Audio books

as i travel i tend to find places where either the music sucks, or there aren't any stations at all.. so i tend to buy audio books to listen to..

this run i found a doozy, it was about this guy.

most of you would either find it boring, or just plain crap, but i found it very interesting, if not a bit informative.. this guy had a rough life, and yet managed to do wonders..

anyways, if anyone would care to taboo give me a PM..

the Americans here, may not find it as interesting as the Brits, but if you have any geology courses in school, i would recommend writing to me..

Jon, really, really, really, stupid question.

Whats an audio book? Is that one of those kid books with a read-along tape?

an audio book is a rendition of a book that is read out loud and put on either tape, or cd.

some are abridged, some are full length..

this one is full length..

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try this link

i am unsure as to if you will need to save target as, or just click the link, but the file is 8+ megs so..

anyways, i am gonna test it on my other comp to see if it even plays.

this is track #1

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save target "AS"

funny, i didn't really expect anyone to actually want the audio book, but i did expect a little more fanfare..

at least from the UK voices among us..still your loss, is my gain i suppose.. this guy, rewrote the 7 day creation theory, in a time when they burned you for such.. he actually got some of the churches to change "DAYS" to "EVENTS" :biggrin: anyways, i was glad i bought it..

theres far too much in UK history to even begin scraping the surface of
every single character :razz: also, i dont particuarly have an interest in
geology :smile:

i'll give it a miss methinks, but kudos for finding it. in fact, how on earth did you find it? :razz:

(when i am in the car (i dont drive) or have command of the radio
station, i always listen to Radio 4 - plays, discussions, comedies,
profiles, gardening, cooking.. the "intellectual" radio station. i
imagine you would enjoy it if you can get along with this kind of thing
Orph, shame the BBC don't export it to the US :razz: )

Gwil said:
theres far too much in UK history to even begin scraping the surface of every single character :razz: also, i dont particuarly have an interest in geology :smile:

i'll give it a miss methinks, but kudos for finding it. in fact, how on earth did you find it? :razz:

(when i am in the car (i dont drive) or have command of the radio station, i always listen to Radio 4 - plays, discussions, comedies, profiles, gardening, cooking.. the "intellectual" radio station. i imagine you would enjoy it if you can get along with this kind of thing Orph, shame the BBC don't export it to the US :razz: )

truck stops have a s**tload of archaic audio books for sale.. truly i found it very interesting, because it/he effected the entire world, not just your pissan*thwacks* small isle :heee:

we have NPR radio.. very nice..

I've been listening too... Yeeay! Dreamcatcher on audio-novel since I'm banned from my school liberry.

Gwil said:
(i dont drive)

This is my dream.

fizscy46 said:
I'm banned from my school liberry.

ELABORATE

I convinced my mother the other day to order America (The Book) AND the
audio book for me. Score one victory for whiners! Anyways, I listened to a
sample of the audio book and it was great - however, it's unexplored
territory for me. I usually prefer actual books instead, since I like
to read faster and skip around. Maybe this will start a love for audio
books? Who knows. :smile:

Audio books are as good as the voice actor who reads them.

Imagine listening to Ben Stein read "The Grapes of Wrath".
That's like taking 614 or 464 cyanide pills, it depends on which copy he reads.

Crono said:
Audio books are as good as the voice actor who reads them.

imagine these voices

David Attenborough
Alfred Hitchc**k
Fran Drescher

/me feels woozy now..

but definitely, the reader makes the audio book.

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They no longer allow me in to the library situated within my school.

I set a book on fire in the bookshelf and someone ratted me out. I denied everything, and in the end they just decided nt to let me in there unless its during and with a class of mine.

i was banned from my library in secondary school for setting up a gambling ring, where people betted their lunch money.

hilarity. it only happened because the wench in charge hated us, for no apparent reason.

Cassius said:

fizscy46 said:
I'm banned from my school liberry.

They no longer allow me in to the library situated within my school.

I
set a book on fire in the bookshelf and someone ratted me out. I denied
everything, and in the end they just decided nt to let me in there
unless its during and with a class of mine.

No offence meant, but you deserved to be banned for that, its a pretty s**tty thing to do.

Did you at least burn a crappy book? Like "The Grapes of Wrath" ?

Crono said:
Did you at least burn a crappy book? Like "The Grapes of Wrath" ?

to burn any book should be punishable by death..

That's not true, Orph. There ARE bad books out there. Come on, are you telling me that a book deserves more respect then any other form of entertainment?

How would trashing a crappy book physically be any different from trashing a crappy movie?
Because you think it's a forgotten form of entertainment? Or books should be read more? Because, those aren't very good reasons ... why would you use reasons like that?

JUST A NOTE, SINCE SOMEONE ELSE GOT PISSY ABOUT MY COMMENTS EARLIER TODAY. I AM JOKING.

But, you shouldn't be killed for burning a book ... especially if the books sucks donkey nuts. Like Desperation by Stephen King ... goddamn, I'll torch that book any day, use it for fire-fuel or something.

You're probably referring to the whole, parents burning Huck Fin and stuff in the 60s (?). Which is fine. But books are just another form of media and entertainment, no better or worse then the others. Now saying you like books more is an entirly different situation.

my beliefs system has not made me particularly famous around here crono :wink:

i think, every book is sacred, even ones i would never consider reading.. in other words, i wouldn't toss one in the dirt just cause its s**t..

punishable by death is just a saying around here, denoting you are serious, and not jesting.. it doesn't mean to kill the offender.

if i were t see someone deliberately defiling a book, i would prolly go off on them..

No it was some stupid book that was about programming macintosh hardware. The macintoshes had really pissed me off that day by deleting my great flash movie so I went and burned book by them.

Mother f**ker. Mac's have awesome hardware.

Orph, I know you're not being serious about killing people... But you didn't answer my question, I asked why, not for a confirmation of what I observed.

Crono said:
Orph, I know you're not being serious about killing people... But you didn't answer my question, I asked why, not for a confirmation of what I observed.

until the 3rd grade, i had a reading issue, for some reason, i couldn't read.. in the 3rd grade they sent me to this teacher, who somehow instilled upon me the value of reading.. come to find out, much later that i am very mildly dyslexic.. like one out of 10 words always gets misspelled.. funny, its not even consistently the same words either :sad:

anywho's, to this day, i value books over any other form of entertainment.. i know i am much older than most here, but even so, i doubt many here read, or have read as many books as i have.. thats not to say there are none who have, but i am betting damned few.

i am agnostic, but if there were a heaven, mine would have books, only books.

I think that listening to audio books while you're on the road is an inspired use of time :smile:

In my group project lecture the other day, our lecturer urged us to
list our top ten favourite films, games, books and the like to help
inspire our game design. Apparently nobody in the year before ours had
even read 10 books, which I found extremely suprising. I'm not a big
reader but I've certainly read more than that, and I'm amazed that
nobody out of 40+ students that year had. I hope he was exaggerating.

dunno the stats, but IMO, reading has dropped a bit in popularity. in fact i don't know anyone who reads as much as i do.. my wife reads a lot, but i think its my influences more so than a yearning to read.

i don't know anyone less than 20 who reads. course, i don't go around asking either, but when the topic comes up it invariably leads to TV, or video games that play on TV's :sad:

sad really.

i have been listening to a lot of audio books in the last couple years.. but these are the most engrossing so far..

they are not by any means intended for young listeners, but i highly recommend them to anyone over 21..

so far i have listened to numbers 4 and 5 .. and am currently listening to #2.. only because thats the order i located them in, not because i like listening to books out of sequence.. fortunately, even though the same characters are more/less in each, the stories end with each.. but sadly, the refer to the earlier books frequently :sad:

bumps

i am resurrecting this thread for 2 reasons..

1) i need room again in my briefcase.. those of you whom know why, please inform me if you are done.

2) i have a list, one with almost every audio book i will ever need or want, but.. i cannot seem to discern a web address.. would anyone like to assist me in figuring out where? i mean, i can send you the same list, maybe you have seen one before and would recognize exactly how it works.

thanx in advance.

i listened to this book on my last run.. it was very engrossing and i highly recommend it to anyone whom may like this genre of book..

it made me realize just how defective language can be when interpreted by people who are receptive to so broad a spectrum of stimulii..

if you can obtain a copy, be it library or whatever, please give it a gander..

Don't nobody shoot me for saying so, but my dear old dad has been listening to the Bible on tape (unabridged) and, as I have never read the Bible itself despite being a confirmed Episcopalian ( :sad: ), it has been quite interesting, aided of course by Derek Jacobi's pwnage reading skills. I think I've gotten a better idea of the character of Jesus from listening to around half an hour of Matthew being read than I have in an entire lifetime of listening to sermons.

There's also Siddhartha, also by Jacobi, very good stuff.

my brother read the bible once, he said if you read it as a historical document and resist the urge to apply religious connotations, its a fascinating read..

i have been considering it myself.. so no, i think no one will think badly of you for listening cass..

BTW, my brother is non-religious like myself.. so i believe him.

I've never read the whole bible myself, but it is quite fascinating as an historical document as well as a source of ancient wisdom even if you don't choose to believe in God. I prefer the old testament to the new however.

I only know one person who has actually read all the books from the bible (there are apparently passages in the bible that are written in more depth, or something)

And he's read like 4 versions of the Bible. I think the only one that would seem rather funny is the King James version, since there's some stuff in there about obeying your country's ruler. However, there's stuff like that in all versions. In the Holy Bible it depicts how women should dress and look, it even specifies the length of their hair and the style. There's just certain things that are odd like that.

The different translations aren't that different. They mostly change the language to make things readable for the time in which they were translated. A conservative version will say, "Thou shalt not kill" while a more liberal and modernist one will say "Do not commit murder." And of course any lawyer or guy who just likes to argue a lot (who will be played in the post by me) will tell you that there is a world of literal difference in that small detail. The church has split on a tiny, tiny translation disagreement before (Roman Catholic v. Western Orthodox over one word in the Apostle's Creed). Still the intentions remain the same and new passages aren't being drawn up out of thin air. In other words, that hair thing isn't going to be in one version and not have an analogous passage in the other.

Also, The Holy Bible is not a particular version, as you seem to treat it, but rather what is put on the front cover of any conservative translation. I think you'll find that the more bizarre pronouncements from God tend to occur in three Books: Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. These books describe all the other stuff that the Hebrews decided to live by as they were more or less creating a culture. It's very codified and doesn't always seem to be relevant. If I remember correctly, there's a passage which says when you walk through someone else's orchard, you're free to take all you can carry in your arms, but nothing more. My favorite one though is an outright command to destroy another Middle Eastern people which had attacked the Hebrews while they were wandering through the desert. It's interesting because it provides so much detail - how many generations down they should continue hunting these guys. I guess it worked, we never hear about them anymore, whoever they are.

lets not get distracted, back to "Speed of Dark" please.. :smile:

But I haven't read that! I refuse to let this conversation go somewhere that I am less knowledgable and can't lord my superiority!

Cash Car Star said:
But I haven't read that! I refuse to let this conversation go somewhere that I am less knowledgable and can't lord my superiority!

so we should stay with "mary had a little lamb" for a few more pages then?

/runs laughing maniacally

Orpheus said:

Cash Car Star said:
But I haven't read that! I refuse to let this conversation go somewhere that I am less knowledgable and can't lord my superiority!

so we should stay with "mary had a little lamb" for a few more pages then?

/runs laughing maniacally

Whats mary had a little lamb?

A children's song and story.

In fact, Mary's lamb had a fleece as white as snow. You'd need a whole box of Tide to get your underwear as white as Mary's lamb. However, it was a bit needy and clingy, going so far as to follow poor Mary to school, where it can ironically be assumed lambs are not allowed to go. Something about defecation on the gym floor.

Crono said:
A children's song and story.

I was jking :razz: maybe I should of put it in this colour.

Maybe, since it's a valid question and you gave no hint of sarcasm.