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coyo7e posted:John Dies at the End - David Wong. The movie was only like 15% of the novel, and having the narrator enthusiastically belt out bad pro-wrestling puns goes a long way to making it a fun romp. The sequel is even better, though the quality of the narration is about the same. The first one's chat room scene was hilarious in audio book form.
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Just got finished with Reaper's Gale by Stephen Erikson. So very glad that the Malazan books are being brought to Audible, because while they are very enjoyable for driving to work and on long trips, his writing is so dense and long that I'll find myself rereading the same passage over and over again. Even then I have to dial Michael Page's narration up to 1.5x - but the end result is that I get through a very enjoyable series that never seems to drop a plot thread. Just wish they'd crank the rest of them out. Now I have to find other diversions until March (when Toll of the Hounds finally comes out).
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mastajake posted:The sequel is even better, though the quality of the narration is about the same. The first one's chat room scene was hilarious in audio book form. I was terribly disappointed in the movie after listening to the audiobook, that's for sure. The songs that the narrator read off were hilarious, but incomprehensible in the movie. EDIT: Listening to This Book is Full of Spiders and cracking up over the "I love how black guys put so much emphasis on the first syllable in 'gently caress you', it's like a physical blow".
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coyo7e posted:The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi. Ultra-futurist sci fi heist thing. Very poetic, fun listen.
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The issue with Quantum Thief is stuff happens and doesn't do a very good job of telling you or explaining to you what happens.
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wargames posted:The issue with Quantum Thief is stuff happens and doesn't do a very good job of telling you or explaining to you what happens. I found this as well. I kept having to rewind parts until I finally gave up and just read the book instead.
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Wade Wilson posted:I was terribly disappointed in the movie after listening to the audiobook, that's for sure. I'm dying for #3. Anytime we got John's version of what happened without David was hilarious. I actually started with the movie which i thought was crazy and then found the books.
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Oct 2, 2014 14:39
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Another agreement that the movie was terrible. The casting was spot on and such-- it just didn't translate seeing how they could only do the first 30% of the book and then they rushed to the last 10%. Very disjointed and didn't work out, even if they picked perfect actors for the roles.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:11
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I forget, did they do the "uplifting music = horrible pain to demons" *plays Here I go again by Whitesnake* gag in the movie?
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Wade Wilson posted:I forget, did they do the "uplifting music = horrible pain to demons" *plays Here I go again by Whitesnake* gag in the movie? I don't think so. They took so much out of the movie that wasn't in the first 25% of the book.
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jeeves posted:I don't think so. They took so much out of the movie that wasn't in the first 25% of the book.
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Rampant Dwickery posted:Just got finished with Reaper's Gale by Stephen Erikson. So very glad that the Malazan books are being brought to Audible, because while they are very enjoyable for driving to work and on long trips, his writing is so dense and long that I'll find myself rereading the same passage over and over again. Even then I have to dial Michael Page's narration up to 1.5x - but the end result is that I get through a very enjoyable series that never seems to drop a plot thread. It's such a shame that they got rid of Ralph Lister. Michael Page is decent enough, but Ralph Lister is a masterful narrator. Worse is that Michael Page apparently didn't even bother to check how things were pronounced by Ralph Lister to maintain some form of consistency, how freaking lazy is that?
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John dies at the end would have made a really good TV series, and I just don't see how it could work in a shorter form. The audiobooks are absolutely perfect, although I prefer the first Narrator over the second.
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wargames posted:The issue with Quantum Thief is stuff happens and doesn't do a very good job of telling you or explaining to you what happens. I kind of liked that. But they changed the narrator for three. Very disappointing.
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Can anyone suggest funny/amusing/trippy/outlandish memoirs, essay, or autobiographical audiobooks? The kinds of audiobooks I've gone through already and am looking for things of a similar ilk are: David Sedaris' work, most of Augusten Burroughs' work (really liked Dry, massively disliked A Wolf at the Table if that gives you a reference point), Tina Fey's "Bossypants," and William Burroughs' "Junky."
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java posted:Can anyone suggest funny/amusing/trippy/outlandish memoirs, essay, or autobiographical audiobooks? The kinds of audiobooks I've gone through already and am looking for things of a similar ilk are: David Sedaris' work, most of Augusten Burroughs' work (really liked Dry, massively disliked A Wolf at the Table if that gives you a reference point), Tina Fey's "Bossypants," and William Burroughs' "Junky." I really liked The Death of Cool AKA How to Piss in Public by Gavin McInnes, one of the co-founders of Vice and professional troll. I probably would've given up on it as a book because it's a lot of sex and drug stories told by an rear end in a top hat, but his narration makes it a great, hilarious listen. Also, just listened to John Waters's Role Models. It was a lot of fun. It's a series of essays of his various favorite people that have influenced him throughout his life. Scrot Eel fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 03:29
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java posted:Can anyone suggest funny/amusing/trippy/outlandish memoirs, essay, or autobiographical audiobooks? The kinds of audiobooks I've gone through already and am looking for things of a similar ilk are: David Sedaris' work, most of Augusten Burroughs' work (really liked Dry, massively disliked A Wolf at the Table if that gives you a reference point), Tina Fey's "Bossypants," and William Burroughs' "Junky." I haven't gotten around to it myself but the Diary of Samuel Pepys is supposed to be one of the great all time memoirs. e: VVVVV I can't recommend "A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson" enough. IMO it's the best audio book ever made. Murgos fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 13:52
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You might also like some of Bill Bryson's travelogues that he self-narrates. In a Sunburned Country about Australia is a pretty good place to start.
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java posted:Can anyone suggest funny/amusing/trippy/outlandish memoirs, essay, or autobiographical audiobooks? The kinds of audiobooks I've gone through already and am looking for things of a similar ilk are: David Sedaris' work, most of Augusten Burroughs' work (really liked Dry, massively disliked A Wolf at the Table if that gives you a reference point), Tina Fey's "Bossypants," and William Burroughs' "Junky."
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I'm currently on book 10 of The Dresden Files and am still enjoying both the books themselves and Marsters' narration. I also took a break and listened through Gone Girl which was great. The narration is split between a man and woman, and it works out really well.
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mastajake posted:I'm currently on book 10 of The Dresden Files and am still enjoying both the books themselves and Marsters' narration. You'll be sad when you hit book 13 since Jim Butcher finished that one late and Marsters had other professional commitments by that point so he couldn't narrate it.
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fordan posted:You'll be sad when you hit book 13 since Jim Butcher finished that one late and Marsters had other professional commitments by that point so he couldn't narrate it. It isn't that bad once you get a few chapters in, honestly. Plus, Marsters comes back on Cold Days, so it's all good.
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I actually preferred the Ghost Story narrator after a few chapters. He is great.
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He really isn't as bad as people give him poo poo for. Unrelated fantasy note, there's a sidestory in the Kingkiller chronicles series (Name of the Wind) out next week, centered around Auri (the brain damaged ex-student from the university who lives in the sewers) narrated by Rothfuss himself. If you're jonesing for more kingkiller, might be worth a buy in! (I did). e: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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Is there a thread for good Audible/Kindle combo deals? Sometimes buying a Kindle book gives the option to add the Audible narration for a discount, and that sometimes means getting the audio book for <$10. I bought Rendezvous With Rama for $1.99 and the audio book cost me another $1.99 so I own both for $4. Fantastic deal, and Amazon's Whispersync lets me pick up on one version where I left off on the other. Here's another: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive Book 1) [Kindle Edition] for $0.00 and add the Audible version for $13. (Not really a deal, since that's the normal price of the Audio book, although $13 for 45 hours of audiobook is not bad) Edit: You can check if you've already bought any Kindle books that have accompanying Audible narrations here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/audible/matchmaker jototo fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Nov 2, 2014 |
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Are any of the Discworld audiobooks any good? I'm up to Witches Abroad.
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Farecoal posted:Are any of the Discworld audiobooks any good? I'm up to Witches Abroad. Guards guards is fantastic
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My dad has asked for a book on cd because he's on the road all the time. Anyone have any suggestions. I'll take anything that sounds interesting. Not romance or anything like that please.
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Does he have a smart phone or anything? Because books on CD cost like 40-60 bucks. It'd be cheaper to buy him a 3 month subscription to audible. Or tell him to go to the library and borrow one. Sometimes you can find them in thrift stores as well.
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Farecoal posted:Are any of the Discworld audiobooks any good? I'm up to Witches Abroad. I've only read a few of them as audiobooks, narrated by Nigel Planer and Celia Imrie. They were both quite good narrators, but Imrie (in Wyrd Sisters) gave some of the characters really annoying speech impediments. Maybe the characters were written like that, I don't know, but it's far more annoying to listen to than to read. On the whole I'd certainly recommend them though, just make sure to get the unabridged versions.
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Spikeguy posted:My dad has asked for a book on cd because he's on the road all the time. Anyone have any suggestions. I'll take anything that sounds interesting. Not romance or anything like that please. I really enjoyed the audio book versions of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books. The ones I have listened to are Never Go Back and Personal.
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langurmonkey posted:I really enjoyed the audio book versions of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books. The ones I have listened to are Never Go Back and Personal. I've listened to them all & they're all mostly good, but I would recommend listening to number 1, it was definitely my favourite.
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Spikeguy posted:My dad has asked for a book on cd because he's on the road all the time. Anyone have any suggestions. I'll take anything that sounds interesting. Not romance or anything like that please. I'm sure its already been mentioned but 11/22/63 by Stephen king has to be one of the best I've listened to. In short: A man goes back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK, falls in love while he's there etc etc. he won't want to turn off the car.
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I'll put a recommendation in for The Spatterjay series by Neal Asher and narrated by William Gaminara. William brings a great deal of personality to the stories, which are centered around a crazy hostile planet and the varied alien culture which seek to gain some sort of control over it. If you like Iain Bank's culture series this will scratch the same sort of itch for you, but bit not in anywhere near the same cosmic scale. Sniper is definitely a mind to be reckoned.
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coyo7e posted:Does he have a smart phone or anything? Because books on CD cost like 40-60 bucks. It'd be cheaper to buy him a 3 month subscription to audible. Or tell him to go to the library and borrow one. Sometimes you can find them in thrift stores as well. I've never bought an audiobook, but I've found my library's selection is actually pretty good and Overdrive is much easier to use than it used to be. New and good things generally have a waiting list, but I don't mind since I get through so many books.
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Yarrbossa posted:I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the first 6 Harry Potter books by Stephen Fry. I was never a fan of Jim Dale. I listened to all of them 3-4 times, the story and reader were just that good. Almost finished with Return of the King and, yes, Robert Inglis does an incredible job. The singing of the songs really makes it an experience.
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Strange Matter posted:Worth noting that the narrator for this is Scott Brick, the man with the smuggest, most velvetty voice in all of narration that I have encountered. Going back a bit, but there is also a version out there narrated by Rupert Degas, who is one of my favourites generally, and it's awesome, if you don't mind a bit of voice distortion for certain characters. Has a strange kind of dreamy quality to it that fits well. First book only though I think. Also, a recommendation, I recently listened to the audiobooks of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice and its sequel. They seems to be a bit polarising but I loved both and the narration is really excellent.
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I'm one of the ones polarized by the Audible version of Ancillary Justice. The book is incredible and absolutely deserves the major awards that rained down on it, but the narration was so grating that I had to go out and get a print copy to finish it. Ciulla's reading feels forced, partly because of the way she enunciates anything that isn't a normal English word (which, in this book, is a lot of words). Bernadette Dunne does something similar in the MaddAddam books, this combination of cadence and over-enunciation that puts so much emphasis on the made-up words that they stand out like crazy. Who are the great female narrators anyway, the equivalents of legends like George Guidall and Jonathan Davis? I've heard samples from Tandy Cronyn and Rebecca Lowman, and they both sounded great in the five minutes of exposure I've had to them, but it'd be nice to hear of some others.
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Kestral posted:I'm one of the ones polarized by the Audible version of Ancillary Justice. The book is incredible and absolutely deserves the major awards that rained down on it, but the narration was so grating that I had to go out and get a print copy to finish it. Ciulla's reading feels forced, partly because of the way she enunciates anything that isn't a normal English word (which, in this book, is a lot of words). Bernadette Dunne does something similar in the MaddAddam books, this combination of cadence and over-enunciation that puts so much emphasis on the made-up words that they stand out like crazy. The only exception I can find is Susan Duerden, whose narration of Embassytown and The Rook I thought was pretty good, but while she has apparently done a large number of books, the vast majority aren't in genres I'm interested in. mystes fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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mystes posted:The only exception I can find is Susan Duerden, whose narration of Embassytown and The Rook I thought was pretty good, but while she has apparently done a large number of books, the vast majority aren't in genres I'm interested in. Embassytown always struck me as impossible to do as an audiobook, given the nature of Ariekei Language and how important that is to the story. How do they handle it? In the print version they show Language words stacked on top of each other, separated by a horizontal bar like a fraction. Edit: Ah, Susan Duerden did the Mina Harker chapters of Audible's Dracula. Yep, that's a good narrator right there. Kestral fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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