Audiobooks!

[asterroc]

I ended up going with an Audibile.com Audible.com membership, since for the first three months it ends up being $8 per audiobook, and something like $15 afterwards (audiobooks are usually $30-$60). So for my next book I'm now deciding between "Seventh Son" by Orson Scott Card (Sci/Fan), and "The Planets" by Dava Sobel (she's usually a science historian, but this one has dashes of personal stories and philosophy and other strange things).

I may have read Seventh Son, or other books in the series, but I forget, and I don't think I did do this one, so I want to start (restart?) the series from the beginning. I like other Card, though his politicky ones I like less. I've never read non-Sci/Fan audiobooks before, and this one of Sobel's is supposed to be unusual for her, but I liked "Longitude" and loved "Galileo's Daughter."

Which do you think I should get next?

Comments

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

I really didn't like Seventh Son. I only got about thirty pages in before stopping. I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the writing style, and I didn't like the setting very much, either. Maybe it gets better. I think I've heard good things about Dava Sobel, but I couldn't say what.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, I have read at least one (Alvin Maker) book in the middle somewhere years ago, and a short story more recently, and I did like them.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Audibile.com? Is that just for nauseating literature?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hah! Good catch.

[one4theroad.livejournal.com]

i have a hard time paying attention when i listen to audiobooks. i keep forgetting to listen :P

[catalyst37.livejournal.com]

I am also a fan of audiobooks. I have indulged in many adventures while working the lot and cutting the grass at the Suzuki dealership I used to work it. My favorites included Brave New World, "Germs, Guns, and Steel", and Zero. I also listened to about half a dozen other lecture series from the TTC (The Learning Company) and you can find their torrents on mininova.org usually with subjects ranging as wide as it does at any university. One in particular you might want to listen to is the series on the basics of the economy. Pointing to the post about why the US needed a bailout. Never give equity and mortgages to those who can not afford them in the first place. No matter what chunk of the market share you obtain. Lesson learned.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, my tastes in reading lean 95% towards sci/fan, and the other 5% are either historical fiction or popular science. So while I appreciate the effort you made to make the suggestion, I'm afraid I likely won't follow it. :-P

Whenever someone tells me "you're so smart b/c you do physics" I always scoff at them b/c when it comes to things like history, current events, politics, or economics I'm really not "smart" at them - and much of it is just from complete lack of interest. I feel I know enough in those subjects to get by, and enough to know when something big's going on that I should ask about, and that's enough for me.