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Literature and Audiobooks

lesliesrussell

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This may not be the correct place. I have a question. Recently, I watched "The Jungle Book," and decided to reread the book, mostly because of Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Begheera. It is available as a free download so I decided to use the money for an audio version.

I find that I often select reading material based on the content, and audio books based on the narrator. Is this just a quirk of mine or do others do this as well? I know it is a silly question, but I seem to be questioning everything lately.
 

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I listen to a lot of lectures/podcasts. The skill of the speaker definitely matters to me too. I'd likely skip an interesting topic/story if the speaker was weak.
 

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I used to listen a lot of poetry by bukowski and Gabriel Garcia Marquez on YouTube
I think bukoswki stuff has animation on it so it is even nicer

Random note: Best book ever: 100 years of solitude
Chronicles of an announced death is cool too
 

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Audible collection:
Soul Journeying, Alberto Villoldo
You Can Change Your Life, Tim Laurence
The Hermeticism Collection, By Three Initiates, Hermes Trismegistus, Manly P. Hall
Sacred Contracts,Carolyne Myss
The Mastery of Life, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
The War of the Worlds, Orson Welles
Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown
Buddhism, Malcolm David Eckel, The Great Courses
Fortunes Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Understanding Japan, Mark Ravina, The Great Courses
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
Norweigian Wood, Haruki Murakami
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Outlander series, (all books) by Diana Gabaldon
Renaissance: The Transformation of the West, Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are doing the Uncommon, Joe Dispenza
The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins
The Story of Human Language, John McWhorter, The Great Courses
Einsteins Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
Advanced Energy Anatomy, Caroline Myss
Land Buying Tips from the Pros, Pat Porter
Great Mythologies of the World, The Great Courses
Dreams of Awakening, Charlie Morely
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin, Phd
Elements of Jazz from Cakewalks to Fusion, Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
The Game of Life and How to Play it, Florence Scovel Shinn
The Complete Idiots Guide to Buying and Selling a Home
Show and Sell, Bill Hines
The Celestial Omnibus, E.M. Forster
The Will to Power, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
An Introduction to Greek Philosophy, David Roochnick, The Great Courses
I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne Dyer
Great American Music: Broadway Musicals, Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
The Immune System Recovery Plan, Susan Blum
Beyond Fear, Mary Carroll Nelson, Don Miguel Ruiz
The Book of Secrets, Deepak Chopra
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Its Called a Breakup Because Its Broken, Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Self Esteem Affirmations, Louise Hay
You can Heal your Life Louise Hay
Blessings, Julia Cameron
Heart Steps, Julia Cameron
The Universe in a Single Atom, Dalai Lama
The Cricket in the Hearth, Charles Dickens
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Quiet, Susan Cain

Kindle Books:
Archetypes, Caroline Myss,
Ina Garten, Cook like a Pro
Green Smoothies Diet
Air Fryer Cookbooks
Juicing for Beginners
Language of Flowers
Victorian Flower Dictionary
Preserving with Pomonas Pectin
Jam Session
Ball Book of Canning
Jubilee Cookbook, Toni Tipton-Martin
Your 3 Best Super Powers, Sonia Choquette
The Economist Magazine
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Mosquito Supper Club cookbook
Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots
Emerils Cooking with Power
Sweet Potato Soul
Shun Lee Cookbook
Emerils Potluck
Making Artisan Pasta
Rosies All Butter Cream filled baking book
Icing on the Cake
How to be an adult in relationships
Talking to Strangers
Atomic Habits
Eight Dates
Wonderbook
Figures of Speech
Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche
Perraults Fairy Tales, Gustave Dore Illustrations
Paul Prudhomme Louisiana Kitchen
Southern Fried
The Undervalued Self
The Total Fishing Manual
The Complete Book of Fishing knots
The Kybalion
Alchemy
Geometry of Energy
The Essential Zohar
Psychic Exploration
The Light of the Fireflies
Mirror Work
Disaster Preparedness
Embroidery
Successful Applique
Pressure Cooker Cookbooks
The World Unseen, Anthony Borgia
Ultimate EFT
The Field
Adrenal Reset Diet
Crochet Stitches
Organic Body Butter
In Sheeps Clothing
Robinson Crusoe
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Heart Sutra
Egyptian Heiroglyphs
Landscaping with Stone
Lucid Dreaming
Collected Poems of Allen Ginsberg
Hawaii Cookbook
The Sedona Method
Watercolorists Essential Notebook
Glynnis Has your Number

Five bookshelves of hard copy books
Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William S Burrows, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka. Cookbooks, Comic books, Geology, accounting, math, sciences, literature, philosophy, psychology, economics, computers, crafts, hobbies, metaphysical, spiritual, Worlds Religions.

Out of all this, my favorites are: The World Unseen (tells you what its like on the other side). The Sedona Method is GREAT! Lucid Dreaming absolutely the most interesting thing in the world to me, Dickens, E.M. Forster, Steinbeck books.
 
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