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Looks very promising.

A lot of his performance was improvised. The director sort of shrugged and ran with it, and everyone else caught up as they could. :)

I suspect that it’s mostly a matter of cost, with Audible charging much less for Virtual Voice, but I’ll see if I can find out. I think that Mars is very likely to be lifeless, but I prefer to err on the side of caution. I think it very likely that Mara had life in its first billion years or...

I do? I’m going to have to see about some hardship pay.

It’s been a hell of a month between the US in general, problems with Mom’s care, and my health doing some strange things. My reading has been kind of weird by my own standards. Let’s see if I can get anywhere within hailing distance of brevity. For my 100-book challenge: 8. Liminal Spaces...

https://theonion.com/idiom-shortage-leaves-nation-all-sewed-up-in-horse-pies-1819569663/

I’m relieved to know it’s not just me and that reading of Revelation Space.

Feel prolific. That’s a good word.

One of my first Audible books was a reading of The Brothers Karamazov. The reader…you know that wheezy sort of super snooty upper-class British style that Peter Ustinov could do? This was that, only more so. It sounded like the poor guy was being strangled and was genuinely unlistenable. It was...

That’s just what cowardly shunners of taste discussions think, when it’s obviously objectively true that… [Burly men thrust Bruce into a sack and drag him off stage left. His argument continues, increasingly faintly, until there are the sounds of two giant cuttlefish having their day made by an...

Come on. How hard is it to say Throatwarbler Mangrove?

No. It’s this scene.

They definitely do. I should have qualified that to specify readers who say things correctly.

Manhunter has some of the same problem, and yes, so does Ronin, though Heat problem has it worst.

“We weren’t kidding about enshittification.”

Okay okay okay. Everyone who’s been telling me since 1995 that I needed to be reading Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings serieses: please form a line to my right for your chance to tell me “I told you so”, or any other single sentence of related meaning with a maximum of one subordinate...

I’ve only read it, but it’s got a very intense flavor of early Moorcock, which I love.

Mel Borg comes immediately to mind. The Black Sword Hack might fit, too.