Herman Melville - Moby Dick

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The classic, read by the master.

Captain Ahab maniacally hunts the great white whale across the seven oceans.

Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

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One of the most honest and insightful chefs to ever have graced the glass teat, Bourdain reads his book with aplomb and covers the nitty-gritty of restaurants, Bigfoot and even the CIA. recommended if you like food.

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.

Total length: 5 hours, 59 minutes

Bonus Kurt books included, Happy Kurtday! 

BOOKS:

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Cats Cradle.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Next Door.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano.pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick (or Lonesome no More!).pdf
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan.pdf

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

 

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What more can I say about this than that it's Christopher Walken being the Walken and thus delivering an excellent reading. enhanced by some creeptastic sound-effects as well.

Isaac Asimov - Nightfall

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Before Asimov embarked on his great Foundation novels, he had this gem to his claim. one of sci-fi's very best.

Stephen Hawking - The Universe In A Nutshell

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String theory, the nature of Time, etc. What more could one want?

BBC R4 - The Secret Catacombs of Paris

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Famously known as the City of Light, Paris is a diverse metropolis rich in architecture and steeped in history. But it has a dark alter ego that lies 30 metres under the ground, mirroring centuries of bloody wars, revolutions and riots on the surface. For Paris is porous - built on 177 miles of tunnels that were formed when limestone and gypsum were quarried to build the capital.

Most people are only aware of just a tiny fraction of these tunnels - the world famous ossuary known as The Catacombs. The authorities have tried to keep a lid on the full extent of the labyrinthine remainder for hundreds of years. But there are little known entry points everywhere - in basements, in train stations, cellars and sewers. 

Throughout history, invaders have always found a way in, whether they were fighting Prussian soldiers, fleeing royalty of the French Revolution, the Nazis or The Resistance. Today they're home to the cataphiles - urban explorers who use the tunnels as an art space, a music venue or even a clandestine meeting point for secret societies. The Guardian's architecture and design correspondent Jonathan Glancey investigates the underground maze of Paris, revealing a mysterious and intriguing history.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C.

One of the best and most important pieces of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality, and an account of a great flood similar in many details to the Old Testament's story of Noah.

The translator also provides an interesting and useful introduction explaining much about the historical context of the poem and the archeological discovery of the tablets.

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Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River.
The story is set in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up.

In the story's introduction, Twain notes:
"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual, he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture."

William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 

This hearty comedy has always been a favourite with audiences. 

Three suitors pursue Bianca Minola, but her father won't let her marry until her older sister, Katherine, is married. Kate is wilful, loud, volatile and above all, shrewish. 

Her suitor Petruchio is stern, jolly, and somewhat odd. A match made in heaven? 

The play has an all-star cast including:

Bob Peck, Cheryl Campbell, Moira Leslie, Robert Glenister, Stephen Tompkinson, Douglas Hodge, Christopher Fairbank, Michael Deacon, Anthony Jackson, Willam Simons, John Badley, and Paul Copley. Music composed by Mia Soteriou. 

Directed and adapted for radio by Jeremy Mortimer.

First broadcast on Radio 3 in 1988

Length: 1 hr, 59 mins

Isaac Asimov - Nemesis

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One of the last novels written by Asimov before he died. classic in every sense of the word if one is into sci-fi.

Joseph Campbell - The Grail Legend

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Those already familiar with Joseph Campbell will know he was the foremost authority on the psychological reading of Mythology in the twentieth century. 

Most famous perhaps (the power of television!) for an American PBS series with Bill Moyers, though in my opinion, tapes of his regular lectures are really the best introduction. 

This is a MP3 rip of a tape series (hence the A and B sides for those who remember them) of a lecture on the Grail Legend. King Arthur's round table of equal Knights, going out to seek the Holy Grail is literally the stuff of Myth. Just remember, those setting out on their life's quest might do worse than remember the Knights of the Round Table, who on setting out, thought that it would be ignoble to travel in a group, each took their own turning into the forest "where he saw the forest was the thickest and there was no way or path...."