Greg Giordano

7 books read for LibriVox

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Household Tales Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt
You’ll like these for their blunt, eerie storytelling, where a forest can feel genuinely dangerous and a talking animal may be wiser than the people around it. Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Ashenputtel still have a strange sharpness, though the violence and abrupt endings make this better for a taste of folklore than bedtime comfort.
Poetry Fernando Pessoa
Pessoa writes as four different poets, invented people with their own biographies, and each one feels real: Caeiro the shepherd who distrusts thinking, Campos howling in the Tobacco Shop. If you like poetry that argues with itself about who's even speaking, this gets under your skin.
The Beggar’s Opera John Gay
The Birds Aristophanes, translated by The Athenian Society
The Birds Aristophanes
You get absurd political satire, shameless wordplay, and the wonderfully slippery Peisetairus, who talks a flock of birds into imagining a new city in the sky. It’s bawdy, strange, and occasionally more interested in a joke than a tidy plot, but the chorus and wild premise make it unusually vivid on the page.
Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers
A stranger's body turns up in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez, and Lord Peter Wimsey investigates mostly because it amuses him. The banter is the point here, though Sayers gives him real shell shock underneath, which keeps the froth from floating away entirely.
You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw
Shaw in a genuinely sunny mood, which is rarer than you'd think. A broke dentist falls hard for a woman raised to be immune to romance, her chaotic twin siblings cause havoc, and a hotel waiter named William quietly out-wises everyone.

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Greg Giordano

7 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

Household Tales Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt
You’ll like these for their blunt, eerie storytelling, where a forest can feel genuinely dangerous and a talking animal may be wiser than the people around it. Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Ashenputtel still have a strange sharpness, though the violence and abrupt endings make this better for a taste of folklore than bedtime comfort.
Poetry Fernando Pessoa
Pessoa writes as four different poets, invented people with their own biographies, and each one feels real: Caeiro the shepherd who distrusts thinking, Campos howling in the Tobacco Shop. If you like poetry that argues with itself about who's even speaking, this gets under your skin.
The Beggar’s Opera John Gay
The Birds Aristophanes, translated by The Athenian Society
The Birds Aristophanes
You get absurd political satire, shameless wordplay, and the wonderfully slippery Peisetairus, who talks a flock of birds into imagining a new city in the sky. It’s bawdy, strange, and occasionally more interested in a joke than a tidy plot, but the chorus and wild premise make it unusually vivid on the page.
Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers
A stranger's body turns up in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez, and Lord Peter Wimsey investigates mostly because it amuses him. The banter is the point here, though Sayers gives him real shell shock underneath, which keeps the froth from floating away entirely.
You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw
Shaw in a genuinely sunny mood, which is rarer than you'd think. A broke dentist falls hard for a woman raised to be immune to romance, her chaotic twin siblings cause havoc, and a hotel waiter named William quietly out-wises everyone.