A Long Golden Buddha
Sep. 29th, 2005 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouA Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
One of my favourite things about Nick Hornby is how easily his words flow through my brain. My other favourite thing about him is the way he gets his characters' voices to be ever so plausible while still amusingly quirky. None of these characters is particularly likeable - all of them can be extremely annoying by times - but I found myself rooting for them anyway.
(197/200)
Golden Buddha, by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo, unabridged audiobook read by J Charles
Ugh. I don't know why I ended up listening to this, but I won't be seeking out any more of Cussler's work. The technical details and the plot were interesting, but the characters were ridiculously wooden and the writing plods. The reader did not help matters with his caricature-style stupid accents and recurring inability to pronounce Asian words correctly - I won't be listening to anything read by him again unless I'm sure he won't be having to stretch like that.
(198/200)
One of my favourite things about Nick Hornby is how easily his words flow through my brain. My other favourite thing about him is the way he gets his characters' voices to be ever so plausible while still amusingly quirky. None of these characters is particularly likeable - all of them can be extremely annoying by times - but I found myself rooting for them anyway.
(197/200)
Golden Buddha, by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo, unabridged audiobook read by J Charles
Ugh. I don't know why I ended up listening to this, but I won't be seeking out any more of Cussler's work. The technical details and the plot were interesting, but the characters were ridiculously wooden and the writing plods. The reader did not help matters with his caricature-style stupid accents and recurring inability to pronounce Asian words correctly - I won't be listening to anything read by him again unless I'm sure he won't be having to stretch like that.
(198/200)
