You can now get an audiobook of "The Little Prince" narrated by GOT7's Jinyoung

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

Well, partially at least? (in English that is)

[오디오클립 오디오북]

어린왕자 by 진영
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— GOT7 (@GOT7Official) August 28, 2018

Source: GOT7 / gif

Jinyoung was asked to read it at Seoul’s International Book Fair 2018 in June (first mentined in this post). They released some of the chapters (why not all of them and not in order I do not know) in an audio/video playlist today for purchase on vlive.

If you click on the link in the tweet it brings you to where you can purchase the "audiobook" by either paying 600 coins or purchasing those coins for $12. Each chapter is a separate video in a vlive playlist. It comes with english subtitles.

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince; French pronunciation: [lə pəti pʁɛ̃s]), first published in April 1943, is a novella, the most famous work of French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

SUMMARY: In this enchanting, allegorical tale, the narrator is a pilot who has crash-landed in a desert (similar to Saint-Exupéry's actual crash in the Sahara desert in 1935), and while trying to mend his crashed aircraft he is interrupted by a small boy who asks him to draw a sheep.


omona, have you read The Little Prince?
I don't know if the book is familiar to everyone, in Europe it's quite famous at least. It's been a while since I've done it but I remember it was one of my favorite books I read as a kid, I have such fond memories of it. It's amazing they included eng subs as well. There was a link for the full audiobook in Korean I think, but I do not know Korean or how to navigate that site soooo.... someone smarter than OP can maybe figure that one out.

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[henolam.livejournal.com]

i haven’t read it maybe he can read it to me sometime

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

Idk if you're familiar with it from before but it's a really great book tbh (and easy to read and not that long), I recommend! But having Jinyoung read it to you probably just enhances the experience....he you could do anything and it would enhance the experience tbh.

[henolam.livejournal.com]

i was going to watch that animated version that’s on netflix, idk how accurate it is. I probably should just read the book tho lol

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

Oh I completely forgot they did that movie, thanks for the reminder! I gotta put it on my watch-list, the animation looked cool.

I mean the hard-copy I have at home is under 100 pages but a lot happens in it so you might just be able to get a full-length movie out of it idk lol.

[itsanonyx.livejournal.com]

idk how accurate it is

SPOILER!!!

You only get probably 20 % about the book. It's mostly about the people affected by the Little Prince.

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

I love The Little Prince! I recently bought another paperback copy coz I lost mine. For some reason, reading it gives me comfort and makes me smile.

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

I have my mom's old copy lol! It's been a while since I've read it but I just remember being kinda charmed and in awe of the little philosophical thoughts it brings (there was this one quote I remember particulary, well not exactly lol, but something the fox said about him having to wait every day at 4 for the prince to arrive, and by time he'd get happy already around 3 and there was something very charming to me about that passage for some reason.
And I love the illustrations!

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

I was looking for some video of him reading it to show how it sounds like but I couldn't find any but at least you'll see him in his cute sweater here + a little interview snipper I found where he talks about recording the audiobook

몰입해서 눈썹 막 찡그리면서 읽고 입 후잉이 하면서 읽고 이러는데 진짜🤦‍♂️.... 너는 진짜.... 진짜......... pic.twitter.com/JYJWvmsdwv (https://t.co/JYJWvmsdwv)

— 시옷 (@siot_txt) 28. elokuuta 2018 (https://twitter.com/siot_txt/status/1034404490441445377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

내가 어디까지 읽어쬬? <- 이거 완전 내 티셔츠는 비틀즈야 그츠ㅣ,,,? 이 말투 ㅜㅠㅠㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

의식을 잃기 시작해따....
정신집쭝!!!!

다 귀여워 진짜... 태생이 잘생귀쁨... 잘생기고 귀엽고 예쁘고 다 잘해....... pic.twitter.com/MXlls94Z28 (https://t.co/MXlls94Z28)

— 시옷 (@siot_txt) 28. elokuuta 2018 (https://twitter.com/siot_txt/status/1034400158451036163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Jinyoung on recording an audio book for the very first time:#GOT7 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOT7?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #EyesOnYou (https://twitter.com/hashtag/EyesOnYou?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #Jinyoung (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jinyoung?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) pic.twitter.com/5iA859fqob (https://t.co/5iA859fqob)

— 리아 (@jaebambum) 27. heinäkuuta 2018 (https://twitter.com/jaebambum/status/1022755783652585473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

we had to read it when i was in middle or high school (don't remember). i also don't really remember anything from the book lol

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

this is so jinyoung lol
(thinking about the fact that he gave doyoung a poem book when they were inkigayo mcs, but jaehyun was the only one who read it lol)

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

Oh I missed that story about Jaehyun and the poem book lol (JY tried).

It is so Jinyoung and I love everything about it bc of that.

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

the best part of this story is that some people were saying jinyoung stole the book from JB? LOL

here's what DY said.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeIZWj-U8AUwm6d.jpg

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

asdfghj you know somehow I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

"our members are reading it well" well at least he's honest about not having read it haha.

[shuumi-miss.livejournal.com]

This remind me about my own story with The little prince and Harry Potter, lol.

Some mother of one my younger sister's friend tought it was a good idea to gift The little prince to my sister for her birthday when she was like 8 years old or something like that. The thing is that the 10 years old me grabbed the book as soon as I saw it the next day and my sister never even atempted to read it and she is almost 30 now, lol.

Years later, in a desperated atempt by my father to make my sister read, he bought the first book of Harry Potter because he heard in the radio that it made many kids start reading. Well, guess who read the book in one day and who haven't read it up until now? lol.

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

LMAO
well, you did great as a kid lol

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

He can use his fat tongue to read this book like braille

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

*buss

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

I had to read it in high school when learning French. I liked it!

[carmine-pink.livejournal.com]

I read the book as an adult and maybe I was just dense but there were some symbols that I couldn't quite figure out. Some said I shouldn't try too hard and just enjoy the story as it is, but I couldn't do that because the entire book consists of symbols and metaphors and ignoring their meaning would make the story a kind of vague, nonsensical adventure. Maybe if I read it as a kid I wouldn't think about it too hard and could even enjoy the vagueness, but it was impossible for me to do as an adult.

Not sure if people here remember but The Little Prince is also the theme of Super Junior Ryeowook's first solo album a few years ago called, well, The Little Prince. The MV included some animations inspired by the book's illustrations.

[itsanonyx.livejournal.com]

When I was younger I read the second book. It took me until 2015 to actually read the first book. I really loved it. (Although it made me cry so much.)

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

The second book? There's a second book?? What why have I never heard of this before :o

edit: a quick google search tells me the 2nd book isn't written by the orig author (and isn't as good)? I don't see why someone else decided to write a sequel tbh lol.

[myungung.livejournal.com]

I should probably start on the book sometime soon, since it seems like many people know and talk about this book. king of ASMR making the right money.