Audible is having another sale, with a different audiobook marked down each day to $7.95. The first one up is Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, narrated by Jeff Woodman (normally $18.11). I've added a banner at the top/right of the blog, so all you have to do is click it each day to find the new book (the selection changes at 10AM Eastern (US) time, but the sale ends at midnight on the 31st). Since they seldom sell a credit for $7.95, this is a pretty good deal, if you find one or two that you've been wanting to listen to.Book Description
There's a reason why Life of Pi is such a huge seller around the globe - and why listeners love Jeff Woodman's performance of Yann Martel's magical tale. At once a castaway adventure and powerful fable, this Booker Prize winner makes the perfect end-of-summer thrill ride (with a Bengal tiger!) across the vast Pacific Ocean.
Pi Patel has been raised in a zoo in India. When his father decides to move the family to Canada and sell the animals to American zoos, everyone boards a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks, and 16-year-old Pi finds himself alone on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
Soon it's just Pi, the tiger, and the vast Pacific Ocean - for 227 days. Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they reach the coast of Mexico, where the tiger disappears into the jungle. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story, so he tells a second one - more conventional, less fantastic. But is it more true?
A realistic, rousing adventure and meta-tale of survival, Life of Pi explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character claims, to "make you believe in God."
