Back in late July, I blogged about visiting the recording session for the Leviathan audio book. I got to meet and hang out with Alan Cumming, the voice talent for the audio version, and listen to him work.
And now you do too!
Leviathan has two main characters, one Scottish and one Austrian, which makes Alan perfect for the role. He’s Scottish himself, so no problem there, and he gained fame in the US for his role in Cabaret, so we knew he could do Germanic accents as well. He’s a very dramatic reader, especially in the giant battle scene I heard, so all the explosions and derring-do that are my forte are going to sound awesome. All in all, it was a for-the-win casting choice. Thanks to everyone at S&S Audio for being so frickin’ smart.
Anyway, here’s a sneak preview:
| Listen to Chapter One of the audio! | |
| Afterword, read by me (Many spoilers!) |
You can buy the Leviathan audio book here.
Or order the regular paper-based version.
And don’t forget, the Uglies e-book is still free, free, free. Click here to go to Simon & Schuster’s download site.
August 28th, 2009 03:35
…That reading is majestic.
I am so captured.
Can’t wait till the release!
August 28th, 2009 03:58
Alan Cumming!!! AHHH!!!! He does lovely
August 28th, 2009 03:59
OH wow I can’t wait! Once i finish homework I am so listening to this.
August 28th, 2009 04:08
Derring-do! Though of the steampunk variety, not the hoverboard kind.
August 28th, 2009 04:14
Oh my gosh!
August 28th, 2009 04:16
That has to be the most fawesome audio-preview EVER! Alan Cumming’s accents were impeccable! Love it. October 9 could come tommorrow and it wouldn’t b soon enough!
August 28th, 2009 04:42
Wow! The reading is amazing. I can’t listen to the afterword, though. I don’t want to spoil anything!
August 28th, 2009 05:07
Scott I can’t listen to this before my AP European History test tomorrow!!! It’ll get me so confused!
August 28th, 2009 06:11
OMG…i love alan cumming!!! he was the bomb in X2 as nightcrawler!!! Cant wait for Leviathan!!! UGGG today was my 2nd day of fresman year.. and i have to go back tomorrow ..ewww.. id rather sleep.
August 28th, 2009 06:16
Oh my God! This is amazing! Alan Cumming is perfect. I really love Volger’s voice. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the characters, especially Deryn.
August 28th, 2009 06:18
yay a new post
ive read this chapter too many times already
August 28th, 2009 19:12
very cool =] ill listen to it later!
cant wait till it comes out
August 28th, 2009 20:40
wow… again, that was amazing. I’m sending this for no apparent reason. I’m at school and i wanted to see if i could. I thought the computer’s minders would block me, but they didn’t. huh.
August 28th, 2009 20:41
oh, and am i brain-missing, or is there a tiny smiley face at the bottom of the page? Just noticed that.
August 28th, 2009 22:35
Wow, this is amazing! I hope you don’t mind that I’m blogging about this. =)
August 29th, 2009 02:30
if i listen to this i will explode with excitement over the book, so i cant listen to this until the book comes out…
August 29th, 2009 04:00
Awesome!!! I missed a few parts because people were talking, but still very awesome.
I really, really, really can’t wait until Leviathan comes out!!!!
August 29th, 2009 05:40
I still don’t get what leviathan is about…
:’(
I’m so fashion-missing!
awwwww…
August 29th, 2009 07:33
Is anyone else having trouble with their countdown widget? Mines still counting, but the image is gone.
August 29th, 2009 08:17
i dont know who that guy is. i bet that the book is cool but it just doesnt intrest me. i like the uglies series, midnighters, and peeps
August 29th, 2009 09:21
stellar-major!!!
dying for Lev!
loved listening<3 – I got my Westerfeld fix for the night ^_^
August 29th, 2009 10:20
OMG like I haven’t commented in forever! I’ve kept up with reading the blog, just not the commenting part. Yay, it’s finnally the weekend! I had a cool first week of Sophomore year, other than the fact that I have no classes or lunch with my friend, and that Savanna has strangly been ignoring me… I’ve tried to say hi at lunch, but she just looks away or acts like I don’t exist!!! She just sits there and talks with her new friends. I am just shocked. She won’t respond to my texts either!! What is going on here??? I’m worried.
August 29th, 2009 10:57
Fexcellent. I loved it. Alan Cumming is a master of voice craft. The perfect choice for a master or word craft! It’s a gorgeous pairing. I think I’ll get the audiobook, even though I’m going to get the book, just because I can’t wait for him to finish reading to me! Mind you, I’ve no audiobooks. But this one… *knees weaken* I need it. So. Good.
Dying for Leviathan to come!!! Gah!!
August 29th, 2009 16:27
This is truly amazing. I am so happy!!! I cannot WAIT for Leviathan to come out!! I am definitely going to be buying it and not just borrowing.
Thanks so much for the upload; as well as the literary genius of yourself, and the vocal genius of Alan Cummings (whom I adore) this is truly… awesome.
August 29th, 2009 21:49
Wow scott-la. You’ve gone from having 200-some comments to like, fifty, in a year. Jeez.
Anyway, awesome-possum. Alan Cumming is fawesome, and I think I’ll read Levithan even if it doesn’t seem that interesting. Just because it’s written by you – so you better feel special, mister! D:<
August 30th, 2009 04:51
Hey Scott – I’d really like to follow your blog in my rss reader – can you please publish a feed?
August 30th, 2009 06:17
Righteous! Thank you, Scott-la! Why is the spoiler one loading faster? …is this a…SIGN? : D
Nicole-wa: I feel deeply (deeeeeeeeeeply) sorry for you! Freshman years always suck, but at least you have something to look forward to…the end…or the exciting possibilites in the middle…(I’ve been sitting around for awhile, sorry for the bleakness
)
Alex-wa: Good luck with sophmore year! Good luck with Savanna too, maybe she didn’t really see you? Or maybe she’s going all Tally on you (heh) : )
(I’m still on summer break *laughs evilly*)
Farewell, I will listen to these when (if) they load!
ta
August 30th, 2009 06:31
Alan Cumming=Totally Enchanting
August 30th, 2009 23:34
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August 31st, 2009 02:58
i just had a gerat 1st week of my senior year. i just realized that monday the 24th was my last 1st day of skool ever (except for college)!
August 31st, 2009 04:09
Wow! That was so cool. When Alan started reading I was at the edge of my seat. I could picture it so well, better than reading it from the Free Uglies download. There was only one thing that I thought was particularly interesting, I thought that Count Volgaur was more nasal than that. Oh, well. I guess that’s just me.
August 31st, 2009 04:23
GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THAT FREAKIN’ AWESOME LEVIATHAN TRAILER IN THE CORNER! HOW LONG HAS THAT BEEN THERE?!?!?!?!?!?!
September 1st, 2009 04:20
IS THE IDEA OF A BOOK SOCK REALLY THAT AWFUL??????
I MEAN, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT SCHOOL HAS STARTED AND WHAT NOT…………. SO JUST DO IT, FOR THE LOVE OF MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!! BOOKSOCKS WAS THE MOST ORIGIONAL IDEA!
September 1st, 2009 04:22
wait. what is up with all of the newbies?!?!?! i HATE newbies!!!!! just to say.
September 1st, 2009 05:37
so what your saying is that you don’t want Uglies to get more fans?
that doesn’t sound very good you know
September 1st, 2009 06:11
i just dont want uglies to end up like twilight. with all the crazy 10 year old fan girls screaming about it 24-7.
September 4th, 2009 15:03
Oh, I hope not. But you’ll get a certain amount of crazies when any book’s made into a movie. Which sucks. It’s the only part of the movie I’m not looking forward to.
(I might be new here, but I’m not a newbie when it comes to general Westerness.)
Ha ha. I predict this twilight-carry-over-fangirl reaction: ‘Scott, you should TOTALLY write a vampire novel!’
…And we’ll all be snickering in the corner.
But aside from that, we all know that Scott doesn’t write smexy abusive vampires, so surely Uglies will attract a different fanbase?
I’m having the same problem as someone else–the afterword is loading faster than the chapter. Alan Cumming sounds awesome, but I’ve just remembered that I’ve never had much patience with audiobooks.
And, to make this comment even longer, when do us Aussies get Leviathan? Same day? Different?
September 7th, 2009 19:33
btw he already has and they were waaaay fawesomer than twilight (that sucked) scott-la is a much better author anyway his books could never end up like those unappreciated twilight fans!!!!!!!!!! sorry hate those books and those people.
P.S.- scott-la i will ask again will u please write another midnighers book?
September 9th, 2009 16:51
I know he has. That’s why I said we’d all be snickering in the corner, because we’ll know that and they won’t.
September 10th, 2009 05:27
I really hate to say this, but the person narrating the book sounded a bit dull, and I am pretty sure this book is NOT dull, its just that voice. uggh well boring voice aside, the book chapter was pretty good.
September 14th, 2009 01:30
Отличная тема! Будет интересно прочитать развитие событий.
September 24th, 2009 03:39
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