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I'll be driving to a trial this weekend about 12-13 hours away. Any suggestions about some interesting audiobooks I could download to my phone? I checked the local bookstore but couldn't really find one that caught my imagination.

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Bukkle is toward the end of the month at the Southeast Regionals for NCA. This weekend is for my two open sheep dogs. But she's working again with hardly any limping after her break so I am pleased!

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Okay, so it's an acquired taste, but I loved some of the chapters of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: a behemoth of a book detailing the lives of the ancients. Very old-fashioned, long-winded, can be dry and sesquipidalian, but by god is it fun.

 

"The Empress Julia was a woman of many virtues, but chastity was not chief among them..."

 

Luckily the chapters are mostly reasonably self-contained, since it would take a lifetime to listen to the whole thing. I liked it, anyway....

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Steven King's Under the Dome is also a good book for a long drive. I hated the TV series, so don't judge the book based on that. The Stand, 11/22/63 and Dreamcatcher are my other favorites by him.

 

Dean Koontz's The Watchers is a great book with a dog as the hero. His Odd Thomas series is also great, with the first book being the best by far. You really fall in love with the main character.

 

Can you tel I like sci fi?

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I would vote for Kite Runner as well. Although I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns too.

 

I just started reading All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr and already like it. Don't know if it's on audiobooks or not. There are so many. People of the Book, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (that one brought me all the way back from the Sturgis finals and then some--I'm always recommending it). Heck, if you're not watching the series on TV, Game of Thrones is good for a long trip I'd imagine. If you like Ireland and its history, not long ago I finished listening to Tipperary by Frank Delaney. I really enjoyed it.

 

Liz,

I will look for the All Souls trilogy. I know my library doesn't have it on audiobooks, but I'm happy reading it instead! ;)

 

J.

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Oh, the All Souls Trilogy is just fine being read. :D I just really liked Kite Runner as an audio book because the author read it (or I least I think I remember him being the narrator). You feel his passion for the book coming through and hear the names and words pronounced correctly.

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