I love the darker tone to the comedy/general narrative in these books vs. our beloved TV version. It feels quite different, doesn’t it? Not better, just… edgier & more adult.
I wouldn't so much say edgier or more adult, just uncensored in the purest form of the word. More room for it all between the covers of a book versus the glow of the telly. Both are beautiful in their own right, but I find myself coming back to this book as well as it's follow up "Better Than Life", they just... Lister relates a lot heavier in the books to me personally and the overall darker tone makes the funny stuff stick out even more. Humor was always a form of defense, so it's poetic these books... But I am very aware of subjection and all that, just one voice in the crowd, blah blah blah...
Absolutely, I'd love to see the TV shows redone with the same tone and content as the books in the form of a miniseries or film series. With new actors etc. It wouldn't be easy, but it could be amazing and draw in a whole new generation of fans.
I listen to these audiobooks here on YT as I go to sleep, and it always seems like I'm finally nodding off when the snoring bit begins. It always jolts me awake. Thanks Chris Barrie :P Fer real, Thanks for posting Ace! What a guy :)
Really enjoyed this. Went through High School here in the States, waking up in the Mid AM hours of the morning to catch Red Dwarf. I recall thinking I hated Rimmer until he had left the show for a sting, and thought the show was poorer for..or at least while...he was absent. Now, at 36 years old and find Chris Barrie to be a highly versatile actor. Really enjoyed listening to this
Barrie is a ledge - I went to a Red Dwarf convention years ago.. I arrived pretty late and he was not sat at his table and people were saying that he had already left.. so I solemnly went to the loo before planning to make my exit.. and whilst I was peeing in the urinal.. Arnold J Rimmer walked out of one of the cubicles behind me in a full Tweed suit.. I will never forget that moment.. stood there with my todger in my hands while one of my heroes washed his.. memories haha
Thanks so much for posting this. I've wanted to hear this unabridged version again for so long. I've listened to all the audiobooks easily over 50 times each, and I never tire of them. LOVE THE DWARF!!!
Perhaps I'm just old and tired but I think Rimmer's stasis hobby makes some kind of sense. If the Space Corp has a final salary pension after 40 years of service then, based on his time saving, Rimmer could start collecting that when he was effectively in his early fifties. This means he could enjoy a long retirement starting at a point when he's young and fit enough to enjoy it. x
Christ, no wonder they didn’t include Lister’s effective mental breakdown in the TV series, it provides a great insight into his character but man is it dark.
I read this book so many times, it fell apart. It's interesting to hear Chris' inflection on some of the passages I remember and how I remember inflecting them.
The amazing thing about Chris Barrie isn't that he sounds as much like other actors/characters as he does, it's that I genuinely can't hear Chris Barrie in the other voices. That's a feat.
This is my favourite book, I've read it a dozen times along with the sequels. Ive always thought they are better than the TV series and its nice to hear Chris Barry reading it and doing voices. He can do those better than he does here btw
@@Lily_of_the_Forest yes, it has a different humour which the tv series cannot produce and it puts the series stories into 1 story which all flows along instead of several short stories.
I wish I could agree. If they just recorded a real guitar, I'd be cool with it. I always fast-forward through it, and it always plays twice. At least Howard Goodall still gets his performance royalties, no matter what version they use. He's my favorite modern composer.
What I wouldn't give to be Dave Lister! Most people would freak out if they found out they were the last human alive on an enormous mining ship, not me! All the things I want would be on that ship, all my favorite movies, music, everything!! And especially the solitude, oh the solitude!
Is it just me, or did these videos become monetized recently? I started getting ads a few months ago, but those little yellow markers in the time/progress bar thingy were never there, and they never interrupted the video. The ads were only when I started playing. Now the little yellow marks are there, and the program is interrupted really frequently. I can't listen to these anymore at bedtime, and that sucks!
How do you go out tonight in space I wonder and why Rimmer didn't just move next door if he couldn't sleep bc of Lister snoring? wasn't like they were to many of them left on the red dwarf
s2 or s3? I remember him in s3 as the French revolutionary at the embassy who was holding Blackadder captive when he was rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel :D Did he also have a part in s2?
You know, it occurs to me Holly could have kept the ship on a course looping back to Earth, not that there woukd be any point, unless droids could have extracted Lister after the accident.
The journeys expected to take several million years, his suits would be dust by the time they got back. Listers stuff must have been in vacuum storage when he was initially frozen
@Ejuice Vaper I think it would have been great if they'd had Claire Grogan continue in the part. She was far better suited to the character, but they were trying to get a movie deal, and they thought Chloe was more glamorous and sophisticated, two things nobody on Red Dwarf should ever be unless they're giant, slimy cockroaches in disguise (Pete Tranter's sister... oh my...). Props to Chloe. I mean she's a talented actor, especially in the new character they wrote for her (spoiled, sophisticated rich girl who likes Jane Austin and cottage cheese with pineapple chunks) and she's quite yummy. She fit in very well with the cast and the part they gave her, but it was that part I strongly disliked. Usually. Except when she makes me laugh.
Stuff past season 6 basically isn't the same partly because one of the writers stopped being involved. The first 6 seasons are Rob Grant and Doug Naylor together. After that, Grant left, and Naylor got a handful of other people to help. So, that might not seem significant, but clearly it makes a major transition point in the way the show was written. Some of it's still funny, but it doesn't seem on the same level as the older stuff.
@@KuraIthys I gotta say I like seasons 10-12, especially 12. It's more Saturday morning-ish, but for what it is, I'm into it. The characters are allowed to be older, and they make fun of it instead of playing the same regular characters and pretending they're not aging and gaining weight. They're still funny, and they feel like older versions of the same characters. Spot on.
I actually joined the Royal Navy in 1990 after watching red dwarf and reading the book because I thought it’d be the closest thing to being in this story. I actually adopted a similar persona to lister and used to do as little work as possible. Why couldn’t I have been influenced by a Napoleon biography instead, and then maybe I wouldn’t be smoking weed and binge watching Rick and Morty 😂
I love the darker tone to the comedy/general narrative in these books vs. our beloved TV version. It feels quite different, doesn’t it? Not better, just… edgier & more adult.
I wouldn't so much say edgier or more adult, just uncensored in the purest form of the word. More room for it all between the covers of a book versus the glow of the telly. Both are beautiful in their own right, but I find myself coming back to this book as well as it's follow up "Better Than Life", they just... Lister relates a lot heavier in the books to me personally and the overall darker tone makes the funny stuff stick out even more. Humor was always a form of defense, so it's poetic these books... But I am very aware of subjection and all that, just one voice in the crowd, blah blah blah...
Absolutely, I'd love to see the TV shows redone with the same tone and content as the books in the form of a miniseries or film series. With new actors etc. It wouldn't be easy, but it could be amazing and draw in a whole new generation of fans.
I listen to these audiobooks here on YT as I go to sleep, and it always seems like I'm finally nodding off when the snoring bit begins. It always jolts me awake. Thanks Chris Barrie :P
Fer real, Thanks for posting Ace! What a guy :)
exactly the same as me, horrible noise.
How long you beena plumber?
Chris Barrie is the perfect choice to read this - seeing as he can imitate the rest of the cast (particularly Holly and Lister) - amazingly well.
I actually assumed it was them! amazing
I wasn't sure if it was them or not. Barrie does it so naturally.
he does a pretty good Rimmer, too
He's okay, but I don't think his accents are that good..
@@Warboy1982 That particularly caught me off guard.
Really enjoyed this. Went through High School here in the States, waking up in the Mid AM hours of the morning to catch Red Dwarf. I recall thinking I hated Rimmer until he had left the show for a sting, and thought the show was poorer for..or at least while...he was absent. Now, at 36 years old and find Chris Barrie to be a highly versatile actor. Really enjoyed listening to this
Barrie is a ledge - I went to a Red Dwarf convention years ago.. I arrived pretty late and he was not sat at his table and people were saying that he had already left.. so I solemnly went to the loo before planning to make my exit.. and whilst I was peeing in the urinal.. Arnold J Rimmer walked out of one of the cubicles behind me in a full Tweed suit.. I will never forget that moment.. stood there with my todger in my hands while one of my heroes washed his.. memories haha
@@chemicaltrails4468he wahed his todger...in the sink? Absolute legend! 🤣🤣 That's actually a great story.
"She won't be much use to you on Feegee now, not unless it snows and you need something to grit the path with."
Really funny line that.
Classic stuff!
Chris Barrie is a very talented narrator.
He brings the story to life.
It’s the only area of their job that I’d consider to be hard work, narrating books
Wow. This was also the first RUclips vid I've ever come across that wasn't full of nasty comments by trolls. Good people.
You suck,
Smeg head.
X
@@jimmy2k4o 3 years later
SmeeeHeeee
You are a silly billy,
Im sorry, that was too harsh,
have a beer friend 🍺
Like Monty Python or Bob and Doug MacKenzie, ya hosehead. Sometimes the best humor contains no barbs.
Listen to this every night
Love the dwarf!
Thanks for posting
carrot too Gamer me to
Thanks so much for posting this. I've wanted to hear this unabridged version again for so long. I've listened to all the audiobooks easily over 50 times each, and I never tire of them. LOVE THE DWARF!!!
Perhaps I'm just old and tired but I think Rimmer's stasis hobby makes some kind of sense. If the Space Corp has a final salary pension after 40 years of service then, based on his time saving, Rimmer could start collecting that when he was effectively in his early fifties. This means he could enjoy a long retirement starting at a point when he's young and fit enough to enjoy it. x
Yeah it makes sense to me.
The narrator totally nails Rimmers voice.
Coz it is him 😂 😂 😂
No it's Chris Barrie, not Rimmer.
Amazing isn’t it!
Doh! He does a good Lister tho!
@@colinfarren8326 I concur.
I can’t sleep without this! Thanks Ace.
Me too
Same 😊
Same
Barrie's impression of Norman Lovett is unreal.
His impression of rimmer is even better
His impression of rimmer is even better
Timestamp?
I actually thought that they'd gotten Norman to do a cameo on this. Chris is amazing.
@@davidvasey5065start at 40:45 and you get a new take on a classic exchange between Holly and Lister.
Christ, no wonder they didn’t include Lister’s effective mental breakdown in the TV series, it provides a great insight into his character but man is it dark.
Chris Barrie is just brilliant, one of the best audiobook readings I've heard.
Shame he didn't do more.
He also did the Better Than Life audiobook.
I read this book so many times, it fell apart. It's interesting to hear Chris' inflection on some of the passages I remember and how I remember inflecting them.
Excellent stuff. I own and have read the book but hearing it from chris himself is superb
58 Smegheads have managed to find the down thumb icon. Smegin hell.
The amazing thing about Chris Barrie isn't that he sounds as much like other actors/characters as he does, it's that I genuinely can't hear Chris Barrie in the other voices. That's a feat.
Quite so, sir.
He does such a good lister, but in this one he makes lister sound like a woman or something
Yeah he makes lister sound half asleep, but I know exactly who it’s supposed to be so no issue from me
I have to give you a rimmer salute for posting this
JoeGuitar335 A double Rimmer for special times!
#Occasions
This is my favourite book, I've read it a dozen times along with the sequels. Ive always thought they are better than the TV series and its nice to hear Chris Barry reading it and doing voices. He can do those better than he does here btw
Yeah, Chris And Danny(John-Jules) both do excellent voice work
Better than the series?
@@Lily_of_the_Forest yes, it has a different humour which the tv series cannot produce and it puts the series stories into 1 story which all flows along instead of several short stories.
What dissapointed me about the books is how they ended up dropping the whole plotline involving towing Earth back to the Solar System.
Thanks for posting this.
I used to have the book but, well, divorce.
Thanks again mate.
Poor Rimmer! Brilliant. Thanks
Flipping love this. Perfect in every way.
01:01:25. I love this and the rant after.
Nuneaton Borough, they knocked Swansea City out of the 1967 FA Cup
The industrial version of the hitchhiker's guide
Love this so much. Takes me ages to find out where I left off
Found my new bedtime listening..
I like the idea of spending free time in a stasis booth, it sounds ideal
Yeah good idea
That holly voice is emaculate
That midi theme just makes it more awesome.
I wish I could agree. If they just recorded a real guitar, I'd be cool with it. I always fast-forward through it, and it always plays twice. At least Howard Goodall still gets his performance royalties, no matter what version they use. He's my favorite modern composer.
Said noone ever
Before Red Dwarf he was a professional impersonator
Chris Barrie is a true talent.
What I wouldn't give to be Dave Lister! Most people would freak out if they found out they were the last human alive on an enormous mining ship, not me! All the things I want would be on that ship, all my favorite movies, music, everything!! And especially the solitude, oh the solitude!
What about the sex?
@@minicle426 I guess the many VR games could suffice.
I feel sorry for Rimmer. Yeah he’s a jerk, but his family was crap. Hard to overcome that.
Excellent thanks for the upload 😀
Robert Thomas Hynd no worries aye glad you enjoyed it
look for brittas empire..Chris barrie at his finest
hes good in it...but its not better than red dwarf
SMOKE ME A KIPPER I'LL BE BACK FOR BREAKFAST! !!👍😎💜 LOVE YA ACE!!✌😙 THEY DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE 👍😭 GOD I SOUND OLD✋😠
Yes, but at least you are called Zac
Is it just me, or did these videos become monetized recently? I started getting ads a few months ago, but those little yellow markers in the time/progress bar thingy were never there, and they never interrupted the video. The ads were only when I started playing. Now the little yellow marks are there, and the program is interrupted really frequently. I can't listen to these anymore at bedtime, and that sucks!
Switch to the Brave Browser ;)
The funny thing is companies paying RUclips to advertise to sleeping people!
Skip to the end of the video and then click the replay button. It plays through without ads for me.
Just gold, thank you
51:38 the weird thing is that i can imagine if that had happened to me I'd probably react that way myself.
How do you go out tonight in space I wonder and why Rimmer didn't just move next door if he couldn't sleep bc of Lister snoring? wasn't like they were to many of them left on the red dwarf
I think it was out of habit, as they shared before the radiation leak and also humans need company so maybe it was almost subconscious for them.
Or use earplugs
1:39:14. . . so, erm, how many times did You rewind what follows the forementioned timestamp?
Chris barrie 's first job was voice overs on spitting image..next was part on blackadder s2
s2 or s3? I remember him in s3 as the French revolutionary at the embassy who was holding Blackadder captive when he was rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel :D Did he also have a part in s2?
Paul Hawklord
Really??? Do you remember which episode? I have them all on VHS :P
Paul Hawklord
I'll look for it - thanks!
"Spitting Image..." Was that a puppet show where he played Ronald Reagan?
Beena Plumber You were right the first time. It was just season 3.
Saving this for a listen later.
getting a very strong sense of dejavu, like I've just heard this.
You know, it occurs to me Holly could have kept the ship on a course looping back to Earth, not that there woukd be any point, unless droids could have extracted Lister after the accident.
EVERYBODYS DEAD DAVE! 😉
Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?
Love it.
Listers stasis master plan and rimmers,shame. Dwarfers abide.
The dude abides
@@knivesfightinnguns3103 indeed sir the dude abides
yep heart break do that makes you go so crazy you crate the human\cat race
Can someone explain the "going on holiday with a group of germans" joke to me?
It's incredibly boring
English people aren’t fond of Germans. Ya know, WWII and all that.
I never understand why lister told the cat he could take two suits your going into stais not leveing the ship thay still be there when thay get out
Unlike Dave's clothes the 1st thime he got out of stasis. It's a plot hole. Grant & Naylor love their plot holes - like inside jokes or something :)
In the next part it explains the suits are going into vacuum storage rather than stasis
maybe poor Cat just can't go anywhere without clothes
The journeys expected to take several million years, his suits would be dust by the time they got back. Listers stuff must have been in vacuum storage when he was initially frozen
1:55:10 Bookmark
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1:01:27 LOL hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
1:33:01
Why is the captain a woman in this ?
30:38
Smeeeeeg hheeeeeeeddds
It was a good show till they put all that chanksi rubbish in it .
What's chanksi rubbish?
@Ejuice Vaper I think it would have been great if they'd had Claire Grogan continue in the part. She was far better suited to the character, but they were trying to get a movie deal, and they thought Chloe was more glamorous and sophisticated, two things nobody on Red Dwarf should ever be unless they're giant, slimy cockroaches in disguise (Pete Tranter's sister... oh my...). Props to Chloe. I mean she's a talented actor, especially in the new character they wrote for her (spoiled, sophisticated rich girl who likes Jane Austin and cottage cheese with pineapple chunks) and she's quite yummy. She fit in very well with the cast and the part they gave her, but it was that part I strongly disliked. Usually. Except when she makes me laugh.
Stuff past season 6 basically isn't the same partly because one of the writers stopped being involved.
The first 6 seasons are Rob Grant and Doug Naylor together.
After that, Grant left, and Naylor got a handful of other people to help.
So, that might not seem significant, but clearly it makes a major transition point in the way the show was written.
Some of it's still funny, but it doesn't seem on the same level as the older stuff.
@@KuraIthys I gotta say I like seasons 10-12, especially 12. It's more Saturday morning-ish, but for what it is, I'm into it. The characters are allowed to be older, and they make fun of it instead of playing the same regular characters and pretending they're not aging and gaining weight. They're still funny, and they feel like older versions of the same characters. Spot on.
@@Vojife Kachanski, Lister's love
awful
I actually joined the Royal Navy in 1990 after watching red dwarf and reading the book because I thought it’d be the closest thing to being in this story. I actually adopted a similar persona to lister and used to do as little work as possible. Why couldn’t I have been influenced by a Napoleon biography instead, and then maybe I wouldn’t be smoking weed and binge watching Rick and Morty 😂
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