{"id":9296,"date":"2017-09-19T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:28:08","slug":"the-widening-gyre-audio-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9296","title":{"rendered":"The Widening Gyre, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Widening Gyre<\/a><\/em>, Audio Version (1983\/1992) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Spenser is hired to protect a conservative candidate for the Senate. There are several interesting things here.<\/p>\n

1) I’ll need to check, but I don’t think his military service was mentioned here at all. So no Korea.<\/p>\n

2) Susan Silverman is getting her PhD and it is causing friction between the two of them.<\/p>\n

3) Paul is still aging with the books, although Spenser and Susan are not.<\/p>\n

4) When meeting with Joe Broz, Spenser makes a comment to himself about how old Joe looks, while he remains unchanged.<\/p>\n

5) Spenser’s morality is a little suspect here. He takes cocaine from a 16-year-old girl, but gives it back to her after she agrees to his plan (thinking he is a cop). That’s a very interesting thing to do.<\/p>\n

The other thing I particularly like is that the Christian candidate isn’t a hypocrite. He deeply believes the things he says, and acts on those beliefs. It makes him a terrible politician, but a fascinating character.
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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So no Korea. 2) Susan Silverman is getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[194,37,8,43,41],"tags":[500,106,107],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-audio-book","category-mystery","category-private-eye","category-reread","tag-michael-prichard","tag-robert-b-parker","tag-spenser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2pW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22543,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22543","url_meta":{"origin":9296,"position":0},"title":"The Widening Gyre, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Widening Gyre, Audio Book (1983) Robert B. 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