# Audiobooks you own?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842 "2013-03-24T19:26:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842/1 "2013-03-24T19:26:26Z")

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Which audiobooks do you own?

These are what I have:

–The _Ramona_ series by Beverly Cleary (Stockard Channing performs; six of them are in three two-packs; _Ramona and Her Mother_ and _Ramona’s World_ are owned singly)  
–_All The President’s Men_ by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Richard Poe performs)  
–_Always By My Side_ by Jim Nantz (who also reads it; this one is abridged)

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842/2 "2013-03-24T19:47:28Z")

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I own quite a few of Alan Furst’s espionage novels read by George Guidall. They are _wonderful_.

I also own quite a few novels read by John Lee. Excellent.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842/3 "2013-03-24T21:49:01Z")

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I have a huge collection, on audiotape and on CDs (I don’t have any MP3s, except my own) Where to begin? I wish there were more classics and more classic SF on audio than there are  
Mtysteries:

Lots of Nero Wolfe  
Lots of Sherlock Holmes’Several Rumpole of the Bailey  
The Maltese Falcon  
SF (all unabridged):

Stranger in a Strange Land  
Starship Troopers  
Rocketship Galileo  
The Lion of Comarre and other SF (Arthur C.Clarke)  
The BBC Science Fiction Audio collection  
Several Edgar Rice Burroughs novels  
Some Dune novels  
Brave New World  
Classics:

The Iliad (abridged, sadly, but it’s Derek Jacobi reading Fagels’ translation)  
The Ofyssey  
Beowulf  
The Argonautica  
Le Morte d’Arthur  
Tales from the Arabian Nights  
Frankenstein  
Several Mark Twain works  
The Inferno  
The Prince

Religion/Philosophy  
Several Books of the Bible  
The Tao te Ching  
The Book of J

…and that barely scratches the surface. I’ve got several history books, books on language, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, books by James Burke, and plenty of other random stuff.

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**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842/4 "2013-03-24T22:54:37Z")

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I thought that Stockard did a very good job on the _Ramona_s, especially in _Ramona’s World_.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobooks-you-own/653842/5 "2013-03-24T23:42:59Z")

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Not a one. I have an old radio miniseries (“Ruby”) on tape that I was given by a company I did a catalog of audiobooks for. Like video is now, I never got into audio for informational purposes. I process written material so much faster than either I can’t even enjoy having a book read at me.