Harper Audio

If you're the kind of reader who must finish a book no matter how disappointing, you might want to save time by simply avoiding these current offerings from three marquee-name writers.

In Fool, Moore's sell is his Pythonesque-meets-Austin-Powers dialogue and descriptors, delivered on these CDs with sly British sincerity and skill by Euan Morton.

This plot is like Hamburger Helper. There's a modest ingredient somewhere in there, to which is added a whole lot of filler in an attempt to bulk up a meager meal.