Anyone else into Audio Books

ben16v

3/4 of the way through 2001: a space odyssey. very good and the film has just come up on sky movies.  my copy has a good half hour from arthur c. clarke explaining a lot about how the film and book were created.

KiLLiNG-TiME

Moving onto the The Sword of the Lictor the third volume in the four-volume series The Book of the New Sun.

KiLLiNG-TiME

Well just finished the above & the 4th book The Citadel of the Autarch so thats it for the original 4 books, now just one more to go which i started today The Urth of the New Sun.

I have to say these are excellent audio books they are so well read, recommended.

LX200GPS

A few recommendations especially if US history is your bag. First off is Shelby Foote's "The Civil War" in three volumes. Took him twenty years to write but will only take you about 140 hours to listen!
Then there's Robert Caro's "The Years Of Lyndon Johnson" in four volumes. Currently he is working on the final book but he is getting old now so hope he manages to finish it before he dies. Both these works are masterpieces. Might check out some science fiction soon as I have a few credits.

KiLLiNG-TiME

Well decided on some old school listening this week

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne Narrated by Bill Homewood

KiLLiNG-TiME

Now on to the new H G Well Collection

H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection

Started with one of my favorites The Time Machine

How much social commentary is in this story loads & its a real shame Mr Pal never put any of it in his wonderful movie.

ben16v

was just going to post this 27hrs and 5 books for 1 credit is brilliant value, done the 1st 4 started island of dr moreau today - not bad in 3 weeks.

lined up next is I am pilgrim, meant to be very good from several sources who have read it.

KiLLiNG-TiME

Your so right i got mine from a credit which is excellent value (still i wish it had
Men Like Gods in the collection)

Re-pilgrim i will look into it thanks.

ben16v

i am pilgrim was a good book - should be a film - 7/10
just done enders game 20th edition and am now watching the film... i find im enjoying the writers extras at the end really interesting!
just put a few in my list..... anyone read any
of them?
azimov foundation trilogy for £3.49 gotta be worth a punt
stephen king the outsider (as a newish book) or the shining ( yes ive seen the film)
chernobyl:history of tradegy (recent series is great but so depressing dunno if i wanna listen to that for hours but feel i should)
good omens terry pratchett and neil guiman (never read and terry bt love potter - closest link?)
many thanks

KiLLiNG-TiME

Fancied a change of tone.
I really enjoyed Kim Newman's Anno Dracula/The Bloody Red Baron etc there's a few more to read in the series but wanted to jump ahead a little & try "The man from the Diogenes Club".