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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Books Books On Tape?

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Tue, Nov 20 at 11:01 AM

Despite the fact that I rolled in an hour late today due to being out all night convincing some out-of-town friends that Portland is better than L.A. (easy), I’m actually heading out to my Cali homeland of San Francisco (also better than L.A.) tomorrow morning for Thanksgiving and my 10-year high school reunion (I KNOW. It’s going to be just like this:)

Anyhow, I am driving for, like, 8 hours and the radio sucks and I only have a tape deck. Inconceivably, my cassette tape collection has diminished somewhat since 10th grade and I’m really looking for something more absorbing… I want books on tape! I’ve been on a non-fiction kick for the past few years, so factually edifying books on tape would be a bonus. I don’t want any annoying character voices. Who’s got a recommendation? If you can tell me a good one that’s about animals you get extra points.

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assassination vacation, by sarah vowell.

undaunted courage, about lewis and clark. i get extra points because they eat dogs, right?

steer way clear of the ubiquitous blind assassin, by margaret atwood. when atwood's on, she's on. but when she's off, boy. yawnorama. luckily, i melted one of the 600 tapes of my set, so that's one fewer copy in powell's, luring, luring.

Posted by jami | November 20, 2007 11:27 AM

Be careful driving. About a month ago my girlfriend and I hit a bear on the freeway on our way to San Francisco. I'll repeat that: we hit a bear. Those bear crossing signs are no joke.

Posted by Rob. | November 20, 2007 11:33 AM

Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki if you can find it.

He writes about a fair in the 1800s where people were to guess the weight of an ox. No one person guessed the weight. However the collective wisdom of the 800 or so guesses were more accurate than one person.

Also I recently listened to Zodiac, the book on which the Jake Gylenhaal movie was based. It was pretty good. Creepy but not gory.

Posted by jake | November 20, 2007 11:38 AM

1491 is fascinating.

I like the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver - I have no idea if the book on tape is good or bad, but I know the library has it.

An unintentionally hysterical book on tape is the Da Vinci Code – because of the character voices – well, actually the whole story, characters… pretty much every aspect of the thing. I laughed so hard that I had to pull off the road.

Posted by someone or other | November 20, 2007 1:11 PM

sf may be better than la, but people from sf think they are too cool for school. once i met a guy in india from sf, when we said we were from la he said, "nice place to visit" with so much disdain and hatred i wanted to smack the soul patch right off his pretentious face.

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