I need some audio book recommendations. I just finished two on escaping Scientology, and I've done few on escaping polygamy (FLDS church). I don't need to stick to these topics, but I like memoirs and nonfiction on audio. Any titles you could recommend?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.LibriVox has free online public domain audio books available. You can search by author, title, subject and genre. One of my favorites for fiction is an early 20rh century work entitled “The House of A Thousand Candles”
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Kodiamus
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July 21, 2019
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Becuse I am partially blind, I have access to BARD, which is the digital audio bersion of the NLS (Natinal Library Service), which in turn is a part of hte library of congress. If you have any kind of print disability, blindnes dyslexia, etc.. you can acess the system and download audio books. You have to be certified with some kind of print disability though. However if you qualify the service lets you download unlimited books for free. The digital format is unique to this library system and you either have to use a special bookplayer provided by the library, or use a phyoen app (Apple or Android) to listen to books Details on who can access the system is on the website [nlsbard.loc.gov]
Anyone hwo has kids with print disabilities should take note and get them enrolled in the system.
There is a similar system, which costs money, specifically for school and college textbooks called "Learning Ally". They use a different unique format, but you cna use an NLS player to play them, it jus requires a coupel of steps to make it work. Phone apps are also available for Apple or Android for this livrary.
One that I red a few months ago would probably be available commercially. "Where The Crawdads Sing". It is fictional but vey well written and the writign is not too far off in style form a bibliography. My sister has been on our local library's wait list for a print copy of that book for the past several months. It is a really good book.
snytiger6
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July 21, 2019
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I've read Where The Crawdads Sing. Loved it. You might also like The Marsh King's Daughter. A girl grew up isolated in a marsh in the upper peninsula of Michigan because her father had abducted and impregnated her mother as a teen. The story starts when the father has escaped from prison, and she starts to hunt for him. We learn about her life growing up in the marsh and how she is the only one who could know how to track him. She has a love/hate relationship with him: he's a horrible criminal, but he's also the only person she knew growing up and she learned everything from him.
I have a library card to access NYC's public libraries, as well as cards that cover the library systems in western NY state where I live. I have a pretty good selection of audio books through them. Thanks for the info on the other resources though!
@carlyhorton Thanks for the book recommendation. I added it to my BARD reading list. I'll probably download and read it by the end of the week.
The last book I read was "The Mueller Report". I do nto think there will be any big revelations when testifies on Wednesday before congress. The report didn't really tell me anythign more than I already knew I just wanted to be sure I had the backgroun filled in befor ehe testifies, so I could better understand it all.
Now it is back to fiction for a while.
@snytiger6 I bought the Mueller Report, but I haven’t read it yet. I don’t know if I will. I find our current political climate so distressing that I’ve been seeking out escapism. I’ve been binge watching light-hearted shows on Netflix and Hulu (and others.). But I also find audio books about people escaping religion to be satisfying. I just downloaded Scott Kelly’s Endurance, about his year in space. Stuff like this reminds me that difficult things can be overcome.
Sounds very painful to hear both voice of reader and author edited by publishers ....if the author is reading ....very few are skilled at doing all the characters in any fiction....non fiction is severely restricted to privacy rights of all but public persons....memoirs might be nice if not ghost written or double by lines ....TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is almost a memoir and a thinly veiled non fiction small town court story....I do not know if that was dramatized onto audio tape CD or kindle
GreenAtheist
Level 8
July 21, 2019
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I agree. I have had a hard time with fiction because of dialog. Or I don't like the deliver of the reader in some way. I do love it when the author reads his/her own book, like Sam Harris or Christopher Hitchens.
I recommend Leah Remini's Troublemaker. It's her words, and her own voice, and it come across so authentic and natural and listenable.
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