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Currently listening to: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Posted on 2011-09-04 at 14:23 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Currently listening to: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Having just finished listening to Sean Barrett’s excellent narration of Patrick Suskind’s disturbing and strange Perfume (not available at Audible.com US), I’m starting into The Passage by arrated by
This is one of course I saw at Audible.com last June (2010) when it was released, with some rotating banner ads, etc. You can’t get to everything, and this is one I skipped — just not that
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Audible.com "First Friday" for September 2011 (and other recent bits and pieces)
Posted on 2011-09-02 at 15:36 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for September 2011 (and other recent bits and pieces)
Today’s “First Friday” releases include Up Against It by narrated by
The Kingless Land: The Band of Four Series, Book 1 by Nadia May, the new (well, to Audible, it is the 2001 Blackstone Audio production) edition
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Audiobook release day: Hellbent by Cherie Priest and The Measure of the Magic by Terry Brooks
Posted on 2011-08-30 at 13:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audiobook release day: Hellbent by Cherie Priest and The Measure of the Magic by Terry Brooks
Hellbent by narrated by Boneshaker (narrated wonderfully by Wil Wheaton and Kate Reading by the way) return to the world of Bloodshot and her vampire-thief Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red):
With The Measure of the Magic: Legends of Shannara, narrated by
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses
Posted on 2011-08-30 at 13:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses
From the review: “Lewis’s tales of a time bending rock fan gives us an intimate look at rock legends as well as a realistic portrayal of a middle aged man whose faith in rock and roll to change the world is put to the ultimate challenge. … I was amazed by the amount of love and detail Shiner presented his rock and roll idols with. He humanizes rock legends like Brian Wilson and Jimi Hendricks in a way I have never seen before, giving them such
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Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!
Posted on 2011-08-29 at 15:35 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!
Wow! I’ve heard a lot of great things about this 2010 avant garde fantasy novel, and now, courtesy a Recorded Books production of an Angela Goethals narration, The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich has come to Audible.com:
Quoth the publisher’s description:
Read more...A MacDowell Colony fellow and a finalist for the Starcherone Prize, Grace Krilanovich was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During the 1990s in the Pacific
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Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner
Posted on 2011-08-26 at 17:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner
A really nice interview over at Jonathan Maberry’s Big Scary Blog with narrator Tom Weiner. In it, some brief mention of some of Weiner’s favorite projects, including Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Robert Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks through Walls, Poul Anderson’s Harvest of Stars: The Harvest of Stars Series, Book 1, and Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"
Posted on 2011-08-26 at 15:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"
Wow, there’s a great new (at least to me!) feature page at Audible.com today, “The Best Book I Ever Narrated”. This page lists some of my favorite narrators describing, well, their pick for the best book they ever narrated, and as a narrator junkie this is just a great feature. Some highlights:
Glimpses by arrated by
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Just added at Audible.com: Simon Morden's Equations of Life
Posted on 2011-08-25 at 16:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Just added at Audible.com: Simon Morden's Equations of Life
Published by Orbit on April 1 earlier this year, Equations of Life by narrated by
And the trilogy continued in May and June:
- Theories of Flight (Samuil Petrovitch) by Simon Morden (May 1, 2011) (Recorded Books lists the audiobook as forthcoming September 18)
- Deg
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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August continues with Richard Adams's Watership Down
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:23 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Audible.com’s “New Day, New Deal” promotion has a solid week to go, as every day at 10 AM ET they are unveiling another $7.95 audiobook to be on sale until August 31. Today’s is Watership Down by narrated by
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Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
In a week where the NY Times hardcover fiction bestseller list has 5 of its top 10 slots occupied by science fiction and fantasy novels, Audible.com’s monthly customer favorites has Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One at the top of its list:
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