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Post by Reneekittycat on Aug 19, 2009 4:18:05 GMT
Actually I did start reading Atlantis but then got the audio version and have been listening to it ever since. It's a great story and the reader is very good and does different voices well, especially since he has to go from British to Australian to Greek to Russian, sometime in one conversation. I'm more than half done with it and I really love the story.
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Post by Master Shake on Aug 24, 2009 18:56:46 GMT
(Again thanks to the iPod) I'm rapidly beginning to think I might prefer audiobooks over printed novels.
Anyway, I'm reading the print version of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis, which I've always liked, and listening to the audio version of Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman, based on his 1985 DC Comics series. The audio version is based on the novelisation of the comic. Confused yet?
I have to say, I think the comic version is better. There's nothing wrong with the quality of the audio version (which has great production values and a full cast of actors, and music and sound effects to make it almost a movie without pictures) but the novel/audiobook, although written by the same writer as the original comics, is told from a completely different perspective, with a lot of flashback and flash forward (anyone else who knows the story may get that pun and may not) but it makes the novel/audiobook very confusing and difficult to follow. Ironic, when you consider the original story was written to iron out confusion for DC Comics readers.
Also (then I promise to shut up, and this is me just being picky) the comics were written in 1985. The novel/audiobook was written twenty years later in 2005 and makes (occasional infrequent) references to things like email and Homer Simpson and so on - things that didn't exist when the story was originally written.)
OK. Quiet now.
;D
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Post by The Collector on Aug 26, 2009 13:50:33 GMT
Just got Bret 'Hitman' Hart's book...so that's next!
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Post by Mr Levity on Aug 29, 2009 17:19:04 GMT
I always buy myself a book when I go on holiday. Now there's a surprise !  I was drawn like a magnet to a bookshop in Halesworth, and pleased to find "Hitchhiker" a biography of Douglas Adams for only £4.50. It conflicts in places with Nick Webb's (Official) biography, but is very interesting. |
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Post by Mr Levity on Sept 2, 2009 20:33:49 GMT
Finished the Adams book. Now on Ulrika Johnson's autobiography, and Mary, Mary by James Patterson.
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 16, 2009 14:39:03 GMT
OK. I'm still 'listening' rather than 'reading,' but since they're still books, I'm putting them here. I've now finished "A Killing Frost," the new Frost novel, and "Night Frost," my favourite of all the Frost books, and have also finished "Crisis on Infinite Earths" which I thoroughly enjoyed.
My iPod is now loaded with James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small," which is the American collection of "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" into a single novel. I've never read the print versions of Herriot's books, though I've always wanted to. Now I've discovered the audio versions, though, given my rapidly growing preference for them, I'm really happy I'll get to read (hear?) them at last.
So far, I'm really liking it. It's gentle and humourous, and was clearly written with affection for the characters and subject matter. Considering Herriot was a vet and not a writer, it's well written too. And it helps immeasurably for the audio version to be read by Christopher Timothy, who, of course, is James Herriot on television.
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Post by Mr Levity on Sept 16, 2009 19:09:23 GMT
I loved the James Herriot books and am cursing the day that I lent them to someone and never got them back ! I've since bought an omnibus edition of all the books, but it's strictly a read-at-home book as it's enormous.
When you are settled in, PM me your new address and I'll send you some audio books (I have one or two !!!)
I've just finished Ulrika off (ooooer, wishful thinking ;D)
Now on Gordon Ramsay's autobiography (I think the guy's a tosser but it'll be interesting to see how he feels about himself), and James Patterson's Judge and Jury (audio).
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 16, 2009 19:15:11 GMT
Mr. L, you're a star! If you're serious, I'd love to do that. THANK YOU!
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Post by Mr Levity on Sept 16, 2009 19:23:50 GMT
No problem ! I'll compile a list at some point and let you know what I have.
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Post by DaleJr Fan on Sept 25, 2009 3:08:23 GMT
Reading Seven for a secret by Victoria Holt. I've gotten hooked on her novels lately.
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Post by Master Shake on Oct 7, 2009 20:24:00 GMT
I'm still listening rather than reading (I haven't read an actual print novel since the beginning of September when I blasted through my two remaining Frost novels).
I gave up on James Herriot (it got to a point about a woman temporarily losing her dog, and Kallie came to mind) so instead I've got through The Green Mile, and am now back onto the DC Comics novelisation audiobooks.
Currently listening to "Fifty Two" which is a direct sequel to "Infinite Crisis", taking place through one calendar year, on a weekly basis (hence the title) directly after the Crisis. Like all the DC Comics audio, it's damn good, although I fell asleep last night listening to it, so I'll have t backtrack later when Renee comes home and I can get the iPod back.
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Post by Mr Levity on Oct 9, 2009 19:16:28 GMT
Reading James Patterson's Mary Mary at lunchtime, Wogan's autobiog Mustn't Grumble (not enjoying it) at home, and listening to Patterson's Miracle on the 17th Green in the car. Also got a couple of free downloads from Audible which I'm listening to of an evening while on the PC.
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 12, 2009 17:58:49 GMT
Not read a book in a long time. Just started on this....  Not a story I'm unfamiliar with but this one goes into very deep detail regarding the murders. And there's the transcripts of the police interviews with Sutcliffe when he was captured. Very interesting (and in some parts disturbing) what I've read so far. |
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Post by Master Shake on Oct 13, 2009 0:21:11 GMT
Oo, that sounds interesting, Dr. Banner. I'm fond of British true crime stuff, Fred West, Dr. Shipman, Jack the Ripper, that sort of thing.
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Post by Master Shake on Oct 27, 2009 15:15:38 GMT
I've now finished the audio of "52", have finished the print version of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis, and am now listening to a full-cast audio version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is a lot better in audio form than the printed novel. I've never been able to read the original novel, although I was young when I first tried and I couldn't wrap my head around the Olde English. Now, years later, with someone reading for me, I'm enjoying it a lot more.
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