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I love to read, but sadly don't get much time to here at school. But, in the next two weeks, I'll be spending at least 16 hours on the road. Any suggestions for some good books (on tape?)
FWIW: Favorite books:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove
Killer Angels
Garrison Keillor books
Harry Potter
Catch 22
Art of racing in the rain
All the car books you can get.
Paddy Hopkirk Story
Angela's Ashes
If you enjoy Harry Potter, you might enjoy the Sookie Stackhouse series - the same books that the True Blood TV series is based on. It's not quite the same sense of fun and is obviously aimed at an adult audience instead of Potter, but the world in the novels is pretty complete and interesting. Even better, the narrator for the audiobook versions is really good. My local library has them in downloadable form on their website.
"Slaughterhous 5" is a good book
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"South of the Pumphouse" by Les Claypool of Primus fame. Its a quick read though.
If you enjoy Garrison Keillor, this is a do not miss!
http://www.amazon.com/News-Lake-Wobegon-Garrison-Keillor/dp/0942110048
The News from Lake Wobegon (Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall). This is a box set of 4 tapes (each one named after a season) with stories focusing on a season. The stories (or monoluges) are lifted from the best Garrison radio shows. I absolutely guarentee you will laugh out loud!
I too will be heading to the library for audio books to take with me on the Thanksgiving drive of about 10 hours each way.
Any of these:
B.S. Levy
Rainbow 6
Harold Coyle Team Yankee is my favorite.
Cormac McCarthy His stuff can be hard to read, but an audio book should take care of that.
That should hold you for a while.
A few of my favorites:
The Power of One
Cider House Rules
The Poisonwood Bible
A Thousand Acres
The Kite Runner
March
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Margie
Cannonball- The worlds greatest outlaw road race Written by Brock Yates himself. Anything by Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitts the man!
jrw1621 wrote:If you enjoy Garrison Keillor, this is a do not miss!
http://www.amazon.com/News-Lake-Wobegon-Garrison-Keillor/dp/0942110048
The News from Lake Wobegon (Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall). This is a box set of 4 tapes (each one named after a season) with stories focusing on a season. The stories (or monoluges) are lifted from the best Garrison radio shows. I absolutely guarentee you will laugh out loud!
I too will be heading to the library for audio books to take with me on the Thanksgiving drive of about 10 hours each way.
Haha, I've heard this one roughly 8736 times. And the other one, More News From Lake Wobegon. And two of his others.
Thanks for the suggestions, its off to the library.
Lots of Vonnegut.
I love me some potter, but the trueblood books are crap!
After looking at the authors you like, my brain lit up with a neon "Steinbeck".
Car books:
Anything by BS Levy
Art of Racing in the Rain
Go Like Hell - Ford vs. Ferrari @ LeMans. (Can't recommend this book enough.)
Against Death and Time - Brock Yates
My Sweetest Victory - Alex Zanardi
I also am a minor league History buff so....
Anything by Stephen Ambrose
Anything by David McCullough
"A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin (Excellent book about the Apollo space program, used as a reference for the HBO mini series "From the Earth to the Moon")
"April 1865" Jay Winick
Other recent reads:
"The Sign and the Seal" Graham Hancock (Search for the Lost Ark of the Covenant)
"Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper" by Sgt. Jack Coughlin
"Lone Survivor" Marcus Lutrell
"The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett
"The Road" Cormac McCarthy
"Emergency" by Neil Strauss (entertaining, but kind of "meh...")
"It's Not About the Bike" Lance Armstrong
Currently entering the last third of "Atlas Shrugged".... love it thus far, but a tad bit long. Ready for it to be over....
And for mindless entertainment.... I'm a fan of all of Dan Browns stuff.... As long as people realize it is fiction, not fact, it is very entertaining, and is very much written like a movie, with "scene" cuts.... One chapter may be 1/2 a page long, followed by a 20 page chapter, cut to another scene that is 2 pages.... etc... Hard to put down.
Not on tape, but a great read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972437835/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1/180-6000134-2611...
When I was a road warrior, I read the back cover only. 8 hours long? Sold! 14 hours? Jackpot! Listened to a lot of crap, but some winners as well.
Demo Dick Marcinko is my favorite, but is an acquired taste.
As for Dan Brown I liked the last 3, but his earlier stuff like Digital Fortress sucked like a 6-71.
Douglas Adams' stuff is pretty good on tape. (Five Hitchhikers Guide Books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
My father is big into Ben Bova. Science fiction IIRC.
You should also try Sherlock Holmes. If you like CSI, then you will love this. Did you know he was a casual heroin user? Really, it is surprising stuff that holds up really well today.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan wrote a series of books in the 50s called "John Carter - Lord of Mars".
He's an earthling living on mars, actually married one; she's green and not the less desirable red Martians. They have space craft but fight with swords. Easy fast reading, just the thing for a tired mind on break from school.
Dan
Anything by Stephen Hunter 
Any one read the Smokie Yunick books?
mrhappy wrote:Any one read the Smokie Yunick books?
Yes I have, and they are awesome. Well, that is as long as you aren't offending by bad grammar, spelling, or foul language. Awesome stories in them!
They simply don't make eccentric geniuses like they used to.
Best Damn Garage in Town was a bit long for me, I wasn't real big on the war part of the book. It was a decent book though.
jrw1621 wrote:If you enjoy Garrison Keillor, this is a do not miss!
http://www.amazon.com/News-Lake-Wobegon-Garrison-Keillor/dp/0942110048
The News from Lake Wobegon (Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall). This is a box set of 4 tapes (each one named after a season) with stories focusing on a season. The stories (or monoluges) are lifted from the best Garrison radio shows. I absolutely guarentee you will laugh out loud!
I too will be heading to the library for audio books to take with me on the Thanksgiving drive of about 10 hours each way.
I went to the library, and found some ones I'd never seen before. Gotta love the news from Lake Wobegon.
Roughneck Nine-One hasn't been mentioned
Tom Heath wrote:mrhappy wrote:Any one read the Smokie Yunick books?
Yes I have, and they are awesome. ...
Has anyone read the new book Bud Moore: Man and Machine? It's by the same publisher that put out Smokey's book (actually, I think it's Smokey's publishing company). I love the Trans-Am Cougars so I'm probably going to pick this up soon, I was just wondering if anyone else had read it yet.
Thanks, Bob
mtn wrote:jrw1621 wrote:If you enjoy Garrison Keillor, this is a do not miss!
http://www.amazon.com/News-Lake-Wobegon-Garrison-Keillor/dp/0942110048
The News from Lake Wobegon (Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall). This is a box set of 4 tapes (each one named after a season) with stories focusing on a season. The stories (or monoluges) are lifted from the best Garrison radio shows. I absolutely guarentee you will laugh out loud!
I too will be heading to the library for audio books to take with me on the Thanksgiving drive of about 10 hours each way.
I went to the library, and found some ones I'd never seen before. Gotta love the news from Lake Wobegon.
The story about the '37 Chevy used as a septic tank is classic. A comment about how maybe they did not think very highly of that truck.
thatsnowinnebago wrote:Lots of Vonnegut. +a lot, Margie had several good suggestions too.
