Prolific narrator Mary Peiffer and Broadway singer and actress Judy Kaye bring Millhone’s tough and sarcastic character to life. Starting in the ‘80s in a fictional California town, we follow along in alphabetical order as the divorced ex-cop-turned-PI tackles all kinds of cases and no-gooders, from scammers to murderers. Up with audiobooks and that sort of thing.If you like your PIs wise and armed with a smart mouth, please let me introduce you to one of the savviest, sassiest, and most popular: Kinsey Millhone. 'Comparing audio books to cheating,' He says, 'Is like meeting a friend at Disneyland and saying “you took a bus here? I drove myself, you big cheater.”' In fact, Daniel says that, in calling listening to audiobooks 'cheating' you refer to consuming books as a chore. However, he argues that most texts aren't that complicated and so, in reading, you're doing what the audiobook would do automatically. The argument is that audiobooks put prosody in for you whereas in reading, you have to work it out yourself. The answer comes down to 'prosody' - which refers to 'changes in pacing, pitch and rhythmn in speech'. 'Does your mind do more or less the same thing when you listen to an audiobook and when you read print? The answer is "mostly"' He says. See, Daniel Willingham, a psychologist from the University of Washington (I reckon he's got a few more qualifications than you old boss lady) got so irked about this question that he wrote a blog post about it. 'CAN'T YOU READ?!" She trilled, before walking off down the office, laughing merrily, leaving everyone in my wake staring at my sorry, presumably illiterate self. One time, I told my old boss I listened to audiobooks. Good news fellow audiobook listeners - audiobooks definitely aren't 'cheating'.
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