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Well I finally got a damn cd/mp3 player in the freightliner and decided to try audiobooks.. its great since we always go out of reception out in the open areas we drive through. I still have not wanted to take the plunge with satelite radio. Anyways.. my brother has a copy of the hobbit on audio books.. so we listened to that.. it was great, then i got the whole lords of the rings on audiobook.. had been soo long since i read the books.. it was nice to refresh all the things they left out in the theatrical versions.. and the different ending.



Now i am lookin for other audiobook candidates. do you guys have any recommendations for some good books to get? SCI FI and mystery/ conspiracy stuff is cool.. but anything worth a read will work. it helps the nights go by soo much faster in the big rig..

1988RedT2

Something by Jack Kerouac. Desolation Angels, or The Dharma Bums, or even On The Road. It's like going back in time and dropping acid with a bunch of hippies, man!



Or how about Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs? It's like a literary hallucination.



Couldn't go wrong with Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, either!

j9fd3s

dad and i listened to "a walk in the woods" by bill watterson? patterson? ah! bryson. it was entertaining

defprun

Stephen King!!!! I wonder how long The Stand would be on audio tapes.

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i'll have to look some of those up

j9fd3s

steve martins new book was pretty good

TheRX7Project

My boss forced me to listen to a portion of "Brokeback Mountain" book-on-CD. Of course it was the part about the buttsecks.

phinsup

I've been heavy into non-fiction lately, history, etc...

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TheRX7Project : thats just cruel..



Captain: Like history/ discovery channel stuff on audio? or books retelling the stories? details!

phinsup

No I read i don't do the books on tape deal, basically just historical books, decline and fall of the roman empire, political history, books on the working class struggle in america and abroad, etc, etc... more or less I've become perplexed or even obsessed with idea that there are such different views of one factual event and not just to the extent of "the victor writes history", but more so in a sense of how historical events effect various classes or even various people involved in the event differently (even if they all are in fact the "victor"), although in some cases that title is up for debate, ok now you can start to see where i am at on this.



Kind of taking one event, then i'm reading all kinds of books on the subject and then I somehow try to figure out the significance of the event, which is very confusing you see because the significance one single event has such a different impact on all involved and sometimes not involved that even though the facts are the same the significance and the story are not.



If this makes no sense then don't mind me