I love audiobooks but I am also a massive snob when it comes to narrators so I frequently bail and buy the eBook instead.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Jessica - May 27, 2020 11:17:17 am PDT #25907 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cashmere - May 27, 2020 11:24:48 am PDT #25908 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.
I am an audiobook snob, too. I've had some great books ruined by the narration.
But the ones I love--I will listen to them over and over. The narrator for TAofML also narrated Alexis Hall's Glitterland which is also fantastic in a different way.
I once had a message conversation with AH on Goodreads about getting an audio version of Pansies. I helped find the narrator--they were looking for a good Geordie accent, and ended up with Cornell Collins who also narrates KJ Charles' Magpie Lord series.
I play six degrees of Joel Leslie with gay romance authors all the time.
bennett - May 27, 2020 11:46:22 am PDT #25909 of 28176
I also liked Hallowed Hunt a lot better on my latest re-read. I found the characters more appealing and the world building more interesting. But the world is very different there, and I missed the Bastard, my favorite of the Five Gods.
-t - May 27, 2020 12:31:50 pm PDT #25910 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Bastard is certainly all over Penric's stories
bennett - May 27, 2020 12:45:08 pm PDT #25911 of 28176
I thought "Penric and the Shaman" did a nice job of mixing the Five Gods with the shamanistic religion of Hollowed Hunt.
-t - May 27, 2020 1:03:39 pm PDT #25912 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Totally. Having read that improved my reread of Hallowed Hunt, I'm sure. Penric having Desdemona and shamanic training/powers seems like it should be Too Much but I guess he's got enough other flaws and weaknesses that it isn't? For me, anyway.
Consuela - May 27, 2020 2:12:05 pm PDT #25913 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I thought "Penric and the Shaman" did a nice job of mixing the Five Gods with the shamanistic religion of Hollowed Hunt.
... I can't remember if I've read that one. I'll have to check.
Gris - May 27, 2020 3:16:10 pm PDT #25914 of 28176
Hey. New board.
So I recently read the book Point B , A love story about teleportation, and I recommend it. I read it because the author, Drew Magary, writes funny rants for Medium and used to work for Deadspin which I loved before the editor was fired and all the staff quit.
It is self-published so it suffers from the occasional need-of-an-editor such usually do, but I still stayed up past midnight twice reading it, so I guess it didn't matter! Set in a future where teleportation is done through your phone and controlled by a company with no morals, it has a lot of good, pleasingly leftist social and economic commentary, plus a pretty cute teen girl love story.
meara - May 27, 2020 8:08:16 pm PDT #25915 of 28176
Ooh, I will take that rec, sounds good.
I just smashed through the Penric and Desdemona story. Loved it, and now need to go back and re read the others.
Pix - May 28, 2020 6:16:54 am PDT #25916 of 28176
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Read the new Penric last night — definitely would have felt on the nose if I wasn't sure she wrote it before all this started! Enjoyed it as always. Thanks for the rec of the Alexis Hall book -- just bought it for my Kindle.