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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 4:04 pm
Looks like we lost the previous thread. Found another free audiobook site, if anyone is interested. I know Teachmichigan might like this, and I recommend it to high school kids who may not always want to READ, but have to study some of these books. http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ I finally have to read The Iliad in a course I'm taking next semester, so I found this when doing a search for the audiobook and I wanted to share it with everyone. Good to stick on my iPod.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 10:21 pm
WOOHOO!!! Thank you!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 6:18 am
Warning: I downloaded Iliad from that site, and it was in ROBOT voice. Made me laugh, but won't be the copy I listen to. Hopefully other titles are not Hawking-ized.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Warning taken and will definitely listen to them first before recommending them to students. 
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Anniem
Member
05-21-2006
| Friday, January 11, 2008 - 9:21 am
I love audio books. I check them out from the library, up load them to I-tunes and listen to them on my I-Pod. Right now I'm listening to "The Last Town on Earth", a story about the influenza epidemic in 1918. Pretty good.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 11, 2008 - 2:07 pm
I just finished "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dulley. Loved it. This guy's stepmom had him lobotomized (ice pick lobotomy) when he was 12 years old- when he was in his 50s he went looking for the reasons it was done to him because he never understood and it pretty much destroyed most of his life (being institutionalized, etc although he shouldn't ever have been).
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 2:26 am
www.learnoutloud.com That site has some free titles on it as well. I subscribe to their newsletter, and they have the "Free Book of the Month" that I often download.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 5:21 pm
I'm currently listening to Steve Martin's book Born Standing Up. I am enjoying it. It's essentially a memoir, delivered in the form of short essays. A lot of texture. Funny, yet also melancholy in tone. I feel close to him at times, yet other times I feel that he is cold. He's smart, yet also has an incredible appreciation of the silly. It's read by him, which I enjoy since it adds dimension. Oh, and there is banjo playing!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 7:48 pm
I'm listening to World Without End. The narrator also narrated Follet's "Hornet Flight," and I enjoy him. It will take a while, though -- darn thing is 48 HOURS long!!!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 11:45 pm
Yesitsme, have you ever listened to David Sedaris? He is a comedy writer, and I really enjoy him. He reads his own material, and he's a sort of quaint wit to his material. I have one or two of his audiobooks that I could email to you if you wanted. PM me if you're interested, and I will figure something out.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Eeyore, I have heard David Sedaris' name, but no I have never listened to any of his stuff. Sure I would like to listen to them! Teach, I wish I were better about the long ones. I have such a short attention span that even when I love the book I have a difficult time getting through them. I can't imagine 48 hours...that would require a long car trip for me and even then I may have a difficult time.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 3:36 pm
I've got a couple of "epic" sized ones like that, so I just listen to them each morning while I'm getting ready for work. It ends up being about 20-30 minutes, so I can get through a 48-hour book in a bit over 2 months. When I was going to grad. school, I had a 1 1/2 hour drive each way, two to three times a week, so I listened to a LOT of books! 
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 4:41 pm
Washing dishes, cleaning house etc are such mindless tasks that I listen to audio books then. Lets me get extra books in! Right now I am listening to Memoirs Of A Geisha. The only problem is that I keep drifting off to Japan. I even served DH's lunch instead of putting it on the table and yelling "Food's ready". I am intrigued by a web site called Wordhaven.biz. It is based in England and you do have to register to get in...it's free but I guess that it makes it sort of private. They share all kinds of audio books. You are expected to reciprocate with uploading your audio books. Trouble is I'm not sure about copyrights and etc. I have an abundance of audio books thru my library and NetLibrary but I am always on the out look as long as I am not breaking any laws.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 3:01 pm
I commute about 45 minutes away, so listen then. I alternate with the radio, so sometimes it is slow going. I'll bet Memoris of a Geisha is a good one to listen to. I enjoyed reading that one. LOL on serving your DH! I get confused on copyright laws, too. I don't think anyone knows what the law is at the moment!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 4:49 pm
Just finished listening to Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline. I found it very suspenseful, with a lot of twists and turns. There were several times I got to work or home and didn't want to leave the car. The sign of a good audiobook!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 5:50 pm
I am currently listening to The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta...read by Campbell Scott. So far I am really enjoying it. The two main characters are Ruth, a sex education teacher, and Tim, a former addict and now evangelical Christian, whose lives intersect. I think TP does a great job of giving depth to his characters...both are flawed, but well meaning. I'm finding them thought provoking and seeing myself in both of them. And Campbell Scott is doing a great job reading to me!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 5:51 pm
I read the book but I do love Campbell Scott! I have never listened to an audio book but after driving down highway 5 to my sister's this past week, I've decided next trip to get one to listen to instead of cds or trying to find something on the radio.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 8:09 pm
That's how I got hooked on audiobooks, Mamie. DS and I listened to the Alchemist on our trip to Mackinac Island a couple of weeks ago. It was free on Itunes, so I wasn't sure if it'd be any good. DS was reading a book, so I asked if it would bother him if I listened to one. He obviously said no, and within 15 minutes, he'd put up his book and was listening to the audio one. We both enjoyed it, and we also both finished our other books too (not while driving, though! )
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:32 pm
I get carsick if I read while riding in a car so I'm thinking audio is the way to go.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:05 pm
The thing is that you get a whole other book in while you do those mundane things like cleaning the kitchen or weeding etc. Right now I am listening to Jeffrey Deaver's Broken Window and it is so scary! This serial killer has access to all this info that is collected by data miners on the internet. Makes a person aware of how much information is out there about us.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 4:27 pm
You know I am a fan! I drive almost an hour to work every day, so I go through quite a few. There are some great ones out there. I gave my parents two that sat on a shelf for almost a year and I had regretted I bought them for them. One was Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (with him reading.) They finally took it on a trip to Florida, and my mom said they were running back from bathroom breaks so they could get on the road again and keep listening to it. And yes Mamie, Campbell Scott was awesome reading that book. Though the ending of that book tore me up. I think I yelled. I hope there is a sequel. I can't believe that you, of all people, don't listen to audiobooks regularly. I get them at the library and usually have two, just in case I get stuck with a dud!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 1:07 pm
I'm going to be posting all 9 of the Sookie Stackhouse "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" by Charlaine Harris in my members folder if anybody wants to download them. I just posted book 1 and I'll get the rest up as I can.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 4:31 pm
Moving toward the end of The Help....so good and such a great audiobook. It's about race relations in the 60s. Amazing to think that the world was like that such a short time ago....in my lifetime!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 6:00 pm
I read it, not an audio, and loved it. I was surprised at how well she wrote each part.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, August 21, 2009 - 7:31 am
I agree! You know how much I love character-driven stuff and I get delirious if they have written multiple characters well. The audiobook uses multiple actors/voices to read, which works well. Interesting sideline....I started listening on the way to a wedding in Alabama. I was at breakfast at the b&b where I stayed the next morning, and two of the women were from Jackson, MS and in town to visit the Civil Rights Museum in B'ham. We had a great conversation about how life has changed in our lifetime. About midway through the conversation I realized how cool it all was in light of me listening to that book on that trip! How sad for people in that time and circumstance that most missed out on having a lovely breakfast at a table full of people of all sorts of color and experience.
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