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I remember reading his The Years of Rice and Salt after it won the Hugo. Yikes, what a slog. The problem was that it had also interesting bits, so I had to finish it. But I guess I really don't like his style. |
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Earlier this evening, I listened to an episode of the Lightspeed Magazine podcast: Eight Episodes by Robert Reed. Wow. I really enjoyed that one. Perhaps I should add that I absolutely love well written stories with paleontological themes. This one had both paleontology and aliens. |
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Just finished an unabridged recording of Bleak House.
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06-07-2013, 10:08 AM | #575 |
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Recently finished You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz read by Scott Brick who was excellent as usual. I really rather enjoyed it especially when it picked up pace in the second half.
Now I'm listening to Split Second by David Baldacci also narrated by Scott Brick this is the first in the King and Maxwell series. I'm over half way through and really enjoying it the characters are good and the action fast. King reminds me a lot of John Corey(DeMille) which is a good thing in my book I started listening to this because the TV series based on the books starts this month on TNT. Last edited by melmac; 06-08-2013 at 05:33 AM. |
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06-09-2013, 11:42 AM | #578 | |
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Today, I have listened to a double episode of the Classic Tales Podcast, The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft, read by B. J. Harrison. The story might be old-fashioned, but I still enjoy it a lot. I am also listening to Stories, an anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. This is mostly dark fantasy, read by different narrators, all of them very good so far. |
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Just started listening to Death by Water book #15 in Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, read by Stephanie Daniel. Now I absolutely love the Phryne Fisher books, but this is the first of them that I've listened to as an audio book. An excellent reader with good pace and good character definition. I'm not able to judge the quality of accents, but they don't sound wrong to my North American ears.
For those who haven't yet discovered Phryne, you have a treat ahead. The series is set in 1928 Melbourne (and environs), with this book being set on a P&O cruise ship to New Zealand. Phryne is a wonderful character, sort of an Australian (and female) Lord Peter Wimsey, but much funnier and delightfully eccentric. The first in the series is Cocaine Blues. |
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I just finished Infinity Link by Jeffrey A. Carver. A very good first contact book with intriguing twists and characters you can enjoy as they grow and develop. It's a long book, but it kept me interested all the way through.
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Sean King reminded my so much of John Corey that I've gone back to Demille for my next listen and have loaded up Wildfire for a listen. |
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06-19-2013, 11:27 AM | #582 |
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I just listened to Home Fires by Margaret Maron. It's like the 5th or 6th book in her Judge Deborah Knott mysteries. While I don't think I'd personally enjoy living in the semi-rustic South, her descriptions do make it seem so wonderfully comfortable. And the story is as entertaining as the earlier award-winning books were.
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06-19-2013, 11:58 AM | #583 | |
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After that I needed something mindless to listen to while I packed and moved, Dresden Files fit the bill so I listened to books 8 through 10 during two weeks of torture (moving). I just finished The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian Mckinty. It was set during 'The Troubles' in early 80s Belfast, a blast from the past and a really well done police procedural. Before all that I listened to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Wonderfully done story about teens living with cancer. |
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I just re-upped with Audible (6 or 8 years later) for World War Z: The Complete Edition. The original WWZ was what got me to sign up with them in the first place, and what started my audiobook listening.
Unfortunately, they seem to have started a new account from my Amazon account, rather than let me sign in with my original (inactive) account, so I can't get at my old library |
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You should still be able to get at your old account, though the sign in is different since it happens at a different page.
Your best bet -- contact their customer service. I've found them consistently responsive and helpful. And I've never had a long phone wait, either. One thing they might let you do is link your old account to your Amazon account -- that's how I moved a huge number of my old books over to align with the Amazon account. Didn't solve it for my other, Canadian, account, but I simply killed that one and then can log in to it on the old login page. |
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