Hmm. Looking back thru my Audible library, I =think= the better narrator was Patrick Tull, but I couldn't swear to it.
Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you-- I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!
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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."
bennett - May 23, 2025 7:14:36 pm PDT #28318 of 28342
Consuela - May 23, 2025 10:08:37 pm PDT #28319 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Patrick Tull is ridiculously good in the Aubrey-Maturin novels! That's the way I read those books, with his narration. So good.
JenP - May 24, 2025 5:31:55 am PDT #28320 of 28342
-t, I liked Project Hail Mary, and I didn't like the one in-between, so there's another data point.
Laura - May 24, 2025 6:46:12 am PDT #28321 of 28342
Our wings are not tired.
Trevor Noah narrated Born a Crime in exactly the tone you would expect. I had read the book before it was chosen for book club, so I listened to it the second time. You can hear his delivery while reading, and no one else could have read it as well.
(I'm making notes of the good narrators)
Dana - May 24, 2025 7:04:03 am PDT #28322 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Weir seems to have one character voice, so his POV characters sound exactly the same from book to book. If you can get past that, Hail Mary is fun, if a bit too long.
Laura - May 24, 2025 7:26:52 am PDT #28323 of 28342
Our wings are not tired.
Yes, I enjoyed the science fun of Hail Mary, but some sections could have been far more concise.
bennett - May 24, 2025 9:32:09 am PDT #28324 of 28342
Also excellent, is Rob Inglis reading The Hobbit and all of The Lord of the Rings. Also good for very long trips and for re-reading in troubled times.
Jessica - May 24, 2025 9:55:56 am PDT #28325 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just recently started Axiom's End and so far I'm really enjoying it, but I'm having some difficulty dealing with the fact that this is an AU period piece set in *2007*. (My assumption that the year is significant because it puts the existance of smartphones and the 2008 financial crash in the book's near-future, but mostly there is no way 2007 was long enough ago to be a setting for a sci-fi AU.)
-t - May 24, 2025 11:49:56 am PDT #28326 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That’s way too specific and recent. I am intrigued but bewildered
Also checking for narrators y’all have mentioned. Adjoa Andoh, the best part of Bridgerton, is fantastic with Pride and Prejudice and also does Ann Leckie’s books, as well as many books I don’t know but am now tempted to listen to…
JenP - May 27, 2025 2:22:23 pm PDT #28327 of 28342
I am halfway through The Three Body Problem, and I like it. The characters and their stories, as we're getting them, are interesting to me, and the way they are unfolding the mystery of what's going is keeping my attention.
I also have seven books on deck from the library... the holds didn't quite space out the way I had anticipated. That's OK!
Oh, well, and I started Fifth Business, too, but TTBP is due on Friday, so I am hopping to it. No renewals left.