Anyone else listen to them?
I love em, wish I had found them ages ago, yesterday had to drive to Leeds and back (from Surrey) and listened to Tony Iommi`s Black Sabbath book, it`s excellent and made the hours fly by.
However after 8 hours of stories of Black Sabbath, I needed a change and started listening to The Martian, on chapter 9 now and it is also brilliant, made an hour in the gym fly by.
I guess if you are not solitary often it would be hard to find the time, but Im happy my dull gym session has now become interesting!!
Any other suggestions to listen to?
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also love a couple of US ones:
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
On Being
And although these cost they are very good: The Great Courses series. (Massive discounts available with negotiation).
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
If you like Lord of the Rings listen to the 1980s production....13 hrs...magnificent.
And big names playing the parts
Used to love the Sherlock Holmes episodes with Clive Merrison too...
I'd buy these adiobooks and rerun again and again
Borrow the CD and rip them.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I've been doing the same thing as I walk to and from work.
There's a whole article on lifehacker (iirc) about free audiobooks. I can't find it but here is one of the sites that I can remember: https://www.librivox.org/
http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/
http://www.openculture.com/
Am checking this out now, ten minutes in and seems very good, and well done with a narrator. It reminds me of this American Life podcast actually.
I listened to my uni pdf coursebooks through the windows text to speech facility (think Stephen Hawking). I quickly realised why I spent many hours asleep. Mr Hawking sounds very interesting when talking about space, but he bores the tits of you when discussing 'Foucault discourse analysis'.