Boing Boing has a post today about the Daniel Pinkwater book Lizard Music being released in a New York Review of Books' Children's Collection edition. That's great—Lizard Music is one of my favorite books and it's one I re-read every few years. I was about to post a comment over there, pointing people to the free audiobook version available on pinkwater.com when I remembered that it had been a hair annoying to download all the chapters separately, and the tracks were labeled inconsistently… it's looking a gift-horse in the mouth, I know, BUT the audiobooks are under a BY-NC-ND 2.5 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) Creative Commons license, which means that I can clean up those track titles, and zip all the tracks, and make it available here:
Lizard Music, by Daniel Pinkwater, read by Daniel Pinkwater - 113 MB Zip file of MP3s
There are nine other audiobooks available, but the other long one, that had the same annoyances was The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (and it's also another of my favorite books). So here you go:
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, by Daniel Pinkwater, read by Daniel Pinkwater - 172 MB Zip file of MP3s
Enjoy!
D.G.
Thanks so much for doing this! FYI, the link to the "Snarkout Boys" file is broken -- looks like there was a partial extra URL erroneously appended to the front of the proper one. The link should be:
http://fuzzyco.com/share/Daniel_Pinkwater-Snarkout_Boys_Avocado.zip
Fuzzy
Thanks for catching that, D.G. (I get a file path out of my FTP client and then need to clean it up for the public-facing link and fat-fingered that one.) I've fixed the link in the post.