My Listen History 50 picks
To whittle down the approximate 300 audiobooks to 50 which is how many appear in the Listen History page, I present to SW what I choo choo choose.
We begin with Charles Dickens, all his novels, even the unfinished 15th, progress shall be edited in, all of these will be listened to a chapter at a time, his work is best experienced when it's being read to you, this is a new revelation to me, and is thus why i'm so obsessed with it. It's also medicinal, what this author is known for, seems to me what is needed in the current world's climate.
1 – The Pickwick Papers – Rory Kinnear – ch. 8 – 28hrs left
2 – Oliver Twist – Jonathan Pryce – ch 4 – 17hrs left
3 – Nicholas Nickleby – Alex Jennings – ch 5 – 32hrs left
4 – The Old Curiosity Shop – Jessie Buckley -- ch 4 -- 21 hrs left
5 – Barnaby Rudge -- Jason Watkins -- ch 3 30 hrs left
6 – Martin Chuzzlewit -- Derek Jacobi -- ch 2 40 hrs left
7 – Dombey and Son -- Owen Teale, John Mullan does the Introduction ch 4 39 hrs left
8 – David Copperfield -- Richard Armitage ch 3 35 hrs left
9 – Bleak House
10 – Hard Times
11 – Little Dorrit
12 – A Tale of Two Cities
13 – Great Expectations
14 – Our Mutual Friend
15 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
16 – Complete Dickens Part 1 -- Introduction by Dr Peter Orford read by David Rintoul, followed by Pickwick etc 198 hrs left
17 – Complete Dickens Part 2
further info and thoughts will be edited in
18 – The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
19 – Tao Te Ching – Stephen Mitchell
20 – The Complete Essays of Montaigne
21 – The Dhammapada w/ The Udana * The Itivuttaka
22 – Laozi’s Dao De Jing translated by Ken Liu
23 – Teachings of the Buddha
24 – The Maxims of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld
25 – The Republic of Plato
26 – The complete Stoicism collection
27 – Too Much of Life
28 – The Iliad – Charlton Griffin -- Lattimore, I wish to be ever more conversant with the Homeric epics, there's other recordings too!! -- Book 3 -- 18 hrs left
29 – The Odyssey -- Ian McKellen -- Fagles
30 – Histories – Herodotus, read by David Timson
31 – The Peloponessian War
32 – The Satyricon -- Nicholas Boulton, one of the best voices!! -- 6 hrs left
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33 – Don Quixote -- George Guidall reads the Edith Grossman translation. 31 hrs left
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34 – Clarissa -- full cast, stellar production in 3 volumes 31 hrs left in V.1
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35 – Jane Austen complete novels with Alison Larkin reading
36 – Moby Dick – William Hootkins brings this to life, amazing listening, may be my new fave, from Naxos of course!!
37 – Les Miserables – Bill Homewood knocks it out of the park -- 366 chapters!! roughly an hour of them a day. -- 67 hrs left
38 – The Leo Tolstoy complete collection – beginning with War and Peace 183 hrs left
39 – Anna Karenina – Maggie Gyllenhaal’s recording is one of the best in the Plus catalog, i love her voice, after i complete this, i’ll do the Penguin classics recording.
40 – The Fyodor Dostoevsky complete collection – not listening in the sequence it’s presented in, currently Crime and Punishment to the end which will go backwards, then when i get to the end with a selection of his letters, will go back to his illustrious final novels.
41 – The Chekhov collection of short stories – for some Chekhov’s short stories are the best short stories ever, along with Hemingway’s
42 – The Warden – Trollope’s first series beginning here, 6 volumes each. Timothy West, 4 hrs left Barchester Towers is next at 19 hrs
43 – Can You Forgive Her? – Trollope’s other series beginning here
44 – Armadale – a wonderfully recorded Wilkie Collins thriller, with a full cast 28 hrs left, I love the Naxo cover!!
45 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde’s wild tale -- Russell Tovey 8 hrs left
46 – We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – 1 of 5 in a fun nerdy series with the great Ray Porter narrating!! This sounds better to me at 1.2x. 8 hrs left
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47 – The Bible – i have to include some of my religious heritage
48 – City of God – Mark Meadows is nice to listen to
49 – Summa Theologica – Martyn Swain who also does Heidegger’s Being and Time, this comes in 5 long audiobooks
50 – Institutes of the Christian Religion – when this is completed i’ll move onto Thomas Watson’s A Body of Divinity, and then Edwards’ The Religious Affections, then there’s even more Protestant theology books to look forward to, i’m being sarcastic here, but it does feel good, even nostalgic sort of to be listening to this kind of stuff, which makes me feel close to my parents who aren’t physically close anymore. 64 hrs left -- Bob Souer reads the Beveridge translation. It would be nice if Simon Vance would do the Battles.
here's a taste of Hootkin's Melville ( from the Jonah and the whale sermon part)
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1aJsmVy2RwSS]
We begin with Charles Dickens, all his novels, even the unfinished 15th, progress shall be edited in, all of these will be listened to a chapter at a time, his work is best experienced when it's being read to you, this is a new revelation to me, and is thus why i'm so obsessed with it. It's also medicinal, what this author is known for, seems to me what is needed in the current world's climate.
1 – The Pickwick Papers – Rory Kinnear – ch. 8 – 28hrs left
2 – Oliver Twist – Jonathan Pryce – ch 4 – 17hrs left
3 – Nicholas Nickleby – Alex Jennings – ch 5 – 32hrs left
4 – The Old Curiosity Shop – Jessie Buckley -- ch 4 -- 21 hrs left
5 – Barnaby Rudge -- Jason Watkins -- ch 3 30 hrs left
6 – Martin Chuzzlewit -- Derek Jacobi -- ch 2 40 hrs left
7 – Dombey and Son -- Owen Teale, John Mullan does the Introduction ch 4 39 hrs left
8 – David Copperfield -- Richard Armitage ch 3 35 hrs left
9 – Bleak House
10 – Hard Times
11 – Little Dorrit
12 – A Tale of Two Cities
13 – Great Expectations
14 – Our Mutual Friend
15 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
16 – Complete Dickens Part 1 -- Introduction by Dr Peter Orford read by David Rintoul, followed by Pickwick etc 198 hrs left
17 – Complete Dickens Part 2
further info and thoughts will be edited in
18 – The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
19 – Tao Te Ching – Stephen Mitchell
20 – The Complete Essays of Montaigne
21 – The Dhammapada w/ The Udana * The Itivuttaka
22 – Laozi’s Dao De Jing translated by Ken Liu
23 – Teachings of the Buddha
24 – The Maxims of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld
25 – The Republic of Plato
26 – The complete Stoicism collection
27 – Too Much of Life
28 – The Iliad – Charlton Griffin -- Lattimore, I wish to be ever more conversant with the Homeric epics, there's other recordings too!! -- Book 3 -- 18 hrs left
29 – The Odyssey -- Ian McKellen -- Fagles
30 – Histories – Herodotus, read by David Timson
31 – The Peloponessian War
32 – The Satyricon -- Nicholas Boulton, one of the best voices!! -- 6 hrs left
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1qoQJwXv7AJa]
33 – Don Quixote -- George Guidall reads the Edith Grossman translation. 31 hrs left
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1j91iuWlEq8X]
34 – Clarissa -- full cast, stellar production in 3 volumes 31 hrs left in V.1
[media=https://vocaroo.com/174OdOPPiYOq]
35 – Jane Austen complete novels with Alison Larkin reading
36 – Moby Dick – William Hootkins brings this to life, amazing listening, may be my new fave, from Naxos of course!!
37 – Les Miserables – Bill Homewood knocks it out of the park -- 366 chapters!! roughly an hour of them a day. -- 67 hrs left
38 – The Leo Tolstoy complete collection – beginning with War and Peace 183 hrs left
39 – Anna Karenina – Maggie Gyllenhaal’s recording is one of the best in the Plus catalog, i love her voice, after i complete this, i’ll do the Penguin classics recording.
40 – The Fyodor Dostoevsky complete collection – not listening in the sequence it’s presented in, currently Crime and Punishment to the end which will go backwards, then when i get to the end with a selection of his letters, will go back to his illustrious final novels.
41 – The Chekhov collection of short stories – for some Chekhov’s short stories are the best short stories ever, along with Hemingway’s
42 – The Warden – Trollope’s first series beginning here, 6 volumes each. Timothy West, 4 hrs left Barchester Towers is next at 19 hrs
43 – Can You Forgive Her? – Trollope’s other series beginning here
44 – Armadale – a wonderfully recorded Wilkie Collins thriller, with a full cast 28 hrs left, I love the Naxo cover!!
45 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde’s wild tale -- Russell Tovey 8 hrs left
46 – We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – 1 of 5 in a fun nerdy series with the great Ray Porter narrating!! This sounds better to me at 1.2x. 8 hrs left
[media=https://vocaroo.com/134SwREKK7Q6]
47 – The Bible – i have to include some of my religious heritage
48 – City of God – Mark Meadows is nice to listen to
49 – Summa Theologica – Martyn Swain who also does Heidegger’s Being and Time, this comes in 5 long audiobooks
50 – Institutes of the Christian Religion – when this is completed i’ll move onto Thomas Watson’s A Body of Divinity, and then Edwards’ The Religious Affections, then there’s even more Protestant theology books to look forward to, i’m being sarcastic here, but it does feel good, even nostalgic sort of to be listening to this kind of stuff, which makes me feel close to my parents who aren’t physically close anymore. 64 hrs left -- Bob Souer reads the Beveridge translation. It would be nice if Simon Vance would do the Battles.
here's a taste of Hootkin's Melville ( from the Jonah and the whale sermon part)
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1aJsmVy2RwSS]
46-50, M