Macrina Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Oh how do I love thee, let me count the ways.... Anybody with me? :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwarsmomma Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 I feel like i've been living in a cave, I'd never heard of him until I did a google search. LOL Looks neat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmom Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 A great storyteller, full of knowledge, and a nice man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm37 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 We are listening to our first Jim Weiss, SOTW 1. I will say that we thought his voice very strange at first. This surprised me since I had heard so much about him. He is starting to grow on us, but we still laugh aloud when he does a woman's voice. It sounds like something my son would do to mock his sisters! So, no, not a big fan ... yet. What am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Country Mouse Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Big Jim Weiss fans here. He is so talented. My dh can do a spot-on impression of him, too. It always tickles me. We were very lucky to see him at the WTM Anniversary Conference in the spring. Ds loves him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConnieB Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 BIG BIG fans here. We've seen him "live" probably a dozen times....and after a few times he actually recognizes us! He's such a wonderful person and an excellent storyteller. Way back when Susan was just considering doing audio CDs and the old board was giving suggestions for narrators, we nominated Jim. Alas, they went with Barbara Caruso for the first two volumes. She was good, we bought both volumes with her, but when Jim came out with Vol 3 and 4, we gobbled those up, and eventually purchased Jim's Vol 1 and 2. I figure I'll eventually have grandkids to do SOTW with, so it's an investment, lol. (Hey, that reminds me, I should sell the Caruso ones, lol). His website is http://www.greathall.com But you can also find his CDs in most libraries (maybe not the whole collections, but hopefully a couple to try out). Our library has about 20 or 25 of them, and we keep requesting more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leanna Tomlinson Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 At the Cincinnati conference in April, I asked him to autograph my boys' new CD. I thought they would get a kick out of it. In the middle of the busy convention atmosphere, he sat down and wrote my sons a short note! My boys have it in a treasured place on their bulletin board. He's a very nice man in person.:) ~ Leanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Fans here! My dd's can (and do) listen to him for hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConnieB Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Fans here!My dd's can (and do) listen to him for hours. I've joked with a friend (another fan of Jim's) that I could listen to him read the phone book. Such a soothing voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 You need to get some of the collections he has created himself to really understand the brilliance of the man. It isn't just a voice that makes a story teller, it is the gift of bringing a story to life. He can capture you in his story telling spell with even old standards like Cinderella. SOTW was not written by him, and there is only so much you can do when reading it aloud to bring it to life. Favorites here include the Greek myths, Egyptian myths, the science collection that includes the stories of Gallileo, the animal stories, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare...well the list goes on. My boys went to sleep for many years listening to his bedtime vignettes and still want to hear them when they are ill. "Get comfortable, we're going someplace wonderful..." Jim Weiss originally recorded them for his dd when she was away at college! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Doesn't a poster on these boards have "In Love With Jim Weiss" for her location? I remember seeing that somewhere and chuckling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConnieB Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 You need to get some of the collections he has created himself to really understand the brilliance of the man. It isn't just a voice that makes a story teller, it is the gift of bringing a story to life. He can capture you in his story telling spell with even old standards like Cinderella. SOTW was not written by him, and there is only so much you can do when reading it aloud to bring it to life. Favorites here include the Greek myths, Egyptian myths, the science collection that includes the stories of Gallileo, the animal stories, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare...well the list goes on. My boys went to sleep for many years listening to his bedtime vignettes and still want to hear them when they are ill. "Get comfortable, we're going someplace wonderful..." Jim Weiss originally recorded them for his dd when she was away at college! Yes, it is much more than his voice....but that voice does a LOT towards drawing you into the story and making you listen closely and even hold your breath waiting for his next sentence. And while he did not write SOTW, his reading brought it to life much more so than Barbara Caruso's did (though she is a fine narrator and we enjoy her reading other audiobooks). We'd already finished our second round for SOTW 1 and 2 when Jim's version was released.....I knew I wanted to own it for future use (grandkids, lol)....and one day the kids found it sitting on the shelf, unopened and asked to listen to it on a long long drive we were taking not long after......and even though they'd heard and studied about these time periods twice already, they were capitvated by HIS telling of it. Same words, same story...but it was the voice and the craft of storytelling that was so well done that we could listen to a story for the third time and still be interested....even adults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELaurie Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 over and over and over again. They turned out to be one of the best purchases I have ever made :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 (edited) Oh how do I love thee, let me count the ways.... Anybody with me? :tongue_smilie: Definitely. We're still listening to tapes that I bought about seven years ago. I actually have a big collection of his cds that I'm probably not getting enough use our of because of where I have them stored. I need to pull them out remind the kids we have them. I also have a few works by Odds Bodkin. His story telling style is very different. More wildcat storyteller than bard like. But we really like his Paul Bunyan and Odysseus. Edited September 20, 2009 by Sebastian (a lady) spelling error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 We are listening to our first Jim Weiss, SOTW 1. I will say that we thought his voice very strange at first. This surprised me since I had heard so much about him. He is starting to grow on us, but we still laugh aloud when he does a woman's voice. It sounds like something my son would do to mock his sisters! I felt that way about him at first, too, when listening to SOTW 1. But, his voice has grown on me, and I would say that I'm a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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