This Pilgrims Progress - Audio input

Purpose of this BlogSpot

2006-04-30T19:13:00.000-07:00

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

2006-02-16T18:18:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-11T14:10:00.000-08:00

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

2006-01-14T19:58:00.000-08:00

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

2005-12-22T20:09:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-19T20:16:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-17T05:18:00.000-08:00

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.

An Unpardonable Crime (Unabridged)

2005-10-30T17:31:00.000-08:00

An Unpardonable Crime (Unabridged), Part 1 & 2
Andrew Taylor

Narrator: Simon Vance
Program Format: Unabridged
Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004

What the Critics Say
"Taylor does an excellent job in portraying early 19th-century London and writes in a clear, consistent period style...." (Publishers Weekly)
"Taylor is a major thriller talent."(Time Out London)
"A remarkable thriller, elegantly written...a work of superlative fiction." (Denver Post)

Publisher's Summary
Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heiress flirts with her inferiors. All the while, Poe's young schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening before he and his loved ones are destroyed. But the truth, like the youthful Poe himself, has its origins in the New World as well as the Old, in a bitter episode of corruption during the War of 1812.

With settings ranging from the coal-scented urban jungle of late Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of a rural Gloucestershire, An Unpardonable Crime is a multi-layered literary murder mystery, a historical novel, and a love story. In addition to shedding fascinating light on Edgar Allan Poe, the book is a fast-paced suspenseful tale, filled with shocking revelations.

©2004 Andrew Taylor

The Adventure of English

2005-10-30T05:21:00.000-08:00

The Adventure of English (Unabridged), Melvyn Bragg

Narrator: Robert Powell
Program Format: Unabridged
BBC WW, 2005

Audio Length: 12 hours and 12 min.

What the Critics Say
"Both entertaining and informative." (Booklist)
"This 'biography' succeeds in its broad, sweeping narrative." (Publishers Weekly)

Publisher's Summary

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

©2003 Melvyn Bragg; (P)2004 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Joan of Arc

2005-09-25T05:22:00.000-07:00

Joan of Arc (Unabridged)
Mark Twain

Narrator: Michael Anthony
Program Format: Unabridged
Blackstone Audiobooks, 2001

16 hours 30 min.

Publisher's Summary
Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival work, and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides, the French and the English. This is a fascinating and remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers.
(P)1992 by Blackstone Audiobooks

09/25/05 Joan of Arc (Unabridged) Mark Twain

NKJV Audio New Testament

2005-09-21T05:23:00.000-07:00

New King James Version
NKJV Audio New Testament (Unabridged)

Narrator: Stephen Johnston, Full Cast
Release Date: 05-06-2005
Audio Length: 17 hours and 5 min.

Publisher's Summary
The much-beloved New King James Version comes to life in this fully dramatized audio product. The work is directed and narrated by Emmy award-winning actor Stephen Johnston, and includes a full cast of seasoned performerss. Music and sound effects enhance the listening experience.
©1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.; (P)2003 Sowing Circle

Mere Christianity

2005-09-11T05:34:00.000-07:00

Mere Christianity (Unabridged) C.S. Lewis

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
Program Format: Unabridged
Blackstone Audiobooks, 2005

5 hours and 52 min.

What the Critics Say
"Geoffrey Howard's performance is superb; he is clear and unhurried, giving just the right emphasis and/or inflection....Whether or not one agrees with Lewis's arguments, it is a pleasure to hear such a skillful reading of an eloquent work." (Library Journal)

Publisher's Summary
Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice".

©1942 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.; (P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

2005-09-11T05:33:00.000-07:00

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Unabridged)

Benjamin Franklin

Narrator: Adrian Cronauer
Program Format: Unabridged
Recorded Books, 1999
5 hours 30 min.

What the Critics Say
"...a landmark in world literature." (Masterpiece Library)
"Adrian Cronauer's rich voice is ideally suited to Franklin's autobiography. A skilled and smooth reader, Cronauer never intrudes on the material." (The Washington Post)

Publisher's Summary
A great inventor, journalist, satirist, politician - a true Renaissance man - Benjamin Franklin perfectly embodied the traits we now treasure as "American." One of the prime movers and shakers in our nation's history, Franklin was known for his common sense, practicality, and frugality. Here, Franklin describes his rags-to-riches journey with candor, optimism, and boundless humor. The voice is that of a young, vigorous Franklin, focused on action and eager to explore and learn from life.
(P)1986 by Recorded Books, Inc.

09/11/05

Scientific American, July 2005

2005-08-01T05:36:00.000-07:00

Program Format: Abridged
Scientific American, 2005
1 hour and 30 min.

Publisher's Summary
The cover story this month asks, can we bury global warming? Also, we'll hear about the Mars Rovers' surprising finds, the hunt for a physical particle that permeates reality, and exactly how dinosaurs grew so large, and so small. Plus, computer simulations of Native American settlements help to unravel the mysteries of ancient society.
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©2005 Scientific American

Audible Technology Review, July 2005

2005-08-01T05:35:00.000-07:00

Audible Technology Review, July 2005

1 hour and 1 min.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

Publisher's Summary
In the cover story this month, Intel's silicon laser could mean a solution to one of the great challenges facing the semiconductor industry: how to move data fast enough to keep up with tomorrow's ultra-fast computers. Also, we'll hear about the government's efforts to preserve deteriorating electronic records, as well as about a study of overweight Micronesians that aims to determine the role of genetics in obesity.

©2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The NIV Audio Bible

2005-07-25T18:08:00.000-07:00

Audio Length: 76 hours

Publisher's Summary
The NIV Audio Bible is more than a Bible you listen to. It's an experience that helps you enter into God's Word...so God's Word can enter into you.
Features:
New International Version, today's most read, most trusted translation
Multiple-voice dramatization brings the Bible to life with world-class narration and colorful, true-to-the-text character renderings
Fully orchestrated background with sound effects provides maximum enhancement of the text reading
Digital engineering from start to finish delivers the ultimate in clarity and listening enjoyment
Brief book introductions give you a quick, preparatory overview of each book of the Bible
©1973, 1978, 1983 International Bible Society; (P)2003 Zondervan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2005-07-12T18:12:00.000-07:00

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged)
Mark Twain
Narrator: Patrick Fraley
Program Format: Unabridged
The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., 2001

11 hours 20 min.

What the Critics Say
"All modern American literature comes from [this] one book by Mark Twain...it's the best book we've had." (Ernest Hemingway)

Publisher's Summary
One of the greatest treats in all world literature, this masterpiece from Mark Twain is revolutionary. It offers both brilliant humor and tragedy as Huck and Jim explore moral dilemmas of slavery and freedom. Huck, the narrator, is shrewd, ingenious, and literal - he reports on everything he sees, which allows the listener to experience the hypocrisy of "sivilization." This superb reading by Patrick Fraley is rich in the color and the adventurous frontier spirit of the Mississippi River. It captures the world and people that Mark Twain knew and loved. Author and actor together provide storytelling genius, balancing youthful escapades against an important social message.