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so I have a road trip coming up and I’m searching for an audiobook to listen to as I drive past the dirt and sagebrush borescape called western washington/southern Idaho. I’ve listened to this one and it’s a great audiobook despite the author:  I also listened to this one which has some good insights into why radio is so poo poo now from a guy who worked in the industry for a long time, but mostly it’s about how he transitioned from broadcast to podcasts  I also read through Diva’s book and Cats Cradle on my last trip, which while not audio books were still great reads and I’d highly recommend them someone suggested Hyperion which looks pretty interesting and will probably be what I pick, but I kind of figured yospos needs an audiobook thread anyway My Linux Rig fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Jun 18, 2019 17:32
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My Linux Rig posted:the sagebrush borescape https://forums.somethingawful.com/query.php?action=posthistory&userid=185146
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Jun 18, 2019 17:39
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i'm halfway through Use of Weapons on my phone and i've been halfway through for like 8 months
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Jun 18, 2019 20:03
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animist posted:i'm halfway through Use of Weapons on my phone and i've been halfway through for like 8 months  also lol @ the lovely xkcd guy who deserves way more derision in general
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Jun 18, 2019 20:04
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based on this thread op i recommend crime and punishment
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Jun 18, 2019 22:23
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jon ronson has a decent reading voice and does odd embedded stories. the extremists one he did was good and it has a bit about alex jones and his comments on him are even better a decade and a half later when that guy is obviously crazy
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Jun 18, 2019 22:48
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if you liked Cadillac Desert and/or just want to hear about how hosed (and hosed up) California is, check out The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax if you want something funny check out reincarnation blues by michael poore
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Jun 19, 2019 23:32
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Best audiobook I've heard is The Right Stuff. It's too good.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:14
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listen to old art bell shows if you're on a road trip
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Jun 20, 2019 01:22
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psiox posted:also lol @ the lovely xkcd guy who deserves way more derision in general 
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Jun 20, 2019 17:34
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My Linux Rig posted:sagebrush borescape but you repeat yourself efb dont care
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Jun 20, 2019 17:39
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john malkovich did an amusing reading of "breakfast of champions"
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Jun 20, 2019 18:40
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Life On Earth read by attenborough himself is a great audiobook, incredibly interesting.
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Jun 21, 2019 16:30
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hemingway is actually really great as audiobooks, i highly recommend it for long trips. the terse prose is simply well suited to being spoken where intricate stuff often loses something as it floats past. just do the usual: the sun also rises, for whom the bell tolls, the old man and the sea.
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Jun 21, 2019 17:46
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to give an answer fitting a bit better with your list: "king of hearts" is excellent as an audiobook. documents the gruesome process, filled with sociopathic personalities, of the development of open heart surgery. i think it actually offers a deeper understanding of a certain kind of ambition, and being audio keeps you from skipping over the parts where the people, who's work have since saved a lot of lives, retire to their lab to kill dogs at a rate of one per hour for weeks on end.
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Jun 21, 2019 18:37
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Only good audio book is Norm Macdonald. Read by Norm Macdonald.
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Jun 23, 2019 14:19
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I enjoyed Anansi Boys, the version read by Lenny Henry. He does all sorts of voices.Agile Vector posted:jon ronson has a decent reading voice Agreed.
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Jul 25, 2019 17:08
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I like listening to audiobooks read by peter kenney
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