| Book Review | I tried my ear at this 11.5 hour audio book and gave up, feeling like I needed subtitles and a Renaissance Faire costume to fully absorb the thickly accented old-timey English dialect. It didn't help that I couldn't get the volume up high enough to drown out the roaring freeway traffic that comes free of charge with my 2013 Yaris and intra-county commute. Thanks for nothing, David Thorn.
I do adore these jovial stories of mischief in the Land of Fancy where the ale flows like water in a brook, as Pyle puts it, but the six-year-old in me gravitated toward a more accessible version: Robin Hood and the Great Coach Robbery, available in our 3rd floor Dream collection (PN 1997.5.R637 1974). Disney depicts scenes of well-dressed forest creatures from its 1973 Robin Hood film, a personal favorite.
My original goal was to confirm exactly how and where the grown-up tales inspired Disney's take, so if you figure this out on my behalf without cheating (you Googlers, you), I'll buy you an ale of October brewing, come October.
Better still, I'll buy you TWO ales of October brewing, come October, if you listen to the audio book AND read the print or eBook (available herehttp://chapcat.chapman.edu/record=b5250436~S1), AND can manage to report back your findings to the Reference Desk in thickly accented old-timey English dialect with all the poor enunciation of David Thorn on a roaring freeway.
TLDR: It's a concerted effort.
Cheers, archers and outlaws! |
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