Fabulous audiobook, anyone?

[tainted_sanity]

So I'm looking for a good audiobook for my road trip back to school. The Golden Compass kept me company on the way home at the beginning of summer, but as I've read it a half a million times anyway, it wasn't exactly new material. (Hah hah get it? Material? As in... yeah nevermind

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[poultrygeist99]

The audio books for The Dark is Rising series are extremely well done. And if you haven't read those books, you really ought to. I suspect you'd enjoy them.

The radio dramas of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are also very entertaining, as are the radio dramas of Star Wars.

[timestep]

And Dr. Poulty enjoyed the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum mysteries (but my mother said a new person read number 13 and isn't near as good.

I think we listened to #7.

Kirsten

[tainted_sanity]

Oh I was looking at those! Never read her, but the books look to be right up my alley. And mysteries are great fun to listen to.

I'll think on that, thanks!

[tainted_sanity]

Definitely am looking hardcore at Hitchhikers... but ooo Star Wars! That would be fun!

I read The Dark is Rising forever and ever ago, but I feel like they could do a re-read. Perhaps I'll read those... and grab the others for the car.

You're amazing. <3

[simi]

Well, I'll mention the obvious... all of the Harry Potter books are really well performed by Jim Dale. Also, there's a collection of the Narnia books where each was done by a different actor, that's also really wonderful.

But those wouldn't be new material either ;-p

[tainted_sanity]

Actually, I'd kind of love to listen to DH with Mr. Dale, as wonderful as he is... but I feel like I need a teensey HP break. I need to branch out :P

*loves your icon*

[simi]

A teensy break - heh, don't we all! I don't write or read HP fanfic anymore. Most of my fandominess takes place in the Firefly verse.

*pets pretty icon* queen_lothiriel has some excellent fandom icons. I take no credit except ofr having the taste to wear them...

;-p

[inevitably_grey]

Not that many suggestions for Audio, but A Thousand Splendid Suns should be read - or listened to (Audio). Do you have it? For books, The Known World is probably the best books on slavery in the last decades - if not ahead of Faulkner's well-known classic. It won the pulitzer, by the way, and two other prizes (if I remember correctly), as well as being Oprah's Book Choice (or another reading group choice . . . don't remember :/).

I love that wallpaper of Peter Pan - stretches the imagination "to the sky". :D

[tainted_sanity]

Gosh I haven't read either! I'm so behind on my literature. Okay... *makes note*

Thank you so much!

( I so love it too. Wish I designed it!)

[cherise]

Hahahah yes, I did get the HDM joke. Hee. Well then, you should listen to The Subtle Knife and The Golden Spyglass! Fantastic, they are. Aaaand there are always audiobook comms. >.>

[tainted_sanity]

But I've *read* them a million times over :) I want to branch out!

And to your second comment...

>.>

For an AIM discussion, I believe.

[cherise]

Yes, I heartily agree. >.> Now, you just have to get on AIM.

[tainted_sanity]

Ooohh?

*excited little jump*

Perhaps, email me? margaret_keim@redlands.edu

*bats eyelashes*