I have to wake up at an ungodly hour to drive to a meeting ~3 hours away. I will be grumpy, but I don’t want to be grumpy.
Please suggest some audiobooks that will help make this drive more enjoyable. Something that either keeps you on the edge of your seat, makes you laugh, or is just really engaging with minimal depressing moments. Any genre!
Thanks in advance!
by steelytine
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David Sedaris is great for these types of drives. He goes from absurd to clever to hysterical to poignant and back again. If you have to stop and then start again you don’t really lose your place since the different essays have different focuses.
The Thursday Murder Club
Murderbot Diaries – funny sweary and it hates its job more than you
House on the Cerulean Sea – calming, lovely, beautiful
Hobbit – Andy Serkis brings the characters to life and the songs are haunting
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. It’s memoirs of a country vet in England. Lovely, sweet, poignant, and very chill.
Invisible Doctrine. It’s about neoliberalism. It is not at all non-depressing, but it is very important.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Maybe any Harry Potter book or Shark Summer, Harrey Potters a great series( I’ve reread it multiple times) along with Shark Summer which is great 🙂 but If you want more a philosophical book, then I suggest Shakespeares plays
Or Magnus Chase by the author of the Percy Jackson series ( Rick Riordan) which is Mythological which gods and it has some humor 🙂 may make the car ride a little more fun
I like PG Wodehouse for this
Depends on your tastes, but I really liked Incredibly Bright Creatures – it’s cozy, it’s slow-paced, and yet I was absolutely impelled to listen to it every chance I got. I finished it in like two days.
The Concrete Island, by J.G Ballard. Talk about frustration.
Born a crime by Trevor Noah hilarious sometimes, edge of your seat some times and minimal depressing moments