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Category: Books and Audiobooks

I really love audiobooks. A good story is the best thing.

The Unknown Public

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I found all my copies of the Unknown Public today. I’d forgotten about them for the most part, so I may decide to re-listen to the entire collection from January.

I wish that the Unknown Public hadn’t finished. It was such a good idea. It was meant to be a quarterly publication about new music. I don’t think it ever managed to be quarterly. At best you might see 2 a year published. It started in the 1990’s and is long gone now although the website still exists. As far as I can see it hasn’t been updated in a long time now, but never mind. The editions I have are still lovely.

Finished Serpent Crest

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It was a great story and I really enjoyed it. fantastic stuff. I’m so looking forward to the new Big Finish seasons that come out in January. The sooner the better in fact, although I hope that I do hope that there’s another one of these 5 part stories again at some point.

Serpent Crest 4 and 5

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Finally the last two episodes of Serpent Crest are out. I’ve been listening to them today and so far I’ve really enjoyed them. I won’t give away the story, but it’s a good one and I’ve no idea how it’s going to end, which is fun.

I’m looking forward to finishing this story off, and then getting to the next 4 seasons of 4th Doctor in Jan. Excellent stuff!

Handmade Electronic Music

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks, Creative Process, Tech

I love this book. I have the paperback edition somewhere but I can’t find it right now, so I decided to buy the iBooks version as part of a plan to be able to make some of the circuits using iCircuit on my iPhone.

I realise that this sort of defeats the object, but when you’re on a train it isn’t easy (or advisable) to start soldering. There would be unpleasant consequences I should imagine.

Anyway, that’s my plan, and we’ll see how it works out, but if you don’t know this book, then it is excellent if you want to get into DIY electronics.

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Serpent Crest 3 – Listened

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I finished listening to the 3rd part of this new 4th Doctor story today. I have to say it was very unusual indeed, but I really enjoyed it and I have no idea where the story is going now.

I’m hoping that the last 2 episodes will get released before Christmas. Something to look forward to right?

Program or be Programmed

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I posted about this book when I bought it. I started reading it yesterday and it has really grabbed me. I think it is going to be a really excellent read and has already challenged a few assumptions of mine.