Duck Rodgers
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Yeah, his big marker dates that he centers everything around are 2025 and 2045.
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Yeah, his big marker dates that he centers everything around are 2025 and 2045.
Duck Rodgers
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You want to read periodicals for the rest of your life or something? Seems like most decent sized city public libraries should suffice for post college reading, no?
There are certainly characters I like more than others but a couple of those female characters really go out swinging at the end. Several of the heroes get killed.
fallenchicken
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I used Audible for a while and it was worth it--because I was able to built up a collection pretty quickly and cheaply, and then cancel my subscription. Now I have a bunch of long books on audio I can listen to when I'm cleaning or something.
For 15 dollars I think you get one or two credits a month (plus a free credit for a free trial--you could sign up and get a free audio book, I think (and when you quit they give you a free audio book, too). You can use this credit on almost any book, no matter the size/quality of the production. So I used one month's credit on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest--a massive novel over 600,000 words. That was the best audio performance I've ever heard. Kudos to the narrator, he made a notoriously hard book a blast to listen to. But anyways, that audiobook would have cost me like over 30 dollars for the whole thing, because it was 8 tapes (or eight files, I always think of audiobooks as tapes).
So if you subscribe for a month and use it to get War and Peace or something, it's a good deal.
Another way you can get an audiobook cheaply is if you have a kindle. I bought A Prayer for Owen Meany for my kindle for 2.99 (it was a special). And then, I saw to my amazement, that the audiobook version was only 2.99 also, because I had bought the kindle version. If you buy the kindle version first they mark the audiobook way down. How could I say no. (this was obviously sort of a purposeful undersell by Amazon to get me to buy kindle books and audio books from their services so they can destroy all real business and own the publishing business and then the world. I remember buying Dance with Dragons the day it came out on Amazon; they were selling it, a brand new hardcover, for like 12 dollars. Probably at a loss. But it's not even a rounding error for them. They were just trying to screw everyone else.)
tl;dr: there are a lot of ways to get cheaper/free audiobooks from audible if you look around. If you have an audiobook you really want just sign up for a free trial download the free book and then cancel before they start the subscription. A lot of the audibooks have great quality and narrator. Claire Danes narrates A Handmaid's Tale for instance, and it's really dope. Love you Claire.
Call me Claire.
For 15 dollars I think you get one or two credits a month (plus a free credit for a free trial--you could sign up and get a free audio book, I think (and when you quit they give you a free audio book, too). You can use this credit on almost any book, no matter the size/quality of the production. So I used one month's credit on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest--a massive novel over 600,000 words. That was the best audio performance I've ever heard. Kudos to the narrator, he made a notoriously hard book a blast to listen to. But anyways, that audiobook would have cost me like over 30 dollars for the whole thing, because it was 8 tapes (or eight files, I always think of audiobooks as tapes).
So if you subscribe for a month and use it to get War and Peace or something, it's a good deal.
Another way you can get an audiobook cheaply is if you have a kindle. I bought A Prayer for Owen Meany for my kindle for 2.99 (it was a special). And then, I saw to my amazement, that the audiobook version was only 2.99 also, because I had bought the kindle version. If you buy the kindle version first they mark the audiobook way down. How could I say no. (this was obviously sort of a purposeful undersell by Amazon to get me to buy kindle books and audio books from their services so they can destroy all real business and own the publishing business and then the world. I remember buying Dance with Dragons the day it came out on Amazon; they were selling it, a brand new hardcover, for like 12 dollars. Probably at a loss. But it's not even a rounding error for them. They were just trying to screw everyone else.)
tl;dr: there are a lot of ways to get cheaper/free audiobooks from audible if you look around. If you have an audiobook you really want just sign up for a free trial download the free book and then cancel before they start the subscription. A lot of the audibooks have great quality and narrator. Claire Danes narrates A Handmaid's Tale for instance, and it's really dope. Love you Claire.
Call me Claire.
Incorrect. Download bittorrent and visit thepiratebay; never have to worry about books again. (to be fair, the only reason I'm torrenting them is because I got tired of waiting weeks and weeks for books at the Library, and then not finishing them before they were due, getting fines, etc. I only DL the books that I can get at the library. I can justify the **** out of this.)
The way Fish feels about Wheel of Time is how I feel about TSOT. Rahl was a certified bad *** for like 3.5 books, and then... it just got really boring, long winded, and repetitive. I did enjoy the Mord Sith though. Delicious.
And whoever said that Guidell in the Dark Tower was the best narrator ever obviously didn't listen to Frank Muller do the first three or four books of the series (before he turned himself into a vegetable on a motorbike). THAT guy could narrate.
Lets get something straight about this... Mueller did great. Much better than guidell over all. But with the first book, limited characters, the gritty voice of guidell's was just perfect for that book.
That just happened.
I can see that. However, he absolutely mutilated Susannah and don't even get me started with Eddy Dean. He is the PERFECT Callahan though.
Yeah he did. Almost as bad as king did putting himself in the last book
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Last two books I believe...... and I was super annoyed by it at first but in the end, I just love the dark tower too much to hold a grudge.
I think have read all 7 of the main dark tower books like 4 or 5 times each. (Only read wind through the keyhole once)
Oh and since we are talkin dark tower I just want to give a shout out to The Tick Tock Man..... loved that dude
Yeah, they would. Where I'm @ currently is in Iowa tho, w/ a population of about 12,000 people. So the university in town has a library about thirty times larger than the public one.
Guidell did 1-7. King may have done a few, but the only one I've heard him narrate (in the DT series) is Wind Through The Keyhole (which I turned off after five minutes -- man, that guy is a horrid narrator). WTTK was bad *** though, and Andrew Quick was indeed a bad ***. He's the guy that got me hooked on di-polar computers, tbpfhwy.
Was reading 'Under the Dome' @ work and then moved w/out my own copy. Now waiting for a copy to be ordered and sent to the nearest library. Anticipation is killing me, can't wait to see how the book turns out. This is only second Stephen King book I've read with the only other being 'Misery,' which was okay. The librarian really recommended 'The Stand', so I'll probably hit that up next.
Anybody read the 'Under the Dome'? It's gotta little bit of a Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm feel, but it's got King's fondness for the gruesome. It's a lot like a soap opera because there are so many stories happening simultaneously, but it has much more depth than a soap opera obviously.
I'm about 600 pages in, so please don't ruin the end for me.
Also started reading 'Invisible Man' last night. Good so far.
Anybody read the 'Under the Dome'? It's gotta little bit of a Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm feel, but it's got King's fondness for the gruesome. It's a lot like a soap opera because there are so many stories happening simultaneously, but it has much more depth than a soap opera obviously.
I'm about 600 pages in, so please don't ruin the end for me.
Also started reading 'Invisible Man' last night. Good so far.