Comments on: Librivox Recommendations?

Question: Librivox Recommendations?

prettyboyfloyd — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:26:01 -0800

FavoriteLibrivox books?

I am getting ready for a long drive and wonder if any of you have listened to any good librivox books. After searching the web I've found a few recommendation lists

Can you add to the wealth?

Thanks.

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:29:52 -0800

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

By: joe_from_accounting

joe_from_accounting — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:33:34 -0800

"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" by Montague Rhodes James...

By: prettyboyfloyd

prettyboyfloyd — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:40:19 -0800

Thanks - I haven't listened to his stuff yet, but this reader (judging from the linked stuff above and the article at reason magazine) is also supposed to be pretty good.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:44:48 -0800

Listened to Pride and Prejudice earlier in the year and it's very well read. (Also Frankenstein, which was ok and Dracula, which was a bit of a chore to be honest. Starting Moby Dick after Christmas)

By: hurdy gurdy girl

hurdy gurdy girl — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:51:44 -0800

My favourite Librivox reader is Andy Minter. His reading of The Prisoner of Zenda is fantastic. I've also enjoyed his reading of "Man Sized in Marble", in one of the Ghost Story collections, and Four Max Carrados Detective Stories.

I also liked The Big Bow Mystery, read by Adrian Praetzellis.

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:56:48 -0800

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, both because the novel is wonderful and because the reading by John Gonzales is impecable.

By: prettyboyfloyd

prettyboyfloyd — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:17:27 -0800

Doh! In my post above I meant to include a link to this reader's website.

By: canoehead

canoehead — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:35:53 -0800

I'm a fan of Aldous Huxley's works PRIOR to Brave New World and this version of Crome Yellow was excellent

By: good in a vacuum

good in a vacuum — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:47:58 -0800

I haven't listened to many, but I enjoyed Kafka's Metamorphosis, read by David Barnes.

By: still_wears_a_hat

still_wears_a_hat — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:10:06 -0800

On the light side, I very much liked Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson, and Eve's Diary, by Twain. I wished both had been longer.

By: cameron.case

cameron.case — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:27:43 -0800

Tarzan of the Apes, read by Mark F. Smith (who does a fantastic job).

By: TomMelee

TomMelee — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:05:52 -0800

The "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is awesome. The guy does a fantastic job.

By: mfcorwin

mfcorwin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:15:16 -0800

I very much enjoyed The Age of Innocence, The Enchiridion, and Schopenhauer's Studies in Pessimism.

Letters of Two Brides was amusing, and did not interfere with multitasking.

By: pamccf

pamccf — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:18:55 -0800

Sarrasine by Balzac is a lot of fun, and the reader is appropriately hammy. And it has a bonus Roland Barthes tie-in!

By: happyturtle

happyturtle — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:39:07 -0800

For a really loooong listen, there's The History of England (12 chapters released so far). I love it, and it helped me understand US history in a way I never had before. But you have to be willing to accept that Macaulay drops a LOT of names, and even on my fourth or fifth listen, I'm still not sure of all the noblemen involved. (It doesn't help that whenever Joe Schmoe gets made Earl of Someplace, he'll be referred to as Someplace from then on out, and then of course in the next generation, his eldest son will be Earl of Someplace, so you'll have to remember which Someplace was which.... but it's all good fun!)