This weekend I'll be driving a total of 16 or so hours. My wife is a fan of listening to British murder mysteries on road trips. I like a little bit of everything. Any suggestions?
This weekend I'll be driving a total of 16 or so hours. My wife is a fan of listening to British murder mysteries on road trips. I like a little bit of everything. Any suggestions?
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
Stop by the public library and choose them the same way you'd choose a printed book.
World War Z. A GREAT audio book. It listens more like a radio drama or serial than an audio book with different actors playing different characters in the book. Mark Hamil even gets in on the act!
'The Historian' read it and listend to it, perfect road trip book. Not necessarily English, but mixing an Englishman, an American, romping around Europe at various points in teh 20th century searching for Dracula.
Go here http://librivox.org/. You will find something you like and it is free.
Last audio book I listened to was Ready Player One- and I absolutely loved it. Read by Wil Wheaton. Great book if you're a Child of the 80's like me.
Sex Lies and Superspeedways--- Smokey Yunick's autobiography read by all kinds of automotive legends. Cool stuff
Joe Gearin wrote: Sex Lies and Superspeedways--- Smokey Yunick's autobiography read by all kinds of automotive legends. Cool stuff
This is separate from Best Damn Garage In Town?
+1 on librivox, I probably listen to two books a week from there. Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would probably be good starts and right up your wife's alley.
Cracker barrel stores also sell more recent books with a buy back program, so you can buy the book at one store and get the bulk of your $ back at any other store. One of the big truck stop chains does too, Loves maybe?
podiobooks.com has a number of amateur authors on it and it's all free. Quality varies, but there's some good stuff on there. I enjoy Nathan Lowell for long trips because he's just plain pleasant to listen to.
Keith Tanner wrote: podiobooks.com has a number of amateur authors on it and it's all free. Quality varies, but there's some good stuff on there. I enjoy Nathan Lowell for long trips because he's just plain pleasant to listen to.
^This. Keith posted this post a few years back and next thing I know I was hooked on Scott Sigler books for 8 months straight.
Also, if you buy, wait for a deal and look at Tantor.com. Non-DRM so easy to burn to an mp3 cd or copy to a usb stick unlike Audible. Most books I've bought I paid $4.99 for on sale there.
Librivox and booksshouldbefree.com are both great sources for old stuff as well. Sherlock and John Carter are great series that you can get for free.
The best thing about being hooked on Scott Sigler is that he publishes about one book a week 
His "galactic football league" series is fun, although it's about as far from British murder mysteries as you can get.
Mrs. Poop and I REEEEEEALLY enjoyed "Full Dark - No Stars" Stephen King. If you can find a way to get it for free, I'd definitely do that with noooo regrets, as he thinks he makes way too much money, and guys like you and me should get free money, so you're just saving that whole "getting funneled through the gov't so they can skim half off the top" step. 
Really though, I think the first story is 8 or 10 hours long. Great narrator, great story. Very creepy. 2nd one is almost as good. Made the drive go by like NOTHING. Couldn't listen to the 3rd one, as it was right after the FIL died of cancer, and the first minute was the main character talking about having cancer/chemo.
Hunger Games was actually pretty fun too.
I have to think the "Hitch-hiker's Guide" series would be pretty awesome too.
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