Reviews of new audio book titles, author interviews, and award winners.
Audio Reviews: 9/28/2009 09/28/2009
This week: Kate Baldwin & Rick Holmes share Jennifer Weiner duties, Joe Barrett reads a Saul Bellow classic, Ron McLarty reads the new Thomas Pynchon, Mark Bramhall reads the Lev Grossman's buzzed-about The Magicians, John Bedford Lloyd voices Hemingway's restored memoir, plus masterful takes on George Dawes, Madeleine Wickham, Edmund L. Andrews, Novella Carpenter and J. Randy Taraborrelli.
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Audio Reviews: 8/31/2009 08/31/2009
Reviewed this week: Harry Dolan, Muriel Barbery, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan, Greg Iles, Clive Cussler, James Rollins, Joe R. Lansdale, Craig Nelson, Tom Atandage, and more.
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Audio Reviews: 7/27/2009 07/27/2009
New recordings of Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, Emily Giffin, Michael Connelly, Elmore Leonard, Glenn Beck, Robert Kiyosaki, Jen Lancaster, Tori Spelling, Suzy Welch, and more.
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Audio Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Fiction from Tatiana De Rosnay, Bret Easton Ellis, Emily Giffin, Lionel Shriver, Harlan Coben, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, David Baldacci and more; nonfiction includes Giulia Melucci, Mike Robbins, Donald Trimp, Daniel Coyle, Bob Barker, Michael J. Fox, and Isabel Gilles.
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Audio Reviews 04/27/2009
Fiction Nobody Move Denis Johnson , read by Will Patton. Macmillan , unabridged, four CDs, TK hrs., $24.95 ISBN 978-1-4272-0689-3 Lowlifes have never had it this good. Will Patton delivers a flawless reading of Johnson's novel of life on the lam. Patton, whose narration of Johnson's Book of Smoke was honored with an Audie Award, lowers his voice to a purring world-weary, chain smoking growl.
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Audio Book Reviews: Week of 3/30/09 03/30/2009
Fiction Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery Henning Mankell , read by Dick Hill. Blackstone , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4332-2582-6 When two dead bodies show up in the Swedish town of Ystad, the aging and disheartened police detective Kurt Wallander begins to investigate the murders as the press attacks his reputation.
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Audio Reviews 03/02/2009
Fiction The Spanish Game Charles Cumming , read by Simon Vance. Tantor Audio , unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1042-1 Drawing upon his experiences working with the British Secret Service, Cumming returns with another spy thriller that is as thrilling as and more fully realized than previous works.
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