Audible is offering some series-beginning audiobooks for $4.95! A few of the genre titles on the list:
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The whole list (which I assume will display only to Audible members) is HERE.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
$4.95 Series Starters at Audible
Killing Floor by Lee Child, which I talked about on the most recent podcast, is on that list too!
Note that one of the books that you’ve called out, Barrayar, is actually the 2nd book of the Vorkosigan series; the first novel is Shards of Honor (which is also available at Audible, just not for $4.95). The two are very much connected, with Barrayar basically picking up a few days after Shards of Honor ends, so you may as well buy both. :-)
Yeah, the first book in a series idea often is kind of not obvious. Alan Dean Foster’s series, for example, is totally mixed up – but I think Scott’s notion that we should generally read the books in publication order makes sense to me.
Incidentally, Alderete, I’d love to talk to you via skype. I’m enjoying your blog. My skype is is:
jessewillis
That IS odd, Alderete – Barrayar is neither the first book chronologically nor publicativly. (Thank you, thank you, I’m phoning Webster to get credit for that word.)
“Publistically” might be a better option there.