Modern books that you wish we could record.

raezel · Post by **raezel** » July 17th, 2006, 11:05 pm

Great books to read would definately be

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I'm going to shock every scifi-movie fan by saying that I don't much care for the movie (Blade runner) but like the book.

Margaret Weis - Hung Out or from the same author Knights of the Black Earth
Not classics but would be fun to read anyhow

And of course Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Spoons · Post by **Spoons** » July 22nd, 2006, 10:55 pm

So many...

Stephen King's The Stand is one I'd like to do.

Same for Shel Silverstein's children's poems. Where the Sidewalk Ends is a particular favourite.

And for some reason, books of collected sports columns. I've quite enjoyed Rick Reilly's columns in Sports Illustrated, and I know they are collected in a book or two. Same for sports columnists William Nack and Jim Coleman.

Also, some of the stories that were published in the 30s and 40s and 50s in publications like the Saturday Evening Post. I've found a few collections of them; the stories were quite entertaining.

I'll try to post more as I think of them.

stipe · Post by **stipe** » July 30th, 2006, 9:02 pm

Sorry to post before introducing myself. Books first, self later.

I'd love to record these contemporary poets' books:

Paul Muldoon - "Meeting the British" and "Quoof"
Seamus Heaney - "Death of a Naturalist"
Donald Hall - "Without"
Wendy Cope - "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis"
Marianne Moore - "Oh! To Be a Dragon"
Elizabeth Bishop - "Geography III"
Stanley Kunitz - "Poems of ... 1928-1978"
Rita Dove - "Thomas and Beulah"

... and these contemporary fiction/nonfiction writers:

Phillip Lopate - "Against Joie de Vivre"
Robert Reich - "Reason" and "I'll Be Short"
T. Corraghessan Boyle - "Water Music"
Kay Redfield Jamison - "An Unquiet Mind"
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc - "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx"
Philip Roth - "The Plot against America"
David K. Shipler - "The Working Poor: Invisible in America"
Jonathan Kozol - "Ordinary Resurrections" and "The Shame of the Nation"

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » August 3rd, 2006, 12:11 am

I would love to read the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and Till we have faces by C.S. Lewis.

featherheadfop · Post by **featherheadfop** » August 8th, 2006, 10:54 am

Oh gosh, so many ...

But mostly, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » August 10th, 2006, 10:47 pm

Def The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

timberwolfmage · Post by **timberwolfmage** » August 18th, 2006, 1:37 pm

Has anyone here heard of a book called "How Far to Bethlehem" by Norah Lofts? It's (I believe) currently out of print but still under copyright, and it's the Christmas story, told from the point of view of Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper and his wife, one of the shepherds, each of the three wise men, etc., all intertwined together. It's REALLY, REALLY well-written and I wish to God that it were out of copyright because I think I'd give my right arm to read it.

The left arm would go towards Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (still under copyright while The Wasteland isn't...ehhhh?), Ender's Game, or anything by Tamora Pierce.

Douglas Adams is my other favorite author but I'm not so much dying to do his stuff...don't know why...*grins*

fae · Post by **fae** » August 18th, 2006, 6:02 pm

Cloud Mountain wrote:Def The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

That has to be one of the most refreshingly original books I've read in a while. And it was a debut novel to boot.

What I would really love to hear are any of Robin Hobb's books. Most especially any of the 9 Elderlings Realm series:

The Farseers Trilogy
The Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Tawny Man Trilogy

As far as I know no audio book recording exist for these. Hobb is so nuts about copyright infringement that she won't even allow fan-fiction!

Now that we've done a play successfully, I'd add anything by Tennesse Williams to the wish list.

raynr · Post by **raynr** » August 19th, 2006, 1:41 pm

I just finished reading the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde. These books are unbelievable funny! They are based in a world where everyone is ethusiastic about books and there are hundreds of references to mostly classic books. And funnily some of these references I understood only because I listened to the books here at LibriVox.
The first of these books is called "The Eyre Affair", in which Jane Eyre is kidnapped out of her book and has to be returned to it before the readers notice anything. Hmm, I have to check if the recording of Jane Eyre is soon finished...

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » August 20th, 2006, 12:00 am

The Randall Garrett "Lord Darcy" stories. An aristocratic detective living in an alternate world to this one, where ritual magic takes much of the place of science. Victorian/edwardian setting. A lot of fun.

... and Mike Kurland did a couple more in the same series, after Garrett's death.

Oh, and the Kurland/Anderson/Waters Greenwich village books: (not in author order ..) Probability Pad, The Unicorn Girl, The Butterfly Kid. Bring back the drug-crazed hippies, that's what I say!

Peter

ahab · Post by **ahab** » August 20th, 2006, 7:13 am

Three words: The. Great. Gatsby.

Also As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), though it would be tough to do (and possibly tough to listen to!) as an audiobook.

Ahab

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » August 20th, 2006, 2:45 pm

I'd like to be able to read ANY book on here really, but I most often find myself wanting to read one of the many MANY Ray Bradbury short stories. Not even the whole books, but stories like The Pedestrian. And the kicker is if it weren't for "publishers" or "managers" or anyone else, I think he'd be in support of the idea.

In the meantime, full fleged support for similar Asimov short stories, and my favoritest book ever in the whole wide world, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (It's all of them together).

SmokestackJones · Post by **SmokestackJones** » August 22nd, 2006, 9:33 am

Hey there,

Since I just got one of mine knocked out from under me, Any and all H.P. Lovecraft he wrote after 1922.

Damon Runyon
James Thurber (I'd be all over A Friend of The Earth and most of My Life And Hard Times)

And I am aching - positively aching - to do some Raymond Chandler (Particularly Farewell, My Lovely and Trouble Is My Business).

-SJ

joemcmahon · Post by **joemcmahon** » August 24th, 2006, 12:31 am

Barry Hughart's Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels. though I'd be laughing so hard I would screw up the recording.

For those who don't know him: Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, Nine Skilled Gentlemen.

"Stories of an Ancient China that never was".

anna · Post by **anna** » August 26th, 2006, 9:05 am

Micheal Palin, about his travels.