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08-13-2015, 09:57 AM
I will be travelling next week and need about 35 hours of audio books to listen to. Can you guys suggest a few books or lectures that you find excellent?
There are plenty of online courses I'd want to watch and audio books I want to listen to but so many of them have screeching feminists lecturing and I can't stand that.
Any topic, but please only suggest material you've listened to yourself.
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08-13-2015, 01:07 PM
As audiobooks I enjoyed Under the Banner of Heaven,Jon Krakauer's book about the Mormon religion; Cinderella Man, the boxing story made into a movie with Russell Crow, and Columbine, Dave Cullen's book about the massacre (written years later, it upends a lot of the "bullying/trenchcoat mafia" stuff bandied about shortly after).
Also, Adam Carolla's books are good if you want something light and funny. His podcasts are also good, and free. If you haven't tried them, he does a "best of" show around the holidays every year--actually I think they are called the Ace Awards--that are good listening.
Also Sam Harris has some good podcast episodes.
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08-13-2015, 04:15 PM
The Teaching Company lectures. College level courses on whatever you want to learn about. Careful though, they guard their intellectual property fiercly...
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08-13-2015, 08:26 PM
I love listening to Anthony Bourdain's Audiobooks. I find his delivery just very relatable. I think I liked "A Cook's Tour" the best but I don't think its on Audible I got the CDs for that one.
Also liked the 48 Laws of Power. Book moves pretty quickly with interesting anecdotes.
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08-13-2015, 09:10 PM
I just started Game of Thrones today, and it's excellent so far; vastly superior to the show. It's 33.5 hours so it fits with your time requirement.
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08-14-2015, 06:59 AM
Danger and Play podcast and the Black Philip Show
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08-14-2015, 09:23 AM
Im a technophobe, can someone give me the information of an app I can download. So I can listen to audio book podcasts on my shitty samsung smartphone.
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08-14-2015, 09:26 AM
The Slight Edge (nearly 4 hours)
Psychocybernetics (over 6 hours)
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08-14-2015, 01:24 PM
Terence McKenna waxes lyrical about everything under the sun, but psychedelics like DMT and Mushrooms are themes he keeps coming back to.
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08-14-2015, 02:22 PM
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08-14-2015, 02:24 PM
Why not just crank through one long book? Ulysses, Crime and Punishment, something like that. I went through Crime and Punishment one week when I was home sick and really enjoyed it. It was around 30 hours if I remember correctly.
Free on itunes too (thought I don't think this is the exact version that I listened to).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/cri...9677?mt=10
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I need 35hrs of audiobooks
08-15-2016, 12:08 AM
Use keepvid to get your copy of video or audio only of stuff you want from youtube.
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08-15-2016, 10:48 AM
Infinite jest by David foster Wallace is incredible writing and the reader of the book is the best audiobook reader I've heard. I listen to audiobooks almost everyday.
Infinite jest is 50 hours or so. Very few slow parts.
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08-17-2016, 01:43 PM
I have greatly enjoyed many of the "Stuff They Don't Want You to Know" podcasts. Also, "The Naked Scientists" has entertained me quite a bit.