Matt G.

Excellent book and inspired performance

Revisado: 03-20-22

The natural and fluent performance of Addison’s richly conceived, wonderfully “human” (well…) story — with remarkable character work for Addison and the performer alike — confidently elevates this tale to the weightiness and authenticity of a sort of slipstream historical narrative. Can this not be a portrait of real cultures of our own world’s past? This fabulous book gains even more in this telling!

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Remarkable book, remarkable performance

Revisado: 11-11-20

This author already has a powerful story and means of expressing that story. I didn’t predict a narrator who might even elevate this source — through phrasing, character, and an almost occult transmission of both life-seasoned wisdom and sparkling-eyed wisdom. What a great match for this excellent book!

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Not only a heck of a story, a heck of a narrator

Revisado: 06-11-20

Really excellent performance! Kinda stunning, her range!

The story not only fully brings the heist story fully to a fantasy, but manages to meet and extend the form within the logic and expressiveness of the fantasy context.

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Excellent performance augments excellent conclusion of series

Revisado: 10-12-15

This intelligent, well-conceived performance brings to the forefront nuances within the relationships between the large cast of characters that are drawn together onto the stage for this final book in the trilogy. Having read much of this in print parallel to listening to this performance, I felt the performer's understanding of the irony and withheld information dancing around so many of these exchanges deepened my interest in (and understanding of) the evolution in these characters that brings this series from the lively action of the first book through to the dramatic changes that become possible by the end. There are those who have mentioned preferring the first book because of the action and genre play, but in my opinion the much more challenging and impressive work Leckie has accomplished is best recognized in this third book.

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Lipsyte's THE ASK tuned

Revisado: 06-14-10

Having read his hilarious HOMELAND, I was intrigued to hear Lipsyte perform his new book, THE ASK. Here is a writer extremely attentive to language: he builds tremendous humor out of his discoveries of eccentric phrases, institutional jargon, ad-speak, and, well, the strange agency of the language governing our lives to breed creatures apart from those species concerned with communication, transparency, and honesty. He isn't precious with the stuff -- he is extremely ruthless with his observations of spoken language and the dead phrases we inflict on one another. Hearing his reading of THE ASK was not only the chance for me to catch a strong reader (you can tell Lipsyte enjoys reading, must really kill on the bookstore appearance circuit) but also was the opportunity for me to catch a secondary layer of meaning, built up through the nuance of highly intentional delivery and phrasing. It is gallows humor on the page -- but somehow with the author teasing you carefully through it, the audiobook deepens as both "dark" and "comedy."

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