Purpose of this BlogSpot

This is a list of my current collection of "audio books". Most of this collection is from a membership I had with Audible.com. I submitted my membership back in February of this year. I needed time to digest some of the books I already have and to burn them to CD's so that I can loan them out to other friends and family.

These books will be listed in the order that they were purchased

I have posted this blog in order to give other friends and family the opportunity to see what my selection is so they can borrow them as needed.

If you can't wait for me to get everything posted like you see below...well you can jump over to a page that I have the list posted (the formating is poor...a cut paste hack)

Hard Times

Hard Times (Unabridged)
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Martin JarvisRelease Date: 02-03-2005
Audio Length: 10 hours and 36 min.


Publisher's Summary
One of the most widely read of Dickens' major novels, Hard Times is Dickens' powerful and withering portrait of Coketown, a Lancashire mill town, in the 1840s. The novel is particularly harsh in indicting England's educational system, represented by Thomas Gradgrind, who runs a school in which he focuses on driving wonder, fancy, and imagination from children's minds to be replaced only by facts. Gradgrind finally sees the error of his ways and abandons Utilitarianism and resolves to learn the "philosophy" of the circus.

Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)
By C. S. Lewis
Audio Length: 33 hours and 55 min.

I have finished the first 3 book and have really enjoyed them

Teacher Man

Teacher Man (Unabridged)
by: Frank McCourt

Narrator: Frank McCourt
Program Format: Unabridged
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005

8 hours and 59 min.

What the Critics Say
"Should be mandatory reading for every teacher in America. And it wouldn't hurt some politicians to read it, too." (Publishers Weekly)

Publisher's Summary
Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of 66, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York.
Now here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited audiobook about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs, and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City.

My Review
I have not finished this book...I started it...but there is way to much swearing...It wears on the soul. There has been interesting antidote's and other information...But I am not sure if it is worth wading through all the clutter.

David Copperfield

David Copperfield, Volume 1 & 2 (Unabridged)
Charles Dickens

Audio Length: 17 hours and 35 min.Vol 1
Audio Length: 18 hours and 38 min.Vol 2

Publisher's Summary
Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, "of all my books I like this the best; like many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield." Certainly Copperfield's experiences - his early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, experience as a journalist and final success as a novelist - are strikingly similar to Dickens' own.
David Copperfield firmly embraces the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood. It is a timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world.

The Psalms

The Psalms (Unabridged)

Narrator: Alex Jennings
Program Format: Unabridged
Naxos AudioBooks, 2005

5 hours and 16 min.

Publisher's Summary
The 150 Psalms contain some of the most inspiring lines in the Old Testament: Psalm 23 "The Lord is My Shepherd" and Psalm 121 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills". Yet few know them as a set, and this recording, in Alex Jennings' clear performance, allows us to consider them as a whole. They are not all uplifting and comfortable. Many involve darker sentiments of revenge or punishment; many appear to be by David or about David; others are To the chief Musician upon Gittith. Their variety is part of their strength and their power, especially in the magisterial language of the King James Bible used here. They are presented with English choral music from the 16th and 17th centuries.
© and (P)2005 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.

My Review
I have REALLY enjoyed this book. I have listened to it many times...many nights as I go to bed I start this book and let it play through the night.

The Google Story

The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time (Unabridged),David A. Vise and Mark Malseed

Publisher's Summary
Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors' and Ford's combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead's former chef, and its employees traverse the firm's colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.
The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world's most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.
In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.
While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google's quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Listeners will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; and the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft's dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL.
©2005 David A. Vise; (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.