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Sh*t My Dad Says by Halpern, Justin 11 13.25%
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 22 26.51%
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 10 12.05%
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett 6 7.23%
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman 5 6.02%
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 3 3.61%
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 6 7.23%
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak 11 13.25%
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell 7 8.43%
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland 2 2.41%
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Old 07-25-2010, 09:48 AM   #76
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I find exactly the opposite - it helps to maintain my concentration.
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Old 07-25-2010, 10:19 AM   #77
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I listen to audiobooks in my car, on my way to and from work. I have about a 45 minute journey each way, and it makes what would otherwise be a wasted hour and a half an enjoyable experience.
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I've tried listening to an audio book during a 500 mile road trip. It only made me sleepy.
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I find exactly the opposite - it helps to maintain my concentration.
Nice. When I drive I have to be totally concentrated on driving. It became so dangerous in the last years. I am just able to listen to music, or to the radio. Having to rewind or to do anything that is not checking the road ahead, the rear mirror, the incoming traffic and its dynamic, the cars following and their dynamic, both sides of the road, the road itself. The only thing that I do unconsciously is the actual handling of the car. It is also that with age, the reflexes have been slackening a bit, so I need to anticipate more and more the possibilities.
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Audio books. They are so widespread. I have a number of audio things, mostly podcasts, interesting material. But I do not listen to them, and stopped accumulating them, because they require concentration, and the only time I imagine I could activate it, is while driving on a long monotonous trip. But even then, there is a disturbance and there it goes the story, the thread, ...

How do you listen to them? can you give me some advice?
I play games while listening; Sudoku, Spider Solitaire, Word puzzles from the paper, etc. Occasionally, I'll miss a phrase or two, and have to back up. If I'm taking a trip, I'll listen to them in the car on the iPod (through the car speakers).

I don't listen that many audiobooks; mostly it's podcasts and Teaching Company courses; that kind of thing.
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Old 07-25-2010, 10:49 AM   #79
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Thank you Tom. The point for me is that my free time is too fragmented as it is now. When I have some I am on MR or internet. That is when I should listen to it. But most of my podcast last at least 45 minutes, and for me that is really a long time. Good, I got the patterns and my relation to them.

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I've tried listening to an audio book during a 500 mile road trip. It only made me sleepy.
Where you listening to "The Big Sleep"?

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its a funny conincidence actually, the first time was Life of Pi by Martel. The second attempt was a Patricia Cornwell audiobook.
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Beppe, you are in Italy and need tp concentrate on the road. Those people are maniacs on the road!
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If you search the free MR library, you might find find a potential winner. Just saying....
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Wow... this month isn't even close. The Chandler book has twice as many votes as the second place books.

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I'm going to start on it tonite, because I'm sure it will be a good one.
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Good thing I finished "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" last night...

I don't know about this book. More than 1/3 was a defense of why his views of the Pirahã language doesn't fit with the theories of Chomsky Linguistics. Mostly over my head. The parts of the Pirahã themselves were very interesting, but it's probably best this didn't make it...
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I don't know about this book. More than 1/3 was a defense of why his views of the Pirahã language doesn't fit with the theories of Chomsky Linguistics. Mostly over my head. The parts of the Pirahã themselves were very interesting, but it's probably best this didn't make it...
Very useful post, Jerry. Tell me, please. Are the two part distinct enough so that a poor soul can just read the parts of the Pirahã themselves by themselves?

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Most of the interesting stuff (the linguistics) in "Don't Sleep ..." has been published in academic journals. You'll also find some useful posts on the Language Log. If you want to read an interesting, non-technical, account of anthropological field-work, have a look at Nigel Barley's 'The Innocent Anthropologist; Notes from a Mud Hut.' It is very funny.

I doubt I'll join in on the discussion for this month. I read Chandler almost fifty years ago, and enjoyed him greatly, but I don't think I want to go back to him now.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for places to buy "The Long Good-bye"? The cheapest I've been able to find it for is $7.92 in the Kindle Store.

Note, by the way, that if you're searching for it, it's "The Long Good-bye", not "Goodbye" as stated in the poll. A search for "goodbye" won't find it!
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