{"id":9080,"date":"2017-05-29T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:41:31","slug":"early-autumn-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9080","title":{"rendered":"Early Autumn, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Autumn<\/a><\/em>, Audio Edition (1981\/1992) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I remembered that I really liked this book, but I’d forgotten was that really, I’d loved it.<\/p>\n

All the complexity of Spenser, and all the things I love are here in this story.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have this at a restaurant?\u201d
\n\u201cNo. I made this up.\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how you can do that,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s easy once you know that sauces are made in only a few different ways. One way is to reduce a liquid till it\u2019s syrupy and then add the cream. What you get is essentially pineapple-flavored cream, or wine-flavored cream, or beer-flavored cream, or whatever. Hell, you could do it with Coke, but who\u2019d want to.\u201d
\n\u201cMy father never cooked,\u201d Paul said.
\n\u201cMine did,\u201d I said.
\n\u201cHe said girls cook.\u201d
\n\u201cHe was half right,\u201d I said.
\n\u201cHuh?\u201d
\n\u201cGirls cook, so do boys. So do women, so do men. You know. He was only half right.\u201d
\n\u201cOh, yeah.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you just let me alone?\u201d
\nI sat back down beside him. \u201cBecause everybody has left you alone all your life and you are, now, as a result, in a mess. I\u2019m going to get you out of it.\u201d
\n\u201cWhaddya mean?\u201d
\n\u201cI mean you don\u2019t have anything to care about. You don\u2019t have anything to be proud of. You don\u2019t have anything to know. You are almost completely neutral because nobody took the time to teach you or show you and because what you saw of the people who brought you up didn\u2019t offer anything you wanted to copy.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not my fault.\u201d \u201cNo, not yet. But if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault. You\u2019re old enough now to start becoming a person. And you\u2019re old enough now so that you\u2019ll have to start taking some kind of responsibility for your life. And I\u2019m going to help you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cLots of men dance ballet.\u201d
\n\u201cYes,\u201d I said.
\n\u201cMy father says they\u2019re fags.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s your mother say?\u201d
\n\u201cShe says that too.\u201d
\n\u201cWell,\u201d I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know about their sex life. What I can say is, they are very fine athletes. I don\u2019t know enough about dance to go much further than that, but people who do know seem to feel that they are also often gifted artists. That ain\u2019t a bad combination, fine athlete, gifted artist. It puts them two up on most people and one up on practically everybody except Bernie Casey.\u201d
\n\u201cWho\u2019s Bernie Casey?\u201d
\n\u201cUsed to be a wide receiver with the Rams. Now he\u2019s a painter and an actor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, he’s still served in Korea as of this book.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is about the ugliest goddamned getup I\u2019ve seen since I came home from Korea,\u201d I said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Published by Random House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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All the complexity of Spenser, and all the things I love are here in this story. \u201cYou have this at a restaurant?\u201d \u201cNo. I made this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,8,43,41],"tags":[500,106,107],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-book","category-mystery","category-private-eye","category-reread","tag-michael-prichard","tag-robert-b-parker","tag-spenser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2ms","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22527,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22527","url_meta":{"origin":9080,"position":0},"title":"Early Autumn, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 16, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Early Autumn, Audio Book (1981) Robert B. 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