Fandango’s Provocative Question #204 How do you feel about book publishers altering the language in classic books to “sanitize” them by eliminating or changing words, phrases, and sentiments that some readers might find upsetting? Is it wrong to rewrite the words… Read More ›
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood By: Mark TwainNarrated by: Elijah WoodSeries: Twain’s Tom and Huck, Book 2Length: 10 hrs and 10 minsUnabridged AudiobookRelease date: 11-09-10Language: EnglishPublisher: Audible Studios I was looking for something to read that I hadn’t read… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #191 With all of the possible distractions, do you read books as much now as you used to ten, twenty, or thirty years ago? Why or why not? Back when I was working and commuting insane distances from… Read More ›
CITY (1952), CLIFFORD SIMAK City is a 1952 science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak. The book is episodic with eight or nine (depending on which version you read) short stories that have “bridges” between episodes. Version of the book… Read More ›
The Law: A Dresden Files Novella (Dresden Files, Book 17.5) This is a long novella at 3 hours 22 minutes. I slow the reading down by 10% anyway, which made it as long as many books now called “full” books…. Read More ›
Yay! I’m such a fan of this guy’s writing. This is a “half a book” of listening, but I want it. This one also is coming out first on Audible.com — and here’s the trailer. Why isn’t this at the… Read More ›
5 Things We Don’t Buy Anymore We are on a fixed income, but the world is on a fast track to insane inflation, so these days there are many things we don’t buy. Dog food. I make my own from… Read More ›
Reading Culture and Books I want to start this off by saying almost everything I know that’s important to me I learned by reading. Yes, I went to school. I went to college. I got a degree. I took courses… Read More ›
Audiobook – Narrated by Mel Brooks Garry and I have been listening to this wonderful audiobook. Mel Brooks is one of those people who seems to love everyone and never has a bad word to say about anyone. I don’t… Read More ›
An Informal Survey of Writers About Reading Since I’m almost always reading something, I figured I’d drop an oar into these waters. I am a writer, serious amateur photographer and once upon a time I wrote books about how to use… Read More ›
If reading were illegal, I’d have spent my life in prison. The most frightening book I ever read was Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I couldn’t imagine anything more terrifying than a life with no books. As a kid, I literally read… Read More ›
It’s almost embarrassing. I bought this book more nine years ago with every intention of reading it. It’s a very long book. Modern American history is not my favorite subject, but I feel compelled to read it anyway. At 1102… Read More ›
“Becoming,” by Michelle Obama and “A Promised Land,” by Barack Obama were on the best-seller list for quite a while. I’ve gotten a bit tired of political books, but I was running out of new books. I’d read all the… Read More ›
5 Things that you miss about your daily commute. I contemplated leaving this page blank because there is nothing I miss about commuting. I did tens of thousands of miles of long distance commuting. Audiobooks were an outgrowth of the… Read More ›
I had that kind of day. My old HDX 10 inch Kindle finally refused to work with any of the newer stuff they were sending down from Audible — AND my Blue-Tooth speaker started beeping when it was fully charged…. Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #84 I’ve got a four answers here and really, there should be more. I’ve put them in order of their dates of release. The Haunting is a 1963 British horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise and… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 