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For the past year or so, my crack when I've been looking for something mindless but gripping, has been the Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell. Unfortunately, I hit a point in the series where my libraries don't have the next audiobook. I used to use the OverDrive/Whispersync option to buy the audiobook cheaply when this happened before; now this isn't an option and I'm not quite willing to pay the member's price. But when I started the books, I skipped the first three as I wanted to get right to the Napoleonic wars; I decided to go to the beginning of the chronology, set in India, with Sharpe's Tiger as read by Frederick Davidson, since my library had it.
I must say it's a cracking good listen so far, despite my knowing in general terms what's going to happen. I even think I'm enjoying it more now than I would have if I had started with it. This makes me wonder if I'd ultimately have liked the books better had I listened to them in published order rather than chronological. On the other hand, the first two or three books in published order were definitely the weakest, and I might not been grabbed by the series had I started with them. As it was, by the time I got there I was committed, and motivated to push through.
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