Wanted: Suggestions for a good book on Audio Tape.
OK, need advice on a good book on audio tape. I listen to them at work and when I go to sleep. My most listened to are A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and Guns, Germs and Steel.
The other day I got 1776 by McCollough. I gotta tell you, not all that exciting.
Brits in Boston. Good guys outside. Build up inside. Build up outside. Cannons arrive with Knox. Brits split. Move to NY. Build up inside. Build up outside. High Grounds. Brits land. Shots fired. Good guys slink away to Jersey. Bad guys have Germans. Germans enjoy Christmas. Big river, lots of boats. Row Row Row. Walk. Shit we’re late. Walk faster. Arrive. Kill Germans. End, 1776.
Anyway, anyone have any advice? Anyone ever listen to or read the Ambrose book about Lewis and Clark?
Category: Politics
I can tell you what NOT to get- anything narrated by William Shatner.
‘Nuff said…
Wolf
Under European History, I would suggest Robert Conquest’s “Reflections Of A Ravaged Century”. For American History, “Isaac’s Storm” relating interesting details of the hurricane which destroyed Galveston-I forget the author’s name. “In The Blink Of An Eye” by Pat Milton about T.W.A. flight 800. I’m a disaster junkie as you can tell.
Well, if it’s books with years in the title, I’ve read April 1865 about a hundred times. A novel with a year in the title is Nevin’s 1812; A Novel which has all of the stars of the era in it. A young Andrew Jackson beats the crap out of all of the white people, and when he runs out of white people, he beats Indians.
By the way, did you know that the Kindle reads to you? You have a choice of a male or female robot reading.
Athena, alas, I can’t find on Audio CD.
Atlas Shrugged
Seriously, if you want some FANTASTIC history-type books, including those of our forces, get anything on tape from Allen W. Eckert’s series- ”The Frontiersman” for one, ”Wilderness War” is another.
By far my faves on US history.. fantastic!
Wolf
I was kind of looking at this:
http://www.amazon.com/Manhunt-CD-12-Day-Lincolns-Killer/dp/0060738359/ref=pd_ts_b_15?ie=UTF8&s=books
bman said it. i listened to Atlas Shrugged on a drive from LA to Austin, all 22 hours of it.
It was long, and it was at time rough to get through, but at least i didn’t have to read her long winded speeches. i could just zone out when it got a little much.
but its still a great way to absorb Ayn Rand.
Without being 100% knowledgeable about your preferences, I would recommend the whole of the “Temeraire” series which starts with “His Majesty’s Dragon.”
Alternate Earth, Napoleonic Wars, men fighting on the backs of intelligent dragons and Brits that don’t feel the need to be weak and politically correct.
I suggest you STUDY at all times. I am sure they have some nice legal study materials on tape and you could get information via osmosis. Time is running out. By the way, when am I going to get a sample essay to review? 🙂
(Yes, I know I sound like your mother.)
If you enjoy historical war novels try: The Corps series or Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin.
Maybe “The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945” or “Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip”, both by Ken Burns.
TSO, That’s too bad-Try Jim Carrier’s “The Ship And The Storm”; Gertrude Himmelfarb’s “One Nation, Two Cultures”; Charles F. Marshall’s “Discovering The Rommel Murder”. Charles Pellegrino’s “Ghosts Of The Titanic” is excellent. P.S., Anything POLITICAL by Robert Conquest (as he also writes about the arts) is good. Hope you can manage to find at least one.
The Ambrose Lewis and Clark book is fantastic.
Natan Sharansky’s “The Case for Democracy”
Also, and in counterpoint: anything written and read by David Sedaris.
How the Irish Saved Civilization, or anything else by Thomas Cahill.
(on edit, fixed my name)
All good suggestions, honestly, all excellent. Steve M., I have all of the books by that guy, the Irish, the Jesus one, all of them are great.
NR Pax, I have heard good things about “Temeraire” as well, and will be getting that soon.
For now, I just felt like I wanted more revolution, so I went with Shaara’s Revolution novels, which are good.
And Susan, the books are just for listening at night to sleep. Honestly, studying is WAY behind, and I suspect I will be taking again in February. Work has not been as compliant as I hoped, and I am getting hit with outside stuff as well, and simultaneously looking for a new place to live. I’m going to take the bar, but I don’t have high hopes. So it goes…