Hello, all-

Just a brief interruption to your various phobias and perversions to point
out a few freebies.

Naxos has a new audiobook download service. They've got some free excerpts
available. In particular, I'd suggest the one from the Canterbury Tales-
the Miller's Tale is particularly well done in modern English. It is one of
Chaucer's bawdy ones, so I think you'd all enjoy it.

http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/

Crack open a bottle of cheap west Texas wine and enjoy!
Bill

(Dickens' Hard Times is available as well (abridged) but I hesitate to
offend anyone's taste by suggesting it as well... :-)