Welcome to our archive of November 2007 audiobook reviews. A good
audiobook is very much like the old time radio programs (which are fun to download) because they put on a stage
performance entirely with sound. We can't get enough of them, and now they're available on both cassette and CD, and
many websites now allow you to download audiobooks (as well as e-books) for iPods and other MP3 players. Whether you like to
call it a book on tape, an audiobook, or even a podcast, we present our audiobook reviews for your enjoyment.
The legendary Clive Cussler gives us an amazing historical thriller here in
"The Chase". In the early 1900s, the western US was terrorized by a string
of bank robberies committed by a man dubbed "The Butcher Bandit" because he
killed all of the witnesses. The government assigns their best detectivem
Isaac Bell. Bell chases his quarry through five states and even the great
San Francisco earthquake with only limited success. He knows he's making the
Bandit nervous because the Bandit has started to chase Bell. With the backdrop
of history combined with the kinds of characters that Cussler creates so
deftly that you almost don't notice it until the last page, "The Chase" is a real
thrill ride through a fantasy version of the early 20th Century.
Dave Isay founded the StoryCorps Project four years ago to capture stories of the lives of
everyday Americans. Its sort of a combination of the old Charles Kuralt's
"On The Road" stories for CBS News and Ira Glass's "This American Life" on
NPR. He calls it an "oral history" broken into sections titled "Home and
Family", "Work and Dedication", "Journeys", "History and Struggle", and
finally "Fire and Water" which focuses on people's experiences from 9/11 and
Hurricane Katrina. Its a wonderful experience to listen to these people
share some of their most precious memories - both the good times and the
bad. This isn't about celebrity or politics. Its just ordinary people
sharing their lives with us with a poignancy that springs from the
vagaries of fate that sometimes brings joy and other times tragedy.
You'll want a lot of Kleenex in the car, trust me.
Be sure to visit us again next month when we'll
review more great audiobooks! Our
audiobook reviews are written by our Editor, Richard L. Trethewey.
Rainbo Electronic Reviews' audiobook reviews are published monthly. Back issues of our
reviews are available from the Rainbo Reviews Backissues Archive.
We're proud to announce that the reviews archive is now searchable by category so you can find audiobooks (or audio books) we've reviewed in the past.
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