FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 3 NO. 4 NEWS, OBSERVATIONS AND RANDOM THOUGHTS Pyongyang, NK…North Korea recently demonstrated that they are ready to take their rightful place among Nations willing to screw up on a grand scale. With the world watching with baited and – in many cases – bad breath, the North Koreans test fired a ballistic missile that they hoped would prove that they were capable of firing a ballistic missile. They proved only that they cannot – as yet – do much better than most grade school rocket enthusiasts with a science kit, some matches and an M-80. While the North Koreans insisted the rocket was …
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April 27th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Hardcover: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Published February 2012 by Random House Publishing Note: This is both a review of the hardcover edition of The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, self-purchased copy, and a review of the Audiobook, also self-purchased. The Book: I admit, freely and wholeheartedly from the get go, and in the interest of full disclosure, that I have a full-on literary crush on Matthew Pearl. He had me at “The.” However, that being said, if I’d never been lucky enough to be familiar with Mr. Pearl’s work prior to The Technologists, I’d make it my goal to become familiar now. In the aftermath of the recently climaxed Civil …
FOR THE HELL OF IT – SPECIAL EDITION (containing actual news and useful info and at least a few digressions!) ACX and Me – A Journey of Discovery without (One Hopes) Skullduggery and Balderdash By Johnny Heller I’ve been asked by various and sundry audio type folks to share my experience with ACX. ACX is an acronym for Audiobook Creation Exchange, an enterprise from mega giant Audible/Amazon. Here’s what the ACX web site says it is: “ACX is a marketplace where professional authors, agents, publishers, and other Rights Holders can post fallow audiobook rights..” “Fallow” means, for those who don’t know what it means but are too shy …
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November 2nd, 2011 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Only Time Will Tell: The Clifton Chronicles, Book 1 Written by: Jeffrey Archer Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox Publisher: Macmillan Audio, August 2011 Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes Only Time Will Tell is the first installment of a five part sweeping and ambitious work of fiction that purportedly will cover 100 years in history, starting in Bristol after the end of “the war to end all wars” World War I, and taking us to the dawn of World War II. The narrative is the intriguing life of Harry Clifton, with his humble and secretly burdened beginnings and his family’s intertwining fate with the wealthy Barrington family. A multigenerational, …
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