{"id":366,"date":"2011-06-16T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T03:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-06-16T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T03:19:58","slug":"audiobook-abandoned-at-the-mountains-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2011\/06\/audiobook-abandoned-at-the-mountains-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Abandoned: At the Mountains of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the weather has turned better, I&#8217;m listening to audiobooks while walking the dog again.\u00a0 The first one didn&#8217;t turn out so well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Title: At the Mountains of Madness<br \/>\nAuthor: H.P. Lovecraft<br \/>\nSource: Uvula Audio<br \/>\nURL: <a title=\"Uvula Audio in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvulaaudio.com\/books.html\">http:\/\/www.uvulaaudio.com\/books.html<\/a> and scroll down the page<\/p>\n<p>I remember reading a fair bit of Lovecraft when I was younger, and being captivated by it.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell at the moment if this is a particularly non-sterling example of his writing, or if I&#8217;ve just moved on.\u00a0 I abandoned listening to this halfway through the first chapter (of 6).\u00a0 It was putting me to sleep while driving, which is a really bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>The reader was doing quite a creditable job, but the prose style of endless descriptive sentences, with nary a dialog or character to be seen, was soporific.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re currently a fan of Lovecraft, you might want to give these free downloads a try.\u00a0 Otherwise, pass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the weather has turned better, I&#8217;m listening to audiobooks while walking the dog again.\u00a0 The first one didn&#8217;t turn out so well&#8230; Title: At the Mountains of Madness Author: H.P. Lovecraft Source: Uvula Audio URL: http:\/\/www.uvulaaudio.com\/books.html and scroll down the page I remember reading a fair bit of Lovecraft when I was younger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}