Seasonal view from the deck

 Friday, April 22, 2005

The latest 'non-audible' book I read is Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (see my previous entry). In the end I was glad I finished this book, I thought the overall story is slow moving, uninteresting, and with characters I didn’t like or cared for. You probably can tell that I’m not a big Gibson fan, I read several of his books (i.e. Idoru, Neuromancer, et.al.), but this one is even worse IMHO. In addition to the story I find his writing stile not very readable, can't he even create a complete sentence? There are paragraph full of half-cooked sentences which makes it even harder to read. Sure, you can claim that the author is trying to create a feeling and mood, but the combination of stile and story is too much to me. I’m glad I’m done with this book – I want to read something entertaining and interesting now, no more Gibson for a LONG time!

 

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 Thursday, April 21, 2005
For the last 6 month I have a job with a daily commute of nearly 2 hours, naturally the car radio is a welcome entertainment possibility as well as CDs. But for the recent past I defaulted to audio books, this helps to keep my current ‘to-be-read’ list a little bit shorter, and is in most cases more entertaining then the same set of CDs or the same radio shows every day. I found that AUDIBLE has a very good selection of books, in addition they have a deal to get 2 books for ~$20 in kind of a subscription service – pretty good deal. Check out their selection on their English site or their German site. They also have very recent content like radio shows, NPR programs, or newspaper articles. Two Thumbs up from me!
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