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When you guys say the 11-22-63 narrator was great, do you mean Craig Wasson or the Francois Montagut? And how are both of these unabridged but one is 6 hours longer? Wow, I feel dumb. One of them is in French. 
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May 27, 2015 20:00
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Firstborn posted:When you guys say the 11-22-63 narrator was great, do you mean Craig Wasson or the Francois Montagut? And how are both of these unabridged but one is 6 hours longer? I'm gonna take a wild guess at which of those two is the French narrator... But really, why would there be a 6 hour difference even between French and English?
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May 28, 2015 01:06
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I started listening to it tonight, I got up to the bit where he decides to go back as George, buys the fancy car for $320, etc. The part where him going back and drinking a root beer reset a woman to be crippled gave me straight chills. In a Stephen King book! I can't remember the last time that happened.
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May 28, 2015 04:07
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Mini reviews for what I've been listening to lately - It's been a mixed bag: "The Martian", Andy Weir: B-. Never read the author before. Interesting elements related to practicality of NASA-related survival, but overall not a very interesting narrative. Very vanilla, partially because a lot of it was in the form of logs, rather than internal thought processes. I do feel like a different author could have made it more gripping and less mundane. Narration was fine. "Existence", David Brin: B-. Never read the author before. It was ok entertainment. Some good ideas, but got into the territory of judging it based on listening time vs money. It had interesting elements, but a lot of the worldbuilding was ridiculous. This is a contemporary scifi where everyone's neural augmented reality is controlled by CLICKING YOUR TEETH AND BLINKING. REALLY. Multi-person narration was all right. *edit* Kind of felt like young adult scifi, which is holding me back from rating it more harshly? "Area X" series by Jeff Vandermeer. A++. Never read the author before. Very special books, kind of a more contemplative roadside picnic with heavy naturalism and psychedelic influences. Not exactly horror (although certainly containing horror elements) depending on your view of reality and nature. Excellent narrators that fit the tone of the characters and didn't interfere with the books. "Book of the Dead" by Greig Beck: F- OH MY GOD I SHOULDN'T HAVE IMPULSE BOUGHT THIS WITH NO RESEARCH. Never read the author, or I wouldn't have made this awful mistake. I thought it was going to be an airplane book like ... maybe on the level of good Koontz or something, but it was somehow a gas station book, sold next to fantasy knives, performance enhancing pills, and caffeinated meat. Bottom of the goddamn barrel. "American Elsewhere" by Robert Benett. A. Never read the author before. Ok, THAT was the only Lovecraft-influenced book I should have bought. Interesting characters, funny, weird, long in a way that (to me) did not feel too drawn out, solid narration. Not perfect, but pretty drat good overall. "The Deep" by Nick Cutter. D-. Never read the author before. Honestly pretty poo poo in my opinion. The narration may have hurt it a lot, as Corey Brill sounded like he was about to kill himself for 12 hours and emoted every depressed or psychotic line in the book, but I still think it was garbage. When I look for horror, I'm looking for fear, thrill, and some release of tension from those things. This is was just the literary equivalent of cinematic torture porn, nothing was scary to me, the characters were boring and flat, and the only similarities to Stephen King were tropes picked up from a few of his books. "Here's some sad people and sad dogs, placed in a hopeless doomed situation within the first hour, now watch them be tortured for 10 more hours with no payoff". "Fourth of July Creek" by Smith Henderson. A. Never read the author before. I found this a surprising and artful book. It's low, rural fringe Americana, mostly from the perspective of an alcoholic child services worker in 1980's Montana. A lot of the story is dark and sometimes brutal, but it's handled with a peaceful poetic style that's really beautiful and humanizing. The narrator does a great job, and I think compliments the tone of the book. Locus fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 29, 2015 |
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May 29, 2015 18:35
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The Death of Bunny Munro, as read by it's author (Nick loving Cave), is incredible. Avril Lavigne's vagina is practically a character. Here is a video of the man himself reading a non-spoiler excerpt. It's essentially about a sex addicted alcohol abusing salesman and his deranged road trip with his son and all the increasingly weird stops they take. It can be vulgar and beautiful, and is a hell of a ride. Firstborn fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jun 6, 2015 |
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Jun 6, 2015 04:12
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Can anyone recommend a good history book about the Napoleonic wars? I don't mind long, in-depth history books as long as they're not dry as dust (a fine example: Venice: A New History by Madden, which has a great audiobook version).
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Jun 15, 2015 19:55
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Just finished The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell and narrated by Jonathan Keeble this morning and cannot recommend this book enough. This book is brutal. It's a historical fiction about vikings. During a battle, Uhtred, son of Uhtred (an English Ealdorman) is kidnapped by the Danes (the vikings) and taken into the leaders house. He grows up with the Danes and learns their ways, and grows to love it. But his heart is with his people. Jonathan Keeble does such a good job narrating this story. It's as if you're sitting around a campfire listening to him tell his own tale, full of excitement and emotion. This isn't a monotone reading. When he talks about fighting in the shield wall, it's as if you're in there with him. I highly recommend this book.
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Jun 15, 2015 20:19
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Peas and Rice posted:Can anyone recommend a good history book about the Napoleonic wars? I don't mind long, in-depth history books as long as they're not dry as dust (a fine example: Venice: A New History by Madden, which has a great audiobook version). If you're a fan of The Great Courses, this one is pretty great. http://www.audible.com/pd/History/L...blisher-summary
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Jun 15, 2015 20:24
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XBenedict posted:If you're a fan of The Great Courses, this one is pretty great. I am, and thank you!
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Jun 15, 2015 21:00
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Has anyone both read and listened to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century? I want an audiobook, but I figure there are lots of graphs, charts and tables that wouldn't translate well to being read.
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Jun 16, 2015 05:55
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I've heard there are editions of The Dark Tower novels that are narrated by King himself, is this true? I know he did the 4.5th one and I really enjoyed it, even if he is a little rusty technically. edit; Also just while I'm posting I wanna say I really like the recording of Breakfast of Champions by Stanley Tucci. He's the perfect Vonnegut voice in my opinion.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:54
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:I've heard there are editions of The Dark Tower novels that are narrated by King himself, is this true? I know he did the 4.5th one and I really enjoyed it, even if he is a little rusty technically. He did the version of the first one I listened to, and maybe the second, though I might be remembering that wrong. And God, is he terrible. 95% of the time authors are pretty terrible narrators of their own books in my experience, and Stephen King is definitely among that group.
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Jun 23, 2015 09:26
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Florida Betty posted:He did the version of the first one I listened to, and maybe the second, though I might be remembering that wrong. And God, is he terrible. 95% of the time authors are pretty terrible narrators of their own books in my experience, and Stephen King is definitely among that group. As an example of the 5% of good author-readers, I recommend John le Carré. He reads his most recent book, A Delicate Truth, and does a great job with the pacing and with the many accents (at least I thought so). He has a very sonorous, theatrical voice.
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Jun 23, 2015 16:00
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I'm trying to determine whether I should listen to American Elsewhere, by Robert Jackson Bennett; Or, Bag of Bones by Stephen King. Anyone listen to the former or latter that can give an opinion? I greatly enjoy creeping horror and surreal situations.
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Jun 23, 2015 16:15
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There's something about an author reading their own stuff that can be really cool though. And there was something fitting about having King read a Dark Tower novel for me. I listened to The Drawing of the Three as an audio (I read it the first time) and the narrator was good technically but I did not like his voice for Eddy or Sussannah at all.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:53
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Clearly you all haven't been listening to the definitive voice of the first four books, Frank Muller, one of the greatest audiobook narrators to have ever lived. His Roland, Eddy and Sussannah are all fantastically distinct and full of life.
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Jun 23, 2015 23:55
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I didn't, it was some other guy.
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Jun 24, 2015 00:34
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Frank Muller's narration of Moby Dick owns bones. We lost one of the best narrators ever.
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Jun 24, 2015 01:00
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Frank Muller's narration of Moby Dick owns bones. We lost one of the best narrators ever. I'm a fan of Luke Daniels.
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Jun 24, 2015 03:38
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Frank Muller's narration of Moby Dick owns bones. We lost one of the best narrators ever. If you can find it its very rare his recording of 1984 is my favorite audiobook ever.
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Jun 24, 2015 03:40
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Damnit, another amazing audiobook series ruined with a different narrator after book 2. The Saxon Stories books 1 and 2 are narrated by Jonathan Keeble, who does an amazing job. As I mentioned a few posts ago, his reading is full of excitement and emotion. He sounds like a grizzled war veteran bringing the violence of hand to hand combat and the shield wall to vivid reality, as if he's reliving the moment with you by his side. As one Audible review states, "Keeble embodies Uhtred." The new narrator sounds like he's trying to be "cool". No feeling. Not even a proper accent. Damnit.
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Jun 25, 2015 01:52
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My favorite Narrator is Amanda Ronconi, who did the Frontier Magic trilogy by Patricia C. Wrede. I liked her voices, for the most part, and she made the parts of the story I'd put down normally interesting. It's an alternate history trilogy set in the 1860s-ish where Magic and magical creatures exist. Eff and Lan Rothmer are twins. Lan is a seventh son of a seventh son, destined to greatness, while Eff is a thirteenth child, destined for evil. The stories follow Eff as she grows up, gets over her depression spiral, and explores the land west of the Great Barrier spell, which keeps the dangerous creatures west of the Mammoth(Mississippi) River. Ronconi makes the story. Her voice for Eff is how I will always hear her. If you need to kill a few hours, I highly recommend these stories.
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Jun 25, 2015 14:47
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Talmonis posted:I'm trying to determine whether I should listen to American Elsewhere, by Robert Jackson Bennett; Or, Bag of Bones by Stephen King. Bag of Bone is pretty low in ranking on my Stephen King list. Can't totally recommend it. But it is closer to horror than American Elsewhere, which is more in the creepy surreal mystery camp, with some scary parts.
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Jun 25, 2015 18:39
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:I've heard there are editions of The Dark Tower novels that are narrated by King himself, is this true? I know he did the 4.5th one and I really enjoyed it, even if he is a little rusty technically. I liked the John Malkovich narration of Breakfast.
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Jul 5, 2015 03:24
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Talmonis posted:I'm trying to determine whether I should listen to American Elsewhere, by Robert Jackson Bennett; Or, Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I liked American Elsewhere, has kind of a Dharma Initiative meets Lovecraft? thing going on. - Here's something cool for any fans of the Johannes Cabal series by Jonathan L Howard - an audio anthology of short stories is out now on Audible. I thought it was a lot of fun.
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Jul 5, 2015 08:01
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Has anyone both read and listened to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century? I want an audiobook, but I figure there are lots of graphs, charts and tables that wouldn't translate well to being read. The rest of it is very good, though. I'm sure there's charts and graphs in the book (I am not sure but the audio book might have those as supplements) but you will not really lose anything by just following along to the audio book. Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Just finished The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell and narrated by Jonathan Keeble this morning and cannot recommend this book enough. Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Damnit, another amazing audiobook series ruined with a different narrator after book 2. EDIT: loving credits and shiny buttons. Guess I'm gonna try out the first book at the least. Bhaal fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 23:06
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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, narrated by John Lee, is utterly marvelous.
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Jul 8, 2015 04:39
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XBenedict posted:Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, narrated by John Lee, is utterly marvelous. Absolutely. Listened to this about a month ago and really enjoyed it. Shame it doesn't look like there's going to be a sequel.
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Jul 8, 2015 14:06
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Doubtful Guest posted:Absolutely. Listened to this about a month ago and really enjoyed it. Shame it doesn't look like there's going to be a sequel. “There will be another book in the “Shades of Grey” world, and I’m thinking it will be a standalone project set in the “Shades of Grey” world, but without protagonists Eddie and Jane, who are yet to be born,” says Fforde. On his website, it projects Book 2 (a prequel it seems) should be published next June or July.
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Jul 8, 2015 17:37
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XBenedict posted:“There will be another book in the “Shades of Grey” world, and I’m thinking it will be a standalone project set in the “Shades of Grey” world, but without protagonists Eddie and Jane, who are yet to be born,” says Fforde. Have to admit, I read this post first and thought "are we REALLY talking about 50 Shades here?" Then I scrolled up.
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Jul 8, 2015 21:47
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Firstborn posted:I liked the John Malkovich narration of Breakfast. Does anyone know any other audiobooks narrated by Stanley Tucci? Preferably quality literature of course. Dr. Gene Dango MD fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 07:16
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:Does anyone know any other audiobooks narrated by Stanley Tucci? Preferably quality literature of course. http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_search_c4_1_4_1_srNarr?searchNarrator=Stanley+Tucci&qid=1436449882&sr=1-4
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Jul 9, 2015 14:51
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XBenedict posted:http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_search_c4_1_4_1_srNarr?searchNarrator=Stanley+Tucci&qid=1436449882&sr=1-4
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Jul 9, 2015 18:10
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XBenedict posted:“There will be another book in the “Shades of Grey” world, and I’m thinking it will be a standalone project set in the “Shades of Grey” world, but without protagonists Eddie and Jane, who are yet to be born,” says Fforde. Oh, that's excellent to hear. I thought the first one hadn't done that well and so his publisher was pushing him to do more Dragonslayer and Thursday Next books. Well, I'll look forward to that. Thanks!
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Jul 9, 2015 20:12
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I really enjoyed The Martian. Does anyone have any recommendations for a book just as exciting? Oh, and it must have a not-sad ending.
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Jul 11, 2015 03:29
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I have long drive coming up and would love an exciting history book to listen to. I really enjoyed Red Moon Rising (from a reco in this thread), a killer book about the early space race. Anything historical, space, or both?
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Jul 22, 2015 20:28
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Has anyone listened to the audio of the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne? (http://www.amazon.com/Hounded-two-bonus-short-stories-ebook/dp/B004J4WN0I/ref=la_B004FR1V8O_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438633807&sr=1-3) Want to read some fantasy stuff and thinking of doing the audio version just because
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Aug 3, 2015 21:35
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I've only read them on paper, but looking at the Audible listings they seem to have switched narrators after the third book. They don't sound remotely alike either. The books are also really heavy on non-English names and terms (like "Siodhachan O Suileabhain"), but I'm not sure if those are easier to handle in audiobook format or as text. It would certainly be confusing if you were switching between text and audio though, or if the different narrators pronounced them differently.
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Aug 3, 2015 21:48
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Danith posted:Has anyone listened to the audio of the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne? The reader is outstanding, his voice for Oberon the dog is alone worth getting the audiobooks. He is perfect for the fun tone of the series.
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Thanks for the info. I just noticed they have a audio sample and checked it out, doesn't sound too bad. Do they list the narrator somewhere on the book page?
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Aug 3, 2015 23:09
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