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GtrsRGr8 · 01-13-2017, 04:11 PM

I wasn't sure that I'd have time to make another post today, so I wanted to make sure that it was a good one. This looks like a good to great one.

I'm afraid that a lot of the experiences that the book tells about will be overly negative about the Mississippi Delta. Well, as one who has traveled through, and spent a little bit of time, there there are a lot of negatives (sometime I will tell you about the man-eating mosquitoes that are everywhere, in huge numbers, in the summer). But there are also a lot of positives. For example, you can find some great blues music around, and a good number of famous blues players are from the Delta. Actor Morgan Freeman is from a town in the Delta, did own (maybe he still does, I dunno) a restaurant there, and it seems like he spends quite a bit of time there. I could go on and on.

For you who are new to MobileRead and/or Amazon: "WS Deal" means a Whispersync Deal. That occurs when a person buys the ebook and gets the audio narration of the book sometimes much cheaper than he/she would if he/she were to buy the audiobook alone at Audible. The deal right now is extra good because of a large drop (83%!) in the price of the ebook from the digital list price. The "sync" comes in, because Amazon and/or Audible automatically sync the ebook and audiobook together, so that when you stop reading, for example, you can pick up by listening, at exactly the same spot where you left off with your reading.

Oh, and you people out there who think that you like only fiction: just pretend that the things in this book never really happened, and I'm sure that you will like the book, too. ha

Title: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Travel/U.S.).
Author(s): Richard Grant.
Price: $6.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/287 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.4/159 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 321/10 hours and 10 minutes.
Narrator(s): Shaun Grindell.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ok/B015NMWHKK/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Pl.../dp/B015NOBKGK.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place.

On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters - blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes.

01-13-2017, 04:11 PM	#116
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	WS Deal on Book about a Couple Leaving NYC to Live in Mississippi Delta. Only $6.48! I wasn't sure that I'd have time to make another post today, so I wanted to make sure that it was a good one. This looks like a good to great one. I'm afraid that a lot of the experiences that the book tells about will be overly negative about the Mississippi Delta. Well, as one who has traveled through, and spent a little bit of time, there there are a lot of negatives (sometime I will tell you about the man-eating mosquitoes that are everywhere, in huge numbers, in the summer). But there are also a lot of positives. For example, you can find some great blues music around, and a good number of famous blues players are from the Delta. Actor Morgan Freeman is from a town in the Delta, did own (maybe he still does, I dunno) a restaurant there, and it seems like he spends quite a bit of time there. I could go on and on. For you who are new to MobileRead and/or Amazon: "WS Deal" means a Whispersync Deal. That occurs when a person buys the ebook and gets the audio narration of the book sometimes much cheaper than he/she would if he/she were to buy the audiobook alone at Audible. The deal right now is extra good because of a large drop (83%!) in the price of the ebook from the digital list price. The "sync" comes in, because Amazon and/or Audible automatically sync the ebook and audiobook together, so that when you stop reading, for example, you can pick up by listening, at exactly the same spot where you left off with your reading. Oh, and you people out there who think that you like only fiction: just pretend that the things in this book *never really happened, and I'm sure that you will like the book, too. ha Title:* *Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta. Genre:* Non-Fiction (Travel/U.S.). Author(s): Richard Grant. Price: *$6.48* ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio). Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95 (1 credit). Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/287 reviews (Amazon). Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.4/159 ratings. Pages/Audio Length: 321/10 hours and 10 minutes. Narrator(s): Shaun Grindell. Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ok/B015NMWHKK/. Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Pl.../dp/B015NOBKGK. Comments: Book Description (Amazon): Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters - blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 01-13-2017 at 04:35 PM.