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Audiobooks
« on: February 28, 2009, 11:58:24 AM »
What are your favourite audiobooks? 

I've enjoyed:

Eat, Pray, Love
I Feel Bad about my Neck
The Kite Runner
The Geography of Bliss
Angela's Ashes

Am now listening to Lost on Planet China.

...authors names not handy at the moment....
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 02:22:04 PM »
Anything by Bill Bryson. I love his voice.
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 02:38:33 PM »
Yep, Bryson is great!
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2009, 05:27:28 PM »
I'm not generally a fan of audiobooks, but my dad loves the  Harry Potter series, and has listened to all of them.  He gave me The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I do enjoy it, though I think Jim Dale makes Hermione too whiny. 
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2009, 11:14:56 PM »
The last audiobooks I heard was one written and narated by Allan Titmarsh..I can't remember the name of it now but it was great.  It was about a little old lady who realised she needed to *live a little* before she died and was breaking the law and getting up to allsorts...and...her loving grandson trying to put her on the straight and narrow.  Its was really funny..not what I had expected.

Other than that...years and years ago when I was a kid, my grandad would always play me Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds to me in the summer holidays.  :-\\\\
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 05:23:07 AM »
Audiobooks are great for long road trips, especially with kids.  My brothers family would always play a Harry Potter or similar on long trips with the kids.  I only listened to them occasionally until I came to Uganda.  My SIL has given me about 30 for my Ipod and I mainly listen to them while I do ironing.  Yes, ironing.  Every single piece of laundry must be ironed (you don't want to know why-it's icky). 
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Re: Audiobooks
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2009, 07:20:53 AM »
David Sedaris, David Sedaris, DAVID SEDARIS :D

I actually prefer his audiobooks over the printed ones, because his voice adds so much to his words.

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