It's a little different when there are lyrics to a song in the book. I've heard those handled in a variety of ways by different narrators and I don't recall...
There are a few books I think are more enjoyable in the film version. One is "The English Patient". Another is a movie I have watched dozens of times and ...
Barry said: I'm not sure what you mean by Important Technique and Stylization. I started a Foer book, I forget it's name now, and after about 15 minutes I...
I've seen "The Razor's Edge". I read the book in my late teens or maybe early 20s and I was fascinated by it. I quickly read everything else I could find...
I liked Ewan McEwan's books although some of them were, as you say, macabre. I couldn't get through one of Rusdie's books, too complex for me, or something. I...
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Barry did send me the sample and listening to it convinced me that I will not purchase it from Audible. Too bad because I think her writing is excellent and...
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I've heard a few authors that I liked okay when they read their own books. One of the best examples of this is Amy Tan. She's as good a narrator as she is a...
It was Ty Power in the first one. Bill Murray insisted on appearing in a version of it. And he was hot enough to have his way. The Murray version was...
I saw The English Patient when it first came out and I absolutely hated it. I felt that the story was nearly entirely telegraphed in the first scenes and that...
I don't know who Will Ferrel is. I haven't seen Saturday Night Live in about 20 or 30 years and I never did see it regularly.  There were two of them I...
THE RAZOR'S EDGE (by Somerset Maughm) and BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (by Evelyn Waugh) are great novels to compare and contrast. I've mentioned it in a past post or...
Not long ago I saw an interview on Youtube with Alafair Burke where she mentioned that her father, James Lee Burke, was an established poet before he was a...
I have James Lee Burke's THE NEON RAIN (first in the Robicheaux series; narrated by Will Patton) queued up on my iPod to start tomorrow! I hadn't known about...
One of many things Thomas Pynchon is noted for is the invented song lyrics in his books. Imagine Dick Hill singing. (lol) It's great though - after you get...
I don't read series. I read books. I'm usually glad to find out a writer I've just decided to like has a lot of other books in case I want more at some...
Stefan Rudnicki sings a cowboy song in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID (by Michael Ondaatje.) It was startling at first, as I wasn't expecting it, but...
I prefer stand-alones and first-in-series myself; but every once in a while I'll dip my toe in the "series" waters. I usually only get as far as three or four...
Very interesting and very sad. Thanks for sharing it with us. Miriam ... From: "ETM" <etm1935@...> To: <audible@yahoogroups.com>;...
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Nov 6, 2009 5:04 pm
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I tend not to read series either although I know that at some point, I'll read the next book in the Larsen trilogy. But usually, one book is enough. However,...
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Nov 6, 2009 5:09 pm
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I've listened to both THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (by Stieg Larsson; narrted by Simon Vance) and plan on listening to THE...
I have had the audiobooks, but just bought the hardbacks secondhand because I think I would prefer to read. The US version of the third isn't available until...
I am guessing, and this is a wild you know what kind of guess, because I wasn't at the conference, that he would not have been asked to participate were he not...
I have noticed that most TV shows do this now and I find it very distracting, to the point that the music overpowers the dialog so much that it is hard for me...
I didn't mean that the music overpowered the dialog. I have heard a couple of audiobooks where that happened for a few seconds but mostly that doesn't...
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