Below, Mitchell and I are debating what audiobook to listen to on our journey. While travelling in a red mustang and camping at rest stops and different areas.
Mitchell would like a murder mystery but I wouldn’t mind a George Orwell book, or something else written a while back and not all that recent.
We have so far identified 3 possible books we could listen to.
| Book | Thomas’s vote | Mitchell’s vote |
| Animal Farm (Written in 1945 by George Orwell). Synopsis: It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. It reflects political events leading up to the Russian revolution of 1917, leading into the Soviet Union under the dictator Stalin. | 5 | 4 |
| Crime and Punishment (Written in 1866 by Fyodor Dostoevsky). Synopsis Rodion Raskolnikov, a former law student, lives in extreme poverty in a tiny rented room in Saint Petersburg. Raskolnikov finds himself involved in a murder. The author’s original intention was to explore the moral and psychological dangers of the ideology of “radicalism”, and felt that the project would appeal to the conservative. | 5 | 4 |
| The Cuckoo’s Calling (Book 1) (Written in 2013, by a mystery man named Robert Galbraith who was later revealed to secretly be J. K. Rowling). Synopsis: When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Cormoran Strike is an injured war veteran, overweight, famous detective and broke. | 4 | 4 |
I very much look forward to any of these. I can see Crime and Punishment in my offline copy of Project Gutenberg. Perhaps Orwell is not old enough to be stored in this archive though.