|
Local Natural Disaster Discuss ways to prepare for a Local Natural Disaster. Storms, Fire, Ice and Ect. |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
|
09-26-2011, 02:03 PM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NE Indiana
Age: 84
Posts: 301
|
Listened to an Audio Book
Earlier I had heard of a book for young teens titled "Hatchet. I ordered it from our State travelling library service and what they sent was the audio version instead of a printed copy.
Saturday morning while doing breakfast we started the book and found it to be something we could have recommended to our grandkids if they weren't all grown up. It's only a 3 disc book so I'm guessing the printed version is probably un the 250-300 page range. The story is about a 13 year old boy who is going from mother to father in the north country for the summer (divorced parents). The pilot has a heart attack and the boy survives the crash landing. Since the plane crashes into a lake, the only thing the boy salvages are useless things in his pockets and a hatchet which was a going away present from his mother which is on his belt. A bit of a stretch at times but in trying to keep things simple it works out pretty well in the story line. Kids would really like it. |
09-26-2011, 07:44 PM | #2 |
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Southern Kansas
Age: 70
Posts: 27,520
|
Interesting caneman. I've often thought of trying audio book, but I never seem to get around to it.
__________________
Never take a squat with your spurs on. Will Rogers |
09-27-2011, 06:05 AM | #3 |
Extraordinary Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Age: 84
Posts: 668
|
Sounds like a plan except I have a problem that whenever I pick up a book to engage in reading, something triggers a crank in my head to start rolling down my eyelids....It's well known and sort of a family joke that to put dad to sleep, give him a book !
So might be an audio book can eliminate that problem ?
__________________
US Army Veteran 1962-68, NRA Endowment Life , American Legion Color Guard... BFA (Buckeye Firearms Assoc). The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not Thomas Jefferson Guns have only two enemies, Rust and LIBERALS |
09-27-2011, 06:26 AM | #4 |
Extraordinary Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northeast Kansas
Age: 80
Posts: 64,188
|
That's pretty neat caneman. I've never tried an audio book either.
__________________
I'm old enough to remember when mentally ill people were placed in hospitals, not in Congress or the White House.
|
09-27-2011, 06:39 AM | #5 |
The Old Fart Janitor
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Panama, Oklahoma
Age: 82
Posts: 12,957
|
I've got the Old and New Testaments in Audio. They are in modern language, and the narrator is smooth speaking and good. I've had them a long time, and when I have trouble sleeping at night, all I have to do, is turn on the player. It is the best medicine I've found for insomnia.
__________________
"The answer to all our problems is in God's Word, if we just search for it". "No God no Peace, Know God know Peace". "We control our own destiny".
|
09-27-2011, 07:50 AM | #6 | |
Extraordinary Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northeast Kansas
Age: 80
Posts: 64,188
|
Quote:
Regardless of his sleeping during church, my Dad was truly a devout Christian and the finest man I ever met. God rest his soul.
__________________
I'm old enough to remember when mentally ill people were placed in hospitals, not in Congress or the White House.
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Audio books | caneman | Things you would Recommend for others. | 0 | 09-30-2011 04:21 PM |
To The Point Cruise Lines Book Now! | J_B | Coffee Shop | 7 | 04-18-2011 06:36 AM |
Hunting book | CHRIS | Hunting | 2 | 01-16-2011 08:26 AM |
is Vetters a weatherman or is he writing a book | chris1234 | Coffee Shop | 4 | 12-30-2010 02:46 PM |