Why didn't anyone tell me…

I don’t think I need to waste any more brain cells on this one. Three leg shots to a dinosaur are not killing blows. Eek. Cast: the prof, the psycho, the hero, the token blonde, the government agent, the cute kid, the pet, and disposable dinosaur threat A. Gag.

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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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Hi, I’m Dave, and I’m a Dark Castle Addict. Sad but true, I’ve been spending what free moments I can steal from other duties trying to defeat Return to Dark Castle, which I’ve been waiting for since they started talking about it in what, 2000? And it’s quite good. But this means I’ve been slow [...]

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Ian is hard of hearing and we’re between hearing aids. How’s a kid to learn to talk? Well I’m an active audiobook listener and have an iPod around… So far he’s gotten through about 6 hours of Lord of the Rings.

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Just finished No Country for Old Men. It felt like reading Fargo. I can’t say I enjoyed it very much. Before that I finished off the end of the Harry Potter series, done at high speed. It may seem lame but I still consider them extraordinary examples of foresight in story design. Next I have [...]

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I didn’t realize how fast I go through books until I started posting these. Yikes! Harry Potter series with iPhone on “Faster” setting. It keeps my mind from wandering too much. Cramming each book into 2-3 days helps me see the bigger patterns easier, and having read the seventh book already, I’m taking note of [...]

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Now about halfway into “I Am Legend,” which feels like a short story and up to this point is more a fun book than a thinking book. I haven’t seen the movie, but I thought it was an interesting enough premise to justify the short-ish audiobook. Not so sure on the narrator, he seems to [...]

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Currently deep in Desolation Island which is probably one of my favorite books of all time. This is my fourth trip through the Aubrey-Maturin books, and I still love them.

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I should preface this with my opinion so people can see why I’m doing this. I think the iPhone is an incredible device. I wanted a video iPod and my older phone broke. What better way to combine batteries? I picked up the iPhone and in many ways it’s changed how I think of mobile [...]

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