Audiobook recommendations?

[Steven Koteff]

Not sure how he's regarded in these parts, but I found Christopher Hitchens
reading his own memoir (*Hitch-22*) to be a great time. He's a great reader
of his own work and, if you don't have much experience with him, a much
more earnest and compassionate (not merely contrarian or coldly and purely
logical) guy than you might think. There's some surprisingly emotional and
straightforward stuff about his parents that is very moving, in addition to
a lot of funny stuff about other literary types (Amis[es], Rushdie, McEwan,
Vidal, etc.) and a *lot *of firsthand stuff about politics and revolution
in other countries. If any of that interests you.

Also there's a little anecdote about a phone call from TRP that I imagine
has been discussed in these parts, but I'd be happy to retell what I
remember of it if anybody wants.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:32 AM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Another audiobook recommendation: Disgrace (Coetzee). That one's really
> stuck in my craw.
>
> I'd love to hear more recommendations from other people.
>
> > From: dpayne1912 at hotmail.com
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: RE: Audiobook recommendations?
> > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:55:18 +0000
>
> >
> > Yes, the True Grit audiobook is great. I have a long commute. Thank god
> for audiobooks. True Grit sticks out in my memory for the story and for the
> reader.
> >
> > I also liked: Oryx and Crake (Atwood), Swamplandia (Karen Russell),
> Telegraph Avenue (Michael Chabon), The Third Reich (Bolano), and Train
> Dreams (Denis Johnson).
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:09:57 +0100, jstremmel at gmail.com wrote,
> > I definitely agree: She has a nice drawl as Mattie, knows the book since
> she was ten, and what she has to say about it is as at least as smart as
> her own books.
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:57:57 -0400, malignd at aol.com
> >
> > Ah, Charles Portis.  True Grit's great.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 11:15 am, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Just finished reading True Grit and can only imagine that a narrated
> version would be sublime.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUmz4PJOvo
> >
> > I will leave it to others to determine whether the choice of Donna Tartt
> as reader was a wise one.
> >
> > love,
> > cfa
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, just particularly interesting to
> listen to, is all. Thanks! -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l
>
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