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Yeah I thought it might be basically impossible. Maybe the Crying of Lot 49, but I’ll probably just stick to *shudder* printed text for him
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poisonpill posted:Yeah I thought it might be basically impossible. Maybe the Crying of Lot 49, but I’ll probably just stick to *shudder* printed text for him I listened to Crying of Lot 49 and it was pretty solid.
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Ditto on not being able to follow Gravity's Rainbow on audio, and I don't merely use them for "background noise"; I can generally follow difficult fiction, non fiction, whatever. But too much of GR *sounds* the same for long, long portions of the work. I tried it twice and in both times there's a sort of fantasy or dream sequence where a character goes through a toilet and both times a literal hour would go by and I'd be forced to admit I've completely lost track of what's going on, what's real, is this a recollection, a fantasy, an aside that exists only as a commentary by the narrator, etc. I actually posted about it and got told "yeah that's GR, don't worry", I made it further on a third attempt but I still found it off putting enough to not pursue it further. I will say, I've heard the banana cooking bit several times now and it always makes me go buy and prepare them.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Ditto on not being able to follow Gravity's Rainbow on audio, and I don't merely use them for "background noise"; I can generally follow difficult fiction, non fiction, whatever. But too much of GR *sounds* the same for long, long portions of the work. I tried it twice and in both times there's a sort of fantasy or dream sequence where a character goes through a toilet and both times a literal hour would go by and I'd be forced to admit I've completely lost track of what's going on, what's real, is this a recollection, a fantasy, an aside that exists only as a commentary by the narrator, etc. Do you remember who narrated it? The version I have is by George Guidall and he is great. I had the same reaction as you at the same point (the toilet story in Boston(?)) though. I also listened to Lot 49 with a different narrator and it was fine, but I’d definitely recommend the Guidall version if you have a choice.
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I randomly found an unofficial 'Soundscape' audio books of Lord of the Rings on Archive.org and holy poo poo this dude knocks it out of the park. Totes pro-listen.
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jeeves posted:I randomly found an unofficial 'Soundscape' audio books of Lord of the Rings on Archive.org and holy poo poo this dude knocks it out of the park. Wow indeed. I've been hesitant to start the LOTR quest through an audiobook but none sounded appealing. This version, with music and sound, has me very excited to start!
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chaibat posted:Do you remember who narrated it? The version I have is by George Guidall and he is great. That's the one I have: I don't mean that he does a bad job, it's just that a lot of GR is long tangents by a narrator so an hour can go by with the same "voice" and that can exacerbate an intentionally surreal book. I'll probably have to read it in print some day, but of course I still own the Audible version and could try it again.
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jeeves posted:I randomly found an unofficial 'Soundscape' audio books of Lord of the Rings on Archive.org and holy poo poo this dude knocks it out of the park. Just started to give this a listen and I’m frankly pretty blown away! I generally find audiobooks that try to utilize music, sound effects, and more than one narrator/actor (or just any one of those things) to be irritating and distracting, sometimes to the point of rendering that particular audiobook unlistenable. The version of Dune currently on audible is a good example of a half-assed effort at something like this which fails more than it succeeds. I find this to be quite charming, though, and only mildly distracting sometimes - to my shock the sound effects and music actually seems to ENRICH this particular audiobook. I think it helps a great deal that the music (at least so far) is just Howard Shore’s score from the Peter Jackson films - which I might have found objectionable in its own way ~20 years ago, but the films and that score are firmly entrenched in the “nostalgia” parts of my brain today in 2022, so far from being an issue it‘a emotional and evocative in its own way. I’ve also never actually listened to an audibook of LotR, despite my father reading the entire trilogy to me over several years when I was 8-9 years old, and of course reading it myself at least half a dozen times after that as a kid. Somehow the Rob Inglis versions never appealed to me or felt right? This one appeals to me a great deal more so far. I think I’m even going to send it to my dad! Tolkien, Bob Dylan, and baseball are the three things we can casually talk about and agree on with one another without getting upset 
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Are the Ringworld audiobooks any good, and does the story still hold up? I've been thinking of rereading/listening again.
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If any of you have let your Audible sub lapse for long enough, or you haven't subbed before: Three audiobooks for USD $3.00, plus access to their meh netflix catalogue of active membership stuff and Audible Originals.
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Mister Facetious posted:If any of you have let your Audible sub lapse for long enough, or you haven't subbed before: There's some solid stuff in there! All the Richard Stark Parker books and a large amount of Wodehouse read by Jonathan Cecil has justified me getting off Silver.
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Has anyone else listened to that insane “Space: 1969” thing on Audible? I’m not sure where else to bring it up or discuss it, even though it’s not really anything like an audiobook, and feels more like some old-school radio drama formatted more like a modern TV series? Well, it’s on Audible so I’ll discuss it here, I guess. Anyway, I’ve been enjoying listening to it on and off, and the one aspect I thought might be annoying (the presence of Natasha Lyonne’s voice) turned out mostly to be a positive! The whole thing is extremely silly and pretty forgettable, and honestly reminds me VERY strongly of Futurama/Simpsons, with the pace of the jokes and the general satirical sitcom-y tone to the whole thing. Which isn’t BAD, but it’s certainly a very different thing from what I was expecting when I clicked on it.
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Is there any audiobooks that make you feel uneasy? For example, the way the guy who does the Wheel of Time series makes me think of an older man wearing a robe saying, “Hey, baby cakes. Wanna hear about the Wheel of Time?”
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The man called M posted:Is there any audiobooks that make you feel uneasy? For example, the way the guy who does the Wheel of Time series makes me think of an older man wearing a robe saying, “Hey, baby cakes. Wanna hear about the Wheel of Time?” You might be surprised at just how many audible narrators do hardcore pornography. Click on Stephen Rudnicki, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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Mister Facetious posted:If any of you have let your Audible sub lapse for long enough, or you haven't subbed before: Doesn't seem to be available in Canada 
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Nilbop posted:Doesn't seem to be available in Canada You should be able to create a separate .com account to take advantage of it.
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Mister Facetious posted:You might be surprised at just how many audible narrators do hardcore pornography. Click on Stephen Rudnicki, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I didn’t know Geteven counted as pornography.
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THAT is the question  Content: I’m listening to The Da Vinci Code again. Great narrator. Nothing flashy, just good accents all around. Fun story. I think I’ll give some other entries in the series a try.
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The man called M posted:Is there any audiobooks that make you feel uneasy? For example, the way the guy who does the Wheel of Time series makes me think of an older man wearing a robe saying, “Hey, baby cakes. Wanna hear about the Wheel of Time?” I mean he was 26 he started recording that series so that just might be on you.
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The man called M posted:Is there any audiobooks that make you feel uneasy? For example, the way the guy who does the Wheel of Time series makes me think of an older man wearing a robe saying, “Hey, baby cakes. Wanna hear about the Wheel of Time?” I once listened to a series of audio books which had a bit of a gross out humor, while usually being quite enjoyable. At one point I was walking the street wile litening to it and some dialogue suddenly took a hard swerve into something pornographic and I felt a bit weird listening to that surrounded by people.
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The Altered Carbon books seem to have some sort of obligatory chapter in each that is an extremely graphic sex scene like out of some romance novel. It’s very jarring especially since the rest of the books are so well done scifi.
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jeeves posted:The Altered Carbon books seem to have some sort of obligatory chapter in each that is an extremely graphic sex scene like out of some romance novel. It’s very jarring especially since the rest of the books are so well done scifi.
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Honestly it explains why Netflix licensed it for a series. The author was definitely thinking ahead.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I once listened to a series of audio books which had a bit of a gross out humor, while usually being quite enjoyable. At one point I was walking the street wile litening to it and some dialogue suddenly took a hard swerve into something pornographic and I felt a bit weird listening to that surrounded by people. Post the series!!!
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I only read the first book and it was a long time ago but I think I kind of got the impression that the author just felt that that was part of the whole noir detective thing.cant cook creole bream posted:I once listened to a series of audio books which had a bit of a gross out humor, while usually being quite enjoyable. At one point I was walking the street wile litening to it and some dialogue suddenly took a hard swerve into something pornographic and I felt a bit weird listening to that surrounded by people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA
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Kilometers Davis posted:Post the series!!! Fine. It's "Critical Failures" by Robert Bevan and it's about a bunch of Mississippi assholes who end up transported in a not-DnD campaign. I actually really enjoyed that series, because it's actually quite clever with it's stupid bullshit, but I'd be hesitant to suggest it to anyone, due to some gross out humor and a few less than wholesome characters. I did like them Messi g around and breaking role play mechanics. The audio books were actually quite impressive. In one story line the douchey hard character goes on a music tour and the narrator actually sings the parody songs in the correct tune with guitar support. The scene in question was during the 9th book, so I should have known what I'm in for, but well no that was gross. It was basically about a guy convincing a stranger to have a match who can make a bigger cumstain beause that's the competition among his family. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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jeeves posted:The Altered Carbon books seem to have some sort of obligatory chapter in each that is an extremely graphic sex scene like out of some romance novel. It’s very jarring especially since the rest of the books are so well done scifi. The early Deathlands books had this going on too. Full voice cast, sound effects, music male sex scenes even more cringey.
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Audible’s having a really nice sale. I just picked up Be the Serpent, the new October Daye book, for ~ $9
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I've been re-listening to Classic Scrapes by James Acaster recently and it has great re-listen value. Can anyone recommend anything similar in that it's less of an autobiography and more just a collection of funny annecdotes you can zone in and out of.
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I got a credit and I don’t know what to get. I’m about to start throwing darts at a board. Anyone know any good ones like Becky Chambers’ stuff?
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DreamingofRoses posted:I got a credit and I don’t know what to get. I’m about to start throwing darts at a board. Anyone know any good ones like Becky Chambers’ stuff? Gotta admit I've never heard of her. Are you looking for space faring sci-fi in particular, or did you have something else in mind?
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DreamingofRoses posted:I got a credit and I don’t know what to get. I’m about to start throwing darts at a board. Anyone know any good ones like Becky Chambers’ stuff? I haven't read her stuff yet but I like similar stuff it sounds like. How long of a book are you willing to listen to? I tend to spend my credits on longer books. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Mister Facetious posted:Gotta admit I've never heard of her. Are you looking for space faring sci-fi in particular, or did you have something else in mind? I’m in a sci-if mood, not necessarily spacefaring. Something with a strong character focus would be cool. my kinda ape posted:I haven't read her stuff yet but I like similar stuff it sounds like. How long of a book are you willing to listen to? I tend to spend my credits on longer books. I don’t really have a limit on length, the last 3 audiobooks I listened to were 15+ hours.
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m in a sci-if mood, not necessarily spacefaring. Something with a strong character focus would be cool. I think my go-to's for a strong character focus has to be A. Lee Martinez, with "The Automatic Detective", and "Emperor Mollusk and the Sinister Brain".
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m in a sci-if mood, not necessarily spacefaring. Something with a strong character focus would be cool. The Sparrow, Seveneves, Children of Time, Semiosis, The Quantum Magician, Project Hail Mary - all good sci-fi books that take place in space and/or on alien worlds. Several of those have sequels that are also very good. Also it's definitely more fantasy than sci-fi but I recently read and absolutely loved Piranesi so I'm throwing that out there too.
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my kinda ape posted:The Sparrow, Seveneves, Children of Time, Semiosis, The Quantum Magician, Project Hail Mary - all good sci-fi books that take place in space and/or on alien worlds. Several of those have sequels that are also very good. Are you me? I didn’t think anyone else read Semiosis, let alone recommended it. I also loved Children of Time. I didn’t love The Quantum Magician but loved Project Hail Mary like everyone else who has listened to it. Other poster, having listened to Becky Chanbers, I think that you would like Children of Time, the QM or PHM
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I feel like I could recommend Piranesi to just about anyone, it's just a great and well written story all around. When I listened to it it'd been a while since a story pulled me into it's setting so immediately and it's the perfect length. Great narration too, it really fits the main character.
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Enfys posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for good spooky/scary audiobooks? I would also be interested in recommendations as I'm always on the look out for this kind of stuff. I've recently finished No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson. A group of victorian era supernatural researchers investigating a mysterious island in the British Isles. It really captures an antiquated "Ghost Story" atmosphere. I personally really enjoyed it but I can see the ending being hit or miss. Almost all the horror released by Paul Tremblay (I've not yet listened to Pallbearers Club so can't reccomend that). Tremblay tends to take inspiration from well-known horror themes and mixes in a lot of ambiguity and reasonable explanation. A Head Full of Ghosts - Demonic Possession Disappearance at Devil's Rock - Missing Child/Coming of Age (This is probably the least scary but I've included it because there is definitely horror elements) The Cabin at the End of the World - Home invasion/Apocolypse Survivor Song - Zombies/Pandemic. (This one came out in the late summer of 2020 but was written in 2019, it's eery how well he nails the air of the early pandemic) Growing Things - This is a collection of short stories but they're far more experimental than his full-length novels. WEIRD. DARK. and Tales of the Unusual by Luke Smithered - Collections of short "weird" stories. They're all creepy but often lean more into sci-fi or the nature of the universe than supernatural (kind of like Twilight Zone stories). White Tears by Hari Kunzru - Contemporary Ghost Story 14 by Peter Clines - Cosmic Horror/Lovecraftian. The final act lost me a bit but I enjoyed the rest of the story.
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