206 bones
5 journalers for this copy...
Unabridged audiobook, exchanged for a defective audiobook (purchased earlier in the week) at Nan's Pre-Owned Books in Grover Beach two days ago.
A two-fer! Good deal, if you have a CD player that reads MP3s. The main book, 206 Bones, is a standard CD audiobook. The bonus book, Deja Dead, is on mp3.
The hero of both novels is Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist. This series is the inspiration for the television series "Bones" but the Tempe Brennan in the television series, while also a forensic anthropologist, does not in other ways resemble the book version. The author says she is the "younger version" but the differences are just too great. It's creative liberty.
206 Bones:
Brennan escorts a set of bones from a 59-year-old accident victim to its ultimate destination city, Chicago, with police investigator Andrew Ryan, from Quebec. Brennan works part time in Quebec, assisting with investigations there, and part time in Charlotte, and has been asked to accompany the bones. When she arrives and speaks with a representative of the Chicago Morgue, she learns that she has been accused of mishandling the investigation of the case, and that it is in fact a murder, not an accident.
Brennan explains her analysis and successfully maintains her integrity, but learns that some anonymous person called the morgue to accuse her of wrongdoing. She has an enemy.
Well, frankly, she seems to have an enemy in every novel. I see a certain pattern: she pursues the answer to some puzzling murder, usually series of murders, and eventually becomes a target herself. And so it is here.
Bones are found of an elderly female - back in Quebec. Eventually Brennan sees three cases of elderly female victims, and possibly four, and wonders if there is a serial killer around.
Meanwhile, back in the lab, she is contending with a newer employee who seems overanxious to help. This employee takes advantage of some of Brennan's absences to find answers in the bones Brennan has in her lab, and presumably solves cases that stumped Brennan. For various reasons Brennan second-guesses herself. Could she have missed those bones? Did she not see that discoloration? It isn't until well into the book that she suspects what I - and probably every other reader - suspected from the beginning - that perhaps this employee has manipulated the goods.
There are many layers of investigations going on here and I love the detail given to the police work and the forensic investigations. I don't as much like the character of T. Brennan. She seems a bit of a snob and in her first-person descriptions often resorts to snarky comments about others. I know it is supposed to be witty but I found it annoying and condescending. I have a hard time finding the real vulnerable being inside. Sometimes we are told how vulnerable she is but rarely are we really shown.
Deja Dead:
I read this book a while back yet I did not remember a lot of it! Read by a different person - Amy Irving - I found it interesting to compare the sense of Brennan I got from the reading by Linda Emond (of 206 Bones) with this book. In general I think I prefer Irving. She does not come across quite as flippant and snarky. But her reading seems a little bit all of one note.
In Deja Dead, Brennan first meets Andrew Ryan (who later becomes a love interest) and does not have to deal with difficult persons in her own office. The cases are of young women who have been horribly mutilated both ante- and post-mortem. Brennan sees similarities in some cases that the police detective Luc Claudel refuses to recognize. Always zealous in her pursuits, she often places herself in danger - perhaps always places herself in danger is more accurate - and of course does so here.
I do enjoy the forensic aspects and the other bits of information that Reichs feels compelled to offer, and her plotting is done well, holds together, while of course improbable. The details of the investigations keep me reading.
The hero of both novels is Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist. This series is the inspiration for the television series "Bones" but the Tempe Brennan in the television series, while also a forensic anthropologist, does not in other ways resemble the book version. The author says she is the "younger version" but the differences are just too great. It's creative liberty.
206 Bones:
Brennan escorts a set of bones from a 59-year-old accident victim to its ultimate destination city, Chicago, with police investigator Andrew Ryan, from Quebec. Brennan works part time in Quebec, assisting with investigations there, and part time in Charlotte, and has been asked to accompany the bones. When she arrives and speaks with a representative of the Chicago Morgue, she learns that she has been accused of mishandling the investigation of the case, and that it is in fact a murder, not an accident.
Brennan explains her analysis and successfully maintains her integrity, but learns that some anonymous person called the morgue to accuse her of wrongdoing. She has an enemy.
Well, frankly, she seems to have an enemy in every novel. I see a certain pattern: she pursues the answer to some puzzling murder, usually series of murders, and eventually becomes a target herself. And so it is here.
Bones are found of an elderly female - back in Quebec. Eventually Brennan sees three cases of elderly female victims, and possibly four, and wonders if there is a serial killer around.
Meanwhile, back in the lab, she is contending with a newer employee who seems overanxious to help. This employee takes advantage of some of Brennan's absences to find answers in the bones Brennan has in her lab, and presumably solves cases that stumped Brennan. For various reasons Brennan second-guesses herself. Could she have missed those bones? Did she not see that discoloration? It isn't until well into the book that she suspects what I - and probably every other reader - suspected from the beginning - that perhaps this employee has manipulated the goods.
There are many layers of investigations going on here and I love the detail given to the police work and the forensic investigations. I don't as much like the character of T. Brennan. She seems a bit of a snob and in her first-person descriptions often resorts to snarky comments about others. I know it is supposed to be witty but I found it annoying and condescending. I have a hard time finding the real vulnerable being inside. Sometimes we are told how vulnerable she is but rarely are we really shown.
Deja Dead:
I read this book a while back yet I did not remember a lot of it! Read by a different person - Amy Irving - I found it interesting to compare the sense of Brennan I got from the reading by Linda Emond (of 206 Bones) with this book. In general I think I prefer Irving. She does not come across quite as flippant and snarky. But her reading seems a little bit all of one note.
In Deja Dead, Brennan first meets Andrew Ryan (who later becomes a love interest) and does not have to deal with difficult persons in her own office. The cases are of young women who have been horribly mutilated both ante- and post-mortem. Brennan sees similarities in some cases that the police detective Luc Claudel refuses to recognize. Always zealous in her pursuits, she often places herself in danger - perhaps always places herself in danger is more accurate - and of course does so here.
I do enjoy the forensic aspects and the other bits of information that Reichs feels compelled to offer, and her plotting is done well, holds together, while of course improbable. The details of the investigations keep me reading.
Reserved for one or another of the books-on-CD audio book boxes I have joined.
Reserved for booklady331's audio book box.
Sent off in booklady331's audio book box to the next person in line.
Pulled this one out of booklady331's CD-only AudioBookBox, which arrived over the weekend.
I do recall listening to Deja Dead, by this author, awhile back.
I do recall listening to Deja Dead, by this author, awhile back.
This was fairly interesting, and I liked the way they solved the various cases, but this writer just isn't quite Patricia cornwell.....
I guess after listening to so many of these thrillers, you do start to see some plots repeating themselves a bit.
Will release into a box soon.....
I guess after listening to so many of these thrillers, you do start to see some plots repeating themselves a bit.
Will release into a box soon.....
Journal Entry 8 by BigJohnLefty at BigJohnLefty's Another AudiobookBox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, January 15, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (1/15/2012 UTC) at BigJohnLefty's Another AudiobookBox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Am putting this into my "Another CD-Only AudioBookBox" for round two! Hope this finds a good home!
I pulled this one from BigJohnLefty's audio book box.
This is going in the audio book box.
A life that is like a circle,
it starts with a bone
that you come back to chew on.
it starts with a bone
that you come back to chew on.
This lucky little audiobook has become part of HI77's Audio BookBox #2!
https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/573907
Hopefully it will find many new readers to enjoy it! ;)
https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/573907
Hopefully it will find many new readers to enjoy it! ;)
Taken from bookbox.
