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.)
In audio form it is partially read by Lynn Redgrave. She has has a fantastic reading voice. The story is one of the best I've heard on audio - twisting tale that I did not guess the ending. I often have a book pegged before the halfway, not this one. Two thumbs up here.
Itunes has several unabridged: In list from highest popularity, the top three are:
Act of Treason
Consent to Kill
Protect and Defend
Any opinion about which to get? Any of them have scenes we should know about?
Just want to say that violence is OK (in context) but prefer w/o sex scenes, or at least extremely discreet ones.
I listened to Stalingrad going through the Mohave. Excellent book.
I liked this one, but even better is suggestion in post #10!
Actually, many of his short stories are not horror and the ones that are horror tend in the pyscological realm.
While I am impressed by C.S. Lewis, it's not our religion so not quite the same effect. But he was an amazing man and an absolute genius.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
Buy a taser. It’s much more effective.
If you have not read any of Vince Flynn, the first book is Term Limits and they are kind of a series. There are 10 books so far but you can jump in at any book because they are great stand alone stories- you just won’t have as much of some of the characters backgrounds. The most recent book,Extreme Measures, has most of the action occurring towards the end so I wouldn’t recommend this one as a best choice for your trip. And yeah, no “boy-brothel-in-basement scenes”. LOL
If you liked that, you would probably enjoy the Churchill audiobook. The reader, Christian Rodska, has a very Churchillian sound to his voice...not a caricature, just a close similarity.
It’s a surreal experience, like pouring Winston a brandy and sitting with him by the fire while he tells the whole story.
Excellent, I’ll find it.
Seriously, the greatest audio book of all time is john krakauer - into thin air. He reads it and the adventure is so awsome it is a prsonal account of the Mt. Everest disaster in 1996 where 11 people died on the summit.
Atlas Shrugged is not fiction. (LOL)
No, seriously. Love the Galt Man but his speeches would have my hood ornament impaled in a cactus at some point.
I like Robert Parker, the Spenser or Jesse Stone Novels, although since they made the TV shows I can only picture Robert Urich or Tom Selleck as the hero.
Atlas Shrugged if you can find it
Act of Treason is one of my favorite books by Vince Flynn. But Protect and Defend and Consent to Kill are very good too.
Just bought it. I remember staying up late in Grindelwald reading that book about the Eiger Nordwand - Wall of Death or something. Talk about gripping. And there is no time for sex while climbing the mountain, is there, LOL.
Still looking for a mystery, one of the political thrillers...
I like author Vince Flynn, character Mitch Rapp is sort of Jack Bauer on steroids.
Police mystery..author Michael Connelly. Really liked
‘The Closers’. It’s a cold case file mystery.
OK, I got Act of Treason.
I think we have enough books now!! (But any further suggestions might help other travelers, of course.)
Thank you all. I love FReepers.
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