Ok, fess up - which one of us is this?
Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Anyone else read A Visit from the Goon Squad? What'd you think?
I picked up Something This Wicked This Way Comes on audiobook! I'm excited! I've never read any Bradbury besides "All Summer in a Day" and Fahrenheit 451, I think, and I don't really know anything about this book besides that there is something wicked and it is coming this way.
I picked up Something This Wicked This Way Comes on audiobook! I'm excited!
You're in for a treat.
I don't really know anything about this book besides that there is something wicked and it is coming this way.
flails excitedly at you but tries not to say anything
Who's the reader for the audiobook?
Paul Hecht.
(Also, I do know from a glance at the blurb that the something wicked is a carnival. But that's all I know.)
You'll have to let me know what you think of his voice. I haven't heard that recording.
(I wonder how difficult it would be to set my dad up with the equipment to record him reading Something Wicked This Way Comes ? Because that's the audio version I really want.)
(Jilli, a free download of Audacity and a cheap headphone with a microphone is all you need for recording.)
Anyone else read A Visit from the Goon Squad? What'd you think?
I liked it a lot. I don't know what I had been expecting, but it wasn't that.
Anyone else read A Visit from the Goon Squad? What'd you think?
Parts of it engaged me, and parts of it didn't. At times, I disliked a section so much I put it down for a month or so. I really didn't like the ending.