{"id":22510,"date":"2023-11-05T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22510"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:48:40","slug":"mortal-stakes-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22510","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Stakes, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mortal Stakes<\/em><\/a> (1975\/2009) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard (Spenser)<\/p>\n

\"Mortal<\/a>Baseball!<\/p>\n

For serious looking at baseball there are few places better than Fenway Park. The stands are close to the playing field, the fences are a hopeful green, and the young men in their white uniforms are working on real grass, the authentic natural article; under the actual sky in the temperature as it really is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Patricia Utley!<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Spenser,\u201d she said, \u201cI\u2019m Patricia Utley,\u201d and put out her hand. I shook it. She looked as if she might have read all the books and understood them. She was fortyish, small and blond with good bones and big black-rimmed round glasses. Her hair was pulled back tight against her head with a bun in the back. She was wearing an off-white sleeveless linen dress with blue and green piping at the hem and along the neckline. Her legs were bare and tanned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A very different world.<\/p>\n

I got to Redford at twenty of seven and checked into a two-story Holiday Inn just north of town that offered a view of the river and a swimming pool. The dining room was open and more than half empty. I ordered a draft beer and looked at the menu. The beer came in an enormous schooner. I ordered Wiener schnitzel and fresh garden vegetables and was startled to find when it came that it was excellent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Spenser still becoming the man he is in later books.<\/p>\n

I drove north on 1 toward Smithfield. On the way I stopped and bought a quart of Wild Turkey bourbon. Turning off Route 1 toward Smith-field Center, I twisted the top off, took a mouthful, rinsed my mouth, spit out the window, and drank about four ounces from the bottle. My stomach jumped when the booze hit it, but then it steadied and held. I was coming back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my apartment I said to Brenda, \u201cWant some brandy or would you like to get right to the necking?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cActually, cookie, I would like first to take a shower.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cA shower?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cUh-huh. You pour us two big snifters of brandy and hop into bed, and I\u2019ll come along in a few minutes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even recorded more than 20 years after the book was written, this audio book is not what modern audiences expect.<\/p>\n

It’s not awful–the awful narrator comes along later in the series–but it’s reading rather than narrating. And the production quality is not like a modern listener would expect.<\/p>\n

But it’s still a very good book.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n

Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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