Review: UR

UR
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster Audio, February 2010
ISBN 1442303093
Unabridged Audio Book
Read by Holter Graham
An English professor named Wesley gets dumped by his girlfriend and is driven by despair to purchase a Kindle although he has never wanted one.  Strange things start to happen, beginning with the fact that it arrives by express mail although Wesley didn’t [...]

March 15, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  2 Comments

Review: Entombed

Entombed
Linda Fairstein
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005
ISBN 0743538455
Abridged Audio Book
Read by Blair Brown
Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper and her detective partners, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, are involved in the case of the Silk Stocking serial rapist.  At the same time, workers have uncovered a body entombed behind a wall of a brownstone being torn [...]

December 28, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  One Comment

Review: The Lost Symbol

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
Random House Audio
ISBN 0739319175
Unabridged Audio Book
Read by Paul Michael
There have been countless reviews of this book, including synopses, so I’ll confine myself to my reactions rather than spitting out another synopsis.
Is Dan Brown a great writer?  No, but I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (also read by Paul Michael) from the standpoint [...]

December 26, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  2 Comments

Review: One Second After

One Second After
William R. Forstchen
Blackstone Audiobooks, March 2009
ISBN 1433256991
Unabridged Audio Book
Read by Joe Barrett
All is well in the small community of Black Mountain, NC, and retired army colonel John Matherson, now a history professor at the local college, is raising his two daughters alone after the death of his wife several years earlier.   Living in [...]

December 17, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Review: The Last Oracle

The Last Oracle
James Rollins
HarperAudio, June 2009
ISBN 9780061727603
Unabridged Audio CD
Read by Peter Jay Fernandez
I wanted to like this book—I really appreciate Rollins’ work in general—but I’ll have to try again.  I chose the audiobook version and the narrator kept losing me to the point I’d have to rewind way too often.  I was listening to it [...]

November 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Teeny Reviews  No Comments