[CRussel]

Originally Posted by issybird

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.

Yes, I'm afraid I've read and/or listened to Aubrey/Maturin enough times it's no longer a treat. Sigh.

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.

I got a couple of them from the library, others via Audible.

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.

I tried Trollope. Just could not get far enough into it to get interested. It could well have been conjunctural. I should give him another try. But not when I'm already in a slump.