By: Trisha, Gayle, and Jolene,
on 4/19/2008
Just a little reminder folks, the Kawaii Kon is this weekend: April 18-20th. For more information go to their website: www.kawaii-kon.org. We’ll be posting some pictures and a recap of this year’s event on the blog sometime next week.
By: Kate Hall,
on 10/8/2007
My husband and I had to drive to Ohio for a funeral a few weeks ago and so I naturally checked out a stack of audiobooks to give us something to listen to (not that an iPod wouldn’t have been just as entertaining). Now I try to pick a range of books that I think we both would be happy listening to. Jon tends to like military and non-fiction which I am not always a fan of. But we both like science fiction, humor, and certain types of non-fiction. So with that in mind, I picked out 6 or 7 books. We listened to some funny David Sedaris, but that only lasted an hour and a half. So Jon thought something by Heinlein would be good. Now I admit that I have only ever read Puppet Masters but I loved it so I figured I would like this one. NOTE:The chance of a person liking or disliking an audiobook is largely dependant on the person reading it. The back of the CD did not even tell us who did the reading. Not a good sign.
But I digress. The book is about young Thorby who starts off as a slave and slowly makes his way from slave to free man to trader to military soldier to being very very rich all by the time he is 20. But it all happens in such an uninteresting way that you do not feel there is any plot. Yet you can’t help but continue because you want to find out if Thorby, who at the beginning of the book has an unknown identity, ever discovers who he is. So Jon and I listened to it. Unfortunately, the discs were longer than the drive and so we arrived back home with 1.5 hours still left to listen to. And we finally did that by taking a drive tonight. I have to say that I don’t really know why we listened to the rest. It was singularly uninteresting and yet there was something there (definitely NOT the narrators nasally annoying voice) that made us trudge onward. But I am happy to say it is done. We’ve already agreed that next time we go on a car trip, it’s David Sedaris straight through.
