Your audiobook is waiting…

A Life of Adventure and Delight

By: Akhil Sharma
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Neil Shah
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
4 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

OR
In Cart

People who bought this also bought...

Family Life audiobook cover art

  • Family Life

  • A Novel
  • By: Akhil Sharma
  • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
  • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 235
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 201
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 205

In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: When automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Honest and touching

  • By Shantanu Sharma on 04-29-14
Screwball audiobook cover art

  • Screwball

  • By: Simon Rich
  • Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Beck Bennett
  • Length: 39 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 6,566
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 5,959
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 5,923

Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys. But Ruth has something the other boys don’t, and when Baltimore Orioles manager Jack Dunn watches him throw a baseball over a building, Ruth gets the chance to punch his ticket out of the orphanage. All he has to do now is make the team.

  • 2 out of 5 stars

  • Lost in Translation

  • By BBERG on 07-19-19
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone audiobook cover art

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

  • A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  • By: Lori Gottlieb
  • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8,420
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 7,737
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7,691

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • I'm going to miss the narrator...

  • By Anonymous User on 04-12-19
Naked audiobook cover art

  • Naked

  • By: David Sedaris
  • Narrated by: David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris
  • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
  • Abridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2,703
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 1,846
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 1,830

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • My Favorite Sedaris

  • By Christine on 02-07-05
Bedtime Stories for Cynics audiobook cover art

  • Bedtime Stories for Cynics

  • By: Dave Hill, Jessica Conrad, Sean Keane, and others
  • Narrated by: Nick Offerman, Phoebe Robinson, David Spade, and others
  • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 447
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 399
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 398

Are the kids asleep? Yes? Good. This one isn’t for them. Now, if your weary, grown-up mind has been searching for a snarkier alternative to your favorite childhood tales, this Audible Original, hosted by Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation), will scratch that itch - and then some. Enjoy a hilarious collection of short stories, featuring performances from the likes of Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong), Tony Hale (Veep), Patton Oswalt (The Goldbergs), and David Spade (Saturday Night Live).

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Amusing, but not outright hilarious

  • By Ambariffic on 05-21-19
Theft by Finding audiobook cover art

  • Theft by Finding

  • Diaries (1977-2002)
  • By: David Sedaris
  • Narrated by: David Sedaris
  • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 5,303
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 4,836
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 4,794

For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in print. Now, in Theft by Finding, Sedaris brings us his favorite entries. From deeply poignant to laugh-out-loud funny, these selections reveal with new intimacy a man longtime fans only think they know.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • A softer, sweeter Sedaris

  • By Pamela J on 05-31-17

Publisher's Summary

A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcée tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. The protagonists in A Life of Adventure and Delight deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate and profound assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives.

©2017 Akhil Sharma (P)2017 HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

What members say

Average Customer Ratings

Overall

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    8
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Performance

  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    8
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Story

  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    8
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Audible.com Reviews
Amazon Reviews
Sort by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Jay W.

The Indian O.Henry

Amazing. You get into the innermost thoughts and are at the edge of your seat through out the stories.