Oh, I remember that one!
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Anne W. - Apr 17, 2011 5:00:14 pm PDT #14506 of 28293
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Dana - Apr 17, 2011 5:01:59 pm PDT #14507 of 28293
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
She's got a couple of other classic Trek books that are also good.
Amy - Apr 17, 2011 5:04:07 pm PDT #14508 of 28293
Because books.
It's called In the Shadow of Gotham.
I just read something about that, actually. It sounds a little bit like The Alienist from your description.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 5:09:36 pm PDT #14509 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
These criminologists may fade away, since I'm still pretty early in, but so far, so meh. I would probably like the story a lot if it were just in a modern setting.
Consuela - Apr 18, 2011 8:27:15 pm PDT #14510 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I went to a staged reading of selections from The Pale King tonight.
It was cool.
Laga - Apr 20, 2011 7:07:42 am PDT #14511 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Reading Infinite Jest I Just Got something my brother has been saying to me for years.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2011 7:34:10 am PDT #14512 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So yesterday I finished the Rosemary and Rue audiobook, read by Mary Robinette Kowal, and it was great! She did voices and everything! It totally took my mind off the fact that I was stuck in traffic. So now I'm totally into audiobooks for my commute. What audiobooks do people recommend, specifically because they're good audiobooks? I'm going to swing by the library and see what strikes my fancy. Any books that are good books but don't make good audiobooks? The library has Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but doesn't that book have footnotes? How do audiobooks handle footnotes?
DavidS - Apr 20, 2011 7:37:35 am PDT #14513 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What audiobooks do people recommend, specifically because they're good audiobooks?
Stephen Briggs doing the Tiffany Aching books by Pratchett, starting with The Wee Free Men.
The Graveyard Book as read by Gaiman himself.
All of the Harry Potter books by the king of book readers, Jim Dale. (Aka, the voiceover on Pushing Daisies.)
I loved David Straitharn's reading of L.A. Confidential. He was a better Lynn Bracken than Kim Basinger.
I hear that the audiobook of Coraline as read by Dawn French (the UK version) is better than the American version.
Laga - Apr 20, 2011 7:39:29 am PDT #14514 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I don't recall hearing a book with footnotes. I loved Tim Curry reading Cry to Heaven and I think Richard E Grant reading The Tale of the Body Thief. Michael York reading Candide was good too. It occurs to me that we might not be looking for the same thing in audiobooks.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2011 7:51:50 am PDT #14515 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BSG
Stephen Briggs doing the Tiffany Aching books by Pratchett, starting with The Wee Free Men.
I did see that rec, but a friend bought me the first couple Tiffany Aching books for my birthday last year, so I would like to read it that way first.
The Graveyard Book as read by Gaiman himself.
Ah yes! I wonder whether they have that. Ooh, they do, just not at the SSF branch. Maybe I'll get that transferred over, or, oh, no, I can totally pick that up from the Burlingame branch tomorrow!
All of the Harry Potter books by the king of book readers, Jim Dale. (Aka, the voiceover on Pushing Daisies.)
Ooh, yes, that's one I've heard a lot about.
I loved David Straitharn's reading of L.A. Confidential. He was a better Lynn Bracken than Kim Basinger.
Oh! That could be great. I did love that movie. But they only have the book on...tape. Read by someone else.
I hear that the audiobook of Coraline as read by Dawn French (the UK version) is better than the American version.
Cool! But the library only has the American version, as read by Neil Gaiman with music by the Gothic Archies.
It occurs to me that we might not be looking for the same thing in audiobooks.
Heh. For my first one, it was nice to hear a book I'd already read so I didn't mind if I missed a sentence here or there. But what I liked about it was that it drew me into the story, especially with the different voices. It's a first-person book, too, so she made the narration appropriately emotional at times.