You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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04/18/23

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313m

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You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe's life on-field and off, via the letters Jack writes to his old chum Al in his home town of Bedford, Indiana.

Ring Lardner was a Chicago sportswriter who covered the White Sox, and he brought an insider's knowledge of clubhouse life together with his biting wit and gift for the vernacular to create a comic gem in You Know Me Al. The six Jack Keefe stories that compose this volume were originally written as individual magazine articles, but the epistolary format made it easy to collect them into a single running narrative covering Jack's first two years in the Big Leagues.

It isn't necessary to know baseball history to enjoy the book, which is as much about Jack's troubles with girlfriends, wives and babies as it is about the Chicago White Sox. For the baseball fan, however, this glimpse into a bygone era adds an extra layer of fascination. In any case, Lardner's portrait of the professional ballplayer as a dumb, drunken narcissist is as funny today as the day it was written.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:48:41) Chapter 02

(01:39:07) Chapter 03

(02:28:50) Chapter 04

(03:23:02) Chapter 05

(04:14:49) Chapter 06

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Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites ~ Full Audiobook [history]

April 17, 2023

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453m

Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites audiobook.

Genre: history

In Afloat on the Ohio, historian Reuben Gold Thwaites turns a six-week family outing into a moving, mile-by-mile portrait of Americas great border river. Setting off from Redstone in western Pennsylvania in a small skiff christened the Pilgrim, Thwaites travels with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and a physician friend, choosing the rivers level view and nightly camps to better imagine what explorers, flatboatmen, and pioneers once saw. As the current carries them past wooded slopes, islands, and wide bottoms, the journey becomes a living notebook: birds and wildflowers, shifting weather, tricky riffles, and the practical routines of life ashore and afloat mingle with sharp observations of river towns, dialects, and the industrial smoke beginning to transform the valley. Along the way, Thwaites repeatedly peels back the present to stage the past, recalling mound builders, Native nations, French and British rivalries, frontier surveyors, and the westward surge of settlers who made the Ohio a highway of history. Part travel log, part historical meditation, the book asks what is gained and lost as a landscape of memory becomes a modern working river.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:24) Chapter 01

(00:38:35) Chapter 02

(00:46:30) Chapter 03

(00:59:10) Chapter 04

(01:13:21) Chapter 05

(01:31:21) Chapter 06

(01:47:12) Chapter 07

(02:01:56) Chapter 08

(02:17:01) Chapter 09

(02:30:32) Chapter 10

(02:54:21) Chapter 11

(03:18:44) Chapter 12

(03:36:38) Chapter 13

(04:01:24) Chapter 14

(04:25:19) Chapter 15

(04:52:42) Chapter 16

(05:16:37) Chapter 17

(05:34:22) Chapter 18

(05:53:24) Chapter 19

(06:16:01) Chapter 20

(06:30:01) Chapter 21

(06:50:39) Chapter 22

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Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

April 18, 2023

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160m

Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are called up by the Pict witches to contest the invading army and Conan finds himself battling for his life amid the blood thirsty hordes that include saber-toothed tigers, 40 foot long venomous snakes and a demon from another dimension who is intent on crushing him. The huge dog Slasher makes an appearance here and distinguishes himself so well in a doomed battle to delay their forces that Conan openly praises his courage and pledges that 7 Pict heads will roll in his honor.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:05) Chapter 2

(00:44:44) Chapter 3

(00:51:52) Chapter 4

(01:15:20) Chapter 5

(01:46:50) Chapter 6

(02:16:44) Chapter 7

(02:28:32) Chapter 8

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