*** "THE SANDMAN" PODCAST NOW LIVE - https://audiobookclub.libsyn.com/the-sandman *** Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the world’s only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. In this video Steve and Matthew invite you to take part in the next round of #AudioBookClub in which they - and hopefully you - will be discussing possibly the most expensive, lavishly produced audiobook of all time: “The Sandman” by Neil Gaiman. Get involved in the conversation. Make your views known! -- “The Sandman” - written by Neil Gaiman Full cast recording featuring: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Taron Egerton, Michael Sheen, Andy Serkis, Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Dramatised and produced by Dirk Maggs Publisher: Audible Originals AUS: https://amzn.to/3ylBH3M CAN: https://amzn.to/3gEwFJM UK: https://amzn.to/3DpIMUu US: https://amzn.to/3znBezq

Like ordinary tree based books, audiobooks can serve a higher purpose than just entertaining the listener. It's about time I quit the evil weed, so I have started listening to Allen Carr's "The Easy Way To Stop Smoking". The concept behind the original book was that the reader should continue to smoke while reading the incredibly repetitive messages in the book about why they are a total turd for being a smoker. As a malcoordinated muppet with a vision impairment, there was only one way reading a book while smoking was going to end for me. The smell of burning hair. So, the audiobook allows lazy people like me to listen to a man who sounds remarkably like Martin Jarvis and passively take on board endless repeated messages about what a turd I am for smoking, while smoking, without catching fire. But does it actually work? Find out in the next enthralling episode of AudioBookClub! Did it work for you? Please get involved in the conversation. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Written by Allen Carr Read by Duncan Wells AUS: https://amzn.to/3fwkyxL CAN: https://amzn.to/3Ch0nxn UK: https://amzn.to/3ioIgOr US: https://amzn.to/2VohHjA

Up for doscission on the next episode of #AudioBookClub is the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs "A Promised Land". AUS: https://amzn.to/3AaUTCv CAN: https://amzn.to/3lyw0ge UK: https://amzn.to/3xsQhWC US: https://amzn.to/3lt1x33 After four years of Donald Trump I wasn't really in the mood for any more American politics, but as soon as The Charismatic Mr President Barack Obama started talkiing DIRECTLY TO ME with humility and humour I have to confess, I haven't got to the end of this one. There's 32 hours of the bugger. But as with normal tree-based books, you can dip in and out of it. I'm currently in August 2009, eight months into Obama's first term and it's a very interesting experience to keep track of it in parallel with Joe Biden's first term in office. The whole "Is it a good idea for the author to read the book?" question is blown out of the water here. To feel that The Charismatic Mr President Barack Obama is whispering in your shell-like makes you feel rather special. I'm a married man but... Please let us know what you think i the discussion below. Further... Steve and I would definitely recommend watching the promotional video from Mr Obama's publisher below. It includes a quote on the subject of the spoken word that has been key to our thinking as we've tried (and failed a couple of times) and get this #AudioBookClub show on the road: "The written word is ultimately a derivative of our voices, and the human voice can transmit some things that the written page can't" Baarack Obama