Suggest a good audiobook to download please

Really? Nobody reads anymore?

You might think at first it's a little too dry for entertainment, but I really enjoyed listening to this on a long drive...





An exciting, fast-paced read, Demon opens with a grisly scene at Tripler General Hospital in Hawaii as ambulances, trucks, and private cars drop off the injured from Pearl Harbor. Men who were wounded, dismembered, and literally roasted in the harbor oil fires from exploding ships were tended to on the lawns outside the hospital and in three operating rooms that ran continuously for 11 hours. Not a single patient died due to infection, in dramatic contrast to World War I, when it was estimated that more soldiers died of infection than in combat. What was the difference? Sulfa drugs–antibiotics. The story of their discovery reads much like a suspense novel, set against the backdrop of World War I trench warfare and political intrigue in Europe leading up to World War II. The scientific leaders in medical research, Gerhard Domagk at Bayer, Sir Almroth Wright's group The Lords, and Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute, conducted meticulous work and experienced accidental discoveries that advanced medical procedures and determined the protocols for drug testing.

Go the F**k to Sleep

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson







Seriously

The shows I recommend in this thread are like audio-only versions of The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. If you like those shows, give radio series like X Minus 1 or Suspense a shot.

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I really liked Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy.

I've listened to Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy and I have Killing Jesus in hardcopy.

I did just buy Go the frick to Sleep though.

I'm getting ready to check Kafka's thread. Thanks. I've got 55 audiobooks on my phone.

If you have an interest in the classics, I recommend Librivox. It's a free app and a free library of public domain books [read: so old it's free] read by volunteers. I've only been using it a short period of time, but assume a book's availability is dependent on a volunteer having been interested and dedicated enough to have made a recording to donate... so, no best sellers here. The list of top books is dominated by the likes of Homer, Plato, John Milton, Nietzsche, etc.

Personally, I am finding it useful for listening through more difficult works on the way to work that, if I were to attempt actually reading, I'd likely put down after a few pages. The quality of the recording can be a little suspect and I find some readers have annoying voices, but it's free so I'm not complaining. Again, I recommend this as a great, free resource-- if you have an interest in the classics, but know that you'd struggle to successfully sit down and read them.

Of the works I've listened to, I most enjoyed The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, read by Nick Duncan... he has a pleasant English drawl that suits the work nicely, and it was a fairly quick read-- about 40-45 minutes if I remember correctly.