Literary D. Vice

Don’t be afraid to try audio comics!

Revisado: 04-23-23

As someone with dyslexia, I’ve never been able to read comic books. Hub and Cory changed that by creating a fun, hilarious, and interesting look at both DC’s Teen Titans and Marvel’s The Defenders in alternating weeks.

I have been a fan of Hub’s comedic work on Garden Plots with Skeletor for several years, but was afraid to even try to follow the weird history of comics. This podcast allows people who have never entered the comics world to understand both the story and the professional contexts in which they were created while also making many, many NSFW jokes that have caused me to shoot milk out my nose.

I cannot recommend this as an audio approach to comics highly enough! 15 stars for Hub and Cory!!! Excellent work and well worth supporting!

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A favorite performance of a favorite book

Revisado: 02-27-23

Andoh’s mastery of Leckie’s character has made this story a favorite of mine. The series is worth a read in any form, but Adjoa Andoh elevates it to something both galactic in scope and powerful in the questions it raises.

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A quality reading of a superb book

Revisado: 02-03-16

To me, this book is so brilliant and so magical that it would be hard to do it justice in an audio format but Jarvis makes an excellent attempt and generally succeeds. I would say it's better read the physical book if you have the opportunity but this audio book is still very well done.
Apologies for my purist bent; in having read the physical book first I struggled to adjust to Jarvis' interpretation of what the characters should sound like. I have grown to love it but it took a few listens and to my ears his Adam is still off. Not enough to keep me from repeat listens though.

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Important text. Drier than the Sahara.

Revisado: 11-24-15

While I cannot deny that this book is important and that it would be difficult to give it pizzazz in an audio performance he could have at least tried. I literally used this to put me to sleep and will read the text edition to actually get the information out of it.

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good book but not the best & an Amazing narrator

Revisado: 08-25-15

I was very intrigued by the world Bacigalupi managed to create. The world-building was thorough and intricate without too much exposition. His descriptive abilities made me regret reading the book in the heat of the summer as I could almost feel the suffocating tropical humidity and heat. The shifting perspective allowed for multiple, interwoven arcs that further developed understanding of this dysopian-utopia although the writing for some characters was clunkier than others: the words flowed more smoothly in certain arcs. So smoothly and beautifully that it almost made me forget about the clunkiness until that perspective returned. Despite this every voice describing their surroundings and sensory experiences made the city so vivid that it became a character in its own right.

I was annoyed by the loose ends left even with the epilogue. I was not dissatisfied with the way he chose to end the story; I simply did not like that he either left loose ends or created elements that were seemingly important only to turn out to be a gimmicky plot device.

The performance for the audio book was astonishingly good. One of the best I've ever encountered. The ability of the narrator to actually perform multiple characters brought the book to life so much more than a flat reading would have. I will definitely be looking to see what other performances he has done.

I know this book was almost 20 hrs long but I enjoyed it so much I am sad there isn't more.

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