John's comments
(member since Aug 19, 2007)
John's comments from the Audiobooks group.
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I think it may have to do with "branding" across publishers.
I'm listening to Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means, read wonderfully as usual by Nadia May (a/k/a Donada Peters). The story itself isn't holding my attention terrificly well, but it's barely 3 hours long.
Sounds a lot like Murakami to me - surreal, but I enjoyed the ride.
I've been putting it off myself, but I struck up a conversation with someone reading it, and she was glowing in her enthusiasm.
I seem to recall Linda Stephens does a good job with Lee Smith's southern fiction(Fancy Strut, etc.).
Barbara: Whose mens' voices are you talking about?
I don't run into resume problems very often, unless the battery has gone to "0" and switched off abruptly without saving my place. Still I try hard not to let that happen. Here is the D2 Amazon link, you can read the comments at your leisure, esp the ones re: audiobooks. I'm not shilling it, and it is somewhat expensive, but the bookmarking feature couldn't be much easier. It's one of the few players that handles Audible, Net Library and Overdrive equally well. I use Cowon's software to rip each CD as a single track. You do need to "activate" the resume feature, defaulted to "off" at the factory. I've found audiobooks-only use to be about 25 hrs between charges - takes about 3 hours to fully recharge with the included AC charger (two swap-able plugs for North America, and overseas).
http://www.amazon.com/Cowon-Portable-Med...
I wanted to add a strong recommendation for the audiobook, if you aren't sure about reading it (before the movie). Susie sounds okay telling the story of what happened; she's fairly together the entire time, even when concerned about her falling-apart family.
Whereas, the print book might seem more disturbing, forcing those with doubts to give up.
I haven't had this problem (yet) - I downloaded an OverDrive book to my player the other day, and it played just fine - or are you talking about expired books?
Laura - doesn't Rosenblatt read the Amelia Peabody mystery series? Those were very well read.
Doesn't your Zune have a "resume" function???I use Bookmarking if I'm juggling between books, which isn't often.
I've deleted Obamanos from my player, and doubt I'd listen to another with Dick Hill, although I might pick up that book again in print (though not soon).
I liked Barbara Rosenblatt's reading of Bridget Jones, too - although I found the plot of the sequel Over The Top.
My Cowon D2 handles Audible, Net Library, OverDrive and ripped-from-CD books just fine - 8 Gb internal, plus an SD card slot. Bookmarking is incredibly easy.I've taken to downloading Audible type 4 books, which are much larger files (slower), as type 3 sounds slightly "tinny" to me.
I fear Dick Hill is detracting from my current book; I had mixed feelings about him reading Jack Cafferty's memoir earlier this year, but in this one he might be making the author seem more self-impressed than might be the case with the print book, or a different reader.
I'm having some trouble hanging in with Dick Hill's reading of Obamanos!. He was okay reading Jack Cafferty's latest book, but he's making the author of this one seem a bit more "self important" than the guy really is I think.
Two that I can think of: Bleak House by Charles Dickens (I'd completely forgotten the plot!) and Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (I wanted to see if it seemed "dated" a decade later - nope).I don't keep books I've ripped from discs after listening, but with Audible, one's Library is forever.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen - the narration is pretty good, and the story's okay (not great, but okay), but I have to wonder how much she's hyping stuff for comic effect. At one point, playing Scrabble with her family, she (Politically Correctly) huffily throws out the use of "retard", claiming: "It's not even in the dictionary!" Well ... maybe not her dictionary, but dictionary.com includes:–verb (used with object)
1. to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
–verb (used without object)
2. to be delayed.
The author has a Ph.D. in English.
Welcome, Trish!That's one of those books where you need the audio to "get" the self-effacing humor!
You just listen to audiobooks, more or less straight through, for two days in a row?I'm truly baffled as I can only listen with other things "going on" (cleaning, etc.) or commuting.
