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God Three Body Problem has been rocking my brain since I bought. It's funny too since the last SF Audiobook I went through was Seveneves and Three Body is a huuuge breath of fresh-air.
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I'm kinda new to the hole audiobook and audible stuff, so I'm wondering if Amazon ever does any specials on audiobooks?
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I quite enjoyed Seveneves and The Martian from audible recently. The latter I think really messed up the movie for me, so many of the lighter/funnier lines just felt wrong in their delivery in the film having listened to this first (not read the paperback). Definitely get the criticism of Seveneves I see around but still enjoyed it, I guess Three Body Problem should be next for me.
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Mr Hootington posted:I'm kinda new to the hole audiobook and audible stuff, so I'm wondering if Amazon ever does any specials on audiobooks? In a manner of speaking. If you don't want to pay full price for them, often times you can catch the sale price on the kindle book, and add on the audio for pretty cheap. That's a good way to get audible books cheap when you don't have credits. Also, you can subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. A lot of the books in the KU program have audiobook companions. Also, see back to my previous threads for another cool trick to get cheap Audible books. XBenedict posted:So, I found out something interesting today. Also..."whole", you illiterate oval office.
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Mr Hootington posted:I'm kinda new to the hole audiobook and audible stuff, so I'm wondering if Amazon ever does any specials on audiobooks? Audible does do sales, but there's a daily deal for like $1-3. They aren't all winners, but occasionally interesting stuff pops up that I'm willing to take a $3 chance on. Also, getting a membership, especially one where you get a bunch of credits you can spend at your relative leisure vs 1 per month is almost like a special (although you still have to spend within a year I think).
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I just want to say Audible is great not only for fiction but nonfiction, too. I loving found A Companion To Hegel on there. I need all the help I can get with Hegel, too. I'll still probably need to buy print books but I can't see well so audiobooks are best for me. And Frank Muller was fantastic. I've listened to so many books by him. In fact, a lot of my favorite narrators have passed away, like David Case. His narration and Hugo's writing made Les Miserables one of the best books I've ever experienced. Although recently my most amazing vocal performance goes to Steven Weber's reading Stephen King's IT. The book is great on its own but man, Weber injected so much life into it. I first "read" the book months ago and it still really stays with me. I might read it again, even though it's quite long and I have other literature I want to get into.
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XBenedict posted:Also..."whole", you illiterate oval office. Don't be vulgar.
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BurgerQuest posted:I quite enjoyed Seveneves and The Martian from audible recently. The latter I think really messed up the movie for me, so many of the lighter/funnier lines just felt wrong in their delivery in the film having listened to this first (not read the paperback). Also yes go listen to Three Body Problem. It is very awesome and only 13 hours instead of 31.
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I've received several great recommendations from this thread so far, and now I want to ask for the opposite: What are some otherwise-good books that should not be listened to? Whether it be bad narration or because you miss the pretty pictures, I want to hear about it.
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Razor Jacksuit posted:I've received several great recommendations from this thread so far, and now I want to ask for the opposite: I have a really hard time listening to Dickens. I dunno, I've always considered myself to be a pretty big fan of Chuck, but I can't for the life of me get into him in audio form, I thought Tale of Two Cities was going to kill me with boredom.
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Thanks for the tips guys. Anyone know of any good horror audiobooks? I'll take any suggestions, would prefer monster, zombie, cosmic, or something that makes you feel like there is a creeping sense of dread.
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Mr Hootington posted:Thanks for the tips guys. 
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Just wanted to give a shout to Jefferson May's voice acting in The Expanse series, especially his portrayal of Avasarala, which is almost worth the price of the audiobook alone.
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Razor Jacksuit posted:I've received several great recommendations from this thread so far, and now I want to ask for the opposite: I want to say The Quantum Thief? There were too many new words and abstract concepts that required chewing over that you cant really do when listening.
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Dec 25, 2015 01:10
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Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest for similar reasons.
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LionYeti posted:Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest for similar reasons. I put 5 hours into Gravity's Rainbow and I was lost. It was unfortunate because Pynchon writes with a certain cadence that lends itself well to audio. Like I think Inherent Vice is one of my favorite audiobooks.
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Thanks! I'll check it out. Protip I learned yesterday: even though audible is an Amazon company, you can not use Amazon gift cards. So if you buy a Kindle book with the $3.99 audio version. The kindle comes out of the gift card amount and the audiobook comes out of your saved payment method.
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I'm going to check this out too, not a fan of horror mostly but occasional psychological horror is tolerable.
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LionYeti posted:Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest for similar reasons. There's also audiobooks of The Recognitions and JR, and I really want to know how those go.
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Razor Jacksuit posted:I've received several great recommendations from this thread so far, and now I want to ask for the opposite: Narrators: William Hurt - I can't listen to 'The Sun Also Rises' because he sounds as dead as Hemingway  Yahtzee - Yes, the Escapist game reviewer; he lacks the manic energy that pervades his videos, and sounds quite lifeless, which is too bad, because his writing is fine. John Lee - Meh. Christian Rodska - Hit or miss. I like his narration of Churchill's books and some BBC documentaries, but he's also used as a sedative by some of the goons in this thread.  Charlton Griffin - Narrator of Latin and Greek classics; this dude will not just put you to sleep, he'll put you in a coma. Authors: Ian Douglas - Should neither be listened to, nor read; his science fiction is a non-stop Mary Sue insertion of conservative Republican allegory, which sucks because there's a good hard sci-fi Singularity discussion story being smothered by it. And this is coming from a guy who can listen to Orson Scott Card without any problems (gently caress anything else he writes IRL though), probably because I've never read anything Mormon related. A. Lee Martinez - A lot of his books are great reads, but the narrator choices are hit or miss. My collection is split between ebooks and Audible (and I've bought them all). 'The Automatic Detective' and 'Emperor Mollusk vs. The Sinister Brain' are good choices though. Books: Dune - The narration is multiple cast, but it's inconsistent in what they're meant to be narrating. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN - Better if you read it; it's hard to follow as it jumps between ESPN staff. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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 What is wrong with me? Some of that is falling asleep to stuff, but still. 
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1 month, 13 days, 13 hours, 25 minutes, but I didn't buy anything for the last two years, and iTunes didn't contribute to my stats for the four years when I used a Shuffle at a job where I'm allowed to listen eight hours a day.  172 titles, average listen time: 6 hours. I don't think I own more than five books with a listen time under that... 
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Mister Macys posted:1 month, 13 days, 13 hours, 25 minutes, but I didn't buy anything for the last two years, and iTunes didn't contribute to my stats when I still used a Shuffle. I wonder if the Daily Read counts?
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Is there some reddit link y'all are using, or is this just a settings/profile click I don't know about? I'm sure that my numbers are frighteningly high since I've been using audible for close to a decade, and often use it to fall asleep to.. I mean some of the GoT novels, and the newer Sanderson novels that aren't YA are around 40-60 hours each.
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Mar 30, 2016 06:35
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Audible app. My Library -> Hamburger menu icon -> Stats -> Slide right to Listening Time -> Daily/Monthly/Total
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Nice, thanks bro!  2 mos, 6 days, 20 hrs, 40 minutes. I guess after I paused my sub six or so months back I've been slacking off.. I really was expecting close to twice that from how often I re-listen to books because I fall asleep while listening to them to first time.  I bet my listening-time charts have just fallen off sharply and saddeningly in the last few months though.Unfortunately, I will probably be spending at least as much of my audiobook-inhaling time in the next 6 months actually reading textbooks, so I'll never reach the "Grand Wizard" cheevo or whatever.  edit: have I been cheating to listen to everything on 1.25x or 1.5x for the last five years? 
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Mar 30, 2016 07:29
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0 months, 19 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes Pretty weak, I need to cut down on podcasting and pay more attention to what's really important.
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26 Days, 13 hours and 33 minutes. That's not including the entire Dark Tower series, part of the Wheel of Time, Neverwhere (three times), American Gods, Jurassic Park: The Lost World (twice), Star Wars: Death Troopers [Twice...(Don't you judge me!)], Desperation, and Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone. On Ipod.
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Talmonis posted:26 Days, 13 hours and 33 minutes. Seth Harwood's stuff is especially good, imho.. His A Long Way From Disney is some of the most poignant stuff I've listened to on audio.. Plain old biographical fiction short stories from one protagonist's perspective, which are sometimes fascinating, and sometimes tear-jearkers, and always make you wonder how much was authorial self-insertion. If you're willing to paw through all of the shittastic short-story-horror podcasts that you can find online, there's a whole load of free full books posted by authors.. Harwood for instance did so well with his Jack Wakes Up that he got a contract and wrote a couple/few sequels. Scott Sigler in particular puts up almost everything he's published online for free however, a few of them (Infection) are gore-porn.. I liked Earthcore though. But don't listen to Infection unless you want to hear graphic details about dudes pulling alien parasites out of their testicles with basic tools in a dirty bathroom 
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I feel like I saw somebody post about this but I'm too tired to search 40+ pages -- is A Brief History of Seven Killings any good on audio? You'd think it would be.
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mdemone posted:I feel like I saw somebody post about this but I'm too tired to search 40+ pages -- is A Brief History of Seven Killings any good on audio? You'd think it would be. It is pretty good but some of the accents are poor and forced.
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XBenedict posted:It is pretty good but some of the accents are poor and forced. Eh, I can forgive a bit of that. Jamaican is hard for non-natives. Mostly it seems like a book (at least so far, I'm barely into it) that would really lend itself to verbal rhythms. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
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There are a several sections that I imagine could end up barely coherent in audiobook format. Without having heard it, I'd recommend switching to the words on paper version for the assassination chapters.
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Audible has a big new update that just launched today for members. Podcast style lectures, short stories and news clips that are supposedly going to be updated daily. I'm liking it so far- listening to The Sealed Room by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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I like the new channels thing already. Definitely a nice perk. I wonder how many short stories and lectures they are going to host before they start repeating them.
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Finished the first book of Jim Butcher's new fantasy series yesterday; soo good. The Aeronaut's Windlass: The Cinder Spires, Book 1 Narrator: Euan Morton It's like Final Fantasy 9/12, plus intelligent cats, and a little Master & Commander (the movie), minus anime bullshit. 
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There's a humble bundle for RA Salvatore's Demon Wars. Looks like 8 audiobooks. Are these any good? Anyone know if the production and narration is decent on them? https://www.humblebundle.com/books/salvatore-demon-wars-saga-audiobooks
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Syrinxx posted:There's a humble bundle for RA Salvatore's Demon Wars. Looks like 8 audiobooks. Are these any good? Anyone know if the production and narration is decent on them? coyo7e fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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I hate his writing, both subject choices and style- sooo much.  Picked up The Rules of Supervillainy: The Supervillainy Saga Volume 1 for half price. Remind me to post a list of "ironic/meta superhero fiction" some time. Only a couple hours in; it's amusing as Hell, and it's narrated by the same guy who did Collision 2012. Having the same guy who talked about Romney, Santorum, Chris Christie et al. fighting for top dog in The League of Evil White Guys™ adds a note of irony to the entire listening process.
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High Warlord Zog posted:There are a several sections that I imagine could end up barely coherent in audiobook format. Without having heard it, I'd recommend switching to the words on paper version for the assassination chapters. I haven't heard the audiobook version, just read the regular book, and those parts are so awesomely written that they start to fall into a rhythym in your head while you're reading them that I imagine is unique to each different reader in an excellent way that I can't imagine wanting to experience them for the first time with someone else reading them to me.
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