When I am not listening to all of those podcasts I keep going on about, I am generally listening to an audio book. I just started Brad Meltzer’s latest, The Book of Lies. Most of us are familiar with Meltzer from his work on Identity Crisis and Justice League of America. My wife and I are big fans of his novels.
To date, my favorite is The Book of Fate. The Wife’s is The Tenth Justice. Both of these books are political thrillers.
I am only seven chapters into the audio book, but apparently the story makes the connection between the murder of the Bible’s Abel by Cain and the murder of Mitchell Siegel, the father of Jerry Siegel. That’s right, the creator of Superman.
Beyond the fact that I was grabbed by the story from the get-go, I was thrilled to find that Scott Brick performs the narrating chores. Brother Brick is a terrific voice actor bringing a solid talent to the work. I’m a fan.
I have enjoyed Brick’s voicing on many books, most notably the recent Dune books by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Frank’s boy). In fact, I was listening today and one of the characters in BoL sounded a little like Duncan Idaho from Sandworms of Dune. For the briefest of moments I thought that was the Atreides Ghola Sword Master talking to a homeless guy. And I wondered, “What’s the universal super being doing in Florida?”
I’m getting a kick out of Brick’s work here, and Meltzer’s story promises to be a good one.
I see that Meltzer’s in town next week. Gonna have to go and see him. Perhaps I will have him sign my iPod.
