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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Albert Brooks's 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
Posted on 2011-08-11 at 12:58 by Sam
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The Guilded Earlobe has quickly gone from being unknown to me to being my absolutely favorite source of audiobook interviews. Today he takes a look at one of the audiobooks I passed on along the way this year, Albert Brooks’s 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America:
Here’s the start of the review:
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Genre: Future History
Quick Thoughts: While 2030 has its flaws, I found it to be a compelling read
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Audiobook release day: The Magician King by Lev Grossman, read by Mark Bramhall
Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:51 by Sam
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Leading a 4-pack of interesting releases at Audible.com today is Lev Grossman’s The Magician King, read by Mark Bramhall:
It’s a wonderful novel, and already a few chapters into the audiobook … so very happy once again with Bramhall’s narration of this world. Several reviews have started showing up (last month The Guilded Earlobe reviewed the audiobook as an A+), yesterday CNN had a brief review along with an interview,
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Best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 19:24 by Sam
Link: Best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
In a month of blockbusters (A Dance with Dragons, Ghost Stories, Vortex, Flashback) it was a more under-the-radar release which most impressed me in July. So, a bit belatedly, my pick for the best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF is: Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 by arrated by
One of the reasons this “Best of July” post is coming almost a week into August is that Germline was released near the end of
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James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 18:22 by Sam
Link: James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith, primarily known for their work on comics, burst onto the f/sf scene with their 2010 Pyr novel The Greyfriar, book 1 in their Vampire Empire trilogy. Earlier this year, Buzzy Multimedia announced it had acquired the audio rights to the series, and the speculation began on who would be picked to narrate the series. Well, the speculation is over, as James Marsters (“Spike” on the
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Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:52 by Sam
Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
It’s here! I’ve been waiting for this to come out in audio since January. Narrated by none other than Katherine Kellgren, Jo Walton’s novel Among Others (Tor, January 2011) leads off Audible.com’s “First Friday” for August.
Described as: “Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly listenable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of
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Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:43 by Sam
Link: Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Another month, another top-10 from Audible.com in their Monthly Customer Favorites series. It’s a genre-heavy month, with:
- Vortex by narrated by
- Ex-Patriots by arrated by
- Hammered: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 3 by arrated by
- A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 by narrated by
But there’s also a non-genre book I keep hearing
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Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-07-26 at 13:57 by Sam
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Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 is just out at Audible.com and elsewhere. It’s the debut novel from South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy and Bull Spec reviewer C.D. Covington calls it “equal parts The Forever War and Hammer’s Slammers”. McCarthy, a former CIA analyst, weaves a tale of genetically engineered soldiers at war in a future Russia-US conflict in Kazakhstan. An embedded journalist begins to lose himself in the war and the drugs the soldiers
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Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
Posted on 2011-07-15 at 16:16 by Sam
Link: Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 15:09 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
“With its grand fantasy adventure told in tandem with a tale of devastating realism The Magician King may possibly be the best fantasy novel of a year full of great contenders. Grade: A+”
Argh. Still a few weeks to wait for the public release. Tick, tick, tick…
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This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 14:09 by Sam
Link: This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Get ‘em while they last.
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