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Ryn
| Friday, May 10, 2002 - 5:57 pm
My local library has a TON of audio books on tape, and now even some Books on CD. For those that have never checked 'em out - they are a great way to keep your mind busy while on long drives (I have a 40 minute drive to work every day). I have been checking them out for 7 or 8 years, and have managed to listen to a lot of books I would never have read otherwise. A lot are 'abridged' but our library also carries many un-abridged books as well. Someone mentioned Stephen King in another thread, a man named "Frank Mueller" reads a lot of his books and he is totally awsome to listen to ok, just wanted to toss that out
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Gail
| Friday, May 10, 2002 - 6:04 pm
I have tons of books on tape too! I pretty much listen to just unabridged books. It is a nice way to pass the time when driving. I am patiently awaiting for Shelters of Stone to come in on CD any day now. Two very good companies to rent (or buy if you want) are http://www.booksontape.com and http://www.recordedbooks.com Both companies have books to rent, books to buy and have many of them on both cd and audio cassette.
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Gail
| Friday, May 10, 2002 - 6:05 pm
I will agree with you on Frank Mueller too - I think he also read The Talisman too.
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Car54
| Friday, May 10, 2002 - 6:16 pm
When I go on car trips, I figure out about how many hours I will be on the road and then I get that many hours of books on tape...it really makes the time go fast. I love any storytelling tapes..Garrison Keillor is my favorite, and I love David Sedaris too!
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Honey51
| Monday, May 13, 2002 - 6:24 am
As some of you know I work at a public library and we have tons of books on tape and on CD. I drive 30 miles, one way, to work each day and my biggest passion is listening to books as I drive I am listening to "The Red Tent" right now. I tried to read it and the book and I didn't get along, but listening to it on tape is wonderful.The book is written in "1st person" and listening to it really establishes "Dina" as a storyteller. I also read all the Harry Potter books, and then checked out the CDs. Jim Dale, the narrator, is wonderful.
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Seamonkey
| Monday, May 13, 2002 - 8:51 am
I don't commute, and when I did, didn't have a tape in the car, but I did take a few audio tapes when i took my two month driving trip around the country. One of the most charming was unabridged Charlotte's Web, read by E. B. White himself!!
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Sia
| Monday, May 13, 2002 - 8:57 am
Question: can you listen to a book-on-tape with young kids in the car? I have two young kids who are noisy, and I am afraid that if I used a headphone for the tape player that it would make me an unsafe driver.
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Wink
| Monday, May 13, 2002 - 9:21 am
Maybe you should get inexpensive tape players with headphones for the kids Sia and let them listen to books on tape and you'd be able to listen to yours. There is a huge selection of books on tape for young children many with the accompanying book so the kids can follow along.
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Sia
| Monday, May 13, 2002 - 8:04 pm
Hey, Wink! I like the way you think!!! I think I'll get them each a personal radio/cassette player very soon! My kids are always begging to listen to my personal cd-player that I play at the computer (when posting here!) in order to drown out my husband's TV behind me as he mindlessly clicks through the six channels we get!
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Hummingbird
| Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:43 pm
You can rent books on tape from any Cracker Barrel and return them to any other Cracker Barrel. Great for travel.
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Myjohnhenry
| Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:50 pm
There are some gas station/mini markets that do that too. I just check them out for the library though....ours are 3 week check outs and now we can renew online (unless someone has requested it) or I have just paid the late fee (in years past) if we were gone longer than 3 weeks. Sia...when travelling with kid I have picked a lot of classics that we both end up enjoying. Wizard of Oz series, Chronicles of Narnia, Heidi, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables and I think we listened to almost all of the Box Car Children. My kid also slept in the car on long trips so then I would pop in one I wanted to listen to. Some books are just better on tape than others...sometimes it depends on who is reading it. I have listened to most of the Sue Grafton books on tape and the Patricia Cornwell ones make for good car listening. If you like Danielle Steel, but got bored with the formulaic writing I found them to be good for listening to in the car, especially if you don't want to get too distracted. Currently I am listening to John Grishams Painted House and am enjoying the tape more than I enjoyed the book (never did get into it).
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Rabernet
| Monday, October 07, 2002 - 1:12 pm
I LOVE books on tape (or CD). I first started listening to them when I would drive to visit my parents (six 1/2 hours away) because I LOATHE trying to find radio stations I like along the way. Now my new-to-me car has only a CD player, and my library has more tapes than CDs. Do any of you ever listen to the young adult stories? I have really been enjoying those too, and my favorite narrator for the young adult books is Christina Moore. I enjoyed Deep Wizardry, The Face on the Milk Carton, The Lottery Rose, Frightful's Mountain (and all the others by the author of Frightful's Mountain that I can't remember right now....argh!!!) I rarely listen to the radio any more!
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Jkm
| Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 8:53 am
After my oldest daughter read the first two Harry Potter books --we bought them on tape. Then after reading the next two books - we bought them on tape. My family and my husbands live about 1 1/2 different directions -- we do a lot of driving -even every day driving. We eventually wore out the tapes and bought the CD's (on ebay - much cheaper than at the bookstore). Made a back up set. We've listened to the books over and over again. Really nice because it takes weeks or more to listen to most of one and with story being interesting and so long -- you don't get too tired of it. Especially since we have all of them. Now we listen to pick up things we missed -- clues -- make games out of it - Jim Dale is so excellent at doing all the voices of the characters -- We were disappointed at first when the movie came out -- we were so attached to the characters Jim Dale had created with his voices -- Snape just wasn't right!! Anyway -- we listen to the radio still -- but for drives more than a few minutes - some one usually requests to have Potter put on. I'd like to find more long stories on Cd that have great voices like Jim Dales -- that my preteens and I would both enjoy.
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Kstme
| Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 9:11 am
I began listening to tapes because of vision problems years ago. I still put them in off and on when the eyes don't want to cooperate. I really LOVE James Lee Burke's books on tape but always have trouble reading them. John McDonald, Lawrence Saunders, Sherlock Holmes, etc. are my favs on tape. I have a whole library of mysteries and love them on tape with the lights turned off...LOL I'm not a big TV watcher and I don't turn the radio on often either. I prefer to read but am so thankful the selection of audio books have grown over the years! Teehee...you can even find Harlequin books in audio...
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Ryn
| Friday, February 07, 2003 - 6:24 pm
I am currently going through a series by Lindsey Davis - all based in Rome around AD 70 - "Didius Falco" mysteries, they are very good, funny too For those interested, there is also The Lord of the Rings out on CD (un-abridges) - was around 1991 or 1992 that it was released I think. I loved listening to it, the narrator was excellent (should I say I burned them to mp3's before I returned them to the library so I could listen again?? naaaa )!!!
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Car54
| Friday, February 07, 2003 - 6:36 pm
I listened to the Autobiography of Cleopatra when I had to drive cross-country. It was unabridged and it was wonderful.
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Nightcrawler
| Monday, February 17, 2003 - 11:10 pm
I just started listening to books on tape. Bookie got me started on them after the first potter movie and I just got done with the 4th book and can't wait for book 5 to come out in june!!! I don't read very fast and it's kinda hard for me . so the books on tape are great. I have an 11yr old (L.C.) and he wouldn't let me trun off the truck untill the good part of potter was done thanks Ryn I was going to read(listen) The Lord Of The Rings next. now that I know its good on tape I will go get this week. I was told that I should start with The Hobit first. befor I go in to The Lord Of The Rings. what do you all think?
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 10:03 am
There are tapes of the All Creatures Great and Small series, some were read by the real James Herriot (Alf.. something) and some by Christopher Anthony (I'm dredging the names up from deep memory so don't bank on them) and they are really really wonderful.. Nightcrawler, I'd guess hitting The Hobbit first couldn't hurt.
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Calamity
| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 10:41 am
Nightcrawler: Yes, start with 'The Hobbit' first because that explains how the One Ring came to the Shire and introduces some characters who also appear or are related to characters in the 'Lord of the Rings'. It's also a much easier read. If you've never read Tolkien before, his writing can be an acquired taste.
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Rabbit
| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 12:03 pm
Nightcrawler, I would highly recommend the Horatio Hornblower series. A must for big and little boys and all would be sailors, and history buffs. A & E has made several movies out of the first few chapters of the first two books that were very good adaptations. The A & E message board has over 50,000 posts, most by women who loved these movies as well. If you or anyone else ever wants to tackle the series, I would be glad to provide a little help. The author wrote what turned out to be the middle books first and then went back and forth in writing the 11 book series. The sixth book written is chronologically the first book, Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower. Some fans suggest starting with "Beat to Quarters" (the first book written), to get hooked and then go back from the start. I did this accidently and it worked for me. Oh, the subject. The books follow the life of a British Naval officer during the Napoleanic wars. It is history intermixed with troubled romance, duty, honor, trajedy, resourcefulness, courage, self doubt and constant struggle and hardships.
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Mak1
| Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 4:49 pm
I listened to my first book on tape this week on a road trip. It was Colony, read by Judith Ivey. It was a good way to pass the time while driving. I got distracted by the reader trying to change her voice and accents for each character, though. Some of her mens' voices were hysterical.
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Nightcrawler
| Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 8:38 pm
ok I'm reading(listening) the Hobit. I'm about 1/2 way. It is a good book it starts out REALLY SLOW. but it got better on disk 2. I'v got 1 question. who is telling the story? the person keeps saying things like. I wish I could tell you all the stories we told that night. and there were more song that night but there is no time to tell you all of them. and more things like that. was he on the adventure with then. the person telling the story does not seem to be one of them. the frist part of the C.D. skips alot and I'm sure I have missed were it tells who is telling the story. can any one remeber who is telling the story.
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Halfunit
| Monday, March 17, 2003 - 9:02 pm
NC - Unit will be home in 15 minutes - sit tight - he will know!
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Nightcrawler
| Monday, March 17, 2003 - 9:21 pm
THANKS 1/2 this has been driving me NUTS. I will gladly wait
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Halfunit
| Monday, March 17, 2003 - 9:24 pm
NC - According to Unit, the narrator is supposed to represent Tolkien, the author in third person. The Hobbit was written as a bedtime story for Tolkien's (children or grandchildren, Unit can't remember). So the narrator really isn't a character, per se'. More of an outside observer of the events. Hope that helps!!!
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