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Originally Posted by CRussel
Meanwhile, I've started and abandoned several books not worth listening to. I think I'm in a slump here.  |
I hear you.
My summer pool listens also have been a lot of drek. It’s been virtually all mysteries for me this summer and the Mrs. Pollifax and Ellery Queen books were terrible; the Nero Wolfe books were fine, overall, but it was a low bar. Aubrey/Maturin was missed. A lot.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Or maybe a Campion? I don't know yet, but something reliable is definitely called for! Too much drek of late.
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Where do you get your Campions? Admittedly, it would be more of the same for me and I’m not going to blow an Audible credit on a mystery.
In addition to the terrible Mrs. Pollifax I’m currently listening to in the pool, I’m also listening to
The Way We Live Now, Trollope’s longest novel. Unfortunately, it’s yet another in a dud summer. I’d been keeping it in reserve; once I’d finished his two six-novel sequences, I’ve found Trollope’s novels to be more hit or miss, but many think
The Way We Live Now is his masterwork. Alas! It’s certainly good enough, but where’s the wit? And too many plot dead ends. No wonder it’s his longest….. Don’t get me wrong; I still love him. But this is a letdown.