Audiobooks - what's good?

[Ranger 6]

Have got an iphone for the first time and have had an offer through for a free audiobook. As I will also be going on holiday soon as well what can I get to take advantage of this offer?

From another thread I'm looking for the SR-71 sled driver book - what else is good?

[spurs-442]

Ranger 6 said:

Have got an iphone for the first time and have had an offer through for a free audiobook. As I will also be going on holiday soon as well what can I get to take advantage of this offer?

From another thread I'm looking for the SR-71 sled driver book - what else is good?

Anything with Stephen Fry narrating really. The man makes an hour of talking seem like minutes

I also have just downloaded Jack Dee's book which i'm currently working through - called "Thanks for Nothing" - its rather funny

[AMLK]

spurs-442 said:

Anything with Stephen Fry narrating really. The man makes an hour of talking seem like minutes

Agree, I will listen happily to virtually anything he narrates.

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If you can be arsed with torrents, go here:

http://radioarchive.cc/index.php


There is a plethora of great BBC stuff.

[susanq]

I downloaded Bill Clinton's autobiography and took it on holiday. I never got past the first chapter as I kept falling asleep (it wasn't boring). It was just the sound of someone reading to me, made me nod off. I still haven't listened to it.

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susanq said:

I downloaded Bill Clinton's autobiography and took it on holiday. I never got past the first chapter as I kept falling asleep (it wasn't boring). It was just the sound of someone reading to me, made me nod off. I still haven't listened to it.

I heard it's blown out of all proportion

[Ranger 6]

susanq said:

....I never got past the first chapter as I kept falling asleep (it wasn't boring). It was just the sound of someone reading to me, made me nod off.....

That's what worries me, I snooze too easily in meetings on holiday

[aclivity]

loads of classics on www.librivox.org, all free, public domain stuff.

There is a reason why some books are classics, and others are not.

Personally I would recommend the Hannay books by John Buchan, anything and everything by Arthur Conan Doyle, the adventure stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard and Jules Verne.

They may not be politically correct by modern standards, but they are excellent reading.