Tag: Audible
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Audiobook Recommendation: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
It’s been a while since I’ve done an audiobook recommendation. I recently purchased The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, which was released last month. The book is read by Jonathan Davis, and author Paolo Bacigalupi. Paperback costs USD but with an audio subscription you can get it for USD .00. Anderson Lake is a company…
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Discovering Roy Dotrice and his 500 voices
It is no secret that I have sold myself to audiobooks, devoting time to “reading” at least 12 books a year from my iPod. And it was with such audacity that I invested time to a reading of book one of A Song of Fire and Ice: A Game of Thrones by famous fantasy author…
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Audible Recommendation: A Short History of Nearly Everything
During the holidays I had wanted to pick up a copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers on Audible after a tease read from Fully Booked, High Street. I swear, I can go all out with bookstores, having finished books while waiting for people. As it turned out, a good friend from high school read my mind…
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Leo Laporte reads The True Story of the Little Golden Hood for Audible
There’s more to this audio book that meets the ear. The one and only reason why I recommend this free audio book is because it is read by TWiT founder and radio personality Leo Laporte! If you’re an avid TWiT Netcast listener, Leo would occasionally mention that he’s working on something with the guys from…
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Audible Picks: The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
This is part 3 of my Halloween series of posts. Part II is here and Part I is here. Happy Halloween! This post was inspired by AM and AG. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead is a cult favorite among those fascinated with the inevitable arrival of the zombie apocalypse. The…
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Audible Recommendations: Predictably Irrational, Gaiman’s Graveyard Book, Batman
The alternate title of this post is “The British Pop Culture Invasion.” 🙂 Ah, to make up for the lack of recommendations for the past few weeks, here are three books I downloaded with my subscription from Audible. The first is a Diggnation recommendation from Kevin Rose titled Predictably Irrational. I got this version as…
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Audible Picks: That Mitchell and Webb Sound
They probably aren’t famous by name but once you watch this series of sketches, they might ring a bell: Yeah they’re the official I’m a Mac and I’m a PC guys in the UK. So it’s been a while since I last recommended an audiobook. As a huge fan of sketches – British sketches to…
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Love-hate with audiobooks and “real” books – capping with science fiction
I tried to make it a habit to post my monthly audiobook download. So far I’ve recommended three titles (Stephen Colbert’s I Am America and So Can You, Bob Newhart’s I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This, and the dramatization of Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls) in this blog and I by far have…
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