Saturday, December 5, 2009

Seasonal favourites

I've been grooving on classic audio books. Mp3 players are wonderful. Librivox has been seeing the most action. I sifted through the top 2700 downloads (UGLY!) and came up with the list below. Here are a couple of gems for the season.

The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
http://www.archive.org/details/giftofmagi

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
http://www.archive.org/details/christmascarol_librivox

I've got a half dozen books downloaded. There seem to be many mundane tasks in my life that are better when I'm being read to. Some of my warmest memories are of being read to as a kid. It's like when someone else does the cooking. It's most often a pleasure for the differences in style. I'm heading into chapter nine of A Picture of Dorian Grey just now and loving it.

So many of these titles would never make the list again for me, but only because there are so many good books out there to read that I seldom re read anything. This is a great way to taste some of the classics again and not bite into my scant reading time.

Next is definitely going to be The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the haunting.

Image from Gore Girl's Dungeon - Hear Evil, See Evil, Speak Evil




http://www.archive.org/details/dorian_gray_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/invisible_man_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/madding_crowd_0807_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/heart_of_darkness

http://www.archive.org/details/hound_baskervilles_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/jekyll_and_hyde_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/just_so_kara_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/raven

http://www.archive.org/details/being_earnest_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/alice_wonderland_0711_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/looking-glass_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/treasure_island_ap_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/wind_in_the_willows_solo

http://www.archive.org/details/problems_of_philosophy_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/angel_terror_librivox_le

http://www.archive.org/details/narrative_gordon_pym_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/journal_of_the_plague_year_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/kim_ap_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/canterville_ghost_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/right_way_to_do_wrong_lah_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/civil_disobedience_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/ladys_life_on_farm_in_manitoba_sd_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/aboriginal_canada

http://www.archive.org/details/kidnapped_0807_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/white_people_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/monkeys_paw_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/ballad_of_reading_gaol_jg_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/planet-damned_0805_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/dolls_house_0812_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/velveteen_rabbit_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/frontenac_07-10_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/mayor_of_casterbridge_0901_dl_librivox1

http://www.archive.org/details/willows_mtr_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/jungle_tw_0908_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/Frankenstein

http://www.archive.org/details/BasiaBulatBasiaBulatandthePocheOrchestraLiveatZekesGallery

http://www.archive.org/details/ValentineErotic

http://www.archive.org/details/short_hist_scotland_lang_sd_0905_librivox1

http://www.archive.org/details/old_mother_west_wind_law_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/rain_bt_0906_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/chronicle_1812_0810_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/wilde_life_confessions_0907_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/nightmareabbey_mfs_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/tale_of_major_monkey_lb_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/chronicle_wolfe_0808_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/canadian_folk_song_0901_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/audio_poetry_42_2006

http://www.archive.org/details/carelton_0809_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/motherwestwind_why_0907_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/bagpipes_at_sea_0903_librivox

http://www.archive.org/details/goodbyecocaine

http://www.audiobooks.org/proworks/mp3s/The%20O%27Reilly%20Factor.mp3

2 comments:

  1. I love Dorian Grey... Frankenstein, not so much, and not any more after Joey has had to read it for Grade 10 English. I must locate my mp3 and download some of these for sleepless nights. While I do love listening to Leonard Cohen sing me lullabies and the CBC overnight (my other non medicated fixes) it would be nice to have a change now and then.

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  2. What a fantastic idea for late night, can't sleep, can't hold a book I'm so tired, don't want to have a light on, would love not to feel so alone and tortured, nights of restlessnessitis.

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