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I'm on an audiobook binge recently so I've bought into Audible platinum. It is incredible that you can "buy" a Kindle book for free, something like "the idiot", and then Audible recognizes your purchase and you can then buy the audiobook for I... Love this. I recently finished Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and it was really very funny, even though it slows down a bit around 3/4 of the way though (it's only ~5 hours). It was narrated by Michael Maloney who did an excellent job of having a comedic jaunty toff voice for the characters. tuna fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Pale Blue Dot has an audiobook read by Carl Sagan (for a majority of the chapters), his voice is just mesmerizing... Also, Audible's Hyperion was really well done. They used different voice actors for different characters; I finished the story feeling spoiled by high production value. The only sad part is that the sequel is only done by one of the original voice actors. nVex fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Jul 19, 2013 03:58
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I really enjoyed Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. I have Endymion and Rise of Endymion, but I haven't listened to them yet.
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Jul 20, 2013 19:40
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Looking for something along the lines of Codex Alera or The Black Company, doesn't need to be a series, though it's preferable. But I would like it to be longer then 10 hours if possible. I like listening to large unit actions and like intrigue and drama as well, but really want something either Fantasy or Future that's got large troop movements and tactics and the such. Can anyone recommend something along these lines?
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Aug 13, 2013 20:20
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SageSepth posted:Looking for something along the lines of Codex Alera or The Black Company, doesn't need to be a series, though it's preferable. But I would like it to be longer then 10 hours if possible. I like listening to large unit actions and like intrigue and drama as well, but really want something either Fantasy or Future that's got large troop movements and tactics and the such. Can anyone recommend something along these lines? Old Man's War by John Scalzi, or The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Both are good jumping off points for some great future stuff (though Scalzi has a lot more in the same universe than the other, the latest one called The Human Division was pretty good). Or you could go full retard and get Armor by John Steakley. There's also the full cast production of Dune if you really want to go hog wild.
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Aug 14, 2013 02:27
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SageSepth posted:Looking for something along the lines of Codex Alera or The Black Company, doesn't need to be a series, though it's preferable. But I would like it to be longer then 10 hours if possible. I like listening to large unit actions and like intrigue and drama as well, but really want something either Fantasy or Future that's got large troop movements and tactics and the such. Can anyone recommend something along these lines? I'm going through The Red Knight by Miles Cameron right now, it's fantasy with big battles and nice action scenes. Large groups of solders on the march with lots of discussion of battle tactics so it seems to match what you are looking for. It's the first of a trilogy but sadly is the only book published so far, It is just over 30 hours though so there is that. Here is a link to the Audible page for the book: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00B02ZRSM&qid=1376455546&sr=1-1
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Aug 14, 2013 05:53
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Currently listening to one of the two available readings of Moby Dick from Librivox. The young fellow reading is one of the best I've ever listened to, offhand. Sometimes with Librivox it's hit or miss but this guy is doing a great job. I've never read the book and it really reminds me of Pynchon, 150 years later. I can't help but think he must have been really into Melville, in addition to the Fu Manchu novels. And you may laugh when I say I'm reading it because I listened to Mastodon's "Leviathan." They are right; the book is totally metal.
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Aug 16, 2013 01:44
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mystes posted:I've been subscribed for a couple years and I haven't once come across a book that was 2 credits. I believe that Dance with Dragons/A Memory of Light/Team of Rivals at least started at the two credit line. Generally I see it with books well over the 45 hour mark.
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Aug 19, 2013 02:48
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corran__horn posted:I believe that Dance with Dragons/A Memory of Light/Team of Rivals at least started at the two credit line. Generally I see it with books well over the 45 hour mark. Well if you're looking to maximized hours of audio per credit, there's always Atlas Shrugged. 63 hours of objectivist fiction for only 1 credit!
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Aug 19, 2013 17:27
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Wow, when buying a Kindle ebook that has Whispersync for Voice, it doesn't even send you off to the Audible website anymore, you now click the button and you're the proud owner of an audiobook without even leaving Amazon. Which helps make it drat tempting when it's a $0.99 addon.
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Over the last month or so I've been slowly going through this thread, adding recommendations to my wish list over on Audible. I think I picked up Good Omens from this thread but man, the narrator put me to sleep within three minutes the last two nights, and that's not good when I mostly listen to audiobooks on my drive to work. The story seems interesting so I might have to pick up an ebook copy at some point. I returned it, though. If you're in to Young Adult, several of John Green's novels are performed excellently. Looking for Alaska His first book, and the style (a countdown) is engaging. Will Grayson, Will Grayson Written with David Levithan, it's about two guys named Will Grayson, and how their paths cross. The Will Grayson that Levithan wrote is amazingly well performed. This is currently my favorite audiobook. The Fault in Our Stars His only novel with a female main character, and the voice actor does an excellent job. I also really like The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell. I like the way she gets different voice actors to play the parts of the primary sources.
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Sep 29, 2013 16:09
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Avoid Audible's Radix read by Sergei Burbank. It's got to be the second worst narration I've ever listened to. I made it about 10 minutes before I finally gave up. There have been text to speech narrations that were better. It's only surpassed in horribleness by Ray Bradbury reading his own Fahrenheit 451 published by (oh god, who greenlit this) Harper Audio.
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Oct 4, 2013 03:12
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Can anyone recommend some quality full cast audiobooks? Other than the Graphic Audio books I've only seen the Golden Compass series, American Gods, and World War Z.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:06
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nessin posted:Can anyone recommend some quality full cast audiobooks? Other than the Graphic Audio books I've only seen the Golden Compass series, American Gods, and World War Z. Several of the Dune novels by Frank Herbert have full casts, and Dude itself is a wonderful production. Audible.com has a search listing for full cast audio productions. I recently listened to their latest rendition of Bram Stokers Dracula, and it was a wonderful full cast version.
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Oct 10, 2013 09:33
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Dune is okay yet for some reason like 2-3 of the chapters they forgot to do the full-cast for or something and it is just the main narrator. The Baron goes from sounding like a black actor to a poor scottish impersonation.
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Oct 13, 2013 22:16
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jeeves posted:Dune is okay yet for some reason like 2-3 of the chapters they forgot to do the full-cast for or something and it is just the main narrator. He reminds me of the guy that did the voice of Pyro in the PC game Sacrifice.
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Oct 15, 2013 13:55
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jeeves posted:Dune is okay yet for some reason like 2-3 of the chapters they forgot to do the full-cast for or something and it is just the main narrator. Yeah the baron sounds really great and intimidating and evil and then we go back to the main narrator and suddenly nope! And then in the second book, Dune Messiah, instead of having the main narrator read the story and having voice actors for the seperate characters they have like Pauls narrator read the entire chapter early on focusing on Paul and then you never hear him again. Same with Alia, you never hear from Jessica it just feels really weird and phoned in. Prokhor fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Oct 16, 2013 |
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Oct 16, 2013 06:40
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Is there a particularly good audio Bible out there?
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Nov 1, 2013 05:12
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Johnny Cash did a reading, as well as James Earl Jones. Is the new Ender's Game dramatization any good? Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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Nov 3, 2013 02:38
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I have some audiobooks saved in MP3 format on my computer. Can anyone recommend an iPhone app that allows me to play them? Basically I'm looking for something with similar features to the Audible app, but allows me the freedom of importing my own mp3s.
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Nov 7, 2013 00:57
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Tortilla Tequila posted:I have some audiobooks saved in MP3 format on my computer. Can anyone recommend an iPhone app that allows me to play them? Basically I'm looking for something with similar features to the Audible app, but allows me the freedom of importing my own mp3s.
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Nov 7, 2013 00:59
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jeeves posted:Dune is okay yet for some reason like 2-3 of the chapters they forgot to do the full-cast for or something and it is just the main narrator.
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Nov 8, 2013 23:58
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Strange Matter posted:Haha the Dune audiobook cast is awesome. Sure, let's have Leto talk with an American accent and give Paul an English one. Also have Gurney Halleck be played buy a comedian doing a Jack Nicholson impression. "Heeeeere's Gurney!" 
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Nov 9, 2013 00:28
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Having just had a run of grim and bleak audiobooks, can anyone recommend some good comedy fiction? I know good comedy writing is rare enough at the best of times, but any search on Audible leads me down a road of stand up comics hawking their sets. I like Stephen Fry, David Sedaris, Saki, Wodehouse, Bill Bryson, that kind of thing, so you know what kind of a pretentious rear end I am. Doesn't even need to be comedy particularly, but something uplifting. I've got Skagboys by Irvine Welsh cued up next, but I think I need a break from that. Any ideas?
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Nov 9, 2013 00:51
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Doubtful Guest posted:Having just had a run of grim and bleak audiobooks, can anyone recommend some good comedy fiction? I know good comedy writing is rare enough at the best of times, but any search on Audible leads me down a road of stand up comics hawking their sets. Does fiction masquerading as reality count? I love, love John Hodgman's Areas of my Expertise and More Information Than You Require. He has a third, That is All, that I don't like as much.
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Tupping Liberty posted:Does fiction masquerading as reality count? Definitely. Already a Hodgman fan. I've only heard snippets of the audiobooks, as they weren't available on Audible.co.uk for ages, so I read them in print. Except for the final one, which I'd agree is the weakest of the three.
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Doubtful Guest posted:Definitely. Already a Hodgman fan. I've only heard snippets of the audiobooks, as they weren't available on Audible.co.uk for ages, so I read them in print. Except for the final one, which I'd agree is the weakest of the three. If they have them now, you should try out the full audiobooks, the guest stars make all the difference. Christopher Moore is another good person for comedy fiction. Of his books I've only listened to and read Lamb: The Story of Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and it's really good. It's not laugh out loud funny (in most parts) and it ends on sort of a sad note (Spoiler alert: Jesus dies), but it's still really good and the guy reading it is perfect as the voice of Biff.
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Nov 9, 2013 13:23
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Having never read the hunger games, could anyone recommend the Audible versions as being any good?
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Nov 12, 2013 07:29
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Tithin Melias posted:Having never read the hunger games, could anyone recommend the Audible versions as being any good? http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Battle-Royale-Audiobook/B0093O1ZY4/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1384240714&sr=1-1  Though the Narrator isn't that good. Infact, I'd probably say he's bad but serviceable. Edit: As for the hungergames themselves, I dunno. The sample sounds like there's feint music in the background, that's pretty cool I guess.
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Well poo poo, I didn't realise Battle Royale was even on there. That's on the list for immediate download <3
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Tithin Melias posted:Having never read the hunger games, could anyone recommend the Audible versions as being any good? Yes, I really like the audio book versions of the Hunger Games. The reader is great at building tension with her voice.
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Doubtful Guest posted:Definitely. Already a Hodgman fan. I've only heard snippets of the audiobooks, as they weren't available on Audible.co.uk for ages, so I read them in print. Except for the final one, which I'd agree is the weakest of the three.
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Audible has an audiobook for Alastair Reynolds's new book up but they aren't selling it in the US  .
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Good god I love John Lee's voice. If you guys are checking out audiobooks based on narrators, listen to John Lee reading Perdido Street Station or Kraken or The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade.
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Nov 17, 2013 23:25
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Tortilla Tequila posted:I have some audiobooks saved in MP3 format on my computer. Can anyone recommend an iPhone app that allows me to play them? Basically I'm looking for something with similar features to the Audible app, but allows me the freedom of importing my own mp3s. You should be able to drag the MP3's into iTunes, right-click on the new entry in iTunes and choose "Get Info". Click the Options tab and put a checkmark on "Remember playback position". You can also set the Media Kind to "Audiobook". There you go, now you can pick it up and put it down and still get to the last place you were at in the story. Doubtful Guest posted:Having just had a run of grim and bleak audiobooks, can anyone recommend some good comedy fiction?
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I'm an audiobook narrator, and I'd like to recommend my four new M/M titles that have just been released. From award-winning author Josh Lanyon, it's the Dangerous Ground series. Follow the gripping cases of Special Agents for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Will Brandt and Taylor MacAllister, as they solve crime and navigate the complexities of love. With each other. Because they're gay. These books are well-written and fun, with amazing narration by me. I hope you'll check out the samples! Dangerous Ground Old Poison Blood Heat Dead Run
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Nov 20, 2013 23:03
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Has anyone listened to Railsea? Does the narrator "hit his stride" at some point? I am about 90 minutes in and find the narration to be really, really painful.
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Nov 21, 2013 22:13
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No he doesn't for the most part, the occasionally gives a character a bit of life but he mostly sounds like he's reading an instruction manual for the majority of the reading. It's a shame he's got a good voice for it but his style just sucks a lot of the fun out of the story.
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Nov 22, 2013 03:33
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Yeah his voice is good, and I honestly can't imagine trying to read this story aloud myself. He just splits up the sentences really awkwardly and has a sort of emotionless repetitive delivery. "Sucks a lot of fun out of the story" is a good way of putting it. I'll finish it because I like Mieville, but John Lee is a much better fit for his stuff. (John Lee also rocks in general, as was recently said.)
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I don't know if this is the best place to find the answer to this question, but here goes. I'm trying to track down a pre-1990s recording of The Jungle Book. The narrator was a British man with a really deep, sometimes gravelly, distinguished voice. In between chapters, there were interludes of sitar music and ragas. I don't know if it was BBC or not. I got this on cassette tape for Christmas one year, maybe in 1989. I'm turning up nothing on Google, Youtube, Audible, Amazon, etc. Any help?
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