This time I am seeking a recommendation. I have a free audiobook credit at Audible.com that expires next week. They seem to carry a wide-array of newly-released and standard stock fare on their site.
I’m having trouble deciding about what to purchase and wanted to ask you. Normally, my audiobook preferences are things like McCullough biographies or New York Times bestsellers. I am currently reading Team of Rivals and already read Freakonomics and The World is Flat (excellent!), but those are the type I may be looking for now!
Also, I almost never read fiction, except I have probably read 6-7 Grisham books.
I might be interested in Bill O’Reilly’s newest book, and think I will put Glenn Beck’s Christmas Sweater off until next December. Most of my wishlist items are things that aren’t generally made into audio, so I get to do the more trendy type picks.
Tell me what to choose. Sometimes you all get real quiet when I need you to step up. C’mon, readers!
(and if I can find where I got that credit from, I will pass that along)
I see they have Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. Excellent read! I read it a couple of years ago in my bookclub and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I just read O’Reilly’s new book. It was a good read, and I kept thinking how fun it would be to listen to on audio since he reads it himself. Not necessarily a book I’d want to own though – maybe from the library (which is where I got mine).
I have no idea if this is on audio, but Heaven by Randy Alcorn will change your life (and you will buy the real book after listening).
The Forgotten Man is a history of the great depression. It’s kind of dense at times, but a rather chilling account of how the New Dealers were literally playing/experimenting with the economy b/of their fascination with Stalinist Russia. Amity Shlaes unpacks the decade and reveals how their tinkering prolonged the depression and created this repulsive dependence on gov’t.
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I highly recommend The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul. Even if you don’t agree with everything it says it is still very thought provoking considering the many difficulties in our nation right now. They have Murray Rothbard’s The Great Depression but as the reviews on their site suggest, I can’t imagine listening to it because it is very dense.
If you decide that fiction is ok, I have some excellent recommendations that I listened to from Audible.
The Shack is very popular right now, but I don’t know much about it. Look into it.
[...] 13, 2009 by Ryan You did a good job of making me recommendations for my credit at Audible.com. The books you suggested were right up there on my interest level and [...]