Scorched Face by Dashiell Hammett

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  • @tm502010
    @tm502010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Good Lord! That was well done!
    The last sentence - unbelievable! 😳🤯 Hammett knew how to WRITE! Thanks for this.

  • @shadownet3d
    @shadownet3d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A great story. Great storytelling as well. Thank you!

  • @katecaspian3399
    @katecaspian3399 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love this audiobook with the narrator onscreen! And in persona!

  • @debracornwall6016
    @debracornwall6016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love seeing you perform this reading,your personal facial expressions etc

  • @bawbtherevelator6445
    @bawbtherevelator6445 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This fascinating detective story is also as great as any one man theatrical performance I have ever seen. I'm reminded of Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight" 40 years ago. Holbrook inhabited Twain's speech and mannerism so completely that part way through his performance I'd stopped witnessing an actor's impression of the great 19th century writer and began to watch Mark Twain. This skillful rendition of Hammett's short novel is complete with the 1920s era office and sound effects from San Francisco's downtown district. This is a brilliant experience.

  • @LMHPhilly
    @LMHPhilly ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Teriffic on all fronts. Great writing, great performance. A hidden gem that is a great discovery. Keep up the good work.

  • @tony124603
    @tony124603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This story is beyond fascinating. A world of a hundred years ago that many people would never imagine could have existed. And a truly heroic protagonist.
    Add to this an accomplished storyteller! What a combination.

  • @art.and.lit.matters
    @art.and.lit.matters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Enthralling and mesmerizing performance. I’m right back in the mid 1920s pouring over “Black Mask.”

  • @elgaholmes525
    @elgaholmes525 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    YOWZA !!
    What a treat! The whole shootin' match....The city sounds, the gritty speech-patterns, the slightly shop-worn knight in THAT HAT, and expressive, without chewing the furniture....
    What a treat ! Dash would be proud.

  • @magicbulletdancers
    @magicbulletdancers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you 👍
    Most excellent reading.
    You make voice acting
    look easy.

  • @RootlessNZ
    @RootlessNZ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent story brilliantly told. Thank you.

  • @starshiptrooper428
    @starshiptrooper428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you Evan, you are perfect for this genre.
    A superb performance of a great story.

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you, Steve.

    • @alexcoke
      @alexcoke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@evanmercer9997are you Evan Mercer from Dallas?

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alexcoke Yes it is from Lamplighter School. Can’t believe you found me. Are you still in Austin. We just arrived in New Orleans for the Jazz Fest. Would love to chat with you. Not sure if its safe to give you my email address or phone here on you tube. Any ideas on how to best connect?

  • @tomdragoo3520
    @tomdragoo3520 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very good to the last page ....
    Artfully read , and interesting dialogue ...

  • @DebleeThree
    @DebleeThree 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love the ambience of your office. That old black fan in the background has metal blades. Try to find such a thing around anymore! They were still pretty common when I was young -- I'm 76. Your videos take me back. I love them! Thank you!

  • @kristinmarra7005
    @kristinmarra7005 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was wonderful! Great reading too. Thanks

  • @joebeck1888
    @joebeck1888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you. 💐

  • @fr57ujf
    @fr57ujf 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Outstanding narration.

  • @bridgetharrison5611
    @bridgetharrison5611 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Samuel Dashiel Hammett is my 9th cousin! For years I have enjoyed is work. When I started doing genealogy imagine my surprise to learn this. Wish my father had lived to know, he would have smiled.

  • @Obladgolated
    @Obladgolated ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "You can trust a man just as easily, if you have him sewed up." Made me laugh.

  • @blindreactions9498
    @blindreactions9498 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your Narration❤

  • @judikingsman6132
    @judikingsman6132 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely fabulous 🤩

  • @DebleeThree
    @DebleeThree 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Somewhere you asked for requests. How about The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Casablanca by Murray Burnett (I think). Any of those ring a bell for you? Then there's Mike Hammer. I'm sure I can come up with more suggestions. It's going to be a long winter. I've gone through the local libraries like a locust. I threw my TV out 20 years ago, and currently have no computer. It's just me and my smartphone here in the woods, and I'm loving your videos. You keep makin' 'em, and I'll keep watchin' 'em! And thank you!

  • @Obladgolated
    @Obladgolated ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice performance. Small point: the word _row,_ meaning an argument or fight, rhymes with "cow."

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for listening so closely. 😊

    • @Obladgolated
      @Obladgolated ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evanmercer9997 You read beautifully. I read to my wife every night, and I enjoy doing it. But your skill and fluency is far beyond mine, and your voice is splendid. I've only learned to read one word ahead, you seem to read three or four words ahead. Impressive.

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  ปีที่แล้ว

      thank you. it's a joy

  • @avivavogelgabriel5482
    @avivavogelgabriel5482 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🎉 THANK YOU! 🎉

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  ปีที่แล้ว

      your very welcome. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already.

  • @theresahemminger1587
    @theresahemminger1587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good reader and I like the presentation very much. It’s amazing that people could be so cavalier about civil rights and the use of ethnic slurs. I remember when police were no longer allowed to use the “third degree” and could no longer beat suspects with a rubber hose or telephone book (so there wasn’t the evidence of bleeding). People would, then, say that would make it impossible to catch criminals. Another outcry when the Miranda warning was instigated. And, yet, we still catch criminals. People still use ethnic slurs but not with the casualness exhibited in this story or in my youth. Bad as things can be today, we’ve plugged up a couple of holes in civic behavior.

    • @jeanettesdaughter
      @jeanettesdaughter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You gotta be kidding⁉️😮

    • @drlobomalo
      @drlobomalo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeanettesdaughter This video confirms what you are implying: Theodore Dalrymple | Is Society Broken? | CIS

    • @jeanettesdaughter
      @jeanettesdaughter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@drlobomalo well, i'll check it out.

  • @DebleeThree
    @DebleeThree วันที่ผ่านมา

    More requests: Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe, Ed McBain/87th Precinct Mystery Series.

  • @oddfellowone
    @oddfellowone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very well done! I’m not sure why there aren’t more comments, but I guess great oaks from little acorns grow... I WAS wondering if the traffic noise was normal ambiance or whether it’s part of a finely crafted sound track.

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you very much. This is the second of these videos I've made. The traffic noise is a sound track I created after a suggestion for my first video in this series, "Too Many Have Lived by Dashiell Hammett". th-cam.com/video/sbzwN-qYpVI/w-d-xo.html

    • @evanmercer9997
      @evanmercer9997  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      check out my newest Dashiell Hammett without traffic noise. Better? th-cam.com/video/b9s7USeHSOU/w-d-xo.html

  • @sumazdar
    @sumazdar 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dziękuję

  • @patriciabullock2793
    @patriciabullock2793 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a great narrator; did you get your training with NBC? I've read Hammett, Chandler and Cain 10 times over, but listening to you makes a new story. Please send more, and hoping for your good health...Patricia

  • @DebleeThree
    @DebleeThree 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think it would be better if you turned down the traffic noises a little. I like the background sounds, just too loud.

  • @bernardomahoney3351
    @bernardomahoney3351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    😊👍

  • @NiekopTube
    @NiekopTube 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great telling, good sound quality... but WHY these irritating background noises? Very distracting :-(

  • @cruisepaige
    @cruisepaige 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The traffic effect is soooooo distracting....WHY??!!

  • @jamesblahut5008
    @jamesblahut5008 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The traffic noises detract from the narration rather than enhancing it.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is there only audio in the left air?

  • @katiestover8954
    @katiestover8954 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    However Contra Costa is pronounced in Spanish, locally it isn’t pronounced the way he reads it.

  • @sittnknittnwatchn3980
    @sittnknittnwatchn3980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    💙📚🎙💙