Alexx and Kestrell and The Books
Jan. 20th, 2011 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellSo, Alexx and I often make serious jokes about how we have this menage a trois, he and I and the books. I thought I would add just a little bit more kink to that relationship by letting other people voyeuristically listen to a recording of Alexx reading to me.
The book is one which I gave to Alexx for Christmas, but which I think I turned out to be a bigger fan of than he was: _Little.com_ by Ralph Steadman.
If you like Daniel Pinkwater or James Thurber you may like this book also, as it is a similar sort of strange. It's very short, and is about the dot that lives in your computer. This dot is another shapechanger character like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman's Delirium, but the dot is waaay more, uh, manic. And not so downbeat. It looks different in every picture, sometimes being a black puddle of ink with little splatters around it, other times it is a brightly-colored birdlike being, and most of the time it has abstract blue slashes for a mouth or an extra eyeball or two on stalks, or whatever else expresses it's emotions during that nanosecond. Mercurial--I like that about shapechangers. Also, like Thurber and Pinkwater, the art is not particularly sophisticated--there's lots of zig-zaggy lines and bright splashes of trippy colors (Steadman is the artist who illustrated many of Hunter S. Thompson's books).
Here is the link to download the mp3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zitm7j
The book is one which I gave to Alexx for Christmas, but which I think I turned out to be a bigger fan of than he was: _Little.com_ by Ralph Steadman.
If you like Daniel Pinkwater or James Thurber you may like this book also, as it is a similar sort of strange. It's very short, and is about the dot that lives in your computer. This dot is another shapechanger character like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman's Delirium, but the dot is waaay more, uh, manic. And not so downbeat. It looks different in every picture, sometimes being a black puddle of ink with little splatters around it, other times it is a brightly-colored birdlike being, and most of the time it has abstract blue slashes for a mouth or an extra eyeball or two on stalks, or whatever else expresses it's emotions during that nanosecond. Mercurial--I like that about shapechangers. Also, like Thurber and Pinkwater, the art is not particularly sophisticated--there's lots of zig-zaggy lines and bright splashes of trippy colors (Steadman is the artist who illustrated many of Hunter S. Thompson's books).
Here is the link to download the mp3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zitm7j
