Kelly Link Audio

Posted on July 17, 2005
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At Telltale Weekly they are having a special with some of their audiobooks available for free. I listened to Kelly Link’s story “Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water” and really liked it. I’ve heard a lot about her work but haven’t read any myself. This story was good enough to make me seek some more out.

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    7 Responses to “Kelly Link Audio”

    1. PJ Cabrera on July 19th, 2005 1:03 am

      Being the TWAC freeloader that I am, guess where I’m a-going to?

      Hee haw! :-)

    2. PJ Cabrera on July 19th, 2005 1:05 am

      BTW, I’m doing some testing with Tor (tor.eff.org). Check your logs for “weird” activity. :-)

    3. pam on July 23rd, 2005 2:35 pm

      It’s a good short story, but being a provincial yutz, I didn’t figure out that the main character was female until halfway through. She speaks in first person; the narrator’s voice was male; there was no clue given until she said she wished she could marry her friend Jak. If it weren’t for the subjective reality yank, I’d've enjoyed it more.

    4. dave on July 24th, 2005 10:38 am

      Pam, this was established pretty early. Here are the first four paragraphs of the story:

      A few years ago, Jack dropped the C from his name and became Jak. He called me up at breakfast one morning to tell me He said he was frying bacon for breakfast and that all his roommates were away. He said that he was walking around stark naked. He could have been telling the truth, I don’t know. I could hear something spitting and hissing in the background that could have been bacon, or maybe it was just static on the line.

      Jak keeps a journal in which he records the dreams he has about making love to his ex-girlfriend Nikki, who looks like Sandy Duncan. Nikki is now married to someone else. In the most recent dream, Jak says, Nikki had a wooden leg. Sandy Duncan has a glass eye in real life. Jak calls me up to tell me this dream.

      He calls to say that he is in love with the woman who does the Braun coffee-maker commercial, the one with the short blond hair, like Nikki, and eyes that are dreamy and a little too far apart. He can’t tell from the commercial if she has a wooden leg, but he watches TV every night, in the hopes of seeing her again.

      If I were blond, I could fall in love with Jak.

      By this point, I had figured out that the narrator was probably a woman, even though it was read by a man.

    5. Ellen Kushner on July 26th, 2005 3:20 pm

      Hey, Dave! Great to see you online - Bob Lyons at WGBH tells me you’ve become one of the Princes of Podcasting . . . now all I have to do is buy one of those suckas.

      When you have a chance, please check out our new baby, http://www.InterstitialArts.org

      Keep on Doing!
      e

    6. Tilted Edge on July 28th, 2005 7:41 am

      Psst Ellen,

      You don’t need an iPod to listen to podcasts. You don’t even need an MP3 player. You can listen on your computer so there is nothing you need to buy.

    7. Rolf - Audio Books on February 19th, 2007 10:27 am

      Dave
      We have a good selection from the BBC comdey radio shows online for free download:
      http://www.audiobookscorner.com/free.html

      … and whilst you are on the site: Use the Advanced Search Function and add FREE to the price range you seek, there are more free audio books available.

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