Happy New Year

It's now 2008. Whoohoo.

So anyways, I have decided in addition to writing more, I will read more. This is not just my own idea. I had read Steven King's On Writing. One thing he talked about was listening to (unabridged versions!) audiobooks, especially while driving. I saw an ad for Audible.com that offered a free download with a trial membership, so I signed up.

My initial download was Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I had seen the first season of Dexter on Showtime and really wanted to check out the book. Since I am terrible at returning anything like movie rentals or library books, this seemed like the perfect, not to mention cheapest, method for me. I have to say that while Audible.com is a clunky at best site to navigate, I thoroughly enjoyed the book once I finally had it onto my ipod.

I very much enjoyed the plot differences between the series and the book, and Lindsay's exploration of the Dark Passenger and his dark comedy were the high points of the book for me. This is especially brought out in the internal dialogue of Dexter. The shifts between first and third person are also very deft and not jarring as they are in some other books I've read.

I was so happy with being able to fit an extra book into my schedule by using my drive time to work that I decided to renew my membership when I got a special half price offer. Here is where Audible let me down. I punched in dexter in the search and navigated to the other book that was offered for Jeff Lindsay. Unfortunately, this is the third book of the series. The second book is not even offered on the site! Also, their bandwidth has really taken a drastic hit lately, making the download process almost literally painful. All said though, I am really liking the new Dexter book I have.

I have about 3 weeks to research my next download from them, any suggestions?

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