Monday, December 13, 2010

Best Seller (!) on Audible: Understanding Poetry

Imagine my surpise when I got an email that one of my Modern Scholar courses on CD is currently a "best seller" on Audible.com.  Not only that, it's a course on poetry

You can read the story here.  They have nice things to say about the course and provide handy links to a number of my courses on Audible.com as well as a link to a free excerpt.

This was the course that was a finalist for an Audie award (which I lost to Paula Poundstone), and I'm very pleased that people are enjoying it.  However, I don't think it is my best course.  That's probably either A Way with Words: Rhetoric, Writing and the Arts of Persuasion or A Way with Words III: Grammar for Adults.  And I'm also rather partial to the newest course, The Anglo-Saxon World.   

I've also done courses on The History of the English Language, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Chaucer and Approaches to Literature. 

(I think I get something like 25 cents each time someone downloads an Audible course, so I have a tiny financial interest in promoting these.  But I do think readers of this blog might enjoy some of the courses). 

4 comments:

  1. Congratulations!I've bought all your courses that are available on audible.com. Have already listened to all of them except Chaucer, fantasy and science fiction and enjoyed them immensely and also learned a lot. My favorites are grammar, Anglo-Saxon, poetry, rhetoric and history of English language. Thank you for the excellent teaching and hope you will do more courses for the Modern Scholar!

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  2. I also purchased your audiobook and I have to agree with the review. I work in the computer information security field and even I found the information fascinating.

    You certainly earned the $0.25 profit from me!

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  3. Anonymous12:54 PM

    I am just listening to the Anglo Saxon course and I think it is great. The connections to Tolkien are really interesting, too.

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