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Ellie
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by Ellie » 12 Apr 2018, 17:14
I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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Ellie
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by Ellie » 12 Apr 2018, 17:17
But good to know about Rosario Dawson. I was similarly hesitant when I started the Dresden Files series read by James Marsters, and he ended up being AMAZING, to the point where I'd far rather listen to a Dresden Files book at this point than read the text version myself.
There are some fucking terrible audiobook narrators out there, too. Always good to find a talented, or at least decent, one.
I should have listened to Warren. He was right again as usual.
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JD
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by JD » 12 Apr 2018, 17:42
I've been reading CS Lewis's Perelandra. Despite not calling myself a Christian, I've always really liked Lewis's explicitly Christian stuff because he was such a good storyteller and because he had such insight into human nature.
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Eric the .5b
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by Eric the .5b » 12 Apr 2018, 18:29
Ellie wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 17:17
But good to know about Rosario Dawson. I was similarly hesitant when I started the Dresden Files series read by James Marsters, and he ended up being AMAZING, to the point where I'd far rather listen to a Dresden Files book at this point than read the text version myself.
There are some fucking terrible audiobook narrators out there, too. Always good to find a talented, or at least decent, one.
Apparently Bronson Pinchot is a really good audiobook reader, too.
I've never actually done an audiobook, but there's a Rivers of London story that's audio-only (and supposedly well-read).
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Andrew
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by Andrew » 12 Apr 2018, 20:22
I finished the Prince of Nothing trilogy by R. Scott Bakker. Overall conclusion: meh. I don't know if I'll read the follow-up tetralogy. His goals are apparently to be like Tolkien and Herbert, but his world doesn't feel old and lived-in like Middle Earth, it feels artificial and overstuffed. And the politics are needlessly complicated instead of subtle and complex like Herbert's. Having one of the characters (not necessarily the main character or protagonist) be a Nietzschean ubermensch is also annoying. Reading about him outsmarting, outfighting, and outmaneuvering every other person gets old quickly. Oh, and the battle scenes are numerous and interminable. I think the 3 books total have about 5x as many detailed battle scenes as LOTR.
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Solitudinarian
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by Solitudinarian » 12 Apr 2018, 23:00
Foucault’s Pendulum for the umpteenth time. I use it as a lifeline when I find myself drowning in conspiracy theories again.
“I have no Message to reveal. But later on––Who knows?––I might.”
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JasonL
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by JasonL » 12 Apr 2018, 23:05
Solitudinarian wrote:Foucault’s Pendulum for the umpteenth time. I use it as a lifeline when I find myself drowning in conspiracy theories again.
I think FP is a perfect one time read. The turn doesn’t work on follow up I don’t think.
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Tuco
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by Tuco » 13 Apr 2018, 07:17
Foucault's Pendulum never quite got there for me, though it's been long enough ago that I might need to revisit it. Not long after reading it, I found the book Flicker by Theodore Roszak, and it was what I wanted Foucault's Pendulum to be.
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by Warren » 13 Apr 2018, 11:52
Because now he's not writing a book for reading so much as a movie and you absolutely have to spell all that shit out because otherwise Hollywood turns it all into unobtainium, transparent aluminum, and quantum flux drives.
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dhex
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by dhex » 13 Apr 2018, 12:00
Or it's bad writing?
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Hugh Akston
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by Hugh Akston » 13 Apr 2018, 12:04
Re: audiobooks I’ve been listening to Robert Heinlein’s collected short fiction as read by Bronson Pinchot, who is generally very good except for womens voices. There were a couple of occasions where RAH described someone’s reaction as ‘balky’.
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Solitudinarian
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by Solitudinarian » 13 Apr 2018, 13:09
Tuco wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 07:17
Foucault's Pendulum never quite got there for me, though it's been long enough ago that I might need to revisit it. Not long after reading it, I found the book
Flicker by Theodore Roszak, and it was what I wanted Foucault's Pendulum to be.
Hmm, I’ll have to check that out.
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