On What Are The Best Audiobooks For A Road Trip?
The entire Bloody Jack series, written by L.A. Myer (Meyer?) and narrated by Katherine Kellgren. They're fun, adventure books, about an orphan girl in the early 19th century who cuts her hair, dresses up like a boy to join the British navy. Oh, they're such wonderful books and Katherine Kellgren, the narrator, is a genius. Cannot recommend these audiobooks highly enough.
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On 'The Hunger Games': Bloodless, Sexless and Not Very Hungry
I liked the movie pretty well, but OMG I LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE COMMENTARIES! Natasha and Mary, please keep doing them forever. Maybe next for the K. Stew Snow White movie?
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On 'The Thorn Birds': When Young, Sexy, Straight Priests Roamed The Earth
@Limaceous Word to the Ceasar hero worship. Gorgeous, charismatic, and 9.5x more brilliant than anyone else in the world, ever. And totally hairless except for the hair on his head! He had to have faults, right? He did get murdered after all. . . The last full book in the Rome series was the one that ended after his death, I couldn't get through the next and didn't even try for the one after that. I think she lost too much stream once her crush was killed off.
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On 'The Thorn Birds': When Young, Sexy, Straight Priests Roamed The Earth
@turingcub Couldn't Ayla cure STDs? She could do everything else, why not a cure for the clap?
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On 'The Thorn Birds': When Young, Sexy, Straight Priests Roamed The Earth
@Don't Panic I think her name is Meghann? Because mine is Meghan (only 1 n), and I suspect i was named after her.
Also: Colleen McCullough's ancient Rome novels are equally awesome, although mostly lacking in smut. They are why I know an awful lot about ~150-35 BC.
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On 'Clan Of The Cave Bear': Neanderthal Fan Fic
@PennyBloom I started the CotCB series years and years ago, and totally agree that 1-3 are fun. 4 (Plains of Passage), kind of crazy and too long, 5 (Shelters of Stone) is awful, and 6 (Land of Painted Caves) is so terribly terribly awful that it makes me revise my opinion of the whole series and Auel as a writer of glorious trash.
And - Outlander!!!! I cannot believe I never read these until now. I'm through the beginning of Dragonfly in Amber now and I <3 it with the heat of a thousand suns!
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On 'The Secret Circle': Teen Witches In ZOMG Love
@tigolbitties IT IS TERRIBLE!!!! I loved the first few books, got kind of bored with the Shelters of Stone, but I downloaded the Audible version of the Land of Painted Caves anyway b/c I wanted to read about Ayla fulfilling her destiny - which is what the series had been leading to, right? WRONG! Totally agree with Auntie Maim, only I would add that in addition to the 20% pointless recap, 30% reused plot points and 50% booooooring cave art, there is another 20% ridiculous drama and characters behaving contrary to how they have been written in the ~20,000 pages up to now. Yes, that makes for 120% of a book, but given its eleventy-billion pages, or, ~35 hours in audio form, I'd say that's about accurate.
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
@jolie I love that scene with Melanie, and she was definitely stronger than Scarlett ever gave her credit for. But if running the plantation had been left to her instead of to Scarlett, they would have lost Tara to taxes and they all would have starved. Only Scarlett's single-minded ruthlessness saved them.