drethelin comments on Please recommend some audiobooks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 10 October 2014 05:03:49PM *  2 points [-]

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

As far as fiction, Discworld has a lot of good audiobooks, and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrrell is awesome.

Comment author: CronoDAS 12 October 2014 12:16:39AM *  2 points [-]

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

Take this one with a grain of salt. From what I hear, Taubes gets quite a bit of his physiology wrong, although whether or not his conclusions are correct just isn't known.

Comment author: Torello 11 October 2014 03:44:03PM 1 point [-]

I second Checklist Manifesto due to content.

I second Gang Leader not only for interesting content, but because I found the voice acting to add to the content (I sometimes give up on interesting content because I can't stand the voice acting)