audio books on a road trip? how about greatest hits by queen.
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#32I found a torrent with all of Steinbeck's audio books. There's a great Of Mice and Men read by Gary Sinise. On the off chance you haven't read that yet or are a Gary Sinise fan, it's pretty great.
I really liked Cannery Row too.
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#33Amazon has a wide selection of books on CD. "Good To Great", "Getting Things Done", etc.
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#34Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast is a good one. Each is about an hour long, so it helps that you have lots of time:
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#35Assault on Reason by Al Gore.
Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum (the movie retains only the name and a basic profile of Jason Bourne, almost none of the plot)
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#36Dreams of my father by Barack Obama
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#371."The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson
2."Super Crunchers" by Ian Ayres
3."Six Great Scientists" by J.G Crowther
4."The Meaning of It All" by Richard Feynman
5."Dealers of Lightning"(The story of XEROX Parc) by Michael Hiltzik
6."What I Believe" by Betrand Russell
The above titles can all be found at audible.com, and probably through itunes too.
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#38Most people have the basics covered. Here is one I haven't seen and is worth a huge amount -- not business, but it will definitely help you in life.
Will and Ariel Durant: The Lessons of History A great synthesis by two lifelong historians on what can be learned from a study of history. Covers human nature, society, culture/morals and many other important topics and takes as objective a view as possible.
You can listen to it over and over and get some great insights. Dense, but easy to listen to. There is one small section that is slightly dated and shows that they were writers in their own time but most of it is timeless.
I highly recommend this. It will really give you insight into our world.
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#39I would get a Pimsleur CD course on a language you've always wanted to learn. The complete box set, 14 CDs or whatever, $250. You'll be conversational a few days later, and it requires you to listen actively rather than passively, so you're more likely to stay awake while you drive.
I have to second that recommendation. I've been studying Pimsleur's excellent Mandarin Chinese I, II and III in my daily commute and road trips for some time, and I highly recommend it. It requires reasonably active listening and sentence production, so it helps you avoid drowsiness on long trips.
Coincidentally, I'm leaving soon on a car trip to Morocco and was just preparing to sync the free Michigan Modern Standard Arabic and the Pimsleur Egyptian Arabic audio courses to my iPod.
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#40Radiolab. It is a podcast, not an audio book, but I would recommend downloading the entire set at http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab and listening to all of them. Listen to them in order, oldest to newest. I would not recommend starting with the most recent "Jad and Robert: The Early Years" which is mainly about the hosts. And if you want to cherrypick one show to start with try: Musical Language.
Radio Lab is absolutely, absolutely amazing. It's the best radio show I've ever heard, and I come from the land of BBC Radio 4..