Posts tagged: kavalier and clay

September Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-09-12 at 14:45 by Sam

Out with the deals of August and in with the deals of September! As usual, the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter cover the more ephemeral deals, but here's some titles to check out all September long -- but first, some deals that either end today (Friday) or in a week:

The King in Yellow | [Robert W. Chambers] Annihilation: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1 | [Jeff VanderMeer]

Today (Friday) only, Open Road Media has set the ebook price for their edition of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow to "free". This edition is Whispersync for Voice enabled with the fantastic Blackstone Audio

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged among others, amy mcfadden, annihilation, ben aaronovitch, carolyn mccormick, charlie n holmberg, dead with walking, emily durante, ernest cline, faith hunter, fortune's pawn, frederik pohl, gabrielle de cuir, gateway, harrowgate, jane yellowrock, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, john scalzi, kate maruyama, katherine kellgren, kavalier and clay, khristine hvam, kim harrison, kobna holdbrook-smith, macleod andrews, marguerite gavin, michael chabon, midnight riot, nick podehl, oliver wyman, paolo bacigalupi, pierre grimbert, rachel bach, ready player one, redshirts, richard kadrey, siddhartha mukherjee, skinwalker, stefan rudnicki, the drowned cities, the king in yellow, the paper magician, tyler dilts, wil wheaton

Listening report: June 2012

Posted on 2012-09-12 at 3:21 by Sam

After six audiobooks in May (though KSR’s 2312 went on well into the first week of June) I listened to eight in June, with Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay being the outstanding audiobooks, with plenty to recommend Mark L. Van Name’s No Going Back, John Scalzi’s Redshirts, and Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son.

     

REVIEWS: (Note: as I’m terribly terribly behind in these reviews, these are short (or long in the cases where I did not have time to

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Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged cherie priest, clementine, graphicaudio, john scalzi, jon sprunk, kavalier and clay, kim stanley robinson, mark van name, michael chabon, monthly listening report, no going back, on stranger tides, orson scott card, redshirts, shadow's son, stefan rudnicki, tim powers, wil wheaton

Audiobook review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Posted on 2012-07-12 at 15:8 by Sam

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio

Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins

Release Date: 06-12-12 

Review by Dave Thompson: “Why don’t you figure out where we’re going to put all your goddamn comic books!”

This is going to be something of a departure from the other reviews I’ve done here, and I hope you all will indulge me. 

Memory is a funny thing. I first read Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay when it came out in

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Posted in regular | Tagged dave thompson, kavalier and clay, michael chabon, reviews

Release Week: Chabon's Kavalier and Clay; Jemisin's Dreamblood; Brenda Cooper's Silver Ship; Novik's Temeraire; Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen; and more

Posted on 2012-06-14 at 14:17 by Sam

My most anticipated release this week comes from the fiction section: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon, Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio. FINALLY an UNABRIDGED recording! Colacci’s narration of the abridged version was a mere 8 hrs and 53 mins — about one third of the full 26 hrs and 20 mins of the unabridged recording. “It’s 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged brenda cooper, dreamblood, joan d vinge, kavalier and clay, michael chabon, n k jemisin, release week, silver ship, the snow queen