Tag Archives: audiobook

Tales from the Deadball Era

Posted on May 17, 2023 by smellincoffee

Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History© 2014 Mark S. Halfon, narrated by Michael Butler Murray 240 pages | Audible 8 hrs 4 minutes George Carlin once … Continue reading →

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Of Cicero and base-ball

Posted on May 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week I’ve been finishing up a couple of audiobooks. The first is How to Grow Old, a short one by Cicero written during the early part of his retirement from Rome, before the odious Mark Anthony sent men to … Continue reading →

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Dead Acre

Posted on April 30, 2023 by smellincoffee

Dead Acre© 2020 Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime CastleRead by Roger Clark. 3 hours and change If you read Cold as Hell, you were introduced to Crowley, a gunman of the old west who died trying to protect a young … Continue reading →

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Tuesday memes: narrators and fun-sized Messiahs

Posted on April 25, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is favorite audio book narrators, which is a bit of problem because I haven’t listened to that many. Listening to a book takes a lot more time than reading it, so I tend to only listen … Continue reading →

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The Glory of their Times

Posted on April 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

The Glory of their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It© 1966 Paul Ritter300 pages C.S. Lewis remarked that he enjoyed nothing more than the sound of men laughing. Listeners will … Continue reading →

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Cold as Hell

Posted on February 3, 2023 by smellincoffee

Cold as Hell: A Black Badge Novel© 2022 Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime CastleAudible narration provided by Arthur Morgan Roger Clark419 pages | Audible edition ~13 hours James Crowley was a notorious outlaw and gunman, riding with a band of bank-robbers … Continue reading →

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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom

Posted on July 5, 2019 by smellincoffee

Prepare to  Meet Thy Doom: And Other True Gaming Stories © 2015 David Kushner  ~ 5 hours, read by Wil Wheaton Masters of Doom enthralled me, covering the genesis of modern  PC gaming through its history of id software.   Prepare … Continue reading →

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Locked In (and Unlocked)

Posted on March 12, 2019 by smellincoffee

Lock In and Unlocked, a bonus novella pub. 2014 John Sclazi 336 pages Read by Wil Wheaton It looks, from the outside, like a simple case. There’s a body with a knife in it, recently planted. There’s a man in … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Thing

Posted on December 12, 2018 by smellincoffee

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness pub. 2006 Steven Levy 304 pages I’ve never had an iPod, but given that Audible was doing a sale this week and that I seemed to be doing an … Continue reading →

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Ready Player One

Posted on June 6, 2018 by smellincoffee

Ready Player One © 2011 Ernest Cline 354 pages Audible presentation read by Wil Wheaton, runtime 15 hr 46 min Who knew that School House Rock could save the world?  When an eccentric genius dies and leaves a will laden … Continue reading →

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