I have a long commute every day and was wondering what some suggestions were on a good audio book to get.
2007-03-08 04:12:37 · 10 answers · asked by Jessica 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials audiobooks have a cast of 40 or so actors -- fabulous (recording and story).
Otherwise, get what you like, same as you would choose a book.
www.audiofilemagazine.com reviews audiobook. Maybe you can get some ideas there.
2007-03-08 04:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do this same thing. I have an hour drive one-way everyday to work. I like just about all audio books, but I've noticed that the James Patterson and Mary Higgins Clark books are great. Some books are better than others when you're listening to them rather than reading them. I think the thrillers and suspense books are the best for listening to. And checking these books out from the library will save you tons of money!
2007-03-08 05:29:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reader for the Harry Potter books (American version) is Jim Dale and is the best audio book reader I've listened to. Another audio book I really enjoyed was Dragon Rider read by Brenden Fraser the actor. He did a fantastic job at all the different character voices.
2007-03-08 06:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by DemonBookLover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends on what kind of books you like to read. I have an hour commute to and from work and I listen to audio books all the time. I really like Lisa Scottoline books, Laura Lippman is good, Nevada Barr, Philip Margolin. JD Robb is good too and Nora Roberts, Iris Johanson too. But all of these are fiction books about suspense, murder and mystery.
2007-03-08 05:01:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl... or his autobiography if you can find it.
Frankl was a psychoanalyst that was sent to the consentration camps during the War. While imprisoned he studyed the coping mechanisms of the inmates as well as his own. Though I know it seems like a dry topic, it is really interesting and Man's Search For Meaning is an excellent audiobook. I am not usually 'in' this type of subject but my husband left it in the car one day and I caught myself driving around for no reason other than to listen to the CD!
2007-03-08 04:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by amberdevereaux 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
harry potter audio books are all amazing. if you have ever read the books, listening to them is a totally different experience.
i also liked the hobbit audio book.
i just listened to davinci code on tape and that was good.
i don't think i've heard a book on tape that i don't like, actually.
i also got chronicles of narnia on tape for the girls i sit for and we all liked listening to them, too.
i own some of them, but they are pricey ($30-70 a pop) so a lot of them i check out from the library.
2007-03-08 05:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by infomonger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The obvious thing to point out would be to say that it depends on what types of books you like to read. Children's books, young adult books, adult books, which genres, fiction or nonfiction, etc.
That being said, I *absolutely* loved and would recommend to anyone THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak. It is narrated *so well* that it hooked me from the very beginning.
http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2007/02/book-thief.html
2007-03-08 08:39:11 · answer #7 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I enjoyed Jim Dale's reading of the Harry Potter books more than my own. He does all the voices and is funny!
2007-03-08 08:59:00 · answer #8 · answered by fartica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you like. I am in the middle of Salem's Lot by Stephen King and I love it.
2007-03-09 08:09:24 · answer #9 · answered by oilman11977 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham is a good audiotape.
2007-03-08 11:01:36 · answer #10 · answered by Kimberly C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋