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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses
Posted on 2011-08-30 at 13:46 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses
From the review: “Lewis’s tales of a time bending rock fan gives us an intimate look at rock legends as well as a realistic portrayal of a middle aged man whose faith in rock and roll to change the world is put to the ultimate challenge. … I was amazed by the amount of love and detail Shiner presented his rock and roll idols with. He humanizes rock legends like Brian Wilson and Jimi Hendricks in a way I have never seen before, giving them such
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Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!
Posted on 2011-08-29 at 15:35 by Sam
Link: Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!
Wow! I’ve heard a lot of great things about this 2010 avant garde fantasy novel, and now, courtesy a Recorded Books production of an Angela Goethals narration, The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich has come to Audible.com:
Quoth the publisher’s description:
Read more...A MacDowell Colony fellow and a finalist for the Starcherone Prize, Grace Krilanovich was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During the 1990s in the Pacific
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Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner
Posted on 2011-08-26 at 17:39 by Sam
Link: Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner
A really nice interview over at Jonathan Maberry’s Big Scary Blog with narrator Tom Weiner. In it, some brief mention of some of Weiner’s favorite projects, including Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Robert Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks through Walls, Poul Anderson’s Harvest of Stars: The Harvest of Stars Series, Book 1, and Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"
Posted on 2011-08-26 at 15:29 by Sam
Link: Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"
Wow, there’s a great new (at least to me!) feature page at Audible.com today, “The Best Book I Ever Narrated”. This page lists some of my favorite narrators describing, well, their pick for the best book they ever narrated, and as a narrator junkie this is just a great feature. Some highlights:
Glimpses by arrated by
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Just added at Audible.com: Simon Morden's Equations of Life
Posted on 2011-08-25 at 16:33 by Sam
Link: Just added at Audible.com: Simon Morden's Equations of Life
Published by Orbit on April 1 earlier this year, Equations of Life by narrated by
And the trilogy continued in May and June:
- Theories of Flight (Samuil Petrovitch) by Simon Morden (May 1, 2011) (Recorded Books lists the audiobook as forthcoming September 18)
- Deg
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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August continues with Richard Adams's Watership Down
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:23 by Sam
Audible.com’s “New Day, New Deal” promotion has a solid week to go, as every day at 10 AM ET they are unveiling another $7.95 audiobook to be on sale until August 31. Today’s is Watership Down by narrated by
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Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:12 by Sam
Link: Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
In a week where the NY Times hardcover fiction bestseller list has 5 of its top 10 slots occupied by science fiction and fantasy novels, Audible.com’s monthly customer favorites has Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One at the top of its list:
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Audiobook release day: The White City: Book 3 of the Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis
Posted on 2011-08-23 at 16:39 by Sam
Link: Audiobook release day: The White City: Book 3 of the Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis
With The White City: Book 3 of The Clockwork Dark, Hillsborough, NC author John Claude Bemis completes his trilogy for young readers which combines American folklore, Steampunk, and just the right amount of mountain magic:
Once again narrated by Listening Library (in print from Random House Books for Young Readers), the book continues the story which began in The Nine Pound Hammer: The
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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August begins with Yann Martel's Life of Pi
Posted on 2011-08-22 at 17:40 by Sam
Link: Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August begins with Yann Martel's Life of Pi
With “New Day, New Deal” launching today, Audible.com promises to “reveal a top listener favorite on sale each day for just $7.95 every weekday at 10 AM ET until the end of the month”. The promotion begins with Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi:
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
Posted on 2011-08-19 at 20:05 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
Wow, he really loved it. I might be a bit less “A+ … I think that Ready Player One has the potential to be more than just a great book, but a true cultural Icon. Ready Player One is the Stranger in a Strange Land of the Atari generation, the Hitchhikers Guide for those who wished the Keatons were their family.” but that’s not too over the top. There was definitely something of a geek criticality event listening to Wil Wheaton produce the
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