Friday, March 30, 2007
LARRY’S PARTY by Carol Shields, read by R.H. Thomson
This award-winning book chronicles the adult life of the gentle, melancholy Larry, from his first honeymoon to the first party he ever hosted. Thomson's seemingly simple conversational reading is empathetic, engaging, masterfully understated, and, while never theatrical or flashy, intricate in the virtuosity of his technique.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
L.A. REX by Will Beall, read by Dan Oreskes
It would be easy to believe that the world Will Beall depicts in L.A. REX is merely paranoid fiction, except that Beall is a Los Angeles police officer who knows what he's talking about. Narrator Dan Oreskes's voice is hard, matching the novel’s gunmetal tone.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
INFIDEL by Roger Gregg, performed by a Full Cast
In this serialized radio play about a young nobleman in the Fifth Crusade, the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre troupe shows their potential for becoming a significant force in serious audio drama. The soundscape is complex and sweeping, the writing lyrical, the performances uniformly fine.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
HUBRIS by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, read by Stefan Rudnicki
The authors, both investigative journalists, have condensed political information about the war in Irag into a readable capsule. Stefan Rudnicki’s deep voice and unhurried pace allows listeners to concentrate on the audiobook’s content. An ideal combination of well-written research and a skilled narrator.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
FIRST CUT by Dianne Emley, read by Lorna Raver
Delightful dark humor and plot twists entwine with the tedium of routine police work as Pasadena Detective Nan Vining and her precocious teenaged daughter, Emily, get involved with a sadistic psychopath. Lorna Raver’s no-nonsense reading brings both drama and credibility to this frightening story.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
A DEAD MAN IN ISTANBUL by Michael Pearce, read by Bill Wallis
When a British diplomat is shot dead after finishing a mysterious swim near Istanbul, the Foreign Service sends out an investigator who becomes our guide through events taking place in the pre-WWI Ottoman Empire. Bill Wallis is a master of dialogue—undercurrents, emotions, and characters are crystalline.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
DARK ANGELS by Karleen Koen, read by Rosalyn Landor
Young Alice Vernay is an ambitious maid of honor in this seventeenth-century historical romance that offers intrigue, murder, power-mad politicos, bloody battlefields, bedroom assignations, sexual deviance, and royal scandals. Rosalyn Landor is not daunted by the book's enormous cast and gives a bravura performance.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
WILD ANGEL by Pat Murphy, read by Bernadette Dunne
Nature and fate protect three-year-old Sarah McKensie after witnessing her parents' murder in Gold-Rush era California and equip her with extraordinary survival methods. Narrator Dunne provides lightning-fast transitions from person to person and scene to scene.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
EVERY MOTHER IS A DAUGHTER by Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass, read by Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie
Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie capture the rapport, love, frustrations, and gentle teasing between mother and daughter as they read this memoir by Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass. They share their very different perspectives on each other, housework, child-rearing, and money, even as they travel the world.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
FRAGILE THINGS by Neil Gaiman, read by the author
Gaiman’s performance aptitude matches his writing ability, as each tale in this collection of short stories resonates with subtlety and insight. Every character, no matter how brief his or her appearance, receives impeccable attention vocally and textually. And every word of narrative shines.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, read by Alan Sklar
Wright's account of the events leading up to 9/11 is an essential history of terrorism. His research is astonishingly thorough, and clearly presented. A narrator doesn’t just tell a story; he keeps the listener company. Alan Sklar is good company.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy, read by Neville Jason
Neville Jason's mature rendering of Tolstoy's massive classic gives a fresh and consistently insightful interpretation of the action, atmospheres, and numberless characters. An accompanying booklet, intended to help the listener keep characters and events straight, is unnecessary, thanks to Jason's skill.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
THE TAO OF WILLIE by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, read by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, and Tom Stechschulte
From down-and-out Kirby vacuum salesman to country music superstar, Willie Nelson is here to tell you he’s lived a full life. Turk Pipkin does most of the narration of Nelson’s memoir, with some comments from the star himself. The lucky listener benefits from Willie’s life experiences while having a darned good time.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY by Alan Hollinghurst, read by Samuel West
Sam West's reading of this 1988 novel is delicate, artful, and beautifully modulated. The lives of a young playboy and an elderly gentleman become entwined in gay, pre-AIDS London. The subject matter is not for everyone and would be seriously unsuitable for some audiences.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
STATE OF DENIAL: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward, read by Boyd Gaines
Woodward’s searing tale of hubris and ineptitude is deftly and nimbly translated to audiobook. Boyd Gaines reads with assuredness at a perfect pace. Gaines further aids the production by seamlessly and consistently switching voices when quoting conversations between the main actors. Abridgment is careful, and context is well preserved.
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Friday, March 09, 2007
MOSTLY HARMLESS and SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH by Douglas Adams, read by Martin Freeman
Cosmic ridicule abounds in these two novels that sprang from the BBC Radio serial, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. We're treated to Freeman's chameleonic voice and ear for dialect for these extensions to Adams's wildly popular story. A tour de force for both writer and reader.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
THE LOOKING GLASS WARS by Frank Beddor, read by Gerard Doyle
Frank Beddor's imaginative tale is definitely not your grandmother's ALICE. Herein, Wonderland is an alternate universe, the source of all creativity in our world. Outstanding as always, Gerard Doyle mirrors Alyss’s fury at the Reverend Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) when he turns her life into a silly children’s story. All ages will enjoy this first in what promises to be a wild and wondrous trilogy.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID by Bill Bryson, read by the author
Bill Bryson, a master of understated humor, marvelously narrates his recollections of growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, in the 1950s. He punctuates his account by acknowledging such less happy aspects of the era as the Civil Rights Movement, as well as fear of Communism, the A-bomb, and polio. But, on balance, his story is good-natured and often laugh-out-loud funny.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
IMPERIUM by Robert Harris, read by Oliver Ford Davies
Harris's novel chronicles Cicero's rise to power amid the slaves and superstars of Ancient Rome. Oliver Ford Davies is unsurpassable in making all the historical events and players as accessible as today's headlines. Davies’s pacing, phrasing, and emotionally peaked presentation make this the best historical listening experience of the year.
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Monday, March 05, 2007
GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC by Bill Messenger, read by Bill Messenger
In these 16 lectures on the history of the American musical, Bill Messenger blends a scholar’s knowledge with a performer’s understanding of the music—and a fan’s love of the genre. His quiet, confident voice sounds like he’s discussing the shows after you’ve both watched a good performance.
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
THE AENEID by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles, read by Simon Callow
The ancient epics were the first audiobooks, and this outstanding production of Fagles's new verse translation brings into clear, robust contemporary English a style of storytelling unfamiliar to most readers today. As fresh as today's wars in its storytelling, this modern evocation of the classical style is one of this year's audiobook events.
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