Tag: audiobooks
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Audiobook Review: In “Up Against the Wall,” David Hasselhoff Saves the Free World
David Hasselhoff wrote and narrates a new alternate history that inflates his role in the end of the Cold War beyond, even, the strange reality of it.
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Audiobook Review: “Queen’s Shadow” Explores Amidala in the Age of AOC
E.K. Johnston’s YA novel explores Padmé Amidala’s transition from queen to senator. Audiobook narrator Catherine Taber voiced Padmé on “Clone Wars.”
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Audiobook Review: Star Wars YA Title Asks Millennium Falcon Smugglers to Pay a “Pirate’s Price”
“Star Wars: Pirate’s Price” is the second book in the Flight of the Falcon series for young readers. Author Lou Anders imagines elaborate environments.
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Christmas Audiobook Review: The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott
If you only know the Christmas-play scene from “Little Women,” you only know one dimension of Louisa May Alcott’s several Christmas stories.
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Christmas Audiobook Review: Gregory Maguire’s “Hiddensee”
In most productions of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, godfather Drosselmeyer gives off a creepy vibe. Gregory Maguire’s “Hiddensee” explores his backstory.
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Christmas Audiobook Review: “A Classic Tales Christmas”
Are you a big Christmas fan? Are you ready to get a little weird? “A Classic Tales Christmas,” a 2012 audiobook exclusive, might just be for you.
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Thanksgiving Audiobook Review: Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower”
About the book: Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2006 history chronicles the Pilgrims’ journey from its genesis in turn-of-the-17th-century Britain through their 1620 arrival at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts; concluding in 1678 with the end of King Philip’s War, a devastating conflict between European settlers and Native Americans. The colony that only survived its first year because of…
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Halloween Audiobook Review: “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
About the book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella is deliciously spooky. Despite its concise length, it takes its time getting to the horror at its core. We first meet Utterson, the redoubtable attorney who trusts the best in human nature and simply cannot believe that his good friend Jekyll has been caught up with the atrocious Hyde.…
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Halloween Audiobook Review: “Shock Value” and “Paperbacks From Hell”
About the books: Jason Zinoman cites Roger Ebert’s non-review of Night of the Living Dead as a telling inflection point in the history of horror film. He was taken aback at the shocked reactions of audience members, especially kids, who went expecting the tame thrills that had become standard by 1969. The change didn’t necessarily seem like…
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Halloween Audiobook Review: “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus”
About the book: Turning 200 this year, Mary Shelly’s classic is foundational to speculative fiction. Guillermo del Toro worships all things Frankenstein, and no wonder: it’s the quintessential sympathetic-monster trope. That said, the monster you’ll meet in these pages (or several hours of narration) is not the one that pop culture might have led you to expect.…
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Review: “Solo” Audiobooks Bring an (Overly) Expanded Star Wars Story Into Your Earbuds
The idea that a novelization represents an “expanded edition” of a movie is not news to anyone who met Camie and Fixer in the original Star Wars novel, or who first read the name “Palpatine” in James Kahn’s 1983 Return of the Jedi novelization. Lucasfilm is now capitalizing on the idea, though: instead of releasing the books…
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Audiobook Review: Rosamund Pike’s “Sense and Sensibility” is Cool as a Cucumber
Between Jane Austen’s two best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice is having a moment while Sense and Sensibility is taking a breather. Lizzy Bennet, demanding R-E-S-P-E-C-T from D-A-R-C-Y, is a more immediately sympathetic heroine for the 21st century than Elinor Dashwood, patient and persevering in the face of repeated slights. The Bennet business is also more involving than the…