What should I listen to during my one hour commute? Any good audiobooks?
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Economics:
"Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely: Behavioral economics. Describes a lot of cool, counter-intuitive results about how we make economic decisions.
"The Ascent of Money" by Niall Ferguson: A history of the rise of money as a form of exchange, and especially the history of banking and the financial industry.
History:
"Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell: Read by the author (who contributes frequently to This American Life) with the help of some celebrity voice talent. Quirky and fascinating popular history surrounding the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.
"John Adam" by David McCullough: A really great biography. The audio version is over 30 hours, so should keep you busy for a while.
Fiction:
"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke: Fantastic voice talent. A wonderful fantasy novel set in an alternate early 19th century Britain. Written in the style of a Victorian history/novel, with faux scholarly footnotes. Lots of witty details.
"Summerland" by Michael Chabon: Read affectingly by the author. A fantasy about (among other things) baseball and filial love.
"The Devil You Know" and "Vicious Circle" by Mike Carey: He's mainly been a comic book writer, but has 4 novels out (only these 2 in the US, so far) starring Felix Castor, a freelance exorcist in a modern London where the dead regularly come back to "life". They read like hard-boiled detective thrillers. Great stuff.
Anything by Christopher Moore (I've listened to "Lamb", "Fool", and "A Dirty Job"). Hilarious stuff, and his books have great readers.
In addition to the commercial stuff, if you're an iTunes user, there's a section of the iTMS called iTunes U that has lots of lectures for free download.
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While these are not 1-hr long books, I find that taking them in 1-hr chunks and then pondering them works well.
Outliers
The Tipping Point
Automatic Wealth
Getting Things Done
Freakonomics
How to Win Friends and Influence People (old, but excellent)
A Brief History of the World
Those are the tops of my list! My parents live 9 hrs from where I'm doing grad school, so I use the time to read books. Enjoy!
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Jerry Seinfeld maybe?
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The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable
from iTunes. It will totally change how you view and understand the world as you will begin to see the role of chance and uncertainty in life and especially how much control we think we have over it, when actually we dont.
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On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.
Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.
http://www.thelastlecture.com/
did a story about him on 20/20...... good stuff
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SlashFilm
FilmJunk
Twit
and anything from Simply Syndicated
All free
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M$I have also enjoyed listening to some classic literary works during my commute, such as:
Of Mice and Men
A Clockwork Orange
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
and many others...
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www.pimsleur.com
Personal experience during long commutes or road trips.
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http://firefighters.org/kjv/bible/index.cfm
There is a very good source to download a free one.
Amazon is always great for cheap versions too.
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I run an online audio books store that offers well over 10'000 titles to download, and you can listen to a short (about 5 minutes) sample recording of all titles before you decide to download. We have about 50 free recordings, you can find them easily by using the 'Advanced Search' function and settign the price to 'FREE'.
As far as the useful books is concerned, have a look in the self help departement (see URL below), there is a wide selection of different topics. Or choose in the business audio books section.
Personally I love the Pimsleur language courses, we offer full programs for many different languages, from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese to more exotic languages like Lithuanian and other East European languages, also Thai and Tagalog.
Learning languages that way is fun and entertaining, Also, by knowing different languages, you open entire new worlds for yourself.
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