Capture by Robert Tanenbaum read by Charles Leggett

Has anyone else noticed a spectacular and embarrassing silliness among the old guard of East Coast scribblers? As though they were trying to write comic books, and couldn’t figure out how to convert text into images? Gone are the wry, dry, street talk, the inside cracks of persons, cities, institutions. Gone are the political or intellectual references and resonances. Gone are the differences, the mannerisms, the languages that make themselves loved or remembered or both.

Advice? Use a pen not a keyboard, and write your age.

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Good idea, poorly executed.Stone Cold by David Baldacci. Read by Ron McLarty

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fake cheese on fake crackers... shoplifted and served with warmed over leftovers. Shame on the publishers. Jennifer Crusie and Mary Kay Andrews and Cheez Whiz

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Incongruous, unlovable, post-Vietnam: a weatherman and a reporter make the Minnesota TV newsroom hummm. Dixie Quinn locks into the weather and doesn't let go. Rick Beanblossom, burn-victim, works behind the scenes, behind his mask. Their curious, uneven characterizations are ambushed midway by a grim,The Weatherman by Stephen Thayer read by George Guidall

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Another silly and lovable murder mystery written by an out of work real estate agent? Well, let's see: Dixie Hemingway is a 32 year old ex-deputy living Sarasota, Florida, with her brother, the fireman, and his lover, Pablo, anCuriosity Killed the Cat Sitter by Blaize Clement, performed by Julia Gibson

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