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The recession was tough on almost everyone, but it was particularly bad for baby boomers, according to
New York Times
that includes comments from a Cleveland woman living on the edge economically.
The Times
reports that the U.S. Department of Labor's latest jobs snapshot and other recent data reports "present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its grim aftermath."
Americans in their 50s and early 60s — those near retirement age who do not yet have access to Medicare and Social Security — "have lost the most earnings power of any age group, with their household incomes 10 percent below what they made when the recovery began three years ago,"
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The big problem: Their retirement savings and home values fell sharply at the worst possible time, just before they needed to cash out. They also are supporting both aged parents and unemployed young-adult children.
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Workshop 88 is offering our introduction to the Arduino platform at our makerspace in Glen Ellyn.
This class is for anyone who wants to learn how to get started with the arduino microcontroller, regardless of experience with programming or electronics.
Class attendees will learn how to configure their arduino programming environment, how to design simple circuits for interfacing with the arduino and how to write simple programs to control the arduino. What is Arduino, you ask? From their home page:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.If you need to get an arduino, please see the Workshop 88 Arduino Store. Sales from that store are fulfilled by amazon.com, and help support Workshop 88. Alternatively, you can order Arduino systems from several places, including Adafruit and Sparkfun. Both companies have lots of tutorials and howtos to get you started with Arduinos. If you're looking for a local source to get Arduinos, try Trossen Robotics.
What you'll get from this class: If you choose the registration + materials option, we will have an arduino and assortment of electronics components for you to take home after the class. (The Workshop 88 Arduino Store is by far a cheaper route to get supplies.)
In this class you will learn how to start programming in the Arduino environment including interacting with the inputs and outputs of the Arduino.You should bring: a laptop with the Arduino environment downloaded and installed. Please contact us (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you have any questions. Image credit: By Linuswiki (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Caleb Moore competed on all-terrain vehicles since his childhood before trying snowmobiles four years ago. He passed away Jan. 31, 2013, as a result of injuries suffered in the X Games a week earlier. / AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post via Getty Images
Caleb Moore had given his help so easily before that Jackson Strong felt compelled to return it.
Moore made the transition from riding all-terrain vehicles to competing on snowmobiles in the X Games four years ago. Trying to make the same move from dirtbikes to snow, Strong turned to Moore for help.
He received it willingly.
Strong was learning the sport two months ago, and Moore sent him fabricated parts that he'd already had made so that Strong could get his snowmobile modified.
On Thursday when news came of Moore's death following a crash in the X Games, it was his kindness that Strong remembered.
"He's a really kind-hearted country kid," Strong said of the Krum, Texas native. "He didn't try to go out there and be the cool guy. He was just a nice, very, very normal person. And he was willing to do anything for anyone without asking for anything in return."
The Australian rider is also sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drinks, which suggested that he sell his snowmobile from the X Games to raise money for Moore's medical fund. Moore was hospitalized for a week in intensive care and had heart surgery before his death.
By Thursday evening, the bidding had reached $8,900. Strong is hoping to raise more to help Moore's family.
While he prays for them â?? including Moore's brother, Colten, who was also injured in a crash that night â?? Strong knows the sport is inherently dangerous.
Competing in the best trick final on Sunday night, Strong was thrown from his sled in the air and had to dodge it as it landed. The throttle stuck and the runaway snowmobile ran into a crowd of spectators, with one young male getting hurt trying to get out of its way.
But the four snowmobile crashes don't point to one safety concern the X Games could make, Strong said. The sport itself is inherently dangerous.
"You can't really narrow it down to anything," he said. "At the end of the day, what we do is very dangerous.
"It's what we all love doing. We know the risk. We do it anyway. At the end of the day, we love doing it."
Steve Mateus, the director of core sports marketing and athlete management for Rockstar, agreed. When athletes are flipping 450-pound machines in the air, that danger cannot be mitigated.
But Moore worked to prepare himself for these competitions.
Mateus met him when he was making the transition to snowmobiles. The Moore brothers had ridden ATVs since childhood, but when it became clear that anything with four wheels wasn't going to be added to the summer X Games, they decided to try their hand on the snow.
"We knew they had all the tricks that everyone could do on a freestyle motocross bike. These guys were doing the same thing on quads, and they were the only ones doing it," Mateus said. "When they went to sleds, it was easy to say, 'If anyone can do it, these kids can.'"
Success followed. Caleb won four X Games medals in his career, including bronze last year in the freestyle final. Colten took gold.
"They were able to go out there and win medals right away," said Strong, "so that inspired me to try the same thing."
As family and friends mourn, Mateus said he'll remember Moore for how hard he worked. The brothers quickly worked to make themselves strong competitors on the snow.
"He was always smiling, always happy, always very polite and always very happy to be in the position that he was in," Mateus said. "This was just a really good kid that worked his butt off and tried as hard as he could at everything he did."
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Phillies, Mets to meet after much-needed break
Right-handers Kendrick, Hefner on mound in Friday's series opener
The All-Star break could not have come at a better time for the Phillies and Mets.
The National League East foes played a combined 196 games in the first half of the season, but numerous extra-inning games have made the past 3 1/2 months feel even longer.
The Phillies beat the White Sox, 4-3, in 10 innings on Sunday in their last game before the break. They also went to extra innings twice on Saturday in a doubleheader against the Sox, resulting in an 11-inning loss and a 13-inning win. It was the first time that Philadelphia had played 24 innings or more in a single day since July 24, 1998.
The Mets, meanwhile, have played 19 extra innings this month and 12 extra-inning games this season. Five of their extra-inning contests have gone 13 frames or more, including a 20-inning marathon with Miami in early June.
"Extra innings every once in a while aren't that bad," Mets third baseman David Wright said. "But when you make a habit out of it like we do, on top of that, not just play 10 or 11, we have a tendency to play more than that. For sure, it catches up to you."
Jeremy Hefner will get the nod for New York in the series opener at Citi Field on Friday, as he looks to record his sixth straight quality start. Since June 21, Hefner is 3-0 with seven runs allowed, five walks and 26 strikeouts.
The Phillies will counter with Kyle Kendrick, who overcame shoddy defense and a sluggish offensive performance to win his last start. Facing All-Star Jordan Zimmermann of the Nationals, Kendrick allowed just one run on five hits over seven innings and worked through four errors, including three by second baseman Chase Utley.
"He really had to battle, because we made some mistakes," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said of Kendrick. "There was some sloppy play. He definitely was the guy that got us out of the jams."
Mets: Piazza to be honored
• Mike Piazza will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in a pregame ceremony on Sept. 29 at Citi Field. Piazza spent eight seasons with the Mets (1998-05), and has the most home runs (396) of any catcher in Major League history.
"Mike Piazza reinvigorated our franchise when we acquired him in May 1998," Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said in a statement. "Mike is one of the greatest players in our history and we are thrilled to induct him into the Mets Hall of Fame."
Phillies: Broken ankle tough news for hot-hitting Revere
• Center fielder Ben Revere had surgery on Tuesday to repair a broken right ankle and is expected to miss 6-to-8 weeks. Revere sustained the injury fouling a ball off his ankle in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader against the White Sox.
Revere entered the doubleheader hitting .347 since the end of April, which was the sixth-best batting average in baseball during that stretch.
"It's one of those deals," Revere said Sunday. "It's part of the game. I've probably hit a couple balls on the same spot a couple times and really nothing happened, except a bruise. But it was good the next day. But this was finally the one that cracked it."
With Revere out, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said that the Phillies are in the market for a center fielder.
• Starter Roy Halladay, who has not pitched since May 5 as he recovers from shoulder surgery, said that Philadelphia's performance this season has not changed his feelings about staying with the team beyond this season.
"Hopefully we keep ourselves in a spot where we can contend this year and I can come back and help," Halladay said. "I'm not looking to go somewhere else. I feel like this is where I wanted to be and I still want to be here."
Worth noting
• The Phillies and Mets have split their six games at Citizens Bank Park this season, but the Phils swept their three-game set at Citi Field in April.
Tom Schad is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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An old British IT hack speaks out!
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a new medium, although new things always have their critics. But rapid, radical change will often shake up the status quo, and not always in a good way. File sharing has scared the living daylights out of the music, film and TV industries, with
draconian knee-jerk consequences
. It's a historical thing – in the early days of UK radio broadcasting, the newspapers stopped the new medium from carrying news until 7pm, fearing it would spoil their market otherwise.
But the Web has a much more profound implication for journalism. In
We the Media
Dan Gillmor
gushes with excitement
about the potential of blogging to democratise news reportage. And it is indeed very exciting. However, giving everyone the chance to become journalists could potentially have a very negative effect on the quality of information available.
Before all you Web-evangelising readers get your hackles up, I should explain a few things. I come from a print journalism background. I've been writing about the IT industry for over a decade, and spent five years editing the UK's number one-selling computing monthly,
PC Pro
. So you're immediately going to look at the sorry state of IT print publications, mostly thanks to the Web, and make the assumption that I'm a bitter old hack itching to have a go at the young lions who have caused monthly IT magazines to halve in circulation, and forced many to close.
But you'd be wrong. I'm not arguing that the Web is ruining the quality of writing or the ability to find a good story. I actually believe there is more chance of a meritocracy on the Web, where good writing and clever scoops can prevail over corporate interest and politics – because readers have more chance of deciding directly which stories make quality journalism.
Although I might bite my own head off if I read another over-excited article about the "wisdom of crowds" (Surely they're teaching James Surowiecki in kindergarten now?), it is pretty common sense that the more people there are trying to do something, the more chance it has of happening. It's just the million monkeys and typewriters cliché all over again.
There's a much more dangerous threat from online journalism, however. As
rather convincingly a few months ago
there are some pretty well established websites out there which will go to much greater lengths to win advertising than print ever would have when I was a magazine editor. Whilst print titles have become increasingly desperate in the last few years as advertising revenue drops through the floor, and their standards might well be slipping too, this still doesn't make it a good thing. In fact, it's a crisis which could destroy the whole idea of truthful product review journalism.
Let's look at all this from the varying perspectives of the major parties concerned, starting with the advertisers. If you're an IT company with X amount of money to spend on promotion, and a website with a few million readers is offering not only to run your banner ads for a given fee, but to publish a certain number of articles as well, that sounds like a great deal. If another website will give you favourable coverage for merely sending a product in and
subtly forgetting to ask for it back
, why bother advertising at all?
This is all brilliant for an advertiser –- you can use your money to influence the market, and get coverage for your products so they sell better than those of companies with less money to spend. The IT company will be happy, and the website will be happy as it wins ad revenue away from other more scrupulous sites -- and print magazines too.
The websites in question don't see this as unethical at all, in large part because their first job in journalism was on their own website. Here is the argument given to explain how they don't quite see the line between editorial and advertising -- and this is quoted virtually word for word from one website editor I've discussed this with in the past:
"You're sent two products, and you only have time to review one. Surely it makes sense to review the one from the advertiser who supports your website financially, rather than the one which doesn't?"
Sounds quite reasonable, right? Well, it makes some commercial sense. But it's already well on the way down a slippery slope away from editorial content you can trust. If you're going to do your readers a proper service, you really should review both products, and not be afraid to publish even if the non-advertiser's product is better. That is your job as a journalist.
Anything else is morally reprehensible on a number of levels. From a journalist's perspective, having to write articles because of the deal a salesperson has made, rather than because the topic is newsworthy and of interest to the audience, is at its very best a reversal of the way things have traditionally been in journalism. The articles are quite likely to be boring for the reader, too.
At its worst, though, this arrangement is a complete enslavement of the truth to the corporate purse and industrial interests. Sure, you can say that you will still print the truth, whether it annoys the advertisers or not. But how is that really going to work if the advertiser was sold editorial coverage as part of their advertising deal? The advertiser is definitely not going to pay their bills if the articles they were promised turn out to be against them. So, in reality, there will be pressure on the journalist to pull their punches, rather than report things as they are and provide the audience with an unbiased article.
From a reader's perspective, the situation is even worse. You won't be able to trust that the products, which you are being told are the best, aren't just those from the company which paid the website for the most coverage. Why should you trust anything these websites say? And, unfortunately, if enough websites have this attitude, how will you know which ones to trust, if any at all? You might become entirely disillusioned with the Web.
This is the crisis journalism currently faces, and it needs to be rooted out. Right now, some advertisers are regularly favouring websites which sell editorial along with advertising. Why wouldn't they? They get more for their money. But in the long run this is selling the product-buying public down the river.
When reading information from the Web, it's very easy to treat it as a level playing field, because you can't always tell if one very well-coded website is actually run by a clever 19-year-old in his bedroom, whilst another more clunky one is the result of a respected publisher which hasn't quite got grips with Web technology yet. And the 19-year-old really could be doing more thorough testing and writing better articles than the lumbering old publishing company.
Nevertheless you, as web readers, need to be aware of what could be going on behind the scenes, and if a website looks fishy, make sure word gets around. Post on forums, blog it, make your own YouTube video. But this linking of editorial and advertising must be nipped in the bud before it's too late. Otherwise, this fantastic democratic Web medium will actually be a puppet of the company with the biggest bucks, and you won't be able to trust anything you read at all.
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Bear in mind that I don't work for DailyTech - this is the first thing I've written for them. I'm a UK journalist and this is actually the first US publication I've written for (so far...) I approached DailyTech with this article because of the excellent article about Payola I mention in this posting. It really struck a chord with my own experiences, and inspired me to speak out. But my impression is that DailyTech and Anand are very honourable sites - they have certainly never come up in any discussions of unethical Web practices I've ever had. I specifically chose DailyTech for this article because it takes an ethical stance, and Anand is usually held up as the epitome of a trustworthy hardware site. Any particular examples you'd like to give where that hasn't been the case?
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In fact, I've pretty much forgotten it now. During the reading I found my mind wandering, and had to go back four or five minutes to try to pick up what I'd missed. I don't think it was my problem: I listen to a LOT of audiobooks, I sometimes drift, but never anything like this. I re-read the publisher's summary and it's completely foreign to me.
This is the seventh Inspector Rutledge book I've listened to, including two narrated by Samuel Gillies. It's been a while since my last Gillies, but I'm thinking it's something about his narration that sets my mind adrift. Listen to the sample: that's exactly the way it's going to be for eleven hours.
The other principal narrator, Simon Prebble, has never disappointed me. So my advice to a newcomer to the Inspector Rutledge series is to start with a Prebble narration - it would be unfortunate to form a bad impression of this wonderful series based on a so-so narration.
Reading the series out of sequence is not a big problem. There is one character (sort of) named Hamish, who lives in Rutledge's mind. His back-story is brought out in every novel in greater or lesser detail. One reviewer says that the whole story is brought out in the first of the series, "A Test of Wills". I'll wait a while before trying that one, since it's also narrated by Samuel Gillies (NOT Samuel Giles - that's clearly a typo on Audible's description).
A great series, good solid police procedural, lots of plot twists to keep you thinking, as long as your mind stays moored.
"Discovery of great new narrator!"
I have followed lots of references, reviews, and recommendations in looking for new mystery novels at Audible.com. I don't know how I stumbled over Eric Ambler, but I'm glad I did.
Ambler's story-telling, plot, dialog, pace, -- well, everything that makes a great book great -- are without equal. He is a master, and I intend to audio-read everything he has in Audible.com's library.
But recommending Ambler to other readers is like recommending Graham Greene: You already know it's good, and you don't need me to tell you so.
What this book did for me was to introduce me to the narrator Tim Bentinck. Bentinck has the most versatile and believable range of accents of any narrator I have yet encountered. In this book, I thought many times that there must be multiple narrators.
With respect to just two of the accents he portrays: I could not decide if he was a Brit able to put on an uncommonly good American accent, or an American who knew how to do Brit especially well.
Bentinck's range is phenomenal. The best part is, he sounds completely natural in whichever accent he delivers. What I mean by that is, say, consider George Guidall. He is one of the finest narrators in the business. But when you listen to him narrate, you always know it is Guidall! With Bentinck, not so. He really does sound like a lot of different people.
Disclaimer: If it turns out that there really were multiple narrators used in the production of this book, then, as Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, "never mind".
I have downloaded a few other of Bentnick's Ambler narrations. I'm currently into one in which a Dane is portrayed. So far, no reason to change anything I have written. He's good.
"Bad choice of narrator"
I loved the first of Robert Knott's "Robert B. Parker's ..." novels (Ironhorse). It was very faithful to the style of Parker, along with being a great yarn. In particular I liked Titus Welliver as the narrator. Welliver did all the previous Cole-Hitch books, and he was excellent. Rex Linn, not so much.
Linn does a fair job of sounding like a Gary Cooper playing a old time western marshal, as Cole and Hitch are intended. But they sound identical in his rendition. In fact almost everyone sounds the same, with the exception of the Mexicans in the story who sound the same but with an atrocious Mexican accent.
Mexican accents aside, there were other problems with the narration.
You know those parts in dialogs where the author inserts things like "he said", "Hitch replied" (and every prepubescent boy's favorite, "Jack asked")? Welliver did a great job of easing those into the background. WIth Linn, they have the same emphasis as the dialog, and it is jarring.
Equally jarring were the very often repeated one-word responses from Cole or Hitch (Hitch: "It's what we do." Cole: "Is.") Linn just can't pull these off, and he makes Cole's "Is" sound clumsy and inappropriate to the dialog.
I liked the story fine (despite wondering if Parker would have given a woman the nickname "Slingshot"). But given the narration, this book would be a lot better in print than narrated by Linn.
"Excellent early Burke ruined by terrible narration"
This book is probably Burke's first novel, first published in 1965. It consists of three stories loosely interwoven in Louisiana's seamier sides, including the fight game, blues singers, and prison camps. Early Burke sounds a lot like later Burke so far a tone, mood, and dialog. It's very good writing. But caution: these are not an uplifting stories. The prison camp in particular conjures up images of Cool Hand Luke's camp.
Except for the fact that everyone talks like some bland character from a TV family sitcom.
Not the dialog, Zeisler's narration. Escaped prisoners being chased through the marsh: they all sound the same, like a couple of frat boys talking about cars. Passionate lovemaking? Same thing. The woman even sounds the same, not like any woman I know and certainly not passionate. There's not even an attempt made to make some poor Louisiana coon-ass sound authentic. They're all the same, speaking with near monotone delivery. Everyone sounds like Zeisler ordering a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Well, all but one. For some reason Zeisler has to take a shot at a British accent. It's terrible, and the story doesn't even need a Brit. Zeisler could have just gone on with his coffee-ordering delivery and no one would be the wiser.
The only reason I can see that Simon and Schuster Audio picked Zeisler for this read is that he does a pretty good job singing some of the blues lyrics sprinkled throughout the book, or at least he has the guts to try. They should have used him for just the lyrics and got someone else, almost anyone else, to do the narration.
If I had it to do over again I would get the print version and try to imagine Will Patton or Mark Hammer narrating it.
"Excellent story and narration."
Grisham takes us back into the courtroom, a setting in which he excels: The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and on and on. Including, of course, the wonderful A Time to Kill (1989) with attorney Jake Brigance. In Sycamore Row Jake is back, this time wrapped up in defending a holographic will.
This book is a sequel to A Time to Kill only in that the same lawyers -- Harry Rex Vonner, Lucien Wilbanks, Jake -- are back in the same small Mississippi town, but if you've forgotten the earlier book you won't have any problem reading this. A few references to the trial in A Time to Kill are used to establish Jake as a stand-up guy, which is how he gets dragged into the business with the will in the first place. There are also some KKK types who threaten and harass Jake and his family over his defense of a black man in the earlier book, but all the needed backstory is provided.
The plot is tightly woven and well paced. There are a few elements that seem there just to provide color, like the slick Memphis lawyer who tosses a race-grenade into the courtroom, but then slips from the scene. I do wish Grisham had followed through a bit more with the rednecks, especially the one who was released on parole. I thought for sure that firebrand would be back, and I just love it when they get their comeuppance, but he too was written out of the plot.
It's a different kind of law than what we usually get in courtroom novels. It centers around a holographic will handwritten by a man on the eve of his suicide by hanging (from a sycamore tree, a fact you should keep in mind). It's established pretty early on that his kids, son and daughter, don't have much time for the old man, so you won't be surprised to learn they don't make out too well in this will. And of course, there's an earlier will out there, all lawyerly and notarized, in which the kids fare much better. Which will wins? Read on.
Michael Beck is excellent. He has a nice, unaffected style when he's just narrating, and then shows a great range of characterizations of the southerners portrayed here. From my short time living in Mississippi I can say the accents seem quite authentic. Beck gives each of the major characters his own distinct voice and keeps them consistent throughout the book.
No more free passes for Mister Grisham, not after the hugely disappointing The Broker. Now I approach every new Grisham book as a I would a new author. Interestingly this book is a sequel to one Grisham wrote when he was a new author and yes, it's just as good.
"Did Max really write this?"
Somewhere in the first chapter I went back to Audible to make sure I hadn't bought a book by someone with a similar name. Nope, Max Allan Collins it says. I checked the copyright date, thinking this must be a re-released version of really early book, but no, 2013 it is.
The dialog is strange. One second a person is screaming hysterically, the next speaking calmly to the killer, then more hysteria. And what a strange plot - a traumatized teenager is institutionalized and doesn't speak one word for ten years, then sees a news report on TV and is instantly as normal as apple pie. Well, maybe rhubarb pie.
I had read almost everything Collins has written and loved it. This book was a big disappointment. It is so different from his usual tight plots and sparkling dialog that I wondered if he hadn't collaborated with someone but forgot to mention it to the publisher.
It seems to get a little better as time goes on, but sure never rose to the level of good. I think listening to Dan John Miller kept reminding me of the many hours I spent with him and Nate Heller, and that kept my hopes alive.
If you've never read Collins before, do yourself a favor and don't start with this one. Read everything else he's ever written first, you'll thank me.
"I liked it so much I bought the print version"
I bought the print version for one main reason: to give to my wife, who always figures out the whodunnits while I am still floundering amid the clues and red herrings. Let's see her sort THIS one out!
You won't be able to say that the clues are obscure or concealed. Inspector Appleby reviews the facts and summarizes the case frequently, just in case you might have missed something. There was one bit that I thought was downplayed a bit for all its significance, but since my wife is an RN she should probably pick up on it. We'll see.
Anyway, it's classic stuff, English manor house, motives, means, opportunities, spies, a very clever mystery writer guest, and an even more clever inspector. There's an anagram that's about as subtle as Rumred, and a little forensic stuff for good measure. High society and political bigwigs in antebellum (WWII) England round out the cast.
Some knowledge of Shakespeare's Hamlet will help, maybe just the Cliff Notes or Wikipedia version.
Great narration. My first Matt Addis, and I'm looking forward to many more.
The only downside to reading this book is, I feel a little like I did when I first read Ngaio Marsh and then discovered that she had written scores of like books! Innes wrote a lot of books too. So many great books, so few credits remain. Maybe Audible will let me renew early.
"A Seamless Transition from the Parker Series"
It's not completely clear whether this book is all-original by Robert Knott, or his completion of a Robert B. Parker manuscript. The title sure suggests Parker started it, and the text copyright is given as "the estate of Robert B. Parker". But an author interview online makes it sound like Knott wrote the whole thing. Knott does appear to be uniquely qualified to pick up Parker's torch, as he co-wrote (with Ed Harris) the screenplay for Appaloosa, based on the first book in the Parker series.
In any case, if it didn't have Knott's name on it you wouldn't guess it wasn't written by Parker. It's written completely in the style that Parker developed for Marshall Virgil Cole and his Deputy Everett Hitch - tough, laconic, fair-minded, decisive, courteous to the ladies and the bad guys' worst nightmares. A little like having two Gary Coopers in High Noon. Virgil does have a breaking point though. He would normally not kill a man unless he was looking him in the eye, but this one SOB abused horses, so ...
Virgil and Everett are back, wrapped up with train robbers of the meanest sort and damsels in distress of the purest sort. The book's a classic western in the tradition of Eastwood's spaghetti westerns. There's never any doubt that the good guys are going to prevail, but it's a lot of fun to watch them do it.
Titus Welliver has narrated every book in the Cole-Hitch audiobook series, and he's the perfect man for the job. Some of the dialog between Virgil and Everett consists of a series of one or two word statements (they never quite say "yup"); Welliver delivers these lines flawlessly, and you're never aware of the author's "Virgil said" or "Everett said". It's like listening to a dialog in a movie.
Newcomers to the series shouldn't miss out on much by starting with this book or any other in the series - the back-story is suggested but not necessary to enjoy the book. Virgil's girlfriend Allie French doesn't make an appearance, but there are several references to her, none necessary to the plot.
This is a great read. I hope Robert Knott carries right on with this remarkable series.
P.S. One quibble: Virgil and Everett backtrack along a railroad line to find Bloody Bob Brandice, who jumped off a quarter-mile back. When Everett says they walked "about a hundred furlongs or so" that tells me he's never watched a horse race. Maybe a hundred rods, if he wants old English measures.
"Just a dramatized history lesson"
Gingrich and Forstchen had a great idea when they came up with what they called "Active History": examining how history would have changed by altering a single pivotal event. What would have happened if Robert E. Lee had won at Gettysburg? What would have happened if the Japanese had pressed their immediate advantage at Pearl Harbor and wiped out the Naval Base's ship repair facilities? It's a wonderful concept, and made for many hours of fascinating reading.
This book is just a history story. Nothing is changed. They have just taken the bare facts of Washington's assault on Trenton and puts words in the mouths of the characters, some historical and some fictional. They tell us how cold it was, how ill-equipped the troops were, and generally they try to add verisimilitude. They let us listen in as Thomas Paine, sitting by a camp fire, hears some soldier talk about how trying the times were, trying his very soul ("Catchy phrase - maybe I can use it!")
The narration was way over the top. I kept getting flashbacks of Jon Lovitz on Saturday Night Live in his role as "Master Thespian", flinging out his arm and declaring "Acting!" Dufris narrates as if he were auditioning for some stage production, playing each character and scene as larger than life.
A mighty big disappointment to me. I won't be reading the rest in this series. Maybe G&F will come up with some more "active history" and win me back.
"Ready for the Musical"
Nobody's reading reviews of this book trying to decide if it's worth reading. Scott Turow's fame plus the fact that Presumed Innocent was made into a Harrison Ford movie pretty much guarantees that.
But is it worth reading again? Absolutely. I had previously read the print version and seen the movie, and now I've listened to the audio version. Knowing whodunnit from the outset didn't take anything away from Turow's artistry - it's just a treat to hear a great storyteller tell a great story. And Edward Herrmann is just the right guy to give voice to this excellent bit of courtroom drama.
So, if they make it a musical, I'll go see that too!
"Better writing than plotting"
I picked this book up from Audible's list of Edgar winners (best in show, 1983). I was drawn to the publisher's description of a protagonist who sounds a lot like Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford. Both called Doc (Ford a PhD, Adams a surgeon), both live on the water, both are a lot smarter than the villains who surround them. Boyer's Doc Adams is not an ex-black ops guy, but he seems to have picked up some moves somewhere that Doc Ford would appreciate. I expect Rick Boyer would like to have had White's success, but he hasn't, and this book may hold a clue to why.
The plot seemed weak and not particularly credible. I was never convinced that Doc Adams had any good reason to set out trying to locate the boat he initially sees high and dry on the novel's eponymous shoal. The police in the novel were portrayed as amiable dunces, willing to go along with Doc Adams and usually defer to him. The incident in which Doc Adams' wrist is broken comes out of the blue, making you think it's something sinister. It's not, and it makes no serious contribution to the plot, except to give the hero time off from work to be a hero.
It's become obligatory in the genre for the good guy to suffer grievous bodily harm at the hands of the bad guys. Doc Adams does. A lot of authors describe these beating in detail. Boyer just says, through Adams' voice, that he couldn't describe it. And, like all those other beat-up good guys, Adams comes right back, complaining every few paragraphs of this ache or that pain or of feeling woozy. Not credible.
That said, Boyer does paint very fine scenes for his characters to act in. The atmosphere of New England's waterways and watermen is compelling. You can feel the rain and wind when Adams is off on his solo quest to find the missing ship. The dialog is good too, intelligent, and witty when needed. This sort of textured writing would make a decent plot into a first-class book.
Christopher Lane has one of those radio announcer voices that are very easy to listen to. He has a good range of different characterizations that let him consistently identify the character speaking. His female voice is pretty good too, although if I heard it in a singles' bar I would definitely be sneaking a peek at the old adam's apple.
On the whole, a book for a slow day.


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LONDON -- A fire broke out in a furnace of Essar Energy's Stanlow refinery in the UK on Saturday, but it has since been extinguished and isn't affecting deliveries to customers, Andrew Turpin, a company spokesman, said Monday.
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Chicago turns to Sale after Wednesday's weather-related postponement
The Astros return to Minute Maid Park on Friday, and are in need of some much needed home cooking.
Houston just barely avoided a winless six-game road trip by striking for six runs in the ninth inning for the comeback victory against the Mariners on Wednesday.
The win, however, doesn't overshadow the struggles the club endured on the road. Until that final frame, the Astros managed to score a grand total of seven runs in the first five games of the road trip.
They'll face a resurgent White Sox team, which has won three of four, and is coming off a tough stretch of their own in which they lost 10 of 11.
Taking the mound for the Astros will be Erik Bedard, who is coming off a tough outing in Kansas City. Bedard had allowed two runs or less in six straight starts before surrendering six against the Royals.
In that start, the southpaw allowed eight hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings.
Chris Sale starts for the White Sox, with his outing originally scheduled for Wednesday before weather postponed the game.
Sale, like Bedard, is coming off a tough start after a string of good ones. The White Sox lefty allowed four runs in his last outing against Oakland, and had surrendered the same number of runs in his previous four starts.
That outing against the Athletics snapped a string of seven straight starts where Sale allowed two earned runs or less.
Sale was undone by a grand slam by Josh Donaldson in what would be Sale's only major mistake of the night.
"Just one pitch came back to bite me," Sale said. "It just kept going. It shows you how important one pitch can be in a ballgame."
Friday will mark the third game for the White Sox southpaw after returning from mild tendinitis earlier in the month.
"It's nice to get back out there and just be a part of the rotation again," Sale said. "Obviously, there are going to be some things that are going to come up that we're going to have to handle. We're not looking forward to that. We're not planning on that, but it's nice to get back out there."
White Sox: Chicago to trot out four lefties
• Wednesday's postponement marked the fourth time this season that a game has had to be rescheduled at U.S. Cellular Field. That's the most since 2008, when there were five such occurrences.
Because of the postponement, the White Sox have had to alter their rotation plans to adjust.
Sale will pitch Friday, and left-handers John Danks, Hector Santiago and Jose Quintana will follow.
Getting bumped in the process is Dylan Axelrod, who had his start moved to what will likely be Tuesday.
• The White Sox have won three of their last four, and a big reason has been the resurgence of their offense.
Chicago has scored 23 runs in their last four games, and have hit eight home runs during that streak. This is coming off a 17-game stretch in which the White Sox hit only five home runs.
Astros: Club looking to build from tough stretch
• After winning seven of eight in their best stretch of the season, the Astros had suddenly found themselves in the midst of a five-game losing skid.
"This is a challenging time, but there will be more challenging times as the season goes along. As their careers go on, you will have challenging times, and it's the guys who are able to come out on the other side that end up having ultimate success," Astros manager Bo Porter said prior to the club's 6-1 win against the Mariners.
This stretch has been helped by seven errors on defense, including two in Wednesday's night victory.
"It's something that we talked about early back in Spring Training," Porter said. "We are all men, one of the first steps to being a man is when you do something that is not right is to just stand up and accept responsibility for it."
• Astros starters have posted a 3.11 ERA in 27 games since May 15, which ranks 2nd in the American League in that span. They trail only Oakland during that time frame.
• Bedard's start will mark his 201st career Major League start. He has 64 career victories, compared to the 65 combined wins among the Astros' other four starters.
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Bedard will make his 10th career start against the White Sox on Friday. Bedard is 3-2 with a 3.90 ERA in his previous nine career starts against the White Sox, with 55 strikeouts in 55 1/3 innings.
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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