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More a not to myself to examine some of these sites listed by Yahoo on a search for Podiobooks. Google is big but sometimes yahoo manages the human touch to search results.

A silly idea hit me.  I was to have a group of highschool students read a play outloud together.  Few wanted to take the different roles and they mortified when I suggested to read it with a bit of passion.  To spur things on, I decided to take a part and I figured I must put the passion I asked of them into it.

I was soon shouting and overacting and making a fool of myself.  Unfamiliar with the play, I often started a line in an angry voice when it was supposed to be the voice of moderation, or I’d act sad, discovering by the context at the end that I should have been happy.  It was pure silliness but it kept most of the students awake.

How about taking a very dry commonly assigned college reading and making a dramatic mess out of it? I figure something public domain like Plato or Machiavelli.  Shout Scream Cry and laugh as I plod through reading it into my recording equipment.

Any suggestions of a dull book that could be enlivened.

Many of these books are actually dear to people and not dull at all.