From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 21:09:55 -0700 (PDT)

I just finished "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" by Terry Pratchett. I know, not a hot new title, and an author everyone knows about, but I've only recently started reading Pratchett. I avoided his books for years because I don't usually care for endless series like his Discworld. But "The Wee Free Men" changed my mind, and this one was almost as good. I finished the book well pleased at the funny little ending, then remembered I'd been engrossed in the desperate battle with the Rat King not half an hour earlier. Very few writers can combine fantasy, humor, and suspense so well. Besides the real book on my nightstand, there's always an audio one in my backpack too. I'm listening to M.T. Anderson's Feed and it's great. Part of it is just that different perspective you get when re-reading a good book that you read fairly recently. Also this is just a great audio production. They use a cast of readers for the feed breaks, and a sort of echo-y sound for the chats, and it works very well. I remember that the author conveyed the effect of these very well in print, but listening to it is a little extra fun, if only for the way the main reader (David Aaron Baker) says the title of the hit show "Oh? Wow! Thing!"
  
 
- Steven Engelfried, Beaverton City Library (OR)
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