateful mail, that, I am not making this up, included death threats.
Some of you--just a few, probably, but they're very loud and very angry--are a little too critical of your free literature. And really really afraid of accents.
I could say a lot of things, but it so wouldn't matter. I can't make you hear what I hear.
It ends at this: we're all different. The world doesn't sound the way you sound. My story may not be your story. But, if you can't like it, at least get over it. Shrilling at me, or anyone, because they 'talk funny' doesn't *do* anything. It's not hurting you...
And it makes you look like a bigoted nitwit.
Just sayin'.
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