I have quite a few books on CD by Daniel Silva. He has a series of stories about an Isreali operative named Gabriel Allon. They move fast and hold your interest. Also recommend Stephen Hunter CDs featuring Bob Lee Swagger.
Go to Librivox and download anything read by Roger Melin. He does the best job ever of reading books. He reads a lot of books about the great north, Canada and Alaska.
Got to go to Yuma next week with the wife. Looking for a good audio book that will work for both of us. For the record we listened to Empire of the Summer Moon last year and we both like it.
History, historical fiction, etc.
Recommendations?
If it’s a really long trip……Undaunted Courage by Steven E. Ambrose. It was a historical book about The Lewis and Clark Expedition. We listened to the audio book version on cassette, many cassettes…….it was 1996, we were OTR truckers! memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
I recently listened to The Count of Monte Cristo and it’s an unbelievably compelling story. I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be a great one for me and my wife.
Got to go to Yuma next week with the wife. Looking for a good audio book that will work for both of us. For the record we listened to Empire of the Summer Moon last year and we both like it.
History, historical fiction, etc.
Recommendations?
How about something by my favorite astrophysicist?
A Brief History of Black Holes And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong by Dr. Becky Smethurst Audible.com Release Date: September 01, 2022
The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.
In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. She takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.
A cosmic tale of discovery, Becky explains why black holes aren’t really ‘black’, that you never ever want to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers and why, beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time. Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe, all hidden inside black holes.
Listening Length: 7 hours and 5 minutes Publisher: Macmillan
#15 in Astronomy (Audible Books & Originals) #18 in Cosmology (Audible Books & Originals)
Dr. Becky: "Sending Humans to Mars is a BAD Idea" | The Joe Marler Show
"In this episode, Joe and Tom meet Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist who specialises in black holes and blowing peoples minds with amazing facts about the universe. What is a supermassive black hole? How vast is the universe? And can we see into the past? Listen to find out..."
video posted to YouTube on Sep 21, 2022
I watch her youtube channel regularly. Good recommendation!
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