Special Audiobook

April 20 will see a memorial service held in NY City for the late Christopher Hitchens. I have seen a few people on my train rides to and from work reading his memoir "Hitch-22" and I  told one of them to get his audiobook. It is read by Hitchens himself, and to me the book would be quite less a read without Hitch's voice. I take the liberty of calling him 'Hitch'  after having listened to so many of his friends such as Ian McEwan, call him that in the many videos I watched of them commenting on Hitchens,

In fact before I ever hear of Hitchens, I had already become an admirer of author Ian McEwan, who was, I later learned, one of Hitch's closest friends and have listened to many of McEwan's audiobooks. I recommend them all! 

Through Hitchen's book and my subsequent casual research into his life, I became interested in reading books by other authors who were mentioned by Hitchens. So I read (listened to) books by Julien Barnes, Salmion Rushdie and Martin Amis. And then by Kingsley Amis (Martins father, and renowned author).

So this is another way I find my audiobooks -  friends of authors I like. Each book or author seems to lead to another.