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chyron8472
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What are you reading?
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23-Jul-2017, 3:01 AM

I also had problems getting through Xenocide back in the day. Xenocide and Children of the Mind are much more… “cerebral” is how Card puts it, than the first two books. Plus, I couldn’t stand Han Qing-jao at all. I think audiobooks help in some respects with books that can be a bit of a slog, in that the narrator continues on at pace and doesn’t stop to make sense of technical or philosophical whatsit.

I did also listen to Jurassic Park on audiobook, and I liked it. However, I think the movie was better in that it seemed to have the right number of action sequences. I think Crichton could have cut both the T-Rex at the waterfall and the Raptors in the lab from the book, and the story would have flowed better for it. I did like Nedry’s death in the book better, though. It was so much more of an aptly gruesome end for his character.

But seriously, I highly recommend the Expeditionary Force series–at least the first book, Columbus Day. Humor hooks me in to a serious storyline, and I cracked up laughing at the main character’s description of that stupid ice cream truck.