Comments | celyn100: Sometimes not being mainstream is a pain

celyn100

Sometimes not being mainstream is a pain

Oct 18, 2007 17:16

I'm going to Portland tomorrow and am trying to find an audiobook to listen to on the drive down and back. This is severely hampered by the fact that I don't like most of the pop fiction/bestsellers that are available in audiobook format. Also complicating things is the fact that my car has a tape deck instead of a CD-player. In comparison with ( Read more... )

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cithra October 19 2007, 00:49:05 UTC

I've got Lolita on cassette, read by Jeremy Irons - but I'm not sure how I would get it to you before tomorrow.

glaucon October 19 2007, 06:30:03 UTC

becca and I used to have a copy of the Screwtape Letters read by John Cleese which was fucking phat. highly recommended!

skaldic October 19 2007, 15:41:34 UTC

This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it just in case -- have you tried the library? I listen to audio books all the time, and have for the past 10 years or so, and only recently moved over to books on CD rather than tape. The last time I used the Pierce Co. library system, they had quite a few books on tape, of all varieties. Sure they'll have a lot that are best sellers, but they probably have a good selection that don't as well. You may need to check online to find out where they're at, since it's too late to have them sent to you.

(no offense intended about the library question -- I keep running across people who I was sure spent most of their time in the public library as I do, but who never use it, so I don't assume anything along that line anymore).

In any case, hope you find something.

celyn100 October 21 2007, 23:59:55 UTC

Yup. I'm intimately acquainted with my local public library. :)

I did, in fact, make a trip to the library to look for some books-on-tape. Ended up with James Burke's Connections which was almost as good as the TV show, a collection of essays on The Irish In America, which had something wrong with it and only played every 3 seconds of sound, and a collection of Willa Cather short stories.

After the conference, I spend 4 hours at Powell's and almost bought the cassette version of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, based on reviews from cithra. But then decided that I didn't want to spend $20 for a previously-used version of it. Instead I payed $35 for Neil Gaiman reading Stardust on CD.