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I love books! For a couple of years I didnt read anything. My vision deteriorated and printed books quickly became impossible for me to read. Extremely depressing, as my all time favourite waste of time is a good story.
Well now, I’m lucky. There’s Audiobooks, and anyone that hasnt tried them yet, sighted or blind. you should!!
Imagine great stories read TO you. you can close your eyes, sit back and just listen. or continue doing what needs to be done. dishes, cleaning, laundry. work that doesnt require too much brain power or concentration. Isnt that wonderful? Changing to audiobooks has caused quite a change in WHAT I read. I am still a Science fiction / Horror / Fantasy junkie but now I read many more genres and i enjoy it probably more than I should! I’ve also come across the odd book that surprised me, I thought those titles seemed horribly boring and I never gave them a thought. I was wrong.
For instance:
“Dantes inferno”. Ah, a classic. many will wonder where I’ve been all my litterary life, and I may have totally misunderstood it’s qualities. but IMO, as an audiobook with John Cleese as Narrator it was a hilarious experience, Very funny although so extremely horrible and full of misery. Not something i’d recommend for a kid or anyone closeminded or impatient. but hey. I enjoyed it, perhaps thanks to John Cleese.

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Recent reads!

This is some of what I've listened to during fall of 2008 and so far this year. A few stand out in my mind but I also ran across a few true bottom feeders. I will not mention those here as I have no interest in pushing negative opinions on anyone. Truth is though that I rarely start a book that I do not finish. A story may be terrible but there is that deep rooted curiosity that makes me stick to it. I do want to know how, when, why and of course, how it ends.

Dean R Koontz.

"Relentless"
Not bad! Not terribly great either. Narration was in my opinion a bit lame and that might be why this book didn't appeal to me that much. I'm no book critic but it seems to me that Mr Koontz had an idea that wanted out but very little of the magic that usually makes his writing shine happened in this book. The story itself never came through as it could have, not enough story, not enough background, too many loose ends and too many loosely tied logical knots. I apologize for bad syntax... haha... I'm not putting it down, just saying this book can't compare with other recent stories by this author. A little bit of a disappointment to me but hey, a Koontz book is always a pleasant experience and since this is one of my favorite authors I'm being more critical than I would bother being with most other writers. I will still wait with anticipation for any new books by Koontz.

Charlaine Harris.

Sookie Stackhouse Series narrated by Johanna Parker. Great books with wonderful humour, interesting violence and great sex. (Rearrange those adjectives in any which way, it's still right.)

David Baldacci

Baldacci is new to me. So far I've read First family didn't hit me over the head or put me into extacy but it was none the less a good book. Good enough for me to hunt down another Baldacci title. The next one in the list I simply loved. I highly recommend Wish you well. Marvellous, terrible, lovely.... Just beautiful!

Justina Robson, Quantum gravity.

Three books: I'm currently wondering if there will be more in this series. Hoping.
"Demons, elves, fairies, killer robots...what kind of madness is this?"
Found at JustinaRobson.com. I could not have said it better myself. I think I've found a new favorite author. SciFi, horror, passion and magic in a perfect mix that only a woman could have written.
Highly Recommended!

The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century

A colection of truly great short stories. I am not a big fan of short stories but this collection has a few true gems and it is worth hunting down. I wil specially mention these two. One had me laughing outloud and it still makes me shuckle. The second one is truly disturbing. So much so that I almost wish I hadn't listened to it... almost! Those are only two examples and this collection is a must have IMHO.

Neil Gaiman

This was one of the bigger surprises for me this past fall. Gaiman has a sweet style, in particular when he narrates his own books, that can suddenly twist and turn and shock the heck out of you. I was instantly a fan after reading "Stardust" (Yes, the movie although as far as I've heard, the movie is just a bit too lame in places where it shouldn't be and too hectic where it really shouldn't be.) I have no opinion. I can't say that this was my favourite Gaiman book but I am comparing it with awesome reads like the books below so I don't think I can be fair. I am currently sitting on a couple of Gaiman audible titles and I am truly itching to load them on the Zen-Stone.

Stephanie Meyer

A bit odd to begin with this one. It took me a little bit to get into what was actually happening but once I did, I found this great story and I couldn't put it away until it was finished. Please refrain from watching the movie unless you have already. I admit I can't voice any opinions about the movie but it seems to me that one movie of an hour and a half just cannot cut it. The four books are: I'm not sure if they plan to make all of these books into film. If they don't, that would be a shame but if they do, I'm afraid that fans will experience that horrible wait for the next one... and then wait... and wait.. Perhaps it would be worth the wait, I truly couldn't possibly know. All I'm sure of is that Those books were the absolute best book experience for me in quite a while. I got them all in one go and I read them all in one go! Simply great stuff!

Terry Goodkind

"The Sword of truth"
I must mention this series just because I loved it! The books are, in order, as follows:

All time favourites

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child "Terminal Freeze" Narrated by Scott Brick. Excellent!
Yes, I know that these authors are their own and writing their own stuff but I totally fell for what they did together in creating Agent Pendergast. I can't even start to describe why I couldn't stop reading those books. I don't have all titles in memory at the moment so I won't give you more than a hint. They start out with these two: . Currently downloading Cemetery Dance from audible... Will review next time.

Stephen King

Complete list of Stephen King books
I have to mention the most awesome series. "The dark tower" The fourth book, "Wizard and glass" was actually the absolutely last printed book I ever read. At that time I knew it was the last and I wasn't sure I could finish it at all but I did despite headaches and eyes burning. I've listened to it twice now and I just might bury myself in these books again. The books in the series are: Other King novels that I especially love in no specific order:

Dean R Koontz

Official Site"
One of my favourite authors.
I especially recommend:

Philip Pullman

I have listened to "His dark materials" twice and I might actually listen to them again. That is something I rarely do and they have to be quite exceptional to hook me in that way. The three books are: Yes, one of these has become a movie. I have listened to the movie and as far as I can tell, it's not worth the dvd rental or the theater ticket. These audiobooks are a full cast narration and totally superior to the half ass acting in the movie. Just my opinion as far as I can have one. And besides that, will there be films out of the other two books? If not, the effort was a total waste of time and money.

Tad Williams

Just check him out!

Harry Potter

Yes, I am a Potter fan. I finished listening to the final book in the series "The deathly hallows" not too long ago and I'm not disappointed. These are great books and I don't think that the movies, made and upcoming, can compare to the books. Sure, I'm only saying that because I can't see the movies right? That's not totally correct. I did get to see the first movie and even if I did enjoy it as such there is no comparison.

Terry Pratchett

Master of hilarious imagination bordering on the absurd. I recommend only one book here as there's too much to think about right now. Other than the Discworld series of which "Mort" is a favourite I especially love: What can I say? Extremely funny, imaginative and in a way a relaxing book to read. The carpet people are just that.. people living in the carpet, there's demons in the floor, monsters in the underlay. There's the table leg mines and naturally there's Fray that comes from above creating hell and havoc and a conflict between good and bad. What more do you need?

Douglas Adams

This is an old favourite. the imagination here is out of this world!Yes, it is SF, kind of, but at the same time its simply an experience in mind-blowing weirdness and horribly insane undeniable logic. Reading them again.. . Please people, don't judge these books by that new movie. You can't watch that movie and expect to understand anything unless you've read these books. Just trust me, don't do it!

Other favourite authors in unordered list

The book I lost

I read this SciFi book once. For some reason it stayed with me, made some kind of impression that I can't explain. I don't remember much about it but this is what I remember: Two enormous buildings. Placed on rails. These buildings, more like cities, needed to move constantly to avoid a horrible threat moving in from behind. The rails were of limited length and portions had to be removed from the back end of the rail and moved to the front to enable the very slow movements forward in a hostile and totally unknown world. That's about all I remember from this book. I have no idea of title, author or any names of characters. I must have read it in print and it was most likely a library book so it cannot be newer than ten years. Ring a bell? let me know if you have any idea will you?
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