Nov. 12th, 2008

briarwood: Sentinel: "I must not put salt in Jim's coffee." (TS Blair Salt)
My audiobook of Swallowing Darkness arrived...and I realised I actually do need a CD drive *headdesk*

After much mucking about, I have determined that the CD drive does work...but not too well, and only if I don't have the second HD hooked up. Which is no damn good at all. I'm beginning to suspect it's the cable at fault, rather than the drive, but I don't think that helps me fix it.

Anyhow, I borrowed Sis's laptop to rip the CDs into iTunes (the MP3 CDs from Audible were so much more convenient, darn it), and I now have Swallowing Darkness on my iPod. So far I'm three chapters in and no one has had sex yet. I'm...almost impressed.

Claudia Black's reading is wonderful. She gets the humour of the character in a way most audiobook narrators don't. I don't mean just for LKH's novels, I listen to a lot of books and there's often a sense that it's not very rehearsed, so that occasionally the narrator gets the emphasis in a sentence wrong. It can make lines meant to be funny fall very flat. Okay, I'm only three chapters in, but I have the feeling Claudia "gets" Merry; either that or she really read the book properly before recording, because so far - no stumbles. And I actually laughed out loud at one point.

Cool. Though I'm beginning to worry for my poor PC. Perhaps it's time to start shopping around for something new. I ought to do that while stores are still allowed to supply XP. No freaking way am I using Vista and I'd rather get it pre-installed than have to reformat and install it myself. I can do that...I'd just rather not.

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