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What Audiobooks Are You Listening To?
Hootkins, who you may remember as Porkins from Star Wars and the Top Men guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark is a fantastic reader and helps carry the book through its more boring sections and greatly increases the drama of the action scenes. More remarkably still, he really makes Melville's humor shine.
The meeting between the Pequod and the Rachael stands out as one of the most emotional and heart wrenching passages in any audio book I've listened too.
I really enjoyed it even with that long stretch of chapters on the anatomy of the whale.
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About half way through but this is very very good and surprisingly funny. It gently mocks Victorian era novels, English snobbery, and Academia and almost everything else.
But also it can be very creepy and disturbing especially when dealing with the malevolence of the "Man with Thistledown Hair". Such a well done antagonist.
Simon Preeble is a great reader and really breathes life into the characters and dialog.
I'm at a part where Mr. Norrell is forced to loan Jonathan Strange some of his precious books on magic and the way he acts is SO similar to the way some boardgamers act towards their games it was uncanny.
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I agree that almost all the characters are very unlikable. Lady Poole (sp?) is very sympathetic though as is Strange's wife. Strange himself, at least up to the point where I've gotten, is more affable than Norrell and more fun to be around but I suspect he is as flawed as his mentor. Just on the other side of the spectrum. I suppose I shall find out.
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As posted in the book thread, I'm listening to The Fifth Season my NK Jemisin. Early outlook is very positive, I'll update as I go.
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I think after this ends I will dive back into The Expanse, not sure which book I am on though.
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Do they just skip those, or go on a five-minute diversion, or somewhere in between?
Also, The Fifth Season is great. I remember stumping for it in regular book thread and getting resounding silence.
Three years, three books, three Hugos. Don't miss out on that series.
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It's done well because I've not found it to be an issue.
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