Michael Perry has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Truck.
Truck
Summary
The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and... gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman...." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food ("Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Penthouse combined"), live peaceably with his neighbors (one test-fires his black powder rifle in the alley; another's best Sunday shirt reads "100 PERCENT WHUP-ASS"), and sort out his love life. But along the way, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, takes a date to the fire department chicken dinner, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. As with Population: 485, much of the spirit of Truck: A Love Story may be found in the characters Perry meets: a one-eyed land surveyor, a paraplegic biker who rigs a sidecar so that his quadriplegic pal can ride along, a bartender who refuses to sell light beer, an enchanting woman who never existed, and half the staff of National Public Radio. By turns hilarious and heartfelt, a tale that begins on a pile of sheep manure, detours to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returns to the deer-hunting swamps of northern Wisconsin, Truck: A Love Story becomes a testament to the surprising and unintended consequences of love.
©2006 Michael Perry (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
From the Top
Summary
“I’m happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep in arts and culture, but we’re also just people hanging out in a tent, some of us wearing logging boots, a few of us wearing Birkenstocks, but best of all we’re breathing free fresh air filled with music.” From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times best-selling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs - whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart.
©2013 Michael Perry (P)2019 Michael Perry
Population
Summary
After a 12-year absence, a real-life prodigal seeks to serve his hometown, New Auburn, Wisconsin, population: 485, by joining the volunteer fire and rescue department. In a place where men post claims of manhood on bug deflectors, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife with a pistol and a Bible, and where the most senior firefighter is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), writer Michael Perry sets out "to meet my neighbors at the invitation of the fire siren". This audio also includes eight wise and witty essays selected from Perry's new book, Off Main Street. Whether fighting fires, playing nurse to a murderer, hitting the road with a truck driver, or meditating on Elvis and osmosis, Perry shows us that his small-town roots have not limited his worldview; in fact, they've enlarged it in some of the subtlest, most observant, and memorable ways possible. This collection is a diverse and generous survey of the author's talents as a journalist, penetrating observer, and rural-bred storyteller of Wisconsin.
©2002, 2005 Michael Perry (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Ghosts & Haunted Houses
Summary
When they think about the term haunted house, most people imagine a dilapidated Gothic structure, probably framed by slashes of lightning and shaken by rumbles of thunder. But the truth is that haunted places can be very different from this archetype. That’s what this audiobook is about - it’s a world tour of some very different haunted places. Here you’ll hear about ghosts in locations including a terraced house in the suburbs of London, a lonely farmhouse on the Isle of Man, a house in an affluent area of Savannah in Georgia, a Hill Station in India, and a skyscraper in Malaysia. You’ll also discover Castle Frankenstein is a real place, and though it certainly has plenty of ghosts, they have nothing to do with the mad inventor who lived there. So, let’s set off on a journey to some of the world’s most haunted spots. But, be prepared that they may not be what or where you expect... Here’s a preview of what's in this audiobook: "The Ghosts of Ulu Klang" "Castle Frankenstein" "The Black Monk of Pontefract" "The Haunting of One Thousand Doors" "The Imp and the Fire-Hounds" "Haunted by a Talking Mongoose" Much, much more! Scroll up and get your copy of this audiobook today!
©2018 Joseph Exton (P)2018 Joseph Exton