Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by issybird

I abandoned a book by Emma Southon about Agrippina; I found her style, vulgar and graphic, off-putting and at odds with the subject matter -- aside from being so conjecturable as to be unlikely, at least for me. Nor was I interested in modern day comparisons to the likes of Prince William and Kate Middleton, just as one example. It made my worst of the year list.

This is not reassuring. I own A Rome of One's Own in audiobook but haven't listened yet. I was interested to see the author had a podcast (via @astrangerhere's post) but, finding it on Spotify, saw it marked as Explicit, and lost interest right away. Now I'm seeing your comment and I'm hoping A Rome ... is not in that style.

[DiapDealer]

I recently finished listening to Robert Dugoni's The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (narrated by the author). It was enjoyable for the most part, but not really that memorable for me. I found the ending to be a bit mawklin (yes, that's a portmanteau comprised of mawkish and maudlin--I couldn't decide). It also finished a bit more non-secular than I would have preferred. **shrug**

I've now started Ken Liu's All That We See or Seem. A little cyberpunk for a change. Another audiobook (narrated by Kat Cleave).

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

This is not reassuring. I own A Rome of One's Own in audiobook but haven't listened yet. I was interested to see the author had a podcast (via @astrangerhere's post) but, finding it on Spotify, saw it marked as Explicit, and lost interest right away. Now I'm seeing your comment and I'm hoping A Rome ... is not in that style.

I hope for your sake A Room of One's Own is better (it couldn't be worse, frankly), but I suspect raunchy relevance is the author's stock in trade. It doesn't work for me. I don't know which was worse; the vulgarity or the endless pop-culture references.

If you go forward with it, I'd be interested to hear your reaction.