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ZergFluid posted:2nd and 3rd credits: "Foundation" and "Foundation and Empire" by Isaac Asimov read by Scott Brick. Classics from the 50s I read a dozen years ago. Still compelling. Having already done the Foundation series, I went and got the Robot series off Audible, those are also very well done (but now appear to be out of print?). And there is a BBC drama version of the Foundation trilogy on Spotify and other mp3 stores. duz fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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mastajake posted:I'm listening to the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks and really enjoying them. The narrator is really good at voices.
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Apr 7, 2014 19:40
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coyo7e posted:Unfortunately in the later books he seems to have forgotten what the voices he had used previously sounded like - I presume since it took so long between books.. He's 90 years old too and suffered some health problems that also caused him to have to withdraw from playing Maester Pycelle on the TV show.
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I just finished One Summer by Bill Bryson, great book and he's a pretty decent narrator. To continue with that era, has anyone listened to Bully Pulpit?
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rypakal posted:Except Atlas Shrugged. Sorry Scott
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I still can't get over the third or so audibook I ever listened to, some seven years ago. An unabridged performance of Dickens' "Great Expectations." It helped that I wasn't familiar with the story and that, as John Irving points in an introduction to an edition of that book, Dickens is particularly well-suited to being read out-loud (as are in general stories told in the first-person, as "Great Expectations" is.) Unfortunately I can't remember who the performer was, but I'm 85% certain it was this one: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Great-Expectations-Audiobook/B002V57X02/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1397006504&sr=1-2 Time Trial posted:I just finished One Summer by Bill Bryson, great book and he's a pretty decent narrator. Gotta check that out -- I found A Short History of Nearly Everything particularly enjoyable to listen to.
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duz posted:Having already done the Foundation series, I went and got the Robot series off Audible, those are also very well done (but now appear to be out of print?). Whoa -- that's weird. Asimov pretty much had his own shelf at the Borders I used to go to and that included the entirety of his major sci-novels.
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rypakal posted:Scott Brick is an instant buy for me on any audiobook. 
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Syrinxx posted:I bought a book on the freakin' history of salt just because Scott Brick narrated it. It actually wasn't too bad Was hilarious at work when people asked what I was listening to. And may I add who knew salt could be so interesting, now I got to listen to it again.
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Just started listening to the Deathstalker series by Simon R. Green and produced by Graphic Audio. It's a shlocky space opera and Green isn't the best writer, but I'll be damned if the great production values from Graphic Audio don't make somewhat dull books into great experiences. I'll actually be a huge shill for all of their stuff. They've done some of Sanderson's books (Elantris, Warbreaker, some Mistborn) and Peter V. Brett and Brent Weeks' stuff and they were excellent. They probably don't get talked about much because they're not available through Audible but their books are almost all superior to the single-narrator alternatives.
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Just finished the 48 hour epic that is the Audio version of "The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance" and it was excellent. Great narration by both the readers and a very good book. Well worth the 1 credit on Audible.
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deathmerc posted:Just finished the 48 hour epic that is the Audio version of "The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance" and it was excellent. Great narration by both the readers and a very good book. Well worth the 1 credit on Audible. Thanks for the tip, downloading now.! It was rated around 4.7, looks well worth a credit.
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Apr 11, 2014 04:53
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I'm listening to the prequel right now. The same narrators did the entire wheel of time saga for reference.
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Heh, I'm a little more than halfway through it, listened to the first book before it. They are fantastic and the readers excellent.
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ZergFluid posted:Gotta check that out -- I found A Short History of Nearly Everything particularly enjoyable to listen to. I really like Made in America by Bill Bryson as well. It's just so jam packed with random facts that I've mostly forgotten now but every once in awhile something will pop into my head (normally a phrase as I use it).
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Been listening to the Dune series, Scott Brick is in the first ones but they are a little disjointed with the narration of "enhanced chapters" and with characters changing readers. By book 3 its all Simon Vance though and it's one hell of a story. Looking forward to book 4 which I hear is the best of the whole series.
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Listening to The Martian narrated by RC Bray. Not only is it a gripping, intense book (with plenty of geeky stuff to chew on and some great comic relief) but the performance is really outstanding. He can do pretty much any accent and nails the snarky, glib protagonist perfectly. An awesome audiobook.
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DONT CARE BUTTON posted:Looking forward to book 4 which I hear is the best of the whole series. Make no mistake, the 4th book is very good and is probably the second best, but I thought it was generally held that they all pale in comparison to the first.
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I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this has been mentioned but I recently listened to the audiobook of A Clockwork Orange on YouTube and it is superb. I had my doubts about the likely quality of an audio version given the unique language of the book but this narrator absolutely slays it. If there's the equivalent of an Oscar for audiobooks, this guy deserves it. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1f2pT0ksw
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I just started listening to The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, narrated by Bryan Cranston. Holy poo poo he's a great narrator
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^Required reading back in high school. Good stuff. I finished listening to "11/22/63." King's take on the concept of time travel is unique, and perhaps the best part of the book. Currently listening to a recently released non-fiction book: The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era. I also have a credit available and I'm considering spending it on Hilary Mantel's first entry in the Wolf Hall series (about the rise of Thomas Cromwell.) Is it any good?
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ZergFluid posted:
I read it and liked it a lot, thought it was well written and interesting. It might be a bit hard to follow as an audiobook at first because it's written from Cromwell's perspective in a stream-of-consciousness type style.
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Mojo Threepwood posted:Thanks for the tip, downloading now.! It was rated around 4.7, looks well worth a credit. Rapacity posted:I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this has been mentioned but I recently listened to the audiobook of A Clockwork Orange on YouTube and it is superb. I had my doubts about the likely quality of an audio version given the unique language of the book but this narrator absolutely slays it. If there's the equivalent of an Oscar for audiobooks, this guy deserves it.
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savinhill posted:I read it and liked it a lot, thought it was well written and interesting. It might be a bit hard to follow as an audiobook at first because it's written from Cromwell's perspective in a stream-of-consciousness type style. Thanks. I'll save it for later. I think I'll spend this month's credit on David Copperfield. Can't decide between Simon Vance and Martin Jarvis.
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I'm working may way through The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foot narrated by Grover Gardner. If you have any history interest at all it's pretty amazing, so much detail and so well told that really comes to life. Tom Hanks and Ken Burns teamed up to make this release happen. http://www.audible.com/series/ref=a_lib_c3D__vsml_1_13?asin=B006K1RB2S
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For those House of Cards fans out there, Michael Kelly (aka the glorious Doug Stamper) reads Stephen King's Joyland and it's a great one all around.
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I'm currently listening to The Lies of Locke Lamorra by Scott Lynch and I'm finding it incredibly enjoyable. I have a longish commute 2 days a week and look forward to it so I can carry on listening. The novel had been described elsewhere on this site as Ocean's Eleven in an alternate medieval/renaissance(?) Venice with some magic added in. He doesn't go overboard with female characters which I find really jarring at times when it's obviously just a guy doing a high pitched voice. He has distinct voices for the various characters in the book and you don't have much difficulty distinguishing between them as he narrates. I've heard the sequel isn't quite as promising as the first but I'm more than willing to give it a go based on this. Prior to this was Infected narrated by the author Scott Sigler. It follows the plight of an ex college footballer cut down in his prime due to a knee injury who is one of the first to be infected by this virus which turns people into homicidal maniacs. He also has daddy issues. There is a CIA guy whose partner is killed by one of the infected and now bears a grudge against any infected person and a doctor for the CDC who is tasked with finding out what's causing the infections along with her whacky sidekick. The book was alright but I got bored in places as it seemed to just repeat the same scenes over and over. He is an enthusiastic narrator but terrible with female characters (as a counterpoint to the above). As background this story was originally self published on the web as a serialized podcast then later picked up by Crown Publishing. There are spots where the editor could make some major cuts and not impact the story in any way. The good news is that is enjoyable schlock and I'll be getting the next one in the series once I'm ready for more. Also to the person who was after some shory light horror weird comedy sort of stuff A Lee Martinez is great for that. Gil's All Fright Diner and Emperor Mollusc versus The Sinister Brain are silly fun with good narrators. I picked Gil's up from a book fair based on the title and was pleasantly surprised by how fun it was.
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fliptophead posted:Prior to this was Infected narrated by the author Scott Sigler. It follows the plight of an ex college footballer cut down in his prime due to a knee injury who is one of the first to be infected by this virus which turns people into homicidal maniacs. He also has daddy issues. There is a CIA guy whose partner is killed by one of the infected and now bears a grudge against any infected person and a doctor for the CDC who is tasked with finding out what's causing the infections along with her whacky sidekick. The book was alright but I got bored in places as it seemed to just repeat the same scenes over and over. He is an enthusiastic narrator but terrible with female characters (as a counterpoint to the above). As background this story was originally self published on the web as a serialized podcast then later picked up by Crown Publishing. There are spots where the editor could make some major cuts and not impact the story in any way. The good news is that is enjoyable schlock and I'll be getting the next one in the series once I'm ready for more.  The fun thing about listening to Sigler is that he really hams it up a lot and is obviously enjoying himself a ton.
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coyo7e posted:I used to regularly listen to Sigler as he released new stuff, Infected was too "body-horror trigger" for me to stay with. I listened to several other novels of his which he also narrated and had a good time. I'm an especially big fan of his galactic football league series beginning with The Rookie. And I don't even like football! Hehe I agree completely - he does ham it up really well and his enthusiasm shows. It was definitely entertaining.
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savinhill posted:He's 90 years old too and suffered some health problems that also caused him to have to withdraw from playing Maester Pycelle on the TV show. True, but he was still able to do the voices in the fifth book - he just assigned them to different characters. You'd think that the producers would have caught that during production, it is a weird error to have made it through the process.
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SciFi sale at Audible till may 10th http://www.audible.com/mt/SuperSciFi_ALL
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Kraps posted:SciFi sale at Audible till may 10th http://www.audible.com/mt/SuperSciFi_ALL Picked up a couple books I wanted, thanks. I wish there was a way to permanently filter out "lovely vampire Twilight love books for dumbasses" on Audible.
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Syrinxx posted:Picked up a couple books I wanted, thanks. I wish there was a way to permanently filter out "lovely vampire Twilight love books for dumbasses" on Audible. Never go to your local library's ecollection website. 95% of the books are in that genre. But hey free audiobooks and ebooks!
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Syrinxx posted:Picked up a couple books I wanted, thanks. I wish there was a way to permanently filter out "lovely vampire Twilight love books for dumbasses" on Audible.
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The Dreaming Void is a pretty good pickup in that sale. Enjoyed it quite a bit. Has a nice mix of science fiction & fantasy.
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So, I just finished an audiobook on Audible, and then discovered you can return books you don't like. The thing is, yes, I literally cringed at times while listening, and not in a good way, but then, it managed to provide the necessary background for my work (despite breaking the flow several times with those cringeworthy moments). And it's also kind of in my head now. I'm wondering how ethical it would be to return it now. 
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supermikhail posted:I'm wondering how ethical it would be to return it now. They can afford it.
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It depends on your own moral compass I suppose. But you only get so many freebies before they stop offering.
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Sir Rabia Tirnova posted:It depends on your own moral compass I suppose. Elaborate, please. It's not that I want a freebie, it's that I would have have given it back earlier if I'd seen the link. I guess it'll be a lesson for me anyway. Unless there really is a catch in this return business.
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