I just started on The Last Town by Blake Crouch and narrated by Paul Michael Garcia. It's the third and final of the Wayward Pines series. I just listened to the second book, Wayward, over the last week and went straight on to this one. While the first book of the series is more of a complete story in itself, the second basically ends in media res and so the third really feels more like the second half of the second book. The mystery pulled me into this series and while it tends towards the pulpy side, it is just interesting and quirky enough to keep me involved, so now I'll soon find out how it all ends.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Please post your thoughts when you're done. I've been wondering about Lianne Moriarty--also because of the chick-lit factor.
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It was very chick-lit-y with Important Themes. The mystery was very slight in my opinion. It concerns a murder at a school trivia night but keeps us guessing the entire book as to who was even murdered, let alone who did the murdering, but that's not really done to make the mystery more intense; instead it's done to let the book wallow in other mom problems for the duration and just keep this slight edge of suspense on the side. It is funny at times but honestly wasn't my cup of tea. But, it's got very high ratings on Goodreads so I guess I'm in the minority there, and I will say the Australian narrator was very, very good- one of the best.
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Originally Posted by David Munch
I got 33% through Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, but I think I will give up on it. Not something I usually do, but the mere prospect of 12 hours more of an audiobook which is not catching me at all, is quite depressing.
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I hardly ever give up on a book; I'm the type to slog through no matter how much I might hate it. But I have to say, it feels harder with an audiobook. With pages, even if there are hundreds left somehow it feels not all that bad to me really. However with a bad audiobook I know exactly how many hours are left to have to listen to this narration and it just feels more cumbersome thinking about those specific hours ahead. Despite the fact that with pages one has to concentrate almost solely on the book while with audio one can not only do other things while listening but also crank up the speed. Maybe it has to do with the vagueness of the time needed to finish the pages, or maybe that audio can feel more overbearing than pages if it's less than enjoyable.