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Jan 04, 2009 01:51PM

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It is amazing once you listen during waits, driving in the car, etc. how much time passes during those times.



Some favorites are Digging to America (Anne Tyler novel read by Blair Brown); A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner; The Red Tent; Shopgirl read by Steve Martin; The Ruins (read by the adulterer in Little Children); and two different versions of To Kill a Mockingbiird. One was read by some southern woman whose name I forget, and the other by Sissy Spacek, if you can believe it. I wasn't expecting much but she did a great job.
I enjoyed the Kite Runner on cd. I've done that too, Tressa: slowing down so I can hear more from an interesting audio book. lol


The best books I've listened to were Life of Pi, any of David Sedaris's stuff that he himself reads, and the Sweet Potato Queen books read by the author. Too funny! I think her name was Jill Conner Brown.

I'm listening to Ender's Game now to refresh the story so I can finally read Ender in Exile. Whoever is reading Ender's Game is wonderful and once again I took my own sweet time driving home. Unfortunately traffic was flowing smoothly tonight and I made it home in record time. Gosh darnit.

right now I'm listening to KAFKA ON THE SHORE and really enjoy listening
I tried listening to THE NAMING OF THE DEAD by Rankin but couldn't understand the Scottish brogue
of the reader but most of the time the readers are great especially when they change from one character to another during dialogue
I know I've increased the number of books that I read/listen to a great deal and consequently have had a lot more exposure to excellent authors and books than if I didn't listen to books on CD

I'm just starting to do the audiobook thing. Good for playing poker.






I also find it sometimes hard to concentrate to listen to audiobooks, but that's only sometimes. ;-)
And I have some by wonderful readers like Juliet Stevenson (Austenbooks) or Jeremy Irons...
