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A friend spends a lot of time working and listening to music. She is getting interested in audiobooks. Any stuff you all like out there? I imagine that not every good read translates into a good listen.

Thanks.

onealjn wrote:A friend spends a lot of time working and listening to music. She is getting interested in audiobooks. Any stuff you all like out there? I imagine that not every good read translates into a good listen.

Thanks.

I have heard that the audiobook of "World War Z" is great; that the various "interviews" are performed by several different good actors.

Listened to Gaiman's Ananzi Boys (sp?). It was really good. That is the sum total of my experience with audiobooks outside some interview with the Dalai Lama.

Sorry for the possible spellings errors. I can't to reach any sites other than IGx.

Screw the cost. I go to the library or use newsgroups.

I have the America book from the Daily Show people, pretty entertaining.

Vince flynn's audiobooks are also good, charlie wilson's war while extremely long (15 hours of audio) was very entertaining.

project gutenberg is put alot of their books on mp3, older stuff but free.

Not fiction, but the audiobook of Eiger Dreams is read by the author. Same guy who wrote Into Thin Air. This is a collection of essays on mountaineering. Lots of interesting topics: profiles of the guys who fly rescue planes on Denali, the free-climber John Gill, etc. It's very, very good. I haven't listened to many audiobooks, but this was my best experience.

Anything read by Frederick Davidson is really good, IMHO. Wonderful voice actor.

The BBC has a five disc collection of classic short stories. Some are duds (especially on the first CD), but most are pretty good and the readers are, for the most part, outstanding.

If you use them to make you commute bearable, you may find yourself driving around the block a couple of times to find out how things end.

Stories from:
Poe
Kipling
Hawthorne
Saki
O'Henry
And, as the say, a host of others.

Cyrano