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11-10-2008, 09:38 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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Audio Books
Dianna and I find audio books to be very helpful when traveling. It seems that with out something to keep my interest, I get sleepy. The audio books, if it is a good one, keeps me alert and focused while entertained at the same time. I like Clive Cussler's books. Well written historical books work better listening than reading them. Alexander McCall Smith has written some interesting novels based in Botswana. Dianna likes Jan Karon's writing. She is a voracious reader. I, on the other hand, would probably never pick up a novel outside the audio books. I admit I benefit form the exposure.
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11-10-2008, 10:48 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Kville
Posts: 2,865
M.O.C. #7871
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We get the audio book once in a while, too. Our library has them.
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11-10-2008, 10:52 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: PHOENIX
Posts: 145
M.O.C. #4279
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We love them. Never take a trip without at least enough playing time to cover our estimated travel time. I let my wife pick out the books and rarely am I disappointed in the selection. Makes the time really fly, yet if we see something of interest, we hit the stop buttom and have no problem picking up on the story at a later time.
Alan & Kathy
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11-10-2008, 11:14 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Casa Grande
Posts: 5,369
M.O.C. #6333
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We listen to them also. In fact, we just passed our latest to Delaine & Lindy. It was Bill O'Reilly's "Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity".
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11-10-2008, 12:02 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Grain valley
Posts: 356
M.O.C. #5098
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We used them for the first time this year on our trip to Maine and Nova Scotia. DW picked them and she was 50% on selection. One good and one bad. We did enjoy and it made the miles go faster.
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11-10-2008, 12:10 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Fallon
Posts: 6,064
M.O.C. #1989
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We have done a lot of them also especially when we use to go back and forth between Northern and Southern CA. We had made the trip so many times there was nothing to see. We got so interested in one, we sat in the truck for 1/2 hr when we got home to finish it! It is a great way to "read" long books like Michener. We had to get rid of ours when we got the new truck because ours were cassettes and we only have a CD player in Brutus.
Happy trails.......................
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11-10-2008, 02:12 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Oviedo
Posts: 418
M.O.C. #8297
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You all may already know this, but if you stop at Cracker Barrell restaurants you can rent them at one location and return them at another in route. This can be helpful if you are not going back to where you checked them out at a library for a while. We have listened to audio books for years and love the old radio shows as well (when the kids, now 39 and 34, were really young we used them a lot when we were on the road and overseas where there was no English speaking stations).
Robin
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11-10-2008, 06:13 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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We’ve never done that; it does sound like an interesting idea though.
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