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Audible must have users and i hear the ads all the time on podcasts but nobody can tell me a single audiobook that's worth listening to? Has anyone made it through a AUDIO BOOK before? I'm trying to see the appeal. Someone please name a good one.
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SpaceAceJase posted:Audible must have users and i hear the ads all the time on podcasts but nobody can tell me a single audiobook that's worth listening to? Samuel L. Jackson's "Go the gently caress to Sleep" It's a winner 
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Aug 8, 2018 05:28
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I listened to all of the Dune series (original) and The Fifth Season on audiobook and would recommend them. Autobiographies narrated by the author work really well in that format, too much flowery prose or technobabble may not.
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Aug 8, 2018 05:34
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you come off as a complete bitch. You don't like books but want someone to read you one? Heh. Audible is for book fans that also have to work or commute you gently caress. Not for assholes that can't finish a book. Hope that helps.
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Aug 8, 2018 05:41
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The Dark Tower 2 audibook read by Stephen King where he talks about honkey mahfahs
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Aug 8, 2018 05:44
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Running time: 63 hours.
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Aug 8, 2018 06:02
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how many hours is the John Galt speech
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Aug 8, 2018 06:03
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Three hours, apparently.
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Aug 8, 2018 06:06
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SpaceAceJase posted:Audible must have users and i hear the ads all the time on podcasts but nobody can tell me a single audiobook that's worth listening to? There aren’t any. Just watch TV.
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Aug 8, 2018 06:21
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I listened to a couple of Vietnam War books recently: Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie narrated by the deep booming voice of Robertson Dean. Hablerstams The Best and the Brightest by Mark Bramhall. Shelby Foote's Civil War narrated by Grover Gardner is like getting the straight poop from a guy that was there. The key is to find a voice that doesn't piss you off, the subject material is secondary. I grabbed what sounds like an interesting book on the concentration camp system and it sounded important and interesting but the narrator uses stereotypical national accents depending on the last name of the person he's quoting. I didn't last more than a few minutes. Edit: Forgot to mention that I like history because I don't worry about spacing out a paragraph here or there, its history. Jigglesby fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 06:59
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Jigglesby posted:
harro. hiroshima was disonorabu. ahh!!
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Aug 8, 2018 07:00
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mods please delete the previous post.i think i was hacked by youths
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Aug 8, 2018 07:00
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Jigglesby posted:Shelby Foote's Civil War narrated by Grover Gardner is like getting the straight poop from a guy that was there. but half the appeal of Shelby Foote is listening to his own voice!
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Aug 8, 2018 07:04
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I love it. It's something like 150 hours of northern aggression yip yap all together.
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Aug 8, 2018 07:09
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Masters of Doom, a chronicle about the creation of the video game Doom, (and really the personal lives of ID software's main people) is a great listen. Also audiobooks I think are a good format for self help books. At least, it's my preferred way of "reading" them. Also be careful not to end up listening to an abridged version of a book, that poo poo is garbage. Zidrooner fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 07:26
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SpaceAceJase posted:Audible must have users and i hear the ads all the time on podcasts but nobody can tell me a single audiobook that's worth listening to? I don't understabd the question, like there are over 9000 really good books and at least a few must have an audible version sooo.. is it the format you're having trouble with??
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Aug 8, 2018 07:36
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Audiobooks and gym are a winning combination. Particularly when you are doing stuff like weightlifting and not running.
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Aug 8, 2018 07:38
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i listen to those long scifi and fantasy novels like ringworld and hyperion and conan and stuff that im never gonna actually read because its not really compelling literature but the stuff they talk about is pretty cool
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Aug 8, 2018 08:13
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Colonel Cancer posted:Audiobooks and gym are a winning combination. Particularly when you are doing stuff like weightlifting and not running. this is the answer - though it also does work with running ok if you invest in an armstrap for a mighty like 20 bucks. or, audiobooks and your commute or, audiobooks and yardwork or, audiobooks and cleaning/cooking/laundry/etc individual audiobooks may have good or bad performances but the real killer app for audiobooks is turning the brain dead periods in your life into brain enriching periods. if you drive 20 minutes to work one way well that's 40 minutes a day or ~13 hours a month you have available to listen to books. 13 hours is a normal 200-250 page book. what are you missing out on, the 87th naval-gazing news update that NPR's poo poo out in the last hour or the millionth repetition of Hit Pop Song on 101.9 THE DONG? throw that poo poo away, nobody cares. get something nonfiction and loving learn something, or get some fun fiction and get a story that actually engages your whole brain for once. if you have current reading habits, audiobooks don't replace those. there's a huge amount of value in spreading out on the couch with a good book and just reading for an afternoon. but man, people are busy, they do not have that many afternoons to spread out on the couch. everyone has a commute, everyone's got chores, and audiobooks are there to slot into those times to let your brain go to the gym. audiobooks are good, op as far as individual good ones go: - american gods has an ensemble cast on audible and is loving hella good - ron chernow's biographies on enlightenment era ppl are hella good - algorithms to live by, written by tom griffiths and brian christian is hella good - armada and ready player one are hella bad but it's loving hilarious listening to Wil Wheaton trying to take the books seriously - Big Dead Place by Eirik Sonneland is insanely good, the stories of a janitor down in antarctica and it's mostly boredom, drinking, and sex in the broom closet - peter f hamilton's books are pretty much a do-no-wrong if you like epic space operas - but get ready for the long haul his shortest story is like 80 hours over 2 books - the martian is done by R. C. Bray and that motherfucker brings those characters to life, he owns insanely hard i could go on but that covers most of the genres i can come up with right now Coolguye fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 08:59
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Charlton Heston narrating Madonna's SEX. My.. vaGINA
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Aug 8, 2018 09:04
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Snow Crash.
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Aug 8, 2018 09:18
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neal stephenson sucks so bad at endings and infodumps I feel like he ruins his books on purpose as a joke
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Aug 8, 2018 09:19
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Coolguye posted:neal stephenson sucks so bad at endings and infodumps I feel like he ruins his books on purpose as a joke Those infodumps are less annoying in an audiobook than in a real book imo.
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Aug 8, 2018 09:21
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Terry Pratchett books read by Nigel planter are some pretty swell listens to. Each book is about 10 hours, so I go through a book a week with my commute.
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Aug 8, 2018 09:54
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I've been alternating between Red Mars trilogy and assorted Witcher audiobooks the past few months, all pretty solid.
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Aug 8, 2018 10:14
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I listened to the unabridged version of Anna Karenina read by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She does a really good job with subtle differences in each character's internal monologue so that she isn't putting on voices but they still feel different. It got me through a massive wood working project, but after that I decided I prefer to only listen to nonfiction and stick to actually reading for fiction. The latest I've been listening to is Bad Blood by Daniel Carreyrou, about Theranos. The vocal performance is always no thrills on nonfiction but the story of Theranos is absolutely wild.
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Aug 8, 2018 10:21
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Moon Atari posted:I listened to the unabridged version of Anna Karenina read by Maggie Gyllenhaal. It got me massive wood
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Aug 8, 2018 12:15
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iirc audible is garbage because you can only have one book a month or some poo poo like that
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Aug 8, 2018 12:18
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Audio books have gotten me to and home from my soul destroying desk job for a decade now. Great for planes, airports all sorts of places.
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Aug 8, 2018 12:22
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Moon Atari posted:The latest I've been listening to is Bad Blood by Daniel Carreyrou, about Theranos. The vocal performance is always no thrills on nonfiction but the story of Theranos is absolutely wild. Its real good. Elizabeth Holmes definitely needs to spend at least a couple of years in prison. Other entertaining non-fiction books with excellent audible versions: In Cold Blood The Looming Tower Columbine The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Robert Caro LBJ books (150-ish hours total i think) People Who Eat Darkness (true crime from japan) Going Clear
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Aug 8, 2018 12:29
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Norm MacDonald's "Based on a True Story" is the only audiobook I've tried and it turned out to be one of the best / funniest listening experiences, spanning about 7 hours and about three listens. It's him telling funny stories and half truths about his career trajectory and I highly recommend it. The audiobook version of Based on a True Story is the definitive way to enjoy that particular book.
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Aug 8, 2018 12:41
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someone told me the game of thrones ones were good and they are hilarious they are read by like a nine hundred year old man, who has two voices, old gravel voiced man and old crone. sansa sounds exactly like their nanny that dies in the first book. bran sounds like a cross between sansa and aegon.
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Aug 8, 2018 12:49
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William Shatner reading "The Return", the Star Trek book he wrote where Kirk comes back to life and is better than everyone at everything is pretty dope. As a bonus it includes him doing really bad impressions of Spock, Data, and Picard.
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Aug 8, 2018 12:52
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FreelanceZenarchist posted:William Shatner reading "The Return", the Star Trek book he wrote where Kirk comes back to life and is better than everyone at everything is pretty dope. As a bonus it includes him doing really bad impressions of Spock, Data, and Picard. for a book like that i'd rather have zapp branigan reading it
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Aug 8, 2018 12:53
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Frank Muller reading Moby Dick is real good. Same with Blood Meridian read by Richard Poe. Both novels can be tough to read because the language really demands your attention. It's good to read them so you can take your time, but the writing is so good and the narrators so perfect that they really work as audiobooks.
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Aug 8, 2018 13:28
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scott zoloft posted:Norm MacDonald's "Based on a True Story" is the only audiobook I've tried and it turned out to be one of the best / funniest listening experiences, spanning about 7 hours and about three listens. It's him telling funny stories and half truths about his career trajectory and I highly recommend it. The audiobook version of Based on a True Story is the definitive way to enjoy that particular book. it's this! I am really bad at paying attention, hate podcasts, etc, but I listened to Norm's audiobook in three days bc it was so funny and engrossing
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Aug 8, 2018 13:32
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Audiobooks and podcasts turn household chores, commutes, long road trips, and my mind-numbing repetitive job from mental torture to a tolerable experience. A good narrator can elevate a book with their performance. I mostly listen to genre trash and a bit of non-fiction, A few good ones I can recall: Master and Commander narrated by Patrick Tull The first Aubrey/Martin books came out in 1970 but the author did a lot of historical research and styled his writing to sound like it was written in the time and place it happened. In a lot of other books this would feel gimmicky, but it has enough of an authentic feel to it that it works, and the old English narrator leans into this and does it well. It feels like you're listening to some sort of weird historical artifact of upper-class English culture in 1800, and communicates how alien the past can be. The Dragon Never Sleeps narrated by Fleet Cooper Weird 80's dystopian sci-fi with a sort of 40k'ish feel, the narration in this one stuck with me simply because every word of every line is read with such unbelievable intensity and it fits the book. Rivers of London/Midnight Riot narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Urban-Fantasy book about a wizard cop in modern London. It's a fun enough read on it's own but the narration makes it way better because a lot of the characters are West-African and he completely nails the accents. Blast of Confetti posted:iirc audible is garbage because you can only have one book a month or some poo poo like that Its fine, you pay a variable subscription which gives you a variable number of credits per month which works out to like $10-15 per credit which you can then spend at the rate of 1 credit per book. If you run out of credits you can then buy them at 30% off retail price, or just buy more credits at your subscription rate. As retail price for audio-books is often like $30-60 it works out pretty well. You keep access to your books regardless of if you're paying the subscription, and you can stream them on pc or mobile and it auto-syncs your positions. The one trap is you're limited to storing like 5 credits or something so if you subscribe and don't use it they just pocket your money. OtherworldlyInvader fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 14:21
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:Its fine, you pay a variable subscription which gives you a variable number of credits per month which works out to like $10-15 per credit which you can then spend at the rate of 1 credit per book. If you run out of credits you can then buy them at 30% off retail price, or just buy more credits at your subscription rate. As retail price for audio-books is often like $30-60 it works out pretty well. You keep access to your books regardless of if you're paying the subscription, and you can stream them on pc or mobile and it auto-syncs your positions. The one trap is you're limited to storing like 5 credits or something so if you subscribe and don't use it they just pocket your money. netflix and hulu have spoiled me and if i don't have unlimited access for ~$10-15 then I'm not interested
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Aug 8, 2018 14:29
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any book you would be interested to actually read with your eyes is a good audiobook. i'm sorry are you illiterate? what is this thread op?
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Aug 8, 2018 14:30
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Hell Yeah posted:any book you would be interested to actually read with your eyes is a good audiobook. i'm sorry are you illiterate? what is this thread op? what if the audiobook was narrated by lena dunham while she eats a bucket of fried chicken
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