Posts tagged: james alexander
"Twisted and Frighteningly Relatable" -- James reviews The Circle
Posted on 2017-04-06 at 13:25 by Sam
The Circle
By Dave Eggers
Narrated by Dion Graham for Random House
[Audible | Downpour]
-- Review by James Alexander --
Like a novel-length episode of Black Mirror, Dave Eggers’ The Circle paints a twisted and frighteningly relatable picture of technology and human nature gone wrong. The story beings with Mae Holland, a recent college graduate, bored, broke and overqualified at her nightmare of a job in public utility. She’s eventually recruited into the Circle, an exciting, all-encompassing tech
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"The past can’t be changed, but it can be learned from." -- James reviews Snapshot
Posted on 2017-02-28 at 19:21 by Sam
Snapshot
By Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by William DeMeritt for Audible
— Review by James Alexander —
Snapshot is one of those books you know will probably be a movie soon right away. I mean that in the best possible sense, the premise is just too good. In a city of millions, detectives Davis and Chaz are the only real people. Cops in this futuristic world have taken to using “Snapshots”, large scale, holodeck-like re-creations of the past to solve crimes.
Let’s say a murder is committed Monday with no
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A toxic need for closure -- James reviews The Girl on the Train
Posted on 2016-06-11 at 19:33 by Sam
The Girl on the Train By Paula Hawkins Read by
-- Review by James Alexander --
The hype surrounding The Girl on the Train, especially given the upcoming film adaptation, may want you to believe it is the next Gone Girl. It’s not. It’s nowhere near as sensational or propulsive as that. This is a drama set at a much lower key, which makes up for its melodrama by taking things in a darker, more personal direction.
Its unusually
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Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? James reviews Calamity (The Reckoners, Book 3)
Posted on 2016-03-14 at 18:09 by Sam
Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3 By Brandon Sanderson Narrated by MacLeod Andrews for Audible
-- Review by James Alexander --
Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? It feels like the Reckoners trilogy has only just begun and the conclusion is already here. And it isn’t the only thing he’s been doing right now.
The setting combines today’s familiar trends of post apocalyptic and superhero fiction into something wholly unique: a world where super powered beings dubbed
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Dark Terrain, Dying for More -- James reviews Career of Evil
Posted on 2016-01-21 at 19:28 by Sam
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, Book 3) [Downpour | Audible] by J. K. Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister
Review by James Alexander:
Freed by her pseudonym, J. K. Rowling immediately plunges Career of Evil into some awfully dark terrain. “Robert Galbraith’s” Cormoran Strike detective series has never shied away from grim material before. Even as the reader is shown a supermodel's defenestration and an erotic fiction writer gruesomely murdered in the fashion of one of his
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Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Posted on 2015-04-13 at 20:31 by Sam
[Editor's Note: A warm welcome to new AudioBookaneers contributor James Alexander! Ahoy and avast!]
The Slow Regard of Silent Things By: Patrick Rothfuss Read By: Patrick Rothfuss for Penguin Series: The KingKiller Chronicles, Book 2.5 Buy: [IndieBound | Downpour | Amazon | Audible]
Review by James Alexander:
It is rare for a book to begin with a direct challenge from the author to the reader. "Don't read this!" Patrick Rothfuss practically screams at us in the foreword to The Slow Regard of Silent
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