Audiobook Books

The unabridged CD-Rom read by Victor Garber is quite notable. The reader gives voice to all the characters. He creates a suspenseful climax through variations in his voice. The reader also attributes to the modern fantasy by reading the greatly written science fiction work with belief.

The first book grabs the reader and the sequels are great too. Here's what happens in Bunnicula: Things were never the same after that dark and stormy night when the family arrived home from the movies with a cuddly little bunny they'd found wrapped in a blanket left on a seat in the theater. Since it was a Dracula movies showing, they decided to name the bunny, Bunnicula.
It was Chester, their cat, who first noticed some very strange things about Bunnicula. For instance, the black and white markings on his back looked very much like a cloak and instead of the usual rabbit square buck teeth, he had sharp pointed fangs rather like a vampire's fangs.
Harold, the family dog, wasn't too impressed by these two oddities, but did notice that the rabbit seemed to sleep all day.
Then one morning the family discovered a white tomato and couldn't figure out what had happened to it. It seemed to be drained of its juice. Only Chester noticed the two tiny puncture marks in the tomato.
You'll love these books and their great animal characters. I'm glad the audiobook has the full stories and didn't trim them down.

I loved this product. The stories were fun, innocent, and interesting. Victor Garber's voices were wonderful, and I love listening to him. The best was Howliday Inn, which was packed full of intrigue, fun, interesting characters, and mystery.

Highly recommended for all ages (I am an adult).

Count me among the Victor Garber fans who bought this set of CDs simply to hear Alias' Spydaddy do something others said he did well. Also count me among those who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The books themselves are well written and seem to be just fun to read. However, Mr. Garber as the narrator just brought them to life as he created a unique voice for each character. A lot of times I didn't know which made me laugh more, the voices or the story itself.

As a 29 year old single person with no kids, I have no reason to listen to these CDs other than the pure enjoyment of them, and I think I will listen to them quite often.

Okay, I'll admit it. I bought these CDs because some of my fellow Victor Garber fans were going on about them. But hey, guess what? I've really enjoyed the stories, too! James and Deborah Howe really thought things through with the first book, and I loved the wonderful silliness of 'bloodless' white vegetables in the kitchen, Bunnicula's 'cloak', 'fangs' and daytime sleepiness, Chester trying to be Van Helsing and failing in hilarious fashion. Poor Harold.... I'd be glad to feed him chocolate cupcakes and give him MTRs anytime!

James has expanded the world of Bunnicula very well in the second and third books. After vampires, what else would you expect but werewolves at Chateau Bow Wow? The fiasco at Toby and Pete's school play had me giggling like nobody's business! He knows how to let the inherent ridiculousness of the situation build up to a great comic crescendo. I promise you I will get hold of the next three books, as I can't wait to see what happens next!

still have not read book but was a tim russet fan...this book was a must have

Big Russ and Me was in the condition described. The book came in a timely manner.

Cheryl

We enjoyed this book very much. Listening to Tim Russert's voice made it feel like you were sharing stories with an old friend. His appreciation of his humble beginnings and up bringing are very evident. You can see why so many people connected with how he delivered the important world happenings and made it relevent to all. A great story of how simple a fathers love can be. Do not turn it off until you hear the epiloge, very tender, especially now.

Wonderful reminiscences of his childhood and relationship with his Father. The book took me back to my childhood and fun times in the empty lot with kids. Being out all day. Riding bikes. Mom making donuts for the neighborhood kids while we were busy building snow forts or christmas tree forts. What fun times!

A personal story of the relationship between a father and his son. This story personifies what a father/son relationship should be. The values of the father handed down to the son serve to bring that son into manhood and establish his outlook on life, his ethics and moreover his treatment of this fellow man. An excellent book and a must read for every father/son relationship.
Robert Allen, Author: A "Guest" of the Confederacy The Civil War Letters and Diaries of Alonzo M. Keeler, Captain, Company B, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry

After listening to the original CD so many times that it's worn out, I decided to try the update version; I must say that although some of the more updated verbiage is nice, I felt too much from the original was cut and the narrator was a tad too robotic sounding, for me. I plan on ordering a new copy of the original, and passing on the copy of this version to someone else.

The voices are beautiful, but too dramatic, Jesus sounds too, I don't know, sexy? Would like to see this as a video instead. I got a great deal and gave for gifts, but everyone felt like I did about it. Still may be perfect for others hungering for the Word. I have to say, I love my old Gregory Peck reading the old testement. Wish he did the new.

I gave this as a gift and my mother-in-law loved it. I started to listen to the first CD. I wasn't impressed, but as a gift, it was a hit.

This recording provides an awe-inspiring experience for Christians. It's like walking with Jesus and listening to his teachings. Later, you'll find yourself in prison with a chained Paul as he sends his letters of love and admonition to the various churches.

There's only so much spiritual growth you can gain by merely reading the Bible. You also need to feel it deep inside your heart. To access your heart in this way, I strongly recommend listening to this recording which re-enacts the New Testament in the Today's New International Version. With music, sound effects, and excellent pacing, reading these sections of the Bible will never be the same for you.

These aren't just any performers: They are an all-star cast of some of your favorite performers. The excellence of their performances helps the words ascend towards heaven.

I intend to listen to these performances again and again. I'm sure you will, too!

The Bible Experience (Complete Bible) was by far one of the best purchases that I've ever made! This is such a powerful piece work that I even purchased a 2nd set of cd's for another family member. I'd recommend it to anyone!

I was very excited when I first got these recordings. I've put them on my iPod. The readers are fantastic. They definately add the needed emotion and inflection to the Word. Where the production falls short is the periodic musical breaks. Every few minutes there is a song that is interjected into the text. It usually has little to do with the text and is rather distracting. Also, it's all black gospel. Don't get me wrong, it's good music, but it's definately not my style. Zondervan should really consider alternate versions with different music styles. But this is all or nothing. I've found it distracting to the point that I'm getting little out of the scripture I've just heard.
Definately worth a try, but be warned. If you don't like black gospel, or don't want your scripture interrupted by song, look for another version.

Little Bear is a favorite TV show for some of my grandchildren. This CD lets them enjoy the stories when they are in the car, or just to listen to the CD at bedtime. The reader has a wonderful voice and it is very soothing and relaxing to fall asleep while listening. I recommend this CD for children from ages 3 to 10.

My 9yr old son listens to this every night at bed time.
He loves all the stories and the narrator is very soothing.
You should buy this!!!

I wanted to love this!

I like the Little Bear books and I like Sigourney Weaver. I don't know that I like them together. She just doesn't convey the sweetness of the characters with her generally flat delivery.

I found the new age-y music distracting, too.

My daughter likes this, but I'd rather not be in the same room again while she listens to it. We've just listened to it twice, so I can't predict how well it will maintain her interest after repeated listenings (the Frances CD by Glynis Johns certainly has!). So, it's ok for Little Bear fans, but who knows how appealing this would be if she didn't already love the stories.

I was concerned about an effective older age, I found reassurance in this book and techniques to assist. Beside my selfish motives I continue to wonder about the abilities of some to dedicate thier lives to helping others, the discoveries they make and the hurdles people climb.

Received the book in a timely manner and in perfect condition. Unfortunately, I have not had time to read this book.
Probably shouldn't be reviewing but I want the message out of my email!!!

Dr Doigdge does an amazing job of teaching difficult scientific concepts in a manner that made me want to keep reading because I was understanding it. Who would have thought that a nonfiction book about brain plasticity would become a page turner? I hope he writes another book about the brain. As he points out, we are discovering so much about it and at a fast pace.

This book looks like a solid sort of semi academic-y pot-boiler but in fact it is a hugely engaging, eye-popping even,take on how wrong the long held belief of 'localizationism' was (the view that the brain is made up mostly of hard-wired areas fit for only one purpose) for example, claims like, the auditory cortex is only for hearing, the visual cortex is only for seeing and such like.
it turns out that the brain is highly plastic (able to rewire itself over time) given the appropriate stimulus, and when disasters occur in the body or the brain, other parts can be recruited in to do the processing work.

It's a basic truism that we learn far more from failure than success.
Health disasters that befall people can turn out to be very instructive and beneficial for future sufferers.
Even those with very rare conditons can benefit when a seemingly intractable case is handled by an inspired doctor/scientist improvising with unorthodox methods. There is much hope to draw from all this, especially when success is achieved with conditions that the mainstream considers to be irreversible.

Brain plasticity is the coherent theme of the whole book and it is always the focus of every chapter in ever more novel and surprising ways.

I cannot begin to do justice to how Doidge explains this, because he is quite simply brilliant at writing.

Each chapter concentrates on a particular narrative or story of how plastic the brain is, the chapters are like high quality Vanity Fair articles and would even stand on their own, expect that there is a sense of progression in the book and later chapters recapitulate findings from earlier ones.

I have a sense that Doidge (who is a psychiatrist I believe) would have spent an enormous amount of time refining this book as it is beautifully crafted, hearteningly articulate and deserves to win a prestigious prize.

my favourites saying from the book is about how plasticity comes about:
"neurons that fire together wire together"

Read it, you're in for a massive treat.

That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. The title comes from a song by Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Rako's book is remarkably candid, insightful, and wonderfully well-written. The writing just flows.

I must say - I believed this stuff would work for me. And it's true that his cds put me out - for like 20 minutes. The problem is that it didn't relax me enough before inducing me to sleep. I'm not a fan anymore. I've owned like four or five different cds but I always ended up getting rid of them. I thought it was just me and even ordered the SAME ones again to give it another try. Too techno and in your face for me. I'd appreciate a gentler approach like one I found online for free....

I've enjoyed listening to this CD. It is more effective if you use headphones. Most of the time, I'm asleep before I'm to the middle of the CD. I'm not completely sure if the lucid dream part works with my brain, however, I have noticed a change in my dreams. I am now experiencing more clarity to my dreams and feeling emotion when dreaming about current dilemmas and how I need to resolve them.

I have another CD by Glenn Harrold and I was disappointed in this one because it was too much like the first one I purchased. I was expecting some different imagery and basically got the same imagery that was in the first cd.
However, I do find his voice soothing. I love the accent and it is a calming cd.

Every once in awhile I have trouble falling asleep. I know where it comes from, I used to work the graveyard shift at a grocery store for almost seventeen years and even though I haven't worked that shift in about five years, there are times when I just can't seem to get to sleep or worse yet, stay asleep.

Fortunately, there is a wonderful program put out by the equally wonderful, Glenn Harrold. I have several of his programs and I really do not feel as though they are "hypnotizing" me as much as they are "de-hypnotizing" me. They help me let go of old beliefs, ideas, and attitudes that I have hung onto and have unconsciously acted out on.

I am a licensed spiritual counselor. I teach classes on meditation and relaxation. I know what anxiety and stress can do and yet there are those times where I fall "prey" to those occasional bouts of stress and anxiety.

Harrold's CDs immediately calm and relax me. Even if I still can't get to sleep, I find that I am less worried about falling asleep and most people who have trouble with insomnia are "trying" too hard to make themselves fall asleep. Making yourself or forcing yourself to go to sleep creates even more stress.

I'll tell you a "little secret" that works wonders if I still can't seem to let go of the day and drift off. I listen to Glenn Harrold's CD and then I'll just very calmly say to myself, "I don't need to go to sleep...I'm not tired...I could stay up forever...I'm not tired...I don't need to sleep...I could stay up forever..." and believe it or not, after a few minutes of saying these things I'm.....

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Oh, excuse me. Sorry about that.

But anyway, I highly recommend this CD along with many others in Glenn's fabulous collection.

Here's wishing you peaceful dreams!

Peace Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'

I drifted off into a deep sleep after listening to this tape. All the stress of the hectic day was elimiated from my mind and I got a deep and restful 8 hours of sleep. I highly recommend this problem.

This is a fabulous joke CD. I've have just recently become a big fan of Garrison Keillor and will now find all the CD's he has and get them.
His humor is great.

The Prarie Home Companion's annual joke show is always a treat. Paperback or CD - the whole family can take the edge off with many good laughs (and groans).

OK, I am trying to get ahold of the original Scary Stories trilogy by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammel.

The only difference I know is the artwork:

Scary Storys to tell in the Dark: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18592370@N04/1892036701/

More Scary Stories to tell in the Dark:http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c1/07/68_7.JPG

Scary Storys 3: More Tells to chill your Bones: http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c1/2e/f6_8.JPG

I would really like to find the original books/artwork...Thanks!

I loved these books when I was little- this is what got me started off on my love for scary books/movies/tv shows. I still remember some of the stories from the books, especially one where the dark is creeping over the ceiling and walls, and they always seem to come to mind when I'm in the dark trying to sleep. The pictures still scare me and I'm 26 now. I'd recommend these books for anyone who loves scary stories- get those kids started off early! And they'll scare adults too...

I'm serious, when I was a kid I read these books and they scared me silly. The stories by themselves will set you on edge, but what I remember most is the illustrations. Even now just looking at the covers give me a little chill and makes me want to turn on all the lights I can find. THIS is the book that made me scared of the dark. Give it to your kids, pass on the trauma, for science, to keep psychiatrists in work, for America. If you don't like these books, the terrorists win!

The stories you will find in these books are the most terrifying I have ever read. As I understand it, they originate from American Folklore. This, in addition to Gammell's truly disturbing artwork, adds the minute shot of realism that transforms harmless fiction to something that reads more like a short, historical, tale of warning. They are told in a simple, blunt manner, giving the reader the impression that they are hearing a historical account. As a kid I was addicted to horror, but these were the tales that led to literally months of sleepless nights. If you are buying them for a child with a vivid imagination, prepare his or her parents' for the ensuing insomnia.

This CD set is really a great find. I remember buying the original cassettes as a kid, after getting seriously scared by some of the creepiest stories I'd ever read. Combined with Stephen Gammell's hideous, yet thought provoking drawings, the books are bad/good enough themselves depending on your point of view! The only cons I have is that the collection doesn't contain *every* single story from the first book. I remember the original recordings didn't either. So I give it a four and a half. Nevertheless, George S. Irving's way of changing his voice from highs to lows, from quavering old lady to screaming fiend complement this nightmarish trio of books perfectly. Even listening to the CD alone in the dark, all by yourself... one can't help but get a few chills down the spine. I highly recommend getting a copy of the books themselves and reading along. I'm almost 28 years old and I still get freaked out from time to time at the thought of these. I would say my two favorites out of the whole bunch are "Me-Tie-Doughty-Walker!" and also "Somebody Fell From Aloft." Those scared me the most. Great books for campfire stories!