3 days a week I have quite a long commute to work (125km far).
Music inevitably winds me up and I spend my ride cursing and wishing all kinds of atrocious deaths to my fellow drivers ... so I tend to avoid it for these trips ....
Audiobooks are perfect to keep my attention off the jerks while keeping focused enough on the road.
I have no genre I like best, though a good music biography is always nice.
Recently I have enjoyed a lot of Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Orson Scott Card.
Avoid Girl in a Band. Monotone singing in Sonic Youth = . Monotone reading =
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside the Room is a fucking hilarious bio and a captivating listen. My favorite audiobook performance has to be Perfume (Patrick Suskind). I listen to it once a year. So good.
I enjoyed Dan Harris's 10% Happier. He reads it, and although he's got a bit of a newscaster-y feel (he's in fact a newscaster), his point of view is nicely sarcastic and skeptical. For me, it was a nice entry point into meditation.
neonblack wrote:They say tone is in the hooks
D.o.S. wrote:I'm pretty sure moderation leads to Mustang Sally.
coldbrightsunlight wrote:Yes I am a soppy pop person at heart I think with noises round the edge
Currently going through this, liking it a lot. Mogworld is still the best out of Yahtzee's work, but he's a legitimately good writer and deserves a lot more credit.
Thanks for the recommendations guys :-) Definitely cool stuff in there.
hotknife wrote:Avoid Girl in a Band. Monotone singing in Sonic Youth = . Monotone reading =
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside the Room is a fucking hilarious bio and a captivating listen. My favorite audiobook performance has to be Perfume (Patrick Suskind). I listen to it once a year. So good.
I actually did not mind Kim Gordon's reading. But then again I think I am quite monotone too :-)
Over the years I have started reading the perfume several times but always end up laying it aside for some reason.
It could be because I actually have no sense of smell and can only conceptualize what a scent is....
hotknife wrote:
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside the Room is a fucking hilarious bio and a captivating listen. My favorite audiobook performance has to be Perfume (Patrick Suskind). I listen to it once a year. So good.
Man, that book is so funny and surreal. Watch the room before reading it. Watch it twice. Throw spoons with your friends.
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BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
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hotknife wrote:
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside the Room is a fucking hilarious bio and a captivating listen. My favorite audiobook performance has to be Perfume (Patrick Suskind). I listen to it once a year. So good.
Man, that book is so funny and surreal. Watch the room before reading it. Watch it twice. Throw spoons with your friends.
I actually got curious and watched the room yesterday.
Now I'm really undecided as to how I feel about that movie (and also how I feel about you guys ... )
Fiction doesn't work for me, I hate missing out on a paragraph or whole 'pages' if my mind wanders. Technical non-fiction also not optimum - I made it through 20 minutes of Ernest Becker's 'Denial of Death' before realizing I needed to read it. Memoirs, essays, history, journalism is where it's at IMO.
World War Z - the only fiction I've enjoyed with an audiobook, since it's an 'oral history' they get a whole cast of actors to do each bit and it's outstanding even if you're not into zombies
Jon Krakauer's Everest book
Sam Quinones's Dreamland - about the origins of the black tar heroin trade and pill mill oxy clinics and how they fed into half the country being hooked on opiates
Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot - great NPR-y writer but listen to clips of her voice first, could definitely be a dealbreaker
Marc Maron - Attempting Normal - you'll like it if you enjoy his show or standup
David Grann - Lost City of Z
Oliver Burkeman - The Antidote, Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
The Portuguese element in both is a mere coincidence
and also Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
Listening to this I realized that a big part of what makes listening to some of his audiobooks so memorable are the narrators.
I should start looking for audiobooks based on narrators
... so I tend to avoid it for these trips ....
. Monotone reading = 
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