Category: Books

We Don’t Talk Enough About ‘Dark Shadows’ audiobooks

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“Dark Shadows,” the much beloved gothic soap opera, marks its 60th anniversary this month.

The show ran but for five years, from 1966-1971, but its afterlife seems eternal.

The entire series is available on DVD, in a gorgeous coffin set, with hours of extras.

Over the years, the serial has been repurposed and rebooted into everything from big-screen films, a primetime series, comic books, paperback novels, a newspaper comic strip, “making-of” tribute books, trading cards, t-shirts, jigsaw puzzles, a ViewMaster set, and even bobbleheads.

And yet even some of the most ardent fans know nothing of the audiobooks.

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‘On Tyranny’ is More Vital than Ever.

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With Shitler and First Lady Elon Musk taking power, ushering the United States into an era of unprecedented fascism, Timothy Snyder’s 2017 book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” is the guidebook for concerned citizens.

“…the history of modern democracy is also one of decline and fall,” he notes in his foreword.

“Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy fall to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.”

The first warning is the most presicient:

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Can America ‘Hold the Line’?

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There have been many books about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Doubtless there will be many more to come.

But you will be hard-pressed to find one more visceral, more frightening, more damning that Michael Fanone’s “Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul.”

Fanone, in video footage of that day seen round the world, was a Metropolitan Police Department officer defending the Capitol when the angry mob of Trump supporters yanked him out of the building and almost killed him.

He was repeatedly Tased, beaten with a Blue Lives Matter flagpole, and kicked.

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No Way to Treat a Dame

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Dame Agatha Christie (Photo: Christie Archive Trust)
Dame Agatha Christie (Photo: Christie Archive Trust)

It’s a puzzle almost worthy of the Queen of Mystery.

Why is someone sabotaging the works of Agatha Christie?

Christie is the mostly widely published writer in the world, selling more than 2 billion books worldwide, second only to the Bible and Shakespeare, according to her publisher William Morrow.

But for a writer so lucrative, why is William Morrow doing such a criminally poor job showcasing Christie’s work?

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