Category: Audiobook review
The Peripheral
Author William Gibson is probably best known for his early novels, which not only spawned the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, they heavily influenced The Matrix series of films, as well as countless other cultural works. After writing in other genres for awhile, The Peripheral sees Gibson once again plumbing the depths of cyberpunk, although…
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Ready Player One
When the book Ready Player One first came out in 2011, I remember reading lots of favorable reviews for the book. Much was made about how the book seemed to reference every bit of 1980s pop culture and how they were cleverly added into the story. I skipped the book because my to-be-read pile was…
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Rumpole: The Age of Mysteries & other stories
A few years ago, one of my aunts sent my mother a few omnibus volumes of Rumpole stories, who later gave them to me. Each of the omnibus volumes contains multiple short stories from the fictional memoirs of Horace Rumpole, the renowned barrister sometimes referred to as “Rumpole of the Bailey”. Although the stories are…
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Empire of Blue Water
One of the channels I follow on YouTube is The History Guy, and his videos highlight lesser known historic events he feels should be remembered. Sometimes the videos will reference pirates, and he’ll ask, “Because, don’t all good stories involve pirates?” It’s a bit of a catchphrase. After I bought the audiobook for Lindsey Stirling’s…
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The Only Pirate at the Party
A few years ago, I got some money for my birthday and for some reason I bought a violin and an amplifier from Amazon. I never really did anything with it, but I started looking at YouTube for violin stuff and kept reading references to Lindsey Stirling. “She must be a famous violinist or something,”…
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