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>>>Ah, don't I just wish. I used to read during my commute on the train when I worked in downtown Toronto, but now that I work 80 miles away, and have to drive, I find that when I try to read at 80 miles an hour on the highway, the book keeps slipping off my lap. ;)
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>>>I envy your commute.
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>>Haven't you discovered the joys of books on CD? Any time I'm out of the house I have earphone plugged in. Some stuff is better that way for me than reading it. James Lee Burke read by Will Patton. All the Fforde stuff. LeCarre. The entire Thomas Constain Plantagenet books. All the George RR Martin stuff. Gibson. Stephenson (including the Baroque Cycle). And all the stuff I just don't have time to read. Our library system has an amazing collection of books on CD. I actually look forward to long car trips as it gives me time to "read".
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>>( a particular recommendation is Tom Wolfe's "Hooking Up" read by Ron Rifkin - the chapter "Two Young men who went West" about the birth of the transistor/silicon revolution
>>http://books.google.com/books?id=NCePtnz6WyMC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=two+young+men+who+went+west&source=bl&ots=yarr3E7gQi&sig=v1IjKnehOk02utdq-uRx7DYI99M&hl=en&ei=fuKxS4mWFMP48Aabyt3QAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=two%20young%20men%20who%20went%20west&f=false
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>>http://books.simonandschuster.com/Hooking-Up/Tom-Wolfe/9780743519199
>>ron rifkin
>>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726492/ )
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>I have not listened to many books on tape. One I really enjoyed was Frank McCourt reading his own "Angela's Ashes", unabridged. It was great in print, too, but didn't have that Irish lilt.
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>It was kind of funny because not long after listening to the CDs my two oldest friends and their two teenaged sons went on a driving trip to Florida and I gave it to them for the drive. Phil has a wicked gift for mimicry and said by the end of the first day they were all speaking with Irish accents.

I think the accent is particularly nice on the Brit stuff and on Burke's cajun. I have the CD version of Churchill's History of the English Speaking People and most of the Bernard Cornwell books and though I've read them on the page (and do a pretty good plummy Mayfair in my head ) I get more out of them when they are read to me. I'd rather *hear* Shakespeare than read Shakespeare.