northernguitar
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I have four credits to use on Audible. Please recommend me some outstanding audiobooks. I love Anne Applebaum and geopolitics in general. I also LOVE music bios. However, I’m open to all suggestions!
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tuuur
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There is enough if you have a modern taste.
If you like 1960s-1970s thrillers: good luck.
If you like 1960s-1970s thrillers: good luck.
northernguitar
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One of my favourite books!
Anthony Beevor on WWII might be good. There are several books.
Wayne Alexander
Friend of Leo's
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. 100% guaranteed.
I'm a huge fan of audiobooks, love being able to listen while I'm doing other things. My job entails reading dense text 8-12 hours a day, so I need to give my eyes a break afterhours.
I strongly recommend Jeff Tweedy's memoir "Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)." Even if you're not a fan, Tweedy is a fantastic writer and it's flat out one of the best music bios I've ever read, equal parts humorous, heartbreaking, and insightful about living a creative life.
I strongly recommend Jeff Tweedy's memoir "Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)." Even if you're not a fan, Tweedy is a fantastic writer and it's flat out one of the best music bios I've ever read, equal parts humorous, heartbreaking, and insightful about living a creative life.
For the way threads on AI go, Nexus is great. It's a history book as much as one on AI.
A pair of great Audible books are history but we liked the format are 1491 and 1493 which are all "the Americas" before and after Columbus starting with last ice age. They held a lot of history not known when many of us had our grade and high school teaching. The books held our attention in many ways. My wife and I covered them during drive time.
Successful Aging was a great one in audio format. Everyone kids through old should read that one.
More behavioral economics and interesting facts than geopolitics you mention but maybe along the lines or of interest is Vaclav Smil How The World Really Works which I did as reading Kindle and Audible format.
Audible is part of Amazon, I'd suggest looking through the Amazon Book section and pick some books to listen to.
If you have Amazon Music, they let you have one book a month from the Audible catalogue also.
As an aside, if you are blind or have low vision, you can get free books to listen to from the Library of Congress BARD program.
If you have Amazon Music, they let you have one book a month from the Audible catalogue also.
As an aside, if you are blind or have low vision, you can get free books to listen to from the Library of Congress BARD program.
I love Anne Applebaum and geopolitics too, but I have never "read" an audiobook, nor do I plan to. I like real books too much. You all go ahead, though
MyLittleEye
Tele-Meister
Johnny Depp reading Keith Richards' autobiography Life is currently keeping me engaged
but I'm listening with my Spotify subscription.
I taught myself to finger pick over one weekend whilst listening to Patrick Sukind's Perfume.
I just kept going at it all weekend whilst listening to the audiobook to numb the boredom.
Freight Train; Julia; Dust in The Wind and some basic Mississippi John Hurt...
It was the best weekend I ever invested in my playing.
Going from "this is utterly impossible" to "I got this!" it really felt like I'd levelled up!
As an aside, Perfume was a favourite of Kurt Cobain and somehow provided inspiration for "Scentless Apprentice"
The audiobook can be found here on YouTube - no credits required.
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runstendt
Tele-Afflicted
Mel Brooks reading his autobiography is a wonderful listening experience.
AAT65
Doctor of Teleocity
Are those books comprehensible as audiobooks?? I’ve read most of them, and they are great, but I spend a lot of time flicking back & forward to maps and photographs and “who was that guy again?”… I can’t imagine understanding what was happening if I was just listening.
northernguitar
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I tend to agree with you. Anne likes to present data to back her up, I don’t know how that will translate to audio. I love her essays in The Atlantic.
I did truly enjoy a recent Bob Woodward political bio on audiobook. What made it exceptional was instead of quoting speeches and media sound bites, they incorporated the actual audio into it. Given the topic matter, it really added to the overall experience.
Kandinskyesque
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For biogs, Johnny Marr's book is good, he's reading it so it feels first hand.
The Billy Connolly ones are really entertaining as well.
Again, it's Billy's voice.
David Byrne's "How Music Works" is a good adventure into music and neuroscience.
The Billy Connolly ones are really entertaining as well.
Again, it's Billy's voice.
David Byrne's "How Music Works" is a good adventure into music and neuroscience.
jackinjax
Friend of Leo's
Over the years I was required by my employer to listen to numerous motivational and sales tapes. The problem with that is I think I'm borderline ADHD. Less than 5 minutes into a tape/cd and I've wondered what I wanted for dinner, should I wash the car this weekend, wondered if remembered to mail in the check for my car tag renewal, etc., etc.
northernguitar
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I’d rather stick my wiener in a mouse trap than listen to motivational or sales tapes. You don’t have ADHD.
MyLittleEye
Tele-Meister
I find boring literature/audiobooks that I am only half engaged with to be perfect for practicing boring and repetitive guitar exercises to.
I know guitar teachers insist on focussed disciplined practice being the way but I found that teaching myself fingerpicking whilst diverting my attention to an audiobook really helped bed in the patterns so that they became automatic. I find dull classics that I wouldn't otherwise read to be perfect as, if an audiobook's too engaging then I can't focus on the guitar: Greek Myths, Dickens, Tolkein's Silmarillion; kinda interesting but dull! - I'd imagine motivational/sales tapes to be on about the same level.
[Edit] - Oh, and I do enjoy Ian Gordon's Horrorbabble readings. Most of the HP Lovecraft tales are familiar already but Ian's narration brings them new life...
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