I am working on it. The main guy of the book-recording-people e-mailed me last night and wants to meet me to discuss “the style of reading” in which the book supposed to be recorded.
Hmmm…I am wondering what does he know about acting? I am sure he does not know anything about it so I am sort of surprised that he wants to “discuss the style”…
Oh well, I did not answer his mail yet. I am still reading the book in its original versions and thinking about its Polish version, which seems to be quite weak from the translation point of view.
The original of the “Eragon” is much better, however its author did not write anything great. I am sure, every 15 years old boy with homosexual tendencies will be able to write something similar. I do not understand why all the critics from NYT and other newspapers sung hymns about this 15 years old squirt? He really did not write anything deep.
Fascination with trolls, dragons, elves, sages and witches seems to be sort of fashion among the young generation of today. Not long ago I have read about young men who are called “emos” or something like that…I wasn’t shocked that such young people exist. In the world of pressure and in the age of rat race, emotional people suffer a lot. Especially young people who can’t agree with the brutality of everyday life and want to escape in to the world they create for themselves.

This situation makes me a bit uneasy, for I know that the book I am going to record had been written by a young man whose sensitivity is way above average and his visions of justice, good and bad, have nothing to do with reality.
I must and I am going to analyze the way I should read the book. So far I am leaning toward an old-man-story-teller type of reading, which might be OK because the book contains such character who tells the story to a young hero about the dragons and so on and so forth.

I lost touch with the world of today teenagers. I have no idea how they are? I am afraid I would not be able to find any connection with them.
Oh, I know, when I sing I have quite a large group of almost teenage fans in their late teens and very early twenties who want me to sing old classic songs from the swing era and musical classics too and they love it. But this is totally different audience, I guess…

Those youngsters I will be recording the book for might be of different sensitivity. I do not know? The main book-recording-man has a son who is thirteen years old. Perhaps I should talk to him… he might be of some help in identifying the way I can reach teens like him.

Anyway, I am still in the process of reading the original and when I finish this one I start reading the Polish version.
I have at least three more weeks to get ready for it.