Charlemagne Who?

I enjoy listening to recorded books in the car on long trips. My support staff does too. But we read many of the same books. So it's sometimes hard for us to find a mystery or thriller on tape that one of us hasn't already read.

To get around the problem, we decided to listen to a lecture series from The Teaching Company. The entire offering is called The Great Courses. We get them from our local library.

The first set we took out was about Mozart; his life and music. It was excellent. Next we decided to try something a little more highfalutin. We picked up a set called The Foundations of Western Civilization. The lecturer teaches at the University of Notre Dame and is a wonderful speaker. This series is also excellent. There are courses for pretty much everyone's taste.

I have to be honest and say I've always been interested in space and once bought a series of tapes on the universe by Steven Hawking. I think we were only about half way through the first of eight tapes when we started to talk over it. I've discovered it's the pretty pictures I like rather than knowing the physics behind it all. So I'll definitely pass on those, and the mathematics too.