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Hold on a second, it seems there is another narrator for the series but I only saw that when I used a different browser and wasn't logged in to Audible. I've listened to them all read by Luke Daniels, no idea who the other guy is. Maybe it's some contract/licensing bullshit. Anyway, my listing of them looks like this: 
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Danith posted:Thanks for the info. I just noticed they have a audio sample and checked it out, doesn't sound too bad. Ctrl-F->"narrator". It should be just under the title. Apparently Syrinxx is right and there is a version of the first book narrated by Luke Daniels, but it doesn't show up on Audible for me, only the Ragland version. Amazon has it as a physical CD though. Probably just regional licensing bullshit...
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Aug 3, 2015 23:26
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Luke Daniels is a proper badass.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:18
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Syrinxx posted:Luke Daniels has narrated all ~11 books so I don't listen to that other guy.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:57
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Trying to decide which of the Great Courses history books to use my audible credit for this month. Recommendations? I was thinking about starting with prehistory and taking it from there....
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Aug 7, 2015 12:38
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I really enjoyed the one about Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age. The lecturer has a really good style of explanation, plus the subject is pretty interesting. The one about Nietsche was also pretty good but somewhat baffling for a layman like me.
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Aug 7, 2015 14:11
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I haven't actually listened to it yet, but they recently added this one about the Cultural History of Japan. It's next on my list. http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Understanding-Japan-Audiobook/B011LUCFZU?ref_=a_wl_c1_1_2_ttl
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Aug 7, 2015 21:04
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punissuer posted:Trying to decide which of the Great Courses history books to use my audible credit for this month. This sounds good! I'm listening to Napoleon the Great, good narration for audiobook. Dude was a badass yet also a beta male. So weird.
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Aug 7, 2015 21:54
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I really enjoyed Tyson's 'The Inexplicable Universe.'
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Audible question: Is there a good replacement for their old web 2.0 book player? Sometimes I want to take my com offline, and it doesn't always synch properly from my phone. I would be ok with downloading the files manually and then picking through that, except Audible manages the whole synching thing, so I can plug in my headphones when I play a game or whatever.
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Aug 8, 2015 04:30
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punissuer posted:Trying to decide which of the Great Courses history books to use my audible credit for this month. The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World is one I've seen lauded all over the internet. I haven't heard it yet but have heard lectures from the same professor about Hannibal, and they were fascinating.
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I'm currently listening to Murakami's 1Q84 (tip: choose one of the really expensive books as your free audiobook when signing up for Audible). I have to say it's not as intriguing as Murakami's earlier works because and the book feels very bloated. It's also a massive book so get ready for over 40 hours of audio, I'm listening at 1.5x speed and it's still taking ages. Also, the male reader who reads Tengo's parts pronounces the names in a weird way which irritates me but otherwise the reading is pretty good.
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Aug 9, 2015 14:39
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Pieholes posted:I'm currently listening to Murakami's 1Q84 (tip: choose one of the really expensive books as your free audiobook when signing up for Audible). I have to say it's not as intriguing as Murakami's earlier works because and the book feels very bloated. It's also a massive book so get ready for over 40 hours of audio, I'm listening at 1.5x speed and it's still taking ages. Also, the male reader who reads Tengo's parts pronounces the names in a weird way which irritates me but otherwise the reading is pretty good. The second half is better. Having said that, to me, his books are better enjoyed read than listened to.
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Aug 10, 2015 01:06
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Pieholes posted:(tip: choose one of the really expensive books as your free audiobook when signing up for Audible) tip: choose a book you'll actually enjoy rather than for its length (expense) What I like most about Audible though is you can get a refund for any book, no questions asked, even if you bought it two years ago and never read it.
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I'm having trouble getting into Devil in the White City. Does anyone know if it picks up after a while, or is it always so dry?
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Talmonis posted:I'm having trouble getting into Devil in the White City. Does anyone know if it picks up after a while, or is it always so dry? You kind of have to finish it now.
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Fall posted:tip: choose a book you'll actually enjoy rather than for its length (expense) Thanks for this. I didn't know about the refund thing(not going to say how long I have been using audible)! I refunded Gravity's Rainbow today. I had been forcing myself to work through it and it was pretty much torture. I plan on picking it back up in book form so I can take notes and read it uninterrupted. I think Pynchon is a lot easier to read than listen to, which is also how I feel about Murakami. People don't seem to interrupt me as much when I'm reading a book, compared to when I'm listening to one.
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^^^ Although conversely, I've pretty much never had someone interrupt me to ask, "watcha listening to?"  punissuer posted:Trying to decide which of the Great Courses history books to use my audible credit for this month.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World is one I've seen lauded all over the internet. I haven't heard it yet but have heard lectures from the same professor about Hannibal, and they were fascinating. I'll recommend The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World. I have it, it's great. The speaker has a great voice for listening to and it's a take on ancient history that you don't hear about very much, if at all. Did you know we have the text of letters from Roman Legionnaires on Britain to their families back home? Bitching about their officers and the bad weather, of course, but that's kind of the point of the lecture.
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Talmonis posted:I'm having trouble getting into Devil in the White City. Does anyone know if it picks up after a while, or is it always so dry? As a graduate student in History, and thus an avid reader of terminally boring books I can confirm that no, no it does not. Is there anything worth picking up in that Audible Listener Favorites sale? It looks like it's mostly porn and genre fiction which I certainly have nothing against, but I thought maybe there was some particularly good porn or trashy fantasy in there?
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Humble Star Wars Audiobook bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books Mostly dramatizations but they may add more goodies to it later.
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punissuer posted:Trying to decide which of the Great Courses history books to use my audible credit for this month. You've probably already picked, but here's my list, by Professor: Grant Hardy - Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition Robert Garland - The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World Kenneth W. Harl - Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire - The Peloponnesian War - The World of Byzantium - The Vikings - Rome and the Barbarians J. Rufus Fears - Life Lessons From the Great Books - Famous Greeks - Famous Romans Garrett G. Fagan - The History of Ancient Rome - Great Battles of the Ancient World Bob Brier - The History of Ancient Egypt
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Syrinxx posted:Humble Star Wars Audiobook bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books The NPR Star Wars dramatizations are incredible and are completely worth the price. The rest of them seem... a little goofy, but if you don't already have the NPR radio dramas you owe it to yourself to pick them up.
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RPZip posted:The NPR Star Wars dramatizations are incredible and are completely worth the price. The rest of them seem... a little goofy, but if you don't already have the NPR radio dramas you owe it to yourself to pick them up. Is there any way to buy them and add them to my audible or not?
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Can I get a rec for basically an Audiobook (Audible) version of Troy (the movie) or other Greek historical fiction similar to The Saxon Stories? (Already read Gates of Fire)
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There's a solid audiobook of the Iliad, which is technically exactly what you're looking for. e: on audible
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TheModernAmerican posted:There's a solid audiobook of the Iliad, which is technically exactly what you're looking for. Which one would you rec? There are seriously like 100. edit: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/The-Iliad-Audiobook/B002V1CFUO/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1441498311&sr=1-1 ? edit 2: I mentioned similar to the movie because that's more of the pacing I'm looking for. Basically as if Bernard Cornwell wrote the Iliad. Any other Greek mythology would be good too. Fiendish Dr. Wu fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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I heard about this on a podcast this morning and it sounds awesome: Audiobooks of novelizations of 80s movies. Someone basically reads the novelization of some film from the 70s or 80s, and they're available for free on YouTube. The quality isn't great but I'm sure someone out there will dig it. AV Club story on it here: http://www.avclub.com/article/readings-squares-here-are-some-audiobooks-movie-no-224949
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Can I get a rec for basically an Audiobook (Audible) version of Troy (the movie) or other Greek historical fiction similar to The Saxon Stories? (Already read Gates of Fire) There's The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, it's the life story of Achilles told through Patroclus's POV. Pressfield's Tides of War covers Alcibiades career and serves well as a companion piece to Gates of Fire. Mary Renault has some great Greek historical fic, though I haven't heard any of the audio versions. I know I've recently read another great book like this, but I just can't dredge the particulars of it up from my memory that's clouded with so many books read & listened to one after the other, after the other and on n on. I'll post it if I do think of it soon.
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Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks?
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I honestly thought the only reason anyone listened to audiobooks was because they're stuck driving a commute for 60mins+ a day and there aren't enough good podcasts to fill sitting in traffic. Like, if I could get a train or bus it'd be All Kindle All the Time.
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks? Audio primarily in the car and at the gym. I've got the ADD, I can't just sit still in a chair and listen to an audiobook. The audiobooks that I buy from Audible almost all have Whispersync, so I can usually read the same book that I'm listening to.
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks? I've transitioned to almost complete audiobook. Between a wife and an infant, nobody wants to let me sit still and not pay attention to them for an hour or more.
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks?
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks? It's harder to find good audiobooks than good printed books (it has to be both a good book *and* a good narrator after all), so I save the audiobooks for when I can't actually read myself (like when I'm exercising/walking). I generally just read two books in parallel, one audiobook and one Kindle/printed book.
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Syrinxx posted:About 50/50 for me, I listen to audiobooks in the car while commuting/running errands, and I read kindle books or dead tree books before bed. Same here, except I also listen to audiobooks when I'm running in the mornings if I'm all caught up on my podcasts. Kindle Match is what got me into audiobooks in the first place, so I sync my audiobook with my Kindle progress. It's a great experience. I did a two-day drive earlier this year and would have lost my mind if I didn't have an audiobook to keep me company.
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Evfedu posted:I honestly thought the only reason anyone listened to audiobooks was because they're stuck driving a commute for 60mins+ a day and there aren't enough good podcasts to fill sitting in traffic. This was me until I realised I vastly prefer listening to nonfiction over reading it. Makes me almost wish my commute was longer. Apoffys posted:It's harder to find good audiobooks than good printed books (it has to be both a good book *and* a good narrator after all), so I save the audiobooks for when I can't actually read myself (like when I'm exercising/walking). I generally just read two books in parallel, one audiobook and one Kindle/printed book. Don't they have those "Best Audiobook Narrator" awards? I listened to a couple and thought they were pretty good. Fall fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks? I have ADD pretty bad, so I really only listen to audiobooks anymore. When I was a little kid I could get sucked into print books much easier, but I haven't read one in probably 2 years. I mean, you can't play video games and read. Or work and read. Or drive and read. Well you can do the last one but I don't know for how long.
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one way I find good audiobooks is when I've listened to one with a top notch narrator that really clicks with me, I'll go that book's Audible page and click on the narrator's name, allowing me to see all the other books they've narrated, there's usually always at least a few others they've done that interest me/look like quality writing.
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Fall posted:Stupid question maybe, but how do you guys divide your time up between audiobooks and print/ebooks? Usually I listen to about 1.5 hours of Audiobook a day (3 on a day when I read both ways) , and at home I usually read for an hour. That said, I read fast so I probably cover more ground in the reading book than the audiobook. I'd say 60/40. Which way depends on which you count.
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