My audiobook mix
For me audiobooks are a major sanity preserver, i get to hear professional speech here, something i wouldn't be able to hear otherwise.
The Enlightenment that Failed -- Jonathan L Israel -- this is leaving the free catalog by the end of August, so i'm listening with a view to speed, it's giving me a better picture of figures like Voltaire, d'Holbach and Spinoza.
The Complete Stoicism Collection -- this is a cyclic listen, over and over, endless instruction and inspiration, in the olden days people desirous for betterment would repeat wise sayings to themselves over and over, and this is like that for me, i have another collection like this with more sedate and low volume recording and readers. Other recordings would be good, which i have the penguin edition of Epictetus btw.
The Peloponnesian War -- there's 3 things helping me with this topic, this 20 year war, the classic text by Thucydides, a Great Course and a modern history book, i would need Xenophon's Hellenica to continue the ancient tale as Thucydides wasn't able to finish his work.
Schopenhauer -- there's 5 audiobooks, 3 for his magnum opus The World as Will and Idea, and 2 selections of essays with a title i'd have to copy and paste.
Nietzsche -- there's 5 audiobooks i think for him too.
Plato -- 4 audiobooks, 3 for the David Rintoul's recordings the middle period, and the Allan Bloom translation of The Republic.
Aristotle -- 1 audiobook collection by an exotic sounding lady who mispronounces words in such an elegant way, i have her doing Moses Maimonides and George Eliot.
A Mencken Chrestomathy -- great short little witticisms.
Homer -- 3 audiobooks, 2 for The Iliad and 1 for Odyssey, the Emily Wilson translations and the Pope translation of Iliad which is a trip to listen to!!
10 great courses on ancient Greece and Rome, these are usually 30 minute lectures which fly by at a 1.7 speed.
The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- my #1 audiobook!! Cyclical, over and over listen.
Plutarch's Moralia and Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans -- 3 audiobooks
Will Durant's 11 volume The Story of Civilization
Complete works mega audiobooks for Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.
Max Stirner, and some stuff on Plato round out things, trying to be exhaustive is exhausting!!
The Enlightenment that Failed -- Jonathan L Israel -- this is leaving the free catalog by the end of August, so i'm listening with a view to speed, it's giving me a better picture of figures like Voltaire, d'Holbach and Spinoza.
The Complete Stoicism Collection -- this is a cyclic listen, over and over, endless instruction and inspiration, in the olden days people desirous for betterment would repeat wise sayings to themselves over and over, and this is like that for me, i have another collection like this with more sedate and low volume recording and readers. Other recordings would be good, which i have the penguin edition of Epictetus btw.
The Peloponnesian War -- there's 3 things helping me with this topic, this 20 year war, the classic text by Thucydides, a Great Course and a modern history book, i would need Xenophon's Hellenica to continue the ancient tale as Thucydides wasn't able to finish his work.
Schopenhauer -- there's 5 audiobooks, 3 for his magnum opus The World as Will and Idea, and 2 selections of essays with a title i'd have to copy and paste.
Nietzsche -- there's 5 audiobooks i think for him too.
Plato -- 4 audiobooks, 3 for the David Rintoul's recordings the middle period, and the Allan Bloom translation of The Republic.
Aristotle -- 1 audiobook collection by an exotic sounding lady who mispronounces words in such an elegant way, i have her doing Moses Maimonides and George Eliot.
A Mencken Chrestomathy -- great short little witticisms.
Homer -- 3 audiobooks, 2 for The Iliad and 1 for Odyssey, the Emily Wilson translations and the Pope translation of Iliad which is a trip to listen to!!
10 great courses on ancient Greece and Rome, these are usually 30 minute lectures which fly by at a 1.7 speed.
The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- my #1 audiobook!! Cyclical, over and over listen.
Plutarch's Moralia and Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans -- 3 audiobooks
Will Durant's 11 volume The Story of Civilization
Complete works mega audiobooks for Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.
Max Stirner, and some stuff on Plato round out things, trying to be exhaustive is exhausting!!
46-50, M
