on the Wealth of Nations
by P J O'Rourke
read by Michael Prichard
Posted on 03/27/2009 11:40:18 AM PDT by Yaelle
We are going on a long car trip, with kids in the back. There will be a long stretch of desert without much radio. We adults would like to listen to something interesting on the trip.
We have already purchased the audio to Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny for the way there.
On the way back, we'd love a mystery or something really gripping. Here is where you come in.
Those of you who listen to audiobooks, or read mysteries, can you think of one that you loved, not too feminine please, got to please the guys, that does NOT have overt sex in it? The kids may or may not be listening at any point in time. (They have videos to watch and music players but you never know what they will be doing or whether they might be listening.)
Great minds appear to operate on parallel paths.
Check out Audible.com . Huge selection of books you can download to an Ipod or burn to CD. MUCH cheaper then standard audiobooks.
If you can find the audio for “Atlas Shrugged” at your local bookstore that would be enough for many trips...
Anything authentic Harold Robbins would do it for me. :O)
“I often have a book pegged before the halfway...”
Me too. Even with movies and tv series. I hate that, it ruins it completely for me. Wife gets mad cause I can tell her, sometimes, word for word, what’s next, the reason they did it that way, and how it’s going to end.
PJ O’Rourke’s “On the Wealth of Nations” — his analysis of the Adam Smith 18th century classic, it’s fun and intellectually stimulating (not easy to do). Also the narrator sounds a little bit like the narrator on the old “Fractured Fairy Tales” segment on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Liberty and Tyranny. Any O.C. CA Freepers wanna swap?
self | vanity
Posted on 03/27/2009 3:05:24 PM PDT by Two Kids’ Dad
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We recently traveled listening to WEB Griffin’s “The Hostage”
It is about the personal aide to the Sec of Dept of home land Security who goes to Argentina at the direction of the President to find the kidnapped wife of a State Department official. Obama types won’t like it. I really like WEB Griffin.
That is exactly why I don’t watch scripted TV.
Have you considered getting the audio books from here?
http://www.crackerbarrel.com/trip-booksaudio.cfm?doc_id=48
I think you can return them at any store and get new ones.
I'm about to re-read it, it's that good.
on the Wealth of Nations
by P J O'Rourke
read by Michael Prichard
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