The Forever War: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER by Dexter Filkins

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345102 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345102] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.99 of Total 83 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, 'it was clear my people needed me'). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.

Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237060 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237060] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain Series: #9 of Bryson Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Bill Bryson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 127 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy; place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells; people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and 'Ooh lovely' at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits; and Gardeners' Question Time. Notes from a Small Island was a huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, and has become the nation's most loved book about Britain, going on to sell over two million copies. © Bill Bryson 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52108 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52108] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Fat to Fish Author: Artie Lange Narrator: Jim Florentine, Gary Dell'abate, Artie Lange Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough to keep pace with his own, a pathetic self-image to dwarf his own, a personal history both heartbreaking and hilarious, and an ingrained sense of self-sabotage that continually keeps things interesting. A natural storyteller with a bottomless pit of material, Lange grew up in a close-knit, working-class Italian family in Union, New Jersey, a maniacal Yankees fan who pursued the two things his father said he was cut out for—sports and comedy. Tragically, Artie Lange Sr. never saw the truth in that prediction: He became a quadriplegic in an accident when Artie was eighteen and died soon after. But as with every trial in his life, from his drug addiction to his obesity to his fights with his mother, Artie mines the humor, pathos, and humanity in these events and turns them into comedy classics. True fans of the Stern Show will find Artie gold in these pages: hilarious tales that couldn’t have happened to anyone else. There are stories from his days driving a Jersey cab, working as a longshoreman in Port Newark, and navigating the dark circuit of stand-up comedy. There are outrageous episodes from the frenzied heights of his coked-up days at MADtv, surprisingly moving stories from his childhood, and an account of his recent U.S.O. tour that is equally stirring and irreverent. But also in this volume are stories Artie’s never told before, including some that he deemed too revealing for radio. Wild, shocking, and drop-dead hilarious, TOO FAT TO FISH is Artie Lange giving everything he’s got to give. And like a true pro, the man never disappoints.

American Prince: A Memoir by Tony Curtis, Peter Golenbock

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53709 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53709] to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Prince: A Memoir Author: Tony Curtis, Peter Golenbock Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 14, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame, women, and adulation–Elvis copied his look and the Beatles put him on their Sgt. Pepper album cover. But the Hollywood life of his dreams brought both invincible highs and debilitating lows. Now, in his captivating, no-holds-barred autobiography, Tony Curtis shares the agony and ecstasy of a private life in the public eye. No simple tell-all, American Prince chronicles Hollywood during its heyday. Curtis revisits his immense body of work and regales readers with stories of his associations with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, director Billy Wilder, as paramours Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe, among others. Written with humor and grace, American Prince is a testament to the power of living the life of one’s dreams.

The Forever War: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER by Dexter Filkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53336 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53336] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forever War: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Author: Dexter Filkins Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 23, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: a public amputation performed by the Taliban, children frolicking in minefields, skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52’s, a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. We venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein.  We go into the homes of suicide bombers, meet Iraqi insurgents, and an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days. The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike.  It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.