Audiobook recommendations?

[Perry Noid]

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On Sep 18, 2014 4:58 AM, "Steven Koteff" <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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