Tell Me A Story And Make The Commute Bearable
Categories: Digital Audiobooks , Fiction
Like many working people, I spend about an hour and a half in the car on my way to and from work. Enter my friends, Audio Books. I have passed many a happy commute listening to accomplished readers share books with me.
I greatly enjoyed Thomas Harris's creepy Hannibal Lector trilogy, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. I was fascinated by the twists and turns of Maeve Binchy's Tara Road. I laughed helplessly at the antics of Georgia Nicholson in the teen series by Louise Rennison that starts off with Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. I was drawn completely into Diane Setterfield's dark and mysterious 13th Tale.
J.K Rowling's Harry Potter books are fabulous, read by the incomparable Jim Dale. If you start with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and travel through the whole series, you will be set for a long time. Let's see, if I add it up that's almost 95 hours of happiness on your commute!
I freely admit that I am an unabridged-book snob. I can't imagine listening to anything abridged, wondering what juicy conversational details or delightful location's descriptions have been left out! I was surprised and disappointed when I thought I was listening to an unabridged book, only to learn at the very end that "this abridgement was approved by the author". I felt betrayed. And I immediately ordered the unabridged version of the book. So there.
Audio books are available on CD, as compressed audio files to download, and in some cases on cassette.
Other books I have enjoyed in audio:
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Lisette Lecat
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs, read by Barbara Rosenblat
Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein, read by Barbara Rosenblat
Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, read by Jeff Woodman
Highest Tide by Jim Lynch, read by Fisher Stevens
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, read by Paul Michael
And, if you are interested in all of the highly recommended and very satisfying Harry Potter books on audio, here they are:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
