ROAD Trip! Audiobook recomendations?

Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon is now in my “holds” list....

I’ll look into Ringo’s stuff soon.
Hitchhiker’s Guide was an interesting idea...and I always have podcasts loaded. Mostly public radio’s stuff.

Thanks all!

 

Always taking recommendations!

Trip concluded with my finishing Leviathan Wakes (Book 1 of the Expanse Series) and Die Trying (Book 2 of Jack Reacher.)
Expanse is pretty good.

Typical, tired, corporations are bad people and humans are worse... theme, but it's wrapped nicely and...."expansive.'
I love the 'throwing rocks' thing.
Books 2-4 are on hold.
..we'll see.
The series is promising.
After reading book one I watched episodes 1 and 2 of the video series and I'm going to wait until I finish a few more of the books before I try to watch some more of the video.

Typically.....the videos do NOT do justice to the books....at least so far.

Reacher is Reacher.
Lee Child is Lee Child.
I've read most of the series, and despite the obvious 'Chinese into English' translation error feel of a European writing about the US Army and weapons, it's pretty entertaining. If anybody reads this and cares to dip their toe into the audiobook series, I recommend starting with the two that they made moves into, those being "One Shot" and "Never Go Back."
If you listen rather than read, (recommended for driving!) Dick Hill narrates both and he's excellent with this genre.
You really don't have to listen to them in order.
Child's Reacher is about as complicated as a cinder block, and seemingly about as tough.

I also knocked out Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus because....hey, it was right after Easter.
I'm 2-3 chapters into Theodore Rex, and about halfway through Empire Rising (Rick Campbell...dime-store US-China techno-almost thriller)

In Que:
Les Mis.
Tale of 2 Cities.
Undecided Austen book....I have all 6 in my library, I think.

On Hold:
Expanse Series. 2-4
Sea Stories (McRaven)
Cryptonomicon

 

I usta feel the same way...and I do indeed sometimes 'keep it light' while I'm on the road - or - maybe I'm just not all that deep.
If I listen to a particularly chewy book and I feel that I missed some bits, I'll re-listen - but it doesn't happen all that often.

I find that while I'm on the interstate that all I have to do is collision avoidance, navigation, and consumables management.
That leaves a lot of cpu/gpu horsepower free to either go on mental liberty (one of the joys of just....driving!) or ponder an upcoming project or problem......or....lose myself in a book.
Depending on the performance - and some of them are quite masterful, I've been alerted by the chiming of a low fuel alarm indicating that my consumables management suffered, but usually bilge pumping keeps my fuel state above minimums.
I feel that my lizard-brain will probably keep me from bumping into something, or, more importantly someONE while on the open road, and I've actually paused a book while transiting through thick traffic (Nashville at 4PM, most recently) but all of this might be a typical conceit, and I may be more of a hazard to road navigation that I imagine that I am.
However (comma!) given the number of my fellow humans that I see engaging in other activities while behind the wheel, I'm thinking that listening to a book is about the same as listening and perhaps performing a particularly loved song.

We are all slaves to our justifications.

When I'm at work I have to listen to podcasts mostly, because the the cpu and more particularly the gpu is much more active than whilst on the interstate.

As always......
YMMV