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Tag: lit
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Audiobook review: “Sherlock’s Legacy”
“Sherlock’s Legacy” by Ed. Lange. With a full cast and narrator; music by Will Severin. Unabridged, 1.75 hours, 2 CDs. New York State Theatre Institute Family Classic AudioBooks. $16.95.
The legendary detective is in his retirement and regrets never having married or having fathered a child. But then a young woman arrives, and mysteries soon abound — including a murder.
Though the play begins slowly, the pace soon quickens — perhaps a little too quickly to be plausible. But the fun of the play is spending time with classic characters of Holmes and Watson in this richly imagined production.
The full cast does a wonderful job of conveying the setting of England in 1920; however, the audio quality is uneven. Some performers’ voices are crisp, while others sound as if they are speaking in a hollow box.
Nonetheless, the detailed study guide holds true to the institute’s pedagogical mission.
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On Truth — by Harry Frankfurt
I recently finished reading Harry Frankfurt’s “On Truth” — a followup to a book with an opposite title that couldn’t be published in the newspaper (the euphemism I used then was “hot air.” But that review is available here.
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Audio books review “World War Z”
“World War Z,” by Max Brooks. Read by a full cast. Abridged, 6 hours. Random House Audio. $29.95.
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Audio books review “Between Georgia”
“Between, Georgia,” by Joshilyn Jackson. Read by the author. Unabridged, 9 hours. Hachette Audio. $31.98.
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Richard Ford’s “Lay of the Land”
If you read my review of Ford’s book in Sunday’s Times Union, you know that I started the book with high hopes, and ended in disappointment. That, of course, is just me. Or is it?
Having finished reading the book and writing the review, I allowed myself to read other reviews, and found the disconnect between the NYTimes Michiko Kakutani and A.O. Scott to be quiet interesting.
Kakutani’s review includes these lines:the lethargic third installment of Frank’s story (it follows “The Sportswriter,” published in 1986, and the 1995 sequel “Independence Day”)
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the book tends to substitute a lot of talk about New Jersey property values and realtor strategies for genuine insights about how people live today.
