August Reading
Sep. 2nd, 2011 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddThe next installment in my boring series of posts...
Going to the gym every other day seriously cuts into my reading time -- but it gives me nearly 2 hours every other day to listen to audiobooks.
So I guess it all comes out in the wash.
08/05/2011 Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens of Avalon (audiobook) by Diana L. Paxson
08/13/2011 Girl Crazy (gn) by Gilbert Hernandez
08/14/2011 The House Between the Worlds by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/15/2011 Last Call (audiobook) by Tim Powers
08/16/2011 In the Steps of the Master by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/17/2011 The Bible Repairman (ss) by Tim Powers
A Journey of Only Two Paces (ss) by Tim Powers
08/23/2011 Endless Universe by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/28/2011 Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon (audiobook) by Diana L. Paxson
08/31/2011 Fuzzy Nation (audiobook) by John Scalzi
I'm now finished with the "Avalon" series by MZB & Diana L. Paxson (unless & until Paxson writes another one.) This is a perfect example of the law of diminishing returns: by the last one, I just didn't care any more. Jumping all over the timeline didn't help much, with books set from about 2000 BCE to around 500 CE, it was kind of hard to perceive it as a proper "series." The last one, set around 1000 BCE was particularly unsatisfying. To discover that Excalibur was not only 1500 years old at the time Arthur wielded it was unlikely enough, but to also learn that it was the FIRST iron sword EVER forged. And that the first iron ever smelted was in Avalon. Well, yeah. Kind of takes "small universe syndrome" to ridiculous extremes.
Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation -- the "reboot" of Piper's Little Fuzzy -- was better than I expected. I can't say how much of that was due to the reader; I suspect a lot. Wil Wheaton did a superior reading. Without trying to give every character a distinctive accent, he was able to give each character a CHARACTER. Wheaton could carve out a great little sideline reading for audiobooks.
Currently reading Night's Daughter by MZB, to be followed by The Ruins of Isis. Currently listening to The God Delusion by Dawkins, read by Dawkins and his wafe Lalla "Romana" Ward. It's awesome. Not sure what I'll listen to next.
Going to the gym every other day seriously cuts into my reading time -- but it gives me nearly 2 hours every other day to listen to audiobooks.
So I guess it all comes out in the wash.
08/05/2011 Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens of Avalon (audiobook) by Diana L. Paxson
08/13/2011 Girl Crazy (gn) by Gilbert Hernandez
08/14/2011 The House Between the Worlds by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/15/2011 Last Call (audiobook) by Tim Powers
08/16/2011 In the Steps of the Master by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/17/2011 The Bible Repairman (ss) by Tim Powers
A Journey of Only Two Paces (ss) by Tim Powers
08/23/2011 Endless Universe by Marion Zimmer Bradley
08/28/2011 Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon (audiobook) by Diana L. Paxson
08/31/2011 Fuzzy Nation (audiobook) by John Scalzi
I'm now finished with the "Avalon" series by MZB & Diana L. Paxson (unless & until Paxson writes another one.) This is a perfect example of the law of diminishing returns: by the last one, I just didn't care any more. Jumping all over the timeline didn't help much, with books set from about 2000 BCE to around 500 CE, it was kind of hard to perceive it as a proper "series." The last one, set around 1000 BCE was particularly unsatisfying. To discover that Excalibur was not only 1500 years old at the time Arthur wielded it was unlikely enough, but to also learn that it was the FIRST iron sword EVER forged. And that the first iron ever smelted was in Avalon. Well, yeah. Kind of takes "small universe syndrome" to ridiculous extremes.
Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation -- the "reboot" of Piper's Little Fuzzy -- was better than I expected. I can't say how much of that was due to the reader; I suspect a lot. Wil Wheaton did a superior reading. Without trying to give every character a distinctive accent, he was able to give each character a CHARACTER. Wheaton could carve out a great little sideline reading for audiobooks.
Currently reading Night's Daughter by MZB, to be followed by The Ruins of Isis. Currently listening to The God Delusion by Dawkins, read by Dawkins and his wafe Lalla "Romana" Ward. It's awesome. Not sure what I'll listen to next.
