[ASMR] Shooting An Elephant - George Orwell - Narrated By Jules Burt - Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- [ASMR] Shooting An Elephant - George Orwell - Narrated By Jules Burt - Audiobook
In today's video, I narrate a superb short story as written by George Orwell and published back in 1936. In this story, Orwell recounts the time in Burma when he is forced, against his wishes, into shooting an elephant.
This is one of my favorite short essays of Orwell's. I do hope you find it interesting, enjoyable and relaxing.
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I have fairly severe ADHD and OCD that quite often makes reading difficult. Audiobooks tend to make completing and retaining the information from literature much easier for me. I don't have to come back and re-read it a million times. I came across this video while searching for an audio version of this essay, as I am needing to write a rhetorical analysis for one of my college courses. I found that many of the readings of this were either difficult to understand, cost money, or were just poorly done. Your voice, cadence, and rhythm is PERFECT for this! I was easily able to listen, follow along, and understand the content. I'm rambling--but just wanted to leave a comment to say thank you. I'm a bit sad to find that you don't have too many more of these readings. I've subscribed in case you do (your other content also looks great, too)! You are helping this wary millennial navigate academia after over a decade from the last time I was in school. I hope this comment brightens your day a bit, because your reading brightened mine! Cheers x
Thanks very much. That's a lovely comment to read this morning and I'm so glad it's helped. You're right, I've only a handful more of these readings on my channel but it's surprising how people still find just my regular monthly book pick ups relaxing. There's one coming this Sunday that's three plus hours long! Give thst a go, I think you'll enjoy that too. Audiobooks are a funny beast and the UK laws are quite specific, the author has to have been dead for 70 years. So, the rest of Orwell is fine. I'll have a think about some more 🙂
Great idea Jules. You have the perfect voice for narrating interesting short stories. Sounds like really good niche!
Great stuff👍 We'll see how this performs over the next few months.
Thank you for this. It would often take me an hour or two to read something of this length. But thanks to you, I was able to listen and follow along with no trouble. :)
That's great, thanks.
My first intro to Orwell was as a kid with Animal Farm...a " fun " animal story...later i saw that it was a bitting satire..This is a sad story. Is there some deeper meaning here...? Thanks, your voice did justice to the tale..Kipling is another of my faves
Thanks Sylvan, no deeper meaning, just a bit of a sad story but interesting all the same. Just an experiment for a short audiobook, will see how it performs over the next few months,👍
No argument there, definitely one of my favourite authors.
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Fascinating story, thanks for reading this. It makes one think about how many times in life we make decisions not based on what we want to do, or even what we should do, but rather because people expect it of us. Peer pressure can be a very powerful driving force.
Thanks John, it is quite a sad story. Fascinating at the same time and yes a perfect example of what can happen under peer pressure.
@@JulesBurt It's also interesting to hear about how much we British were hated in that particular corner of our Empire. I wonder if parts of South East Asia realised with hindsight just how benevolent we were compared to the Japanese Empire which conquered and ruled over large parts of Asia during WW2. Once they realised what life was like under brutal Japanese rule I imagine they were begging for us to come back!
Quite possibly. This happened almost 90 years ago and thankfully things have moved on a bit!🙂
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I'm so excited to listen to this tonight. I've been waiting for you to read us a story for a long time. Certainly with your amazing book collection you can find some titles to treat us!
Excellent, I hope it doesn't disappoint🙂👍
@@JulesBurt Well I put on my bluetooth sleep mask and listened as I went to bed, but I feel asleep before the story ended... which is exactly what I was hoping for... relaxed enough to sleep. I'll try again tonight.
Excellent, it's quite short but the story is interesting as well. Hope you make it to the end, eventually!🙂
@@JulesBurtabout to try again tonight. I still don't know what happens to the elephant.
Let me know how you get on🙂
Thank you so much! If you allow me, I will share this with my students since they are working with this story :) Thanks again!
Of course, thanks. It's a real classic.🙂
_Thank you so much 👍_
My pleasure 👍
You could do a whole channel of this stuff
Do you think so? Just audio books or ASMR as well?
@@JulesBurt I would say they are one of the same you have a naturally calm and relaxing voice.
Thanks Jason, I'm thinking about launching something in that direction soon.👍
Good choice of story. Men's adventure with a conscience.
For sure!🙂
You do have such a nice voice
Thanks very much🙂
Came back to listen to this one again tonight. I'm still waiting on the next story you read, something sci fi or even horror perhaps?
It's all finished, it's actually a Beatrix Potter from 1909, The Tale of Pigland Bland. Might do a horror one though.
Message me and I'll send you the direct link, it's not public for about 3 weeks yet.
@@JulesBurt will do!
Cool, it's all ready to go, if you can message me on Facebook or even just email me on my name at gmail.com, I'll send you the link.👍🙂
Well done!!
Thanks mate 🙂
I'm watching your videos with eating chips 😋, it's so fun to hear with eating
Nice, you're making me hungry!🙂
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Well, that was sad. Interesting though. Well narrated, thanks.
Thanks Jeff, yes, a really sad story.
Great narration. A really controversial story, but typical archaic British mindset about the coolie's death. Real shame about the elephant too as I'm pretty sure this is a true story. But amazing job in your part!
Thanks Nishil👍🙂
Heartbreaking story
Indeed it is😒