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getting old in mke

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5. _Star Guard_ by Andre Norton

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 10:03 AM

Jun 2013

50s space opera and a reminder of grade school/junior high reading.

Listening: _A Storm of Swords_ by George RR Martin. On and on and on the audiobooks go. But I'm finding listening to them a bit like audio crack: His technique of using POV chapters translates really well--there are a gazillion charcaters, but within a single POV, only a limited number, which is good. The reader, Roy Dotrice, sounds like a creaky old story teller with limited voicing for characters, but doesn't need that many at a given time. I like the "creaky old story teller" choice for these books.

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