Well, that's one way of looking at it.
This is how it works. You buy the Kindle book
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell for the special price of $1.99. Then, you add the Whispersync, which is only 99 cents! $1.99 + $.99 =
$2.98. You can't beat that. And, if you are interested in just the audiobook, as I was when I just purchased the ebook-audiobook package a few minutes ago, you can look at it as getting the ebook thrown in for free!
Here are some additional facts about the Kindle book. It's $1.99 (the print list price is $16.99; the digital list price is $15.99). It's rated
4 1/2 stars from 132 reviews at the present moment. It's published by Other Press. It's
401 pages long (making the unabridged Whispersync
13 hours and 26 minutes in listening length).
The audiobook is professionally
narrated by Davina Porter. I listened to a sample of her narration. She has a pleasant-enough voice with a moderate English accent. She does a good job.
Here is a
description of the book, from the Amazon webpage for the ebook:
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”
My posting of this book does not mean that I necessarily subscribe to any of the philosophical or other beliefs of Montaigne.
To get the deal, follow this link
http://www.amazon.com/How-Live-Monta...N%3DB003E8AK4Q. Buy the ebook. Then follow the prompts to purchase the Whispersync audio.