Books on Tape (please sing this title to girls on film)

Recently I have had many places to drive to.  I had a couple of trips to Toronto for work and fun, and a visit down to St. Catherines.  All this car time gave me the thought that I should get a book on tape.  I like music but I find I am always flicking channels and searching for stuff I like, and I am never organized enough to prepare Me-approved music beforehand.  So I thought a book will be good because I won't have to flick and it will make the time pass quicker.

First book I got was

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Read by Tina Fey.

This is a bunch of stories starting from Tina Fey's youth and ended up at 30 Rock.  The stories are short and fast paced, and interesting enough.  She is funny and self deprecating which I found enjoyable.  She does go into some of the trials of being a female comedian but nothing is heavy.  I enjoy the book a lot, I actually think I would not have enjoyed reading it, listening to Fey is kind of like just listening to a friend go on about their crazy life.  I highly recommend the audio book.

Next I read

Next by Michael Crichton

Read by Dylan Baker

Crichton's novel is about the precarious nature of science and how genetic modification and gene sciences are going to bring up a lot of ethical questions.  The story is told from many different perspectives, in fact there are many stories going on.  There were scientists, talking apes, talking parrots, kids, lawsuits and more scientists and more lawsuits.  The characters were not well defined and sometimes I had a bit of trouble remembering who was doing what.  Also there were many chapters that were scientific reports, newpaper articles and bulletins.  Overall the book was very boring, and I only stuck with it because I had the audio book and I hoped there would be some sort of pay off in the end.  I do not recommend this book. 

I will say Dylan Baker (an actor you would recognize if you google him) did a fairly good job.  In other words he did the voices.  Not good enough to save the book, but he should probably get other jobs.

All in all I am enjoying the books on tape (and by tape I mean DVD cause who has tapes anymore).