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Audio Book for a Veeeeeeeeeery long journey Please

25 replies

Shoshable · 08/05/2007 06:54

Can anyone recommend an audio book that will please a 11 year old girl and I all the way from Dorset to Stirling!

Done the usual classics, Dahl, Narnia, Heidi, Secret Garden, and getting desperate.

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katelyle · 08/05/2007 07:00

Harry Potter read by Stephen Fry. Absolutely wonderful. And looooooooooooong!!!!! Also if you can get hold of it, a brilliant book called Little Darlings by Sam Llywellyn. We've listened to it lots and we still laugh!

Don't forget, you can get them from the library!

katelyle · 08/05/2007 07:03

We've planned our journey to the north of Scotland from Kent to fit in with the release of the new Harry Potter on cd!

Nbg · 08/05/2007 07:10

Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Harry Potter.

Dh downloaded all of them and they last forever!

Shoshable · 08/05/2007 07:21

We have done the Harry Potter aswell, can you tell we do a lot of long distamce runs!

Will look st the Little Darlings tho confess never heard of it.

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Shoshable · 08/05/2007 07:22

NBG where did he download them from please, was going to buy them from Play.com, but would be betther if I could down losd them as going in two weeks.

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Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:28

Harry Potter. Some of them are over 24 houes so will take you There and back again! Actually that would be another onem, The Hobbit

Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:29

Audible.com is a good place to download stuff, dead easy, even I can do it.

The Just William ones would be good

Shoshable · 08/05/2007 07:31

Might try The hobbit, although not sure she will like it, I know I woulsd, as it was one of my favorites.

We did Pollyanna on last years drive to Stirling, never again, we had to play the Glad game all the way home!

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Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:32

Audible is dead easy to use btw. I managed to down load stuff from there on my own

Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:33

Oh and another thing that was good, but not long was Dr Who. It was 2.5 hours, so wouldn't do the whole trip.

Blandmum · 08/05/2007 07:33

Do you sopt someone else who has done too many long journeys!

Shoshable · 08/05/2007 07:45

Ok on Audiable what a great site, going to find a couple I think!

Its a forces thing I think MB driving long distances!

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Nbg · 08/05/2007 07:48

Sorry Shosable.

I'm not entirely sure where he got it tbh. He downloads from lots of different places.

belgo · 08/05/2007 07:49

My dh and I listened to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on our last trip to England. It's great.

SueW · 08/05/2007 08:11

Another vote for Harry Potter.

Shoshable · 08/05/2007 08:28

We chose Little Women, it was one of my favs as achild, hope DGD likes it!

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katelyle · 08/05/2007 09:51

Be careful with audible.com - some of theirs are abridged and also geared for the American market. Check before you chick! And there are versions of Harry Potter not read by Stephen Fry - avoid these like the plague!

agnesnitt · 15/05/2007 23:50

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you've already done Potter you need some good grade A mental sci-fi to liven up the journey

Agnes

Earlybird · 16/05/2007 06:52

Dummy questions - presumably when you download, you then listen on an ipod? Or do you burn to a cd that can be played in the car? Sorry my technical knowledge is so minimal.....

agnesnitt · 24/05/2007 23:48

I have been known to do both. Although I have 'hikers' and 'WotW' on cd already so I just encode them to the mp3 player when I want to take them in a non car setting.

Agnes

controlfreaky2 · 24/05/2007 23:51

unabridged huckleberry finn...... fantastic!..... and v v long!

PandaG · 24/05/2007 23:52

series of unfortunate events? we only have the first one which is aroubd 3 hours, but there are plenty in the series to go at!

Leoness · 24/05/2007 23:58

I just finished 13hours of Isabelle Allende - Daughter of Fortune. I really enjoyed it. I got it at the Talking Book Shop in Wigmore Street.

Leoness · 25/05/2007 00:00

Sorry not for 11 year old girl - I must start finishing reading the whole sentence....>

MrsWeasley · 25/05/2007 00:02

Harry Potter.
I've just listened to the first one on CD and its nice and long and such a good story too (not that I'm biased). The later books are much longer.

Check your local library to see what they have too.

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