{"id":23000,"date":"2024-01-21T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:34:38","slug":"false-value-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23000","title":{"rendered":"False Value, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

False Value<\/em>, Audio Book<\/a> (2020) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n

\"False<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson had made a point of calling the human resources department \u201cHR\u201d rather than its official internal company name, the Magrathean Ape-Descended Life Form Utilization Service, just as he called the department I had just joined \u201cSecurity\u201d rather than the Vogon Enforcement Arm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

there was rumored to be a whole department within the Bureau of Indian Affairs whose one job was to come down hard on any Native American practitioner who tried to practice outside the reservations. I wondered if Reynolds knew this. And, if she did, why she\u2019d never mentioned it to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We sat in silence and sipped our drinks. From the kitchen behind us I could hear various chopped comestibles being tossed around in a wok. Which at least meant we weren\u2019t going to be having McDonald\u2019s\u2014you hear stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ceiling was a bog-standard suspended tile affair useful for covering up ducts, cables and xenomorph infiltrations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: DAW<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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