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There are so many it is hard to know where,to start. Michael Connelly has the Harry Bosch series about a homicide investigator in LA. Kathy Reichs with her Temperance Brennan character. Much better than the character on the TV series. In the books she is likeable. Nic Costa series by...

Yes that was the name of the place. Books on Tape and they had a store in Delray Beach. When it closed I found the alternative. I really liked Jim Dale doing the Harry Potter series and then he was the voice narrator on a short lived sit com.

Don't forget the Hercules movie with a young Arnold Schwarzenegger with his voice dubbed. It was so bad I would have run from the theater but I had my daughter with me.

I got hooked on audio books a long time ago. I spent most of the day in a vehicle and listening to audio books allowed me to "read" fiction books I did not otherwise have time to read. Also great for long trips. I started with tapes then CD's which I checked out of the library. Then picked...

It is a good thread and allowed me to join in voicing some objections I have with modern writers and media. I like Parker's books about Spencer and many more. But Spencer and other characters I like are likeable. MacGiver was likeable but Caruso in CIS Miami isn't likeable. For that matter...

Amen on Caruso. I like the Las Vegas CSI and even the New York version notwithstanding the defects you mentioned but watch Miami CSI no way. Don't care for Caruso or the show. When I first saw it and saw them driving a Hummer I almost fell out of the chair laughing. And the scenes...

Chiangmaifalcon & Velocipede2288 You have both mentioned incidents which occur in books, tv and movies which annoy the heck out of me. Guns which have no safeties or no external safeties appear often in books. The good guy fixing to go after the bad guy racks a round into his gun, which would...

Early crime reading This started in the later 1950's and onward. Having and older sister I started reading her Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames books while in elementary school and then the library opened up to me the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift books. There was another series of books I read which I...