{"id":11037,"date":"2018-08-27T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:31:00","slug":"the-devil-you-know-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11037","title":{"rendered":"The Devil You Know, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Devil You Know<\/em>, Audio Edition<\/a> (2006\/2007) Mike Carey<\/a> narrated by Michael Kramer <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We’re now listening to the Felix Castor series while traveling. Michael doesn’t remember if he read the books or not, and he’s also not sure whether he likes<\/em> Castor or not, but he wanted to listen to the next book.<\/p>\n

One of the things I like about this series is the British wit that underlies everything. Like this description of a birthday party for 14 year-old boys:<\/p>\n

The party guests milled around like a decapitated squid\u2014 lots of appendages, no brain, faintly suspect smell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quick primer on Felix Castor: around the turn of the millennium, ghosts started to appear to the general populace, not just sensitives, and they reached a point where exorcists were suddenly in demand, which is Castor’s business. <\/p>\n

the Bible is strangely coy on the subject of the were-kind, hedges its bets on demons, and draws a big fat blank on ghosts, so the Christians and the Jews didn\u2019t really seem to be any better placed than the rest of us to call the toss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except, that he’s not been working his trade since he accidentally destroyed his friend Rafi’s life.<\/p>\n

Rafi. Nobody else wrote like that. Nobody sane could write like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, for me, makes this series so enjoyable is 1) that the world-building is so good, and 2) Fix is a really complicated character, who is often not especially likable, although he does try to do the right thing as he sees it.<\/p>\n

And the narrator is good. However, he does have a lower voice, and I’ve noticed that lower voices are harder to listen to in the car, because they sometimes disappear briefly into the road noise.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Tantor Audio
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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