Best radio books according to redditors

Well, technically it was a trilogy in 5 parts but then Eoin Colfer went and wrote a sixth book.

Adams had a very particular (and beloved) sense of humour.

Harper Collins is the UK (and Canadian) publisher so Amazon.co.uk (they ship to the US). I believe these are what you're looking for 1, 2 and 3.

Mostly Harmless - The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts Now Including Mostly Harmless

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Five Complete Novels by Douglas Adams - Includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless - Plus Bonus Story - Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

If you would be so kind, please turn in your Hitchhiker's Guide fan card. Once you've read all the books and stopped making increasingly inaccurate statements you may apply for it again.

House and Philosophy

Seinfeld and Philosophy

Batman and Philosophy

World of Warcraft and Philosophy

Watchmen and Philosophy

Final Fantasy and Philosophy

Harry Potter and Philosophy

South Park and Philosophy

The Office and Philosophy

Star Wars and Philosophy

The Simpsons and Philosophy

X-Men and Philosophy

The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy

Family Guy and Philosophy

Family guy ans south park are pretty good shows and have some depth to them (although it is not easily evident due to all the poop jokes.)

see:

http://www.amazon.com/South-Park-Philosophy-Something-Blackwell/dp/1405161604

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Guy-Philosophy-Petarded-Blackwell/dp/140516316X

Also, mensrights is an important forum which discuss many relevant issues such as the marginalization fathers, low life expectency of men (which nobody care about) and the male education crisis (although it is not easily evident due to some unfortunate woman bashing\sexist comments and submissions.)

Ridicule us as much as you want. We will not stop until we have equality.

http://www.amazon.ca/Hitch-Hikers-Guide-Galaxy-Omnibus/dp/0434003484

Growing up I had the Alan Lee Hobbit, it has amazing illustrations.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

Because Douglas Adams.

The BBC Radio Dramatisation was pretty good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%281981_radio_series%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lord-Rings-Dramatisation-Collection/dp/056355309X

The Illustrated Hobbit.

https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Radio-David-Rutledge/dp/0521646456/ref=sr_1_1

now you are available to acquire a physical copy. if you so desire.

ISBN is 0-345-33971-1

This Amazon page has the edition I was mentioning:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Towers-Lord-Rings-Part/dp/B0010XP08S

http://www.amazon.com/The-Electronics-Radio-David-Rutledge/dp/0521646456

The radio scripts for the Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential phases.

It's a running joke of the series:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hitch-Hikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/0434003484

You can get it on amazon for £4.45 including delivery. :)

Have you heard about this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Radio-David-Rutledge/dp/0521646456

You may have already read it, but it's a textbook that is meant to accompany the building and testing of a Norcal 40A transceiver.

Seems very optimal to have the theory in the book ready for access as you build. Many of the concepts will apply to a more complex transceiver as well.

I recently went through the same process, wanting to buy the books but not get the errors all over the Amazon reviews. Go for the 50th anniversary edition. It is the definitive edition so far, it has no errors as far as I am aware, and you have a couple options on how to get it. You can go for the one volume book that aralanya posted, which is very nice but also very hefty, as they are all in one binding. I didn't want a huge book, so after some looking I found these (FOTR, TTT, ROTK) individual books, which contain the 50th anniversary text but divided amongst three volumes, including the special 50th anniversary forward.

To your first question, no. The book is very long, contains a lot of stuff that isn't in the movies, and there are a lot of names, places, and history to keep track of, most of which are in languages that Tolkien just fucking made up. But you should still read it because it's just an awesome book. I actually think it's easier to understand if you watch the movies first, because you'll kind of know what to expect.

She probably has all of the books you've mentioned if she really likes them, bookish people usually do... A special edition might be an idea, but I won't be able to help you with that, I go for cheap paperbacks due to money ;)

I'm tempted to recommend "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, it's not sci-fi classic per se, but it's a dystopian classic, she would probably like it if she likes Brave New World, but again, she might already have it. Still I'm sure she'd be thrilled to get a thoughtful thank you gift from you, even if she's read it before or even has a copy... Here's a link to that book on amazon, if you want to have a look: amazon link

If she does like classic sci-fi, here are some old-school, hard sci-fi (but it's not all just spaceships and aliens) that she might enjoy and possibly even not have, since a couple of the authors aren't from English speaking countries:

• Stanislaw Lem "Solaris" amazon link
  
• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic" amazon link
  
• Artur C. Clarke "Childhood's End" amazon link
  
• Walter M. Miller Jr. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" amazon link

These are good. They have nice covers, the definitive text, and won't tear apart easily. For hardcovers, if you're willing to go used, this looks like an absolute steal. If not, there's this. There's also always the one volume editions if you don't mind the big-ass book.

I highly recommend this set if you can find it!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00A603ZGA/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1474388316&sr=8-2&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=lotr+alan+lee+set&dpPl=1&dpID=51JgE6Wj1TL&ref=plSrch

It's a beautiful hardcover 3 edition set with amazing paintings by Alan lee. They area little bigger but very nice to read. There is also a matching hobbit and Silmarillion book that are same size and filled with paintings.

Highly recommend it!!!

The Art of The Lord of the Rings

The Art of The Hobbit

The Hobbit illustrated by Jemima Catlin

Lord of the Rings illustrated by Alan Lee

The Hobbit illustrated by Alan Lee

The Silmarillion illustrated by Ted Nasmith

Folio Society also has editions with illustrations.

Edit to add:

Beren and Luthien illustrated by Alan Lee

Bilbo's Last Song illustrated by Pauline Baynes

To elaborate, a straight-laced professor of mine told me about a graduate course he took with Donna Haraway, who developed cyborg theory. She used this textbook. They took a field trip to watch Terminator 3, which was in theaters at the time, and he wrote a paper on drug use in Robocop.

I was amazed to say the least.

I have these illustrated (by Alan Lee), and love them:

The Hobbit

http://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Illustrated-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0395873460/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1325269700&sr=8-3

LotR

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0618260587/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325269823&sr=1-1

My dad got this set when it came out when he was a kid.

• I think this is what i'm looking for:
  
  http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=194
  
  Basically, should be like this:
  
  https://youtu.be/8ybkMXsxTpQ
  
  But, if i pick the ISBN captured from this video: 9780395873465, and put it on tolkienboos.net, i found nothing. Btw this is HmH.
  
  The HarperCollins looks the same?
  
  
• As i can see, there are edition from 2000/2001, but they're impressions and have not the green cloth of the video.
  
  http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=209
  
  Here in fact i read:
  Two impressions were issued, both similar:
  
  1st Impression 2000
  2nd Impression 2001
  
  This edition appears similar to the 1997 HarperCollins Illustrated Edition at first glance, but can be identified by the fact that it has an illustrated paper-covered binding rather than the green cloth binding used by HarperCollins.
  
  Any chance to take a look at this 'illustrated paper-covered binding'?
  
  
• Btw, i'm looking for ISBN 9780261103306 by HarperCollins. It seems, at least.
  
  Here it is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien/dp/026110330X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526231039&sr=8-1&keywords=9780261103306
  
  There is this other too: https://www.amazon.it/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0395873460/ref=sr_1_14?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526231128&sr=1-14&keywords=the+hobbit+alan+lee
  
  It's HmH and has 289 pages instead of 304 as the first. (In this one, ISBN is not the same as the video i was talking about, i don't know...)
  
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  EDIT:
  
  As i can see, in this version http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=192
  
  there is a golden runic border. That runic border is the same for The Silmarillion and LoTR.
  
  Would be good this edition also, but point is, if i look for its ISBN 10: 026110330X, it point me at the same edition i posted from Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien/dp/026110330X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526231039&sr=8-1&keywords=9780261103306
  
  From the image i can't see any runic border and there is present the ISBN 13 from this edition: http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=194
  
  In few words, this Amazon version has the ISBN 10 from the one with runic borders, and the ISBN 13 from the one with no runic borders :/

The ones I'm thinking of look like this:

• https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/h2g2/shop/1006/the_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy_primary_phase_special_edition_audio/
  
• https://www.amazon.in/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Secondary-Special/dp/1408409771
  
  ...as far as I'm aware, this remaster was not used in subsequent releases (like the one you linked to), however I'm not 100% positive about that
  
  
  There is information here about what makes these special editions different:
  
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)#Special_editions

I'm off my mobile now.

Now to be fair, if we're critisizing things as being "a blog post without any detail" let's see how that wikipedia article backs-up its claim.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-wearing/six-problems-with-sarah-ditum%E2%80%99s-article-about-iraq-and-left

Oh...

Are we allowing that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Specific_allegations

A whole page of it for BBC...

Here is a better Wings Over Scotland article with more detail:

http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-extraordinary-untruth/

And a followup after their pithy response.

http://wingsoverscotland.com/an-act-of-provocation/

Likewise here is a better media lens link which deals with Andre Marr reporting for the BBC:

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/15-a-journey-unchallenged-andrew-marr-interviews-tony-blair.html

You may not be ideologically inclined with either of these websites. But their source data are always accurate or from legitimate sources (in so far as they don't make up any statements or claims).

Without my university credentials decent academic sources can be tricky so this is a bit from memory:

Here's a book from the academically acclaimed GUMG which deals with BBC and ITN bias, long time since I looked at it though:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745320619

This looks quiet promising as well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Without-Responsibility-Broadcasting-Internet/dp/0415114071

The fact of the matter is, news bias or slack reporting is one of those areas which are pretty well addressed in blogs or columns. Fawning praise is pretty easy to spot likewise false claims and lies unscrutinized are also very clear with hindsight.

If you remain unconvinced that the BBC has issues with bias there's still plenty more places to look. Most courses wouldn't even deal with the idea of something being free from bias, only the nature and extent of it. With the BBC it is endemic and it neuters their standards of reporting state claims.

I don't know how this hasn't been said yet, but Childhood's End is one of my favorites. Definitely one of the most mind blowing things I've ever read.

I used this CD https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Morse-Code-Arrl/dp/0872598314/

Hitchikers guide

what I'm thinking is more along the lines of: it's always cheaper to buy books in one volume than multiple volumes. for example on amazon I can buy The Lord of the Rings in one volume for $16.00 yet if I buy ONLY Return of the King it costs $8.76 What I'm saying, at the very least, is: If it were broken up into novellas the series as a whole would cost more for you.

I think we can both agree on that. The publisher's profit margins are another story.

This is my one. It's quite a nice all-in-one edition. Hardback, though not leather-bound as such, but they nonetheless look quite nice without the slipcover.

I don't need to. Someone else did.

It's a trilogy in five parts according to the book in The_Doctor_00's link and the five books I had a million years ago.

My wife and I own 4 or 5 copies of The Hobbit, ranging from a mass-market paperback, well read and waterstained, to a hardcover collected edition which I believe has gilt pages. She made origami flowers for her wedding bouquet with pages from a cheap copy of The Hobbit, so we have a copy missing two or three dozen pages. We only acquired THAT copy of the Hobbit because the first time she sent me out for a copy, I brought back a paperback copy from the early 70s that I found in a used bookstore that she couldn't bear to cut up after I "rescued" it.

TL, DR: You can never own too many copies of The Hobbit.

It isn't that good but I got it here