11-19-2017, 10:21 PM | #2116 |
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Anyone else listening to Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (audiobook read by Barbara Caruso)? It's the Alexa freebie this month. I'm finding it quite enjoyable.
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11-20-2017, 06:56 AM | #2117 | |
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11-20-2017, 10:58 AM | #2118 |
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Question about Alexa freebies. Does one only have access to it via an Alexa device? (I find listening to a book on my echo or echo dot difficult, frankly. And it annoys my DW no end!)
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11-20-2017, 09:17 PM | #2119 |
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In a departure from my usual reading, I listened to five nonfiction books, all of them about women.
Now I'm ready to go back to some mindless entertainment. |
11-22-2017, 02:43 PM | #2120 |
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I finished listening to Sapphire & Steel: The Surest Poison. It's episode 2 in the second series by Big Finish. The main voice actors are David Warner and Susannah Harker.
This particular episode didn't have the freezing horror of some of the quite terrifying episodes in the first series--Daisy Chain being an especial example. I found this one used a clever well-developed time travel theme with the usual play on temporal paradox. It had something of the quality one finds in Doctor Who--though with a touch of horror than one seldom experiences in the latter. While not as disturbing as the stories in the first series, it was interesting and explored some psychological states reasonably well. Last edited by fantasyfan; 11-22-2017 at 03:00 PM. |
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12-01-2017, 02:25 PM | #2121 |
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I tore through the main Solar Clipper series ebooks in just over a week. It was indeed "a refreshing change of pace" as someone else noted, despite some dark turns along the way. The blurb in the back of each book, that these stories are about "ordinary people" and an "average joe," made me smirk a bit every time: sure, your everyday polymath wunderkind, refashioning every organization he joins from day one in the cafeteria. Granted, the protagonist was a super-manager rather than a super-soldier, which is distinctive enough. The world building also had a "futures past" feel, like it was a future extrapolated from late 1950s/early '60s USA, rather than the present day. That anachronistic quality was alternately charming and problematic. On the whole, though, very enjoyable, and I'm sure I'll revisit them on audio somewhere down the road. There were a lot of parallels to my own work and workplace, middle management in a fairly independent department of a much larger organization.
Right now I'm taking a break from WoT to re-read/listen to the Stormlight Archives, before diving into the new one. |
12-05-2017, 07:10 PM | #2122 |
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Glad you enjoyed the Solar Clipper series. I think what I like about them is that somewhat anachronistic quality, and the sense of _story_. Yes, some of the later books in the series are a bit darker, but they still have that quality of being about the story that comes from them being originally told as podcasts, and only after converted into books. Now, if he would just finish the latest one he's been working on...
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12-13-2017, 02:08 PM | #2124 |
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Looking for a good Audible UK WhisperSync deal. I've got £3.02 left of a credit, and would like a £2.99 or a pair of £1.99 Whispersync books to fill those slots. Even better if the source eBook is Kindle Unlimited, since I've still got my KU sub there.
Oh, and to make sure we stay on topic here, Just finished listening to Whose Body, by Dorothy L. Sayers, read by David Case. Last edited by CRussel; 12-13-2017 at 02:10 PM. |
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Finished up Crusade yesterday. A good book and a good narrator. I've got a youth book (The Iron Trial) and then In Death Ground, which is the second book in Weber/White's four book series. I like to alternate books so I don't get too burned out. So far, the Iron Trial hasn't impressed me, but I'll give it a few more days.
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Last year I listened to the Jim Dale version of A Christmas Carol, so this year it will be the Tim Curry version.
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12-24-2017, 10:30 AM | #2127 | |
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Anyway, the book was enjoyable and charming. Today I may ask Alexa to read A Christmas Carol. Or maybe I'll just listen to Christmas music; who knows. |
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12-24-2017, 12:00 PM | #2128 |
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Just finished reading (and listening) to Jonathan Oliver's narration of Long Summer Day, by R. F. Delderfield. An absolutely wonderful book, but a lackluster narration. There's nothing technically wrong with the narration, but it completely fails to bring life to the book. Full on 5 stars for the book, but a bare three for the narration.
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12-24-2017, 03:09 PM | #2129 |
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I'm listening to Bronson Pinchot read Patrick Modiano's Missing Person. A flat and affectless reading of a flat and affectless book. Too much of a good thing! I've read and enjoyed Modiano before and enjoyed Pinchot's narration, but the combination is not working here.
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