My neighbor is playing what I would characterize as “aggressively country” music really really loud, so instead of reading Stations of the Tide on the back porch now that the kiddos are in bed, I‘m listening to some classic goofy sci-fi and #audioweeding the front walk. Which is what I should probably be doing anyway.
The dulcet tones of John Hodgman are sufficient to drown out the unwanted noise.
#SummerOfShort3
To all you #GaimanGang audiobook listeners out there, Neil Gaiman Presents is a collection of books on Audible handpicked AND paired with narrators by the man himself!
I‘m #starting this classic goofy science fiction novel narrated, as Gaiman puts it in his audio introduction, by the “inimitable John Hodgman”. Who I LOVE. (Whom I love? Who I love? I‘m the worst English teacher ever.)
pickA wonderful sci-fi novel, reintroduced to the world by Neil Gaiman, and superbly brought to life by John Hodgman. I share in Hodgman and Gaiman's surprise that Sheckley and Douglas Adams never crossed paths, because the similarities are uncanny. A human is unexpectedly transported from Earth to a quirky journey through the universe. I am certainly interested in exploring Sheckley's work further, as well as other Gaiman Presents titles!
So I listened to this because:
1. It was recommended by Neil Gaiman;
2. It was read by John Hodgman;
3. It was compared to Douglas Adams' writing (it predates Adams however).
I hated this book. HATED it. I kept going out of sheer stubbornness. It is pretentious as fuck and not funny. OK, there were a couple of moments I laughed at, but mostly it is just irritating.
Dimension of Miracles | 
so-so
