Why didn’t anyone tell me…

The economy is bad, and I realized early this year that my audiobook subscription was next on the chopping block, and, screaming in my heart, I clicked “Close” on my Audible subscription. And then I resumed reading the last 2 books I picked up.  Unfortunately, the second was a serial with 3 other parts, and [...]

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Thought I’d add this one to the list simply because I discussed it with a friend recently and didn’t have a chance to put it up here.
Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show

Now generally I like short story collections, especially in audio form, because the change from story to story is a lot of fun, especially [...]

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Intensity  by Dean Koontzzszszz. I’ve read a couple of his books and really like them, but this one I’m putting down. His books that I’ve liked I would call thrillers. This one I would call horror. I just don’t care to invest any more of my time in it.
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I don’t like the [...]

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Forgot to mention that I also read Orson Scott Card’s “Ender in Exile“, which I find to be a good, but rather schizophrenic book. I can’t figure out which story he’s trying to tell. There are at least 3 story lines that happen, and I think I’d have preferred if they were dealt with in [...]

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Dave: I have 5 books in the queue, but a depressing book will be a morning-only read, leaving the evening for podcasts/re-reads.
Dave: like The Glass Castle was a morning-only reader.
Nate: by Jeanette Walls?
Dave: yeah
Dave: good book, but don’t read it on the way home
Nate: the wikipedia summary makes it look depressing
Dave: well, it depends [...]

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I just finished the Orson Scott Card collaboration, “Invasive Procedures“, which was a lot more fun than I expected. It had some suitably OSC twists, which seem to involve permanently bad things happening to the hero. It’s a nice change from so many years of Rambo-esque heroes that are impervious to bullets, knives, etc. etc. [...]

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Having just rebuilt most of my audiobooks for better quality, I’ve gone back to revisit many of my old favorites that I bought on CD. Between those, I am working on Legacy of Ashes, which is not the most exciting read, but is interesting in short bursts. I’m somewhere around 1964 right now, which ties [...]

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I’ll fess up now. I like audiobooks. I spend too much time commuting and too little time with the paper books in hand, so I got hooked on audiobooks back in 1998 when I discovered the Rob Ingles version  of Lord of the Rings on Napster. I since found the whole set on ebay, so [...]

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It’s been a while since I updated my reading log. I’ve just finished the sequence up to The Far Side of the World, by Patrick O’Brian. It’s one of his better stories, partly because of how schizophrenic it is. It’s all over. There’s shipwreck, chase, despair, injury, all sorts of things, all in a remarkably [...]

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Oh, and I also picked up The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It’s a short story collection that includes one of the earliest Jeeves stories, and honestly Jeeves just plays a bit part. It feels so different than the rest of the Jeeves stories I’ve encountered so far [...]

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