The one thing I didn’t get from all the talk about Serial is that it’s non-fiction.
BTW, now that I have a decent-sized commute, I’m getting into the world of podcasts and audiobooks. Recommendations welcome.
Man, I have not been following politics very closely lately. When does Wendy Davis take over as my governor?
As an aspiring fiction writer, I was completely intimidated by Serial when I thought it was fiction. “Such imaginative details!”
“And how’d they get such naturalistic performances out of all these different voice actors?”
I did a “die-in” protest in my bed this morning.
While it’s true that “everything dies,” I still don’t get why Obama made that the slogan for the Affordable Care Act.
Maybe someone should host a big international debate on whether Muslims should murder people or not because I’d like to hear both sides.
Shouldn’t we be moving on from killing people because of weird beliefs in God to killing people because of weird beliefs in economics and science?
Waterboarding Gremlins just makes more of them.
Any James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series with Will Patten doing narration
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin audiobooks are very good. The novels themselves are great and the actor who does the reading in very good. The series starts with “Master & Commander”.
The Monster Hunter International and The Grimnoire series by Larry Correia.
Lots of great books. Two that come to mind quickly are Lee Child’s Reacher series. Low tech violence and mayhem by an ex army MP. Jo Nesbo is a favorite with his (humorously) spelled Harry Hole detective, they are very dark and brutal, but wonders in the mystery field.
The Closing of the American Mind Audio CD
by Allan Bloom (Author), Christopher Hurt (Narrator), Saul Bellow (Foreword)
Hear the book that makes liberal academics so livid that they screech incoherently and fling dung ….
I thought if you waterboarded Gremlins they turn into Pacers, don’t they?
“When does Wendy Davis take over as my governor?”
I’ve been wondering when Obama takes over as president.
I recommend The Martian by Andy Weir (an indie author), probably coming out as a movie in 2015.
In the barely distant future a group of astronauts establishes a small base on Mars but has to abandon it, leaving behind one of their own, believing he is dead. Long story short, he MacGivers his way back to Earth. Best book I’ve read in 2014, at least.
http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Martian-Audiobook/B00B5HZGUG/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1418675685&sr=1-1
No reason to think you will read this but a friend and I do a podcast called Robostupid about bad and/or cult movies. Might be the kind of silliness that’s up your alley. Self-promotion over.
You could always listen to my sermons, after all Harvey put up a link.
Audio books by the late, great Vince Flynn. “Mitch Rapp” is the MAN!!! http://www.vinceflynn.com/Audio_Books.html
http://www.graphicaudio.net
Seriously. I’ve stopped listening to anything else in my car.
” When does Wendy Davis take over as my governor?”
She’ll take office on the 12th of Never, and that’s a long, long time … from now.
I’d recommend checking out librivox.org. It’s a website where a bunch of volunteers read and record a chapter at a time (some are definitely better than others) of various public domain books. I’ve gone through classics like Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, H. G. Wells, etc. that way.
If you do audio books on CD be very careful not to put your car audio on SHUFFLE as it tends to disrupt the plot line.
Adam Carolla. Hands down. The best. Plus he puts out 5 a week. It’s the only thing that gets me thru rush hour.
This sounds like it might be good, but I haven’t tried it:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/60711/listen-neil-gaiman-read-charles-dickens-christmas-carol