John Milton - "Paradise Lost" (audiobook)

 An abridged audiobook with various actors.

transcriber (woman) - "your muse is nothing if not busy"
John Milton (Patrick Stewart) - "The call is urgent. Our world falls in upon itself. These words I take as gifts from her can shape to what we've lost. There is so much to explain."

Louis Theroux - "Gotta get theroux this"

 Listened to this. Was enjoyable. For sure must have missed bits because I used it during bouts of insomnia, but overall honestly enjoyable.

Malcolm Gladwell - "Talking to Strangers" (as audiobook)

Interesting enough about spies and, unfortunately, inbred racism. Levine - "Duped" - we trust people by default. Only when there are triggers, we start to doubt. Supposedly, we need "enough" triggers or red flags to not believe someone. Saying in hindsight "how did you not pick up on that [red flag]?" is the wrong question. The question is: how many red flags were there?



Finished.  Enjoyable listen, but he often seems to love his own theory too much. There are lots of interesting issues and stories here, but he loves the simplicity of people "just not" knowing how to talk to strangers. Ignoring inbred racism, lust, evil.

Carrie Fisher - "The Princess Diaries"

While somewhat entertaining, it's a very superficial account of her work on the first Star Wars films and her affair with Harrison Ford. The writing style is light hearted, but it becomes a bit of a trick after a while. Listening to her is okay, but too often exclamations out of surprise! wonder! fear! uncertainty!! Very American?

Frank Delaney - Re-joyce

• yellow is the colour of memory

H.G. Wells - "A Dream of Armageddon"

Gripping tale, written in 1901 (!) of the horrors of wars to come, of a man dreaming of love and dying in that dream with the woman he loved.

Read amazingly well.

Harlan Ellison - "The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart of the World" (The Deathbird & Other Stories)

Amazing story - read by the author himself - of the essence of madness and humanity. Scifi, strange, and told in an incredible way.

Also found "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream", the story about 5 people trapped in a computer ("AM") that killed all humankind and slowly drives them mad because it cannot accept that it cannot feel, touch, make love...

Paul Auster - "Man In The Dark" (read by Paul Auster)

Gripping from the very beginning, skipping back and forth in time- and storylines, this was a success from the very first second.

I must admit that after the tale of the "man with no memory", who ahd to kill the writer in order to stop the war (great idea) I gradually lost a bit of interest. Whether this was due to the story being less interesting, or the difficulty of listening for 6 or 7 hours, I cannot tell.

But definitely worth while. Should read the book, couple of years from now.

Heather Graham - "The Island" (read by Joyce Bean)

Only heard about 15 minutes.

Didn't like the sentences (too much repetition, too obvious, too cliche), didn't like the reading too much.

Why continue with all 8 discs?