NWR: Audiobooks

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Ian Fitzsimmons

Ian Fitzsimmons
Driving to Michigan next week and looking for a good listen en route. Any favorite listening novels, political history/biography, or social analysis?

Cheers.
 
I can't recommend ebooks because about all I listen to in the car these days is http://illdrinktothatpod.com/ Maybe it's not big on the "action and adventure" scale, but there's no lack of passion from the interviewees and it's always reassuring to know there are far bigger geeks than I wandering around out there in the world.

-Eden (my lumosity.com scores have gone up at least a couple of points since I started listening to the podcast)
 
Many thanks for these responses.

Serial looks good, but a long trip is a rare opportunity to settle into a lengthy plot or historical analysis. One of the Johnson biography volumes, or The Goldfinch come to mind. If I podded a trip like this, it'd probably be some iTunes University lectures. Thermodynamics anyone?

I read A Walk in the Woods about ten years ago, Mark - our tastes vary.

John McPhee - anything by him - is a winner, thanks Sharon. Was Assembling California an early version of Basin and Range, by the way?

Offliberty looks interesting, but I don't get it yet. That's quite a disclaimer.

Maybe I'll just listen to a bunch of Wodehouse on CD.
 
Offliberty - just paste the link to the streaming media you want to rip and it will do its thing and let you save either the vid or audio. Mozilla Download Helper can do this too, but with offliberty no need to use Mozilla.

Here are some talks I grabbed lately that were really good:


The Authors @ Google series in general has a ton of great ones.
 
Why be so think about such heavy-handed topics? If you can find old episodes of CBS Radio's Mystery Theater, that will keep you in SUS-PENSE during your ride to the midlands. Before you know it, you'll be in the Great Lake State with your hand firmly clutching the wheel, wondering where time went.
 
Tina Fey's autobiography, "Bossy Pants," which is read by Tina Fey herself.
Keith Richards' autobiography, read by Richards, Johnny Depp and some British dude with a heavy accent.
 
Bossypants was fun. I fanboy TF.

I ended up going with Bach's Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould), a lot of Wodehouse, a bit of Faulkner, and Sun Tsu's Art of War.
 
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