Free Audiobook of A Christmas Carol
In case you can’t afford to rent Terri to sit in your passenger seat and read A Christmas Carol to you during long drives home for the holidays, The Penguin Podcast is offering mp3 downloads of A Christmas Carol, for a limited time.
By the way, what softened my hard line against Dickens (developed during Great Expectations in 9th grade) was reading Straight Man
And this will be the last post on A Christmas Carol, I promise.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Straight Man is a good book. I read that earlier this year.
December 30th, 2005 at 12:27 am
Hey! Good to see you here Mr. Cevallos. How goes the lawyering?
You know, a while after I posted this, I thought maybe I should put in a disclaimer about Straight Man. It really trips off all my warning flags. It’s a novel about
- a novelist who’s
- an academic
- living in the suburbs
- going through a mid-life crisis with
- a case of writer’s block
Woop! Woop! Danger!
But it’s so funny and it really calls bullshit on that whole kind of novel; I remember the bit where the main character is talking about how the rest of the English department all have their own half-finished novels in their desk drawers, all written for one purpose: to demonstrate a superior sensibility. Ouch!
I also love it because it brought the phrase “Judas Peckerwood” into my world.
January 15th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
the lawyering has been hectic. Hence the delay in checking back here.
“Judas Peckerwood” made me laugh out loud for a few minutes.
I liked Straight Man more than I liked Empire Falls, which was how I found Straight Man to begin with.
Anyway, how are things with you? Haven’t seen you in a long time.