In

this episode the HPR Audiobook Club discusses the audiobooks A

Princess of Mars, The

Gods of Mars, and The

Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Non-Spoiler Thoughts

Burroughs is kind of verbose, which is symbolic of the time period

in which it was written.

Beverage Reviews

Thaj: Tempting fate with a tall glass of the highly

toxic, Dihydrogen

Monoxide

x1101: Shipyard

Little Horror of Hops Its a very amber IPA

Pokey: Yellow Tail

Chardonay Its definitely a chardonay in flavor. You can taste the

cost effectiveness up front, but it mellows out on the finish, and is

pretty okay for the price on average.

FiftyOneFifty: Funky Pumpkin spiced

pumpkin ale

Mark: Lagunitas IPA

Things We Talked About

Chat Secure secure XMPP,

Think of the children!!!

Technology on Barsoom

Deus Ex Machina much???

Names in fantasy books

Our Next Audiobook

See

You At The Morgue by Lawrence Blochman

The Next Audiobook Club

Recording

Right now we are working through a backlog of older episode that have

already been recorded. Once that ends we fully anticipate recording new

episodes with listener participation.

Feedback

Thank you very much for listening to this episode of the HPR

AudioBookClub. We had a great time recording this show, and we hope you

enjoyed it as well. We also hope you'll consider joining us next time we

record a new episode. Please leave a few words in the episode's comment

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Sincerely, The HPR Audiobook Club

P.S. Some people really like finding mistakes. For their enjoyment,

we always include a few.

Our Audio

This episode was processed using Audacity. We've been making

small adjustments to our audio mix each month in order to get the best

possible sound. Its been especially challenging getting all of our

voices relatively level, because everyone has their own unique setup.

Mumble is great for bringing us all together, and for recording, but

it's not good at making everyone's voice the same volume. We're pretty

happy with the way this month's show turned out, so we'd like to share

our editing process and settings with you and our future selves (who, of

course, will have forgotten all this by then).

We use the "Truncate Silence" effect with it's default settings to

minimize the silence between people speaking. When used with it's

default (or at least reasonable) settings, Truncate Silence is extremely

effective and satisfying. It makes everyone sound smarter, it makes the

file shorter without destroying actual content, and it makes a

conversations sou