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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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04-17-2011, 12:59 PM
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lobber of scimitars
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker - Gerry Davis
(Getting to the end of the Hartnell's finally) Darkover (Short Stories) - Marion Zimmer Bradley (reread for a book club, feel obligated because it was my suggestion and won the poll) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (still going. It is long.)
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04-17-2011, 01:54 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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Dean Koontz' "Frankenstein: Book Four: Lost Souls"
I have just started this series, with book four. Anybody else read them? Should I read the others first? It appears like it's gonna stand alone fairly well, most of Koontz' related stories/series read pretty good w/o the previous books...
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04-18-2011, 04:38 AM
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Just fisnished "Level 26: Dark Origins" by Anthony E. Zuiker
I liked the web enhancements.
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04-18-2011, 07:09 PM
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changed his status to single
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Daybreak Zero. It is the follow up to Directive 51. It is part SciFi, part apocolypse/post-apocolypse, part political intrigue. A bit wordy at times but a couple of fun novels.
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04-18-2011, 08:20 PM
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still says videotape
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Finished 1453 and well into Spinward Fringe.
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04-19-2011, 10:31 PM
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Just finished The Roots of Obama's Rage a fantastic read.... Explains a lot of how the man thinks. First read Dreams From my Father by Obama himself, fits like a glove. Well footnoted. Explains a lot of how this fella thinks.
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04-20-2011, 06:21 AM
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Dreams from my Father made an 8 hour plane flight pass very quickly. I'll have to check out the other one you mentioned.
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04-21-2011, 02:58 PM
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Just started Spin. Really nice understated sci-fi, at least so far.
BUT... the voiceactor (I'm actually listening via audiobook) is the same dude who did The Worthing Saga. He's not my favorite guy to begin with, and now I'm having a really hard time separating him from the previous novel. Especially since the main characters in both books have the same damn first name. |
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04-21-2011, 08:26 PM
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These two caught my eye. I will check them out. |
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04-22-2011, 07:54 AM
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still says videotape
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04-22-2011, 08:53 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Can be. The reader can make or break an audio book. Some readers just give it life (David Tennant is one that does, as is Nick Briggs) But some either sound as if they are reading, or just have the wrong voice for the story. Some can make each character that speaks sound like a distinct individual, others just sound all the same, or do different vioces that don't quite work.
It's rare I totally turn off a story because of the reader but it's happened a couple of times. I didn;t click with the reader of the Sookie Stackhouse stories and fell off them quicky because of it. The reader of the Dexter books by comparison, was so good that despite having strong preconceived notions of how the character should sound because I'd come to it through the tv show, his voice became Dexter's voice for me very quickly.
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04-22-2011, 10:54 AM
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I don't need distinct character voices so much, just enough that I can tell who's talking during long conversational scenes. Overall delivery is more important to me, and the guy I'm talking about (Scott Brick) has this kind of over-dramatic lilt to everything he says. But he's done tons of audio books, especially sci-fi, so obviously someone thinks he's good. Last edited by Clodfobble; 04-22-2011 at 11:03 AM. |
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04-22-2011, 10:59 AM
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omg, I so hope there aren't any audiobooks read by Bill "One-tone" Paxton or Kevin "Monotone" Costner.
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To shreds, you say?
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