William Bostock hits the site with a splash, releasing all 28 episodes of his serialized audiobook, Searching for My Wives:
One and one-half million years ago, Humankind struggles to emerge from the protohuman stocks in Africa. Two groups of souls collide: Shimmer, his wives Sita and Ahalya, Silver, and Old Shiver stand for life and love, but Murk eggs on Mud, Muck, Mire, and Matsch to slaughter and despoil. Life after life, from Kenya to the Ganges, Shimmer fights the old destroyer, all the while desiring time to find and share lives with his wives.
If you want them all right now, all episodes are in the default feed. Or if you like piecing them out over time (my preference) get a custom feed and choose how often episodes are sent to you.
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December 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
A book I want to like. Have to be in the right mood and be able to really concentrate. Has evocative images and concepts. Voice is smoothly delivered. It is, however, easy to get a little lost. The print version may be a better choice. Am hanging in for the time being.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Thanks for your comment, Barry. Were you one of the “early adopters”?
I have been surprized at how very few people have cancelled their subscriptions to the book. The text does have the advantage of being linear — this happens, then that happens, without flashbacks — but by its nature the action jumps around from one continent to another, and then there are all those dates interspersed in the narration — I could never keep track of them if I were just listening. Fortunately, following the story does not depend on doing mental arithmetic!
I am gratified to hear that you even have patience to understand the concepts. It is a most unWestern book, I am afraid, nearly Hindu. In fact, if you are familiar with the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, then many of the names and some of the action will be recognizable, although seen from a different point of view.
You mention “the print version”. We have a little problem there. There is no print version. However, I do have a PDF file that I could send out to anyone interested. (At least I can make that offer at present.)
How far along in the book are you? I notice that one or two people’s subscriptions are nearing the end. ( I hope that they have been able to listen!)
Again, many thanks for your thoughtful comment.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:01 am
A Methodically Detailed Journey Across Primordial Time
This is a great book to curl up with at bedtime. The prose evokes vivid, panoramic images of the many lifetimes of Shimmer, Sita, Ahalya, and Old Shiver. A conical if you will, of their fight for humanities humanness against Murk and his thugs. While from lifetime to lifetime we watch the development of the soul in animal and human form here on earth. This story is the real, “Out of Africa” for the reincarnation buff. Don’t try and take it all in at once, this is a book to be savored.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Thank you for your appreciative comment, Rhonda. I am very happy that the book spoke to you.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I’m listening to Episode 20 right now. I notice your files don’t have any cover art. Doesn’t keep me from listening, of course. Very well written and well read. “Searching for my Wives” feels like one of those books that, years from now, people will still talk about, and share, and even teach, I think.
And after listening to you, I tend to write and talk a bit more like you. Which I count as a good thing!
Griz
July 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Grizzly — Thank you very much for the approving comment. It means a lot to hear that “Searching for My Wives” found another interested listener/reader. (Don’t know what to say about that cover art; the thumbnail was popped into each file, but things happen …) I like your choice of books to read, by the way. Ernest Thompson Seton (or Ernest S. Thompson) was prominent on the bookshelf in the cottage at Cape Cod where I spent childhood summers. Sad stories, in part, but realistic. “Flatland” is a classic, too, and good to see out and about again.
William
February 9th, 2010 at 11:37 am
didn’t make it through the first chapter
the “explict and graphic” warning at the beginning is well deserved