As everyone knows, Bev is a BIG fan of audiobooks and Audible, the UK's largest provider of downloadable audiobooks.
Anyway, two nice things have happened this month - firstly, Bev downloaded Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer, which she thoroughly enjoyed. This is a story about a freak incident which gives people a glimpse of their lives 20 years in the future, raising interesting questions about free-will, the possibility of the future being pre-determined, and the impact such visions could have on future inventions and the economy. If your future vision showed a company on the brink of bankruptcy, what would you do? Move your investment somewhere else, bringing about the very vision you saw in the future? Thought-provoking is how Bev described it, and despite a serious lack of knowledge about particle physics, she found it rivetting.
The next nice thing that happened to Bev was that she found that she had a free credit in her Audible account. Curious, she contacted Audible to find out if this was a mistake or not, only to discover (to her delight) that they had used her review of Flashforward in their monthly newsletter and had given her a free audio credit to use on any book of her choice between now and November 2010!
Thank you Audible for making Bev a happy person by providing such a fascinating book and for giving her a free credit! Oh, and by the way, take it from Bev that the book of Flashforward is a million times better than the series on Channel 5 that is based on the book. The TV series is trying to be all things to all people - part mystery, part spooky tale, party conspiracy theory - and is being stretched over 22 episodes so loses the strong and focused story line of the book. Listen to Bev's advice and read the book! You won't be disappointed and may even learn something interesting about particle physics, large Hadron Colliders and the Higgs Boson :-)
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