On the road from DC to Denver next week -- audio books?

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I've got two days-plus on the road in a week, and I'm looking for suggestions on a book to listen to. I love to use long-distance driving time to listen to classics, especially some longer works that I don't have time to work through in a typical day -- and I have enough books on my shelf to last a lifetime of reading at home.

And if you know a book is particularly well presented or has a terrific reader doing the audio, that is a bonus.

[cdsilv]

1. Here's a few I've listened to....

Turning Angel - Greg Iles

Wicked - don't remember the author

Tuesdays with Morrie

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6. I've seen Wicked on the shelf and considered it.

What can you tell me about that, and about Greg Iles?

Tuesdays with Morrie I've read already.

[Warpy]

2. A friend of mine who made that trip 3 years ago

kept his radio on right wing hate stations. He said pounding the dashboard kept him awake.

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4. Ha! I've done that before.

You can catch Limpballs just about every hour of the day at some place in the country.

I'm working toward a more peaceful place in my soul. O8) No room for RW radio in there.

[terip64]

3. Harry Potter is awesome to listen to.

I enjoy listening to young adult books so I can keep up even if I zone out for a while. ;-)

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5. That's not a bad idea.

A friend of mine recommended the Potter books to me. I'm always reading "serious" books at home, but maybe that's a good driving suggestion.

Thx

[terip64]

11. If you haven't read them then it would be perfect. They are fun!

[MaineDem]

16. I've read them all and now I'm going back through the series on tape

I'm finding them more enjoyable as I listen to them. And I enjoyed the books a great deal.

I highly recommend them as audio books.

[goddess40]

9. I agree and Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials"

I love the Potter books, Jim Dale does an excellent job.

Philip Pullman's (another English author)books are terrific to read and even better to listen to. He does the narration himself and the rest is done by a cast. There are three books in the series, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyclass.

Three of my other Favorites are:

Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods or A Sunburned Country, These two have a lot of great humor in them

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13. I've got His Dark Materials here at home -- I'm going to read

that set the old-fashioned way.

I love Bryson, so I've got him on the shelf too.

But Berendt, that's a good idea. Who reads that one?

[goddess40]

14. Jeff Woodman

He does a great job, that's one story I loved when I read it, listened to it and watched the movie.

After you read His Dark Materials, listen to one. Both for the Potter books and Pullman's I read them first because they were so good I wanted them to last.

[wakeme2008]

7. LOL I have over 300 audiobooks on MP3s

what type of fiction do you like.

Somebody suggested Harry Potter and Jim Dale the reader of that series has a very good voice for making up the different characters.

One of my favorites to listen to is the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich because all the characters are from New Jerseyyyyys. :)

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8. I liked Angela's Ashes read by Frank McCourt...n/t

[goddess40]

10. You can go from crying to laughing your ass off in seconds

reading or listening to this book, the follow ups were a disapointment though - I guess Angela's Ashes was a hard act to follow.

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12. I heard Mr. McCourt do a reading from Teacher Man here in Denver.

I'd never read him before, but that presentation really wowed me.

I'll put Angela's Ashes on the list.

[MaineDem]

15. The Kite Runner

It's geat as an audio book because the author reads it. It takes place in Afghanistan and the author's accent adds a lot. Besides you get the correct pronounciation of all the Afghani names.

[abluelady]

17. Larry McMurtry

has a series about an English family who goes to the west. The first book is Sin Killer. It was a great read and with your heading west, it will be even more fun to listen to.

[japple]

18. Almost anything read by Frank Muller, Paul Hecht, or Mark Hammer

would be on my list. You've probably already made your trip, but you might want to save these for future reference.

[Lex]

19. "My Life" by Bill Clinton. He reads himself it on audio.

I loved it. I passed it on to my dad and he loved it too.