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Written By: Bill Bryson

Narrated By: Richard Matthews

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Date: February 2003

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One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

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  • What an incredibly informative book!! My list of things to read up on is now a staggering size.This (along with Radio Lab) is going to be compulsory listening for my children - I don't believe a classroom education comes close!Also, a British narrator is a big plus :)Than you Bill!

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  • Loved every minute. There is so much intreguing info I could listen to it again!

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  • I’ve listened to this book a few times and learn something new every time.

  • Sadly, I have yet to hear another reader use the same intonation and other vocal effects that Bill Bryson does. The book is wonderful.

  • This book was fantastic to listen to. If only science had been this interesting in high school! I found myself looking forward to getting into the car so I could continue with the story. Narrator had a great voice as well. If you have a casual interest in science I think you will find this as entertaining as I did.

  • Great to instruct the mind that wants to know? I recommend this book for all curious minds that want to know more than what they know without becoming stuck in boring data. I am enjoying the knowledge and questions raised, most of all the historical record and our present knowledge. I hope you will too.

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Anyone know a website where i can download Audiobooks in MP3 (or comparable) format for free or excruciatingly cheap? I've got a long trip coming up and my eyes have been hurting for a while.
posted by Slimemonster to Computers & Internet (11 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
You're in luck, this was recently discussed on the blue. From project gutenberg, so don't expect too much recent material.
posted by fvw at 12:13 PM on April 4, 2004

Audible.com has a special for new members: $7.50 for two books. (You can just cancel after you get your two books and not get charged again.) I don't think they're MP3 but you can put them on an iPod or burn to CD. They're generally excellent quality.
posted by dobbs at 12:33 PM on April 4, 2004

another recent discussion.
posted by obloquy at 12:55 PM on April 4, 2004

also, although not quite what you asked, you might be pleasantly surprised at what your local library may have to offer in Audiobooks.
And, of course, any p2p network will have books/speeches/radio programs. Whether ripping library CDs or downloading, you can use much smaller file sizes for spoken word than music, but I don't recommend going below 32kbps for adequate listenability.
posted by obloquy at 1:35 PM on April 4, 2004

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Try this. Lots of Tom Clancy and the like, but some good stuff too.
posted by gottabefunky at 3:39 PM on April 4, 2004

I'll second the library suggestion. I'm listening to Bill Bryson's excellent A Short History of Nearly Everything, 15 CD discs VBR MP3 compression onto one disc. Use the mono setting too, I believe that saves space.
I'm not positive about the ethics of this, tho, it probably resides some between D/L'ing from a P2P network and buying it from Audible, but since I bought the [ralph] abridged version my conscience isn't bothering me.
posted by mojohand at 3:49 PM on April 4, 2004

AudioBooksForFree.Com - loads of classic titles, lots of A.C.Doyle for instance. Yes, downloads are free...if you can put up with 8kbps MP3s! These are listenable, to my lo-fi loving ears, but higher quality MP3s are available at a very reasonable price, though.
posted by Jimbob at 5:30 PM on April 4, 2004

Library library library. We in the wired generation forget about this, but you live in Seattle, which means you have a huge public library system at your fingertips. The money you save will far exceed the hassle of ripping the CDs. And if you like sci-fi comedy with a Brit Lit bent, let me recommend Elizabeth Sastre's rendition of Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.
posted by blueshammer at 5:31 PM on April 4, 2004

The iTunes Music Store has audible.com books, and iTunes and the iPod support leaving the story midway and coming back where you left off.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 6:08 PM on April 4, 2004

BT + suprnova/misc.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:37 AM on April 5, 2004

There are several audio book newsgroups out there in newsgroup land if you want to bother to pay for a service. I'd highly recommend giganews.
posted by woil at 2:46 AM on April 5, 2004

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