Some of these books are much better out loud. Lawrence, Hardy, and Hemingway on Books on Tape are wonderful. (I prefer unabridged, but perhaps what some of you as discontented readers need are the abridged or Reader's Digest versions.) Books like Thoreau's Walden don't come across so well on tape, but Faulkner is a dream out loud, with a good reader. Same with others like Sinclair Lewis, whose books are big and seem intimidating but who move right along on tape. And I loved Moby Dick on tape.

SRS