good lord, that's dry running material.

Oh no, it was wonderful!

Picked 'em because they were long... but good!

Now I'm done, and I don't know what to do!

I've been listening to music, but that gets old fast. Makes me faster, but it's so much less interesting.

Have you read much Michener? Chesapeake might work for you

Or hawaii.

I must have music when I run, it affects my energy level.

Ooo, Chesapeake does look interesting..

Music makes me faster too, but it doesn't keep me going the way an audio book does. When I'm listening to a book, I get caught up in it. There's no beat, but it's still more involved.

And it's still less than a year since I started. The just doing it is big for me.

holy cow... listening length, 250 hours? Was that a typo?

nahhh it's a pretty big book lol.

It's a real door stopper

over 1000 pages apparently according to Amazon

Right... but we're talking five times the length of the last couple that I picked specifically because they were long!

well 250 does sound weirdly long

It's pretty damned cool if it's actually good!

especially for one audible credit..

Michener is awesome.

Well then I've got a new story for the fall and winter. Assuming that number wasn't a typo.. Pillars of the Earth was just over 1000 pages and just under 41 hours.

If you liked the Follet, you will like the Michener. Yeah and thinking of it, 250 hours is nuts lol.

Well, for a story I enjoy, I could hope... I hate coming to the end of a book and not knowing what I'm supposed to do next.

Yeah, I know what you mean exactly.

It was July 10 that I started Pillars of the Earth. And last week that I finished World without end. And I've been listening to the same couple of songs since then.

The audible narration was really good.

Well... just listened to the Chesapeake audible sample. They attach a human name to the narrator, but it sounds like a robot. I wonder if there's a way to search for books by similar narrators...

Oh that sucks!

It wasn't actually the Stephen Hawking voice.. but it was that feel. That couldn't have been a real person, could it? It didn't sound like it.

Clicking on "John Lee" (the narrator of Pillars of the Earth and World Without End) just leads to a search on "John Lee," which is apparently an insanely common name.

Maggiedoll: The last book I listened to, I stopped half way through because I just could not handle the narrator's voice any longer. His inflections and the way he voiced other characters just turned me off.

Yea, the narrator is as important as the book itself when you're listening to the audio version.

Actually I think that the ones I listened to remind me of my dad reading Lord of the Rings to me when I was little.

..He's an audio guy.