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Er, just like the title says! (via @bookoven)
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Mostly they think they suck and want their authors to do other things for promos. lol.
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I like it! Though it does look VERY corporate. “The new site features a clean, streamlined look (using the Arial typeface) that immediately welcomes readers, using slideshows and “shelf menus” to compress a bunch of information into a tiny space without a sense of clutter. “The goal was to create a site that was engaging,” Hirschhorn said, that made searches easier but could also foster discovery.”
Jan 152009
The Stars’ Tennis Balls (aka Revenge) by Stephen Fry
Publication: audiobook, read by Stephen Fry, 9:42:13 long, paper version published 2000
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Rating: 5/5
Find paper version @ Amazon, swap sites
Er, I actually started listening to this back in…November? I kept having trouble with my iPod skipped back to the beginning of audiobooks, making me lose my place, so I gave it up ’til I got a new ‘Pod. Now I don’t have that trouble and I can listen to audiobooks as much as I want. Huzzah, technology!
The Stars’ Tennis Balls is a modern retelling of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s about a young man named Ned who, through a series of events orchestrated by three of his peers– Ashley Barson-Garland, a seemingly perfect student who has an unfortunate habit of jerking off into school boys’ hats, Rufus Cade, a stupid thug, and Gordon Fendeman, the American cousin of Ned’s girlfriend Portia– and a secret service agent named Oliver Delft, ends up imprisoned in an insane asylum for 20 years. He loses his family, his girlfriend, his future, and very nearly his mind. But then he meets Babe, a brilliant man also falsely imprisoned, who can help him escape– and who can help him get his revenge.
If I hadn’t already loved Stephen Fry before reading this book, I’d love him after. It is seriously good! The entire thing is fantastic, and Mr. Fry’s voice is oh-so-wonderful. The characters were somehow both perfect archetypes and believable humans, and the plot had enough suspense and excitement and OMG! moments in it that it flowed really quickly and most satisfyingly.
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