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First time reading (well, listening to) an audiobook for Goodreads. "The Sentinel" is Arthur C. Clarke's precursor to *2001: A Space Odyssey*, old-fashioned but still engaging. Getting Alexander Siddig to read it helps negate some of the story's lily-whiteness. Had a harder time with "Fat Farm"--there's a mean-spiritedness to the story that's hard to separate from Orson Scott Card's general mean-spiritedness.
— Aug 16, 2013 05:28PM
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For a story about watercolor painting, "Feedback" gets pretty damn intense.
— Sep 06, 2013 03:05PM
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Wil Wheaton reading "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" and Terry Farrell reading "The Poplar Street Study" makes for a delightfully dweeby double feature.
— Aug 30, 2013 03:20PM
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Listening to "Our Lady of the Sauropods" and "Options" back-to-back, I realized how much good narration can enhance a story--I liked "Sauropods" a lot more for that reason. (It might help that "Sauropods" was written in the first person, which probably gives the narrator more opportunity to get in character. It might also help that "Sauropods" is about intelligent dinosaurs, which is awesome.)
— Aug 23, 2013 05:05PM
