Seriously. Like I have time to waste reading books. If I never read another one after I graduate, it'll be too soon.
But "podiobooks", besides being the dumbest word I've had the misfortune of hearing in years, aren't so bad because you can do things while you listen to them. Like sit in front of your computer and draw webcomics. I haven't really gotten into them much, but today I checked out two that aren't bad to listen to.
Cory Doctorow has only posted the first installment of Shadow of the Mothaship so far, but it's interesting and if you've read his stuff before (give Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom a try), very much along the same lines. It's well read, and it introduces his trademark bizarreness gradually so as not to hit you with it all at once. I see he has some of his other stuff up as podcasts, so I'm checking those out now.
J.C. Hutchins's 7th Son is a good listen too. It has a few rough spots (the character voices and some long segments of character interaction I'd just as soon skip), but it's still good enough to keep me listening through the first five chapters already. The goons' antics in the first episode and the general really pissed me off, so he definitely got the emotional reaction he was probably aiming for. I don't think he's going to follow through and brutally slaughter those jackasses, so that might turn out a bit of a letdown. It's pretty good, you should definitely check it out.
Books are for sissies
The Bman - May 1st, 2006 - 7:30 AM
Seriously. Like I have time to waste reading books. If I never read another one after I graduate, it'll be too soon.
But "podiobooks", besides being the dumbest word I've had the misfortune of hearing in years, aren't so bad because you can do things while you listen to them. Like sit in front of your computer and draw webcomics. I haven't really gotten into them much, but today I checked out two that aren't bad to listen to.
Cory Doctorow has only posted the first installment of Shadow of the Mothaship so far, but it's interesting and if you've read his stuff before (give Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom a try), very much along the same lines. It's well read, and it introduces his trademark bizarreness gradually so as not to hit you with it all at once. I see he has some of his other stuff up as podcasts, so I'm checking those out now.
J.C. Hutchins's 7th Son is a good listen too. It has a few rough spots (the character voices and some long segments of character interaction I'd just as soon skip), but it's still good enough to keep me listening through the first five chapters already. The goons' antics in the first episode and the general really pissed me off, so he definitely got the emotional reaction he was probably aiming for. I don't think he's going to follow through and brutally slaughter those jackasses, so that might turn out a bit of a letdown. It's pretty good, you should definitely check it out.
...although I was kind of hoping that a book titled "Descent" would be about some guy blowing up robots in mines on other planets.
Someone please get to work on that one, OK?
Update: A couple more chapters in, and 7th Son is really picking up.