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GaryGo
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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: Heard any good audio books lately? |
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People talk about Books or Film?
What about Audio books??
I don't watch a lot of tv but I would think if you did it would be harder to watch a film at home and "get in to it" Watching a film can be amazing in the Cinema and also at home if its given the necessary time and respect. (Kids in bed, fav carry out food - drinks - chocolate - lights off so the neighbors think your in bed, phone off the hook etc) can be totally amazing.....
also amazing is reading a good book in the Park or somewhere nice while drinking a few coffee's out of a flask in anticipation of an over sized steak on the bbq later....
Some like "having" their cake - I quite licking the bits of chocolate and cream that are stuck to my face -
But what I have recently been getting a taste for is "Audio Books" as in free MP3's - I find it a nightmare trying to read Shakespeare but walking with amazing scenery while listening to Shakespeare or one of the classics can be amazing - Read the book years ago but just finished Behold a pale horse and the man himself was reading it.
you can download it here...
http://www.archive.org/details/WilliamCooper-beholdAPaleHorse
What I normally do just after I down load them is stick them into Adobe soundbooth and strip off the blah blah at the start and finish - "this is a blah blah recording we do this that and the other blah!"- You can of course just FF over it....
Then I stick it in a folder in ITunes and down load it unto my IPod
Anyone heard anything good? anyone got any suggestions or recommendations ??
something that could blow my tiny wee mind?
Long live Free Audio books  |
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bri
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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I recall finding this one in my moms stash and putting it on one night. It changed me forever. I went out and bought the text right after hearing it. Deep n' Dark stuff GaryGo...but very humane and emotional. I bet you'd have quite an experience if you can find it...could always buy it on tape for 5 bucks if you can't find the Mp3
Joyce Carol Oates' short story collections are often amazing on a Shakespearian level.
Most of her novels aren't as great IMHO, hence Oprah's Book CLub
Avoid her poetry at all costs.
Also look for Audio Books of these short story collections by Joyce:
Faithless (possibly available)
Crossing the Border (probably not available)
Look for these authors as well (keepin' it fairly modern):
Raymond Carver
Eudora Welty
Flannery O'Connor
John Updike
There are of course Bukowski, Ginsberg, Keruoac, and others who have made audio recordings.
I am leaving out many names, let alone sticking to the 20th century.
Just search search search! And listen!
CHeers for upward trends GaryGo! |
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bri
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bri
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:45 am Post subject: |
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The above documentary seems to be missing this part:
I posted this because of an included poem:
| Quote: | SHIFTLESS
The people who were better than us were comfortable.
They lived in painted houses with flush toilets.
Drove cars whose year and make were recognizable.
The ones worse off were sorry and didn't work.
Their strange cars sat on blocks in dusty yards.
The years go by and everything and everyone gets replaced.
But this much is still true-I never liked work.
My goal was always to be shiftless.
I saw the merit in that.
I liked the idea of sitting in a chair in front of your house
for hours,
doing nothing but wearing a hat and drinking cola.
What's wrong with that?
Drawing on a cigarette from time to time.
Spitting.
Making things out of wood with a knife.
Where's the harm there?
Now and then calling the dogs to hunt rabbits.
Try it sometime. Once in a while hailing a fat, blond kid like me and saying, "Don't I know you?" Not, "What are you going to be when you grow up?"
-Raymond Carver |
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GaryGo
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Thanks for the somewhat Poignant Raymond Carver stuff bri
First time I'd ever heard Carvers name yet he's obviously such a giant of american lit. Liked the way he loved yet criticized his father and made the same mistakes with drink - but was able to look back objectively and be his own shrink.
Such vision/perception is obviously a big part of what made him so powerful as a writer. 50 years old - dare I say it? Thats young, he could have easily have had at least another 20 years serious writing...
Some free Tolstoy
http://www.archive.org/details/anna_karenina_bk1_ct_0906_librivox |
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LelaBear
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:57 pm Post subject: Books by Ear |
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One of my favorites...even found you the torrent site...
After the Ecstacy, the Laundry
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bri
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah only 50!
I've learned a lot more about the reasons people drink and it's devastating effect on some (including my family and I myself have been close to the bottom before at a relatively young age) than from ANY "Big Book" 
Thanks for the Tolstoy Gary.
Lela, always good to see you around. I will check out the link you posted.
| Quote: | PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER IN HIS TWENTY SECOND YEAR
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen
I study my father's embarrassed young man's face.
Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a string
of spiny yellow perch, in the other
a bottle of Carlsberg beer.
In jeans and flannel shirt, he leans
against the front fender of a 1934 Ford.
He would like to pose hrave and hearty for his posterity,
wear his old hat cocked over his ear.
All his life my father wanted to be bold.
But the eyes give him away, and the hands
that limply offer the string of dead perch
and the bottle of beer. Father, I love you,
yet how can I say thank you, I who can't hold my liquor either and don't even know the places to fish.
-Raymond Carver |
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