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NikkolasKing posted:So I have a sort of general request. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan, by Alan Partridge, probably the best book ever written by an Alan.
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Lies of Locke Lamora Great narrator choice, crazy story, and no problems empathizing with the main characters, and a climactic final battle straight out of any western or Chanbara movie. 5/5
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Murgos posted:Bill Bryson and David Sedaris. Warning: David Sedaris is someone you will either love or utterly loathe.
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precision posted:Warning: David Sedaris is someone you will either love or utterly loathe. Truth, I love his narration and his books are generally entertaining. However he has a high pitched "soft" voice, so I could see why people don't like him. Also, I can't help but feel like he might be a prissy queen that you would want to punch in the face if you met him IRL.
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Nov 6, 2016 06:19
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Harlan Ellison, whose voice the New York Times described as "liquid lava" has a couple great collections of short stories and essays titled The Voice from the Edge he narrates.
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bengy81 posted:Truth, I love his narration and his books are generally entertaining. However he has a high pitched "soft" voice, so I could see why people don't like him.
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Nov 6, 2016 14:31
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bengy81 posted:Truth, I love his narration and his books are generally entertaining. However he has a high pitched "soft" voice, so I could see why people don't like him. I've met David Sedaris on multiple occasions related to work and at one point he lived down the street from me. I wouldn't say he's a "prissy queen" but he is absolutely a caricature of a certain type of pseudo-intellectual that drives me absolutely round the bend.
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precision posted:I've met David Sedaris on multiple occasions related to work and at one point he lived down the street from me. I wouldn't say he's a "prissy queen" but he is absolutely a caricature of a certain type of pseudo-intellectual that drives me absolutely round the bend. His interview with Marc Maron was pretty good, and amazingly enough, it didn't devolve into "pseudo-intellectual" bullshit like a lot of Marc's interviews with those kind of guests can. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that it was because Marc was trying to figure out his odds of hooking up with Amy. I really enjoy listening to Sedaris read his stuff, so it's weird to levy criticism against his personality, but when you put so much of your personal life out there I guess that's what happens. I've been trying to listen to Yiddish Policemans's Union, and I'm having a hard time getting into it. I dig most of Chabon's work, I like police noir, and I love alt history fiction, but something isn't clicking with me. I'm thinking it's the pacing, which IMO is a big problem with his writing, and listening to the narration just makes it stick out more. Peter Riegart is a great narrator though.
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bengy81 posted:I've been trying to listen to Yiddish Policemans's Union, and I'm having a hard time getting into it. I dig most of Chabon's work, I like police noir, and I love alt history fiction, but something isn't clicking with me. I'm thinking it's the pacing, which IMO is a big problem with his writing, and listening to the narration just makes it stick out more. Peter Riegart is a great narrator though. Oh, this reminded me, The Third Policeman is on Audible and the narrator is excellent. There are some good reasons you'd rather read the book than listen to it, but it's not a terrible big difference. e: haha, I just saw that the Audible version of Ulysses is $75  (or 1 credit)
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precision posted:e: haha, I just saw that the Audible version of Ulysses is $75 That has an easy workaround with Whispersync, actually - you buy a really cheap Kindle version (like $1 or $2) and then the discounted price is something around the $3 mark.
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Found an audio version of The Illuminatus! Trilogy on YouTube, with a great narrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytpA9nZX3w
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coyo7e posted:The voice of a Prius-driving, NPR-listening liberal SJW True. But it's the voice of a Prius-driving, NPR-listening liberal SJW who has had a 30+ year career doing comedic bits on radio. His timing and inflection are impeccable.
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precision posted:Found an audio version of The Illuminatus! Trilogy on YouTube, with a great narrator: Also available on Audible, since Youtube audio is gash.
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precision posted:I've met David Sedaris on multiple occasions related to work and at one point he lived down the street from me. I wouldn't say he's a "prissy queen" but he is absolutely a caricature of a certain type of pseudo-intellectual that drives me absolutely round the bend. Amy Sedaris, best Sedaris
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I'm looking for a fantasy series recommendation. My job is kind of mindless and lets me fill the hours with audiobooks, teaching courses, and anything else I can cram into my phone. I've tried Game of Thrones (twice), Dresden doesn't do it for me, and I could never get a handle on Stephenson. I listened to Throne of the Crescent Moon and very much enjoyed it. And I'm working through Conn Iggulden's War of the Roses series now.
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When in doubt, Joe Abercrombie's First Law series is a good recommendation, or anything really by Brandon Sanderson. The Gentlemen Bastards series by Scott Lynch is also great.precision posted:Found an audio version of The Illuminatus! Trilogy on YouTube, with a great narrator: I listened to this the other night and starting laughing when the narrator couldn't hold his composure during the chanting section. That dude is pretty good, he doesn't show up much in the second book of what I've listened to so far
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KingShiro posted:When in doubt, Joe Abercrombie's First Law series is a good recommendation. Seconding these. Basically, for me fantasy goes Moorcock>>RE Howard>>Roger Zelazny>>Gene Wolfe>>Abercrombie. All else are pretenders.
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KingShiro posted:I listened to this the other night and starting laughing when the narrator couldn't hold his composure during the chanting section. That dude is pretty good, he doesn't show up much in the second book of what I've listened to so far I think my favorite part of that entire series was the recurring gag that John Dillinger had the biggest cock in all of human history
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NikkolasKing posted:So I have a sort of general request. Jensen Karp's Kanye West Owes Me $300 is fantastic if you're a white hip-hop head of a certain age. Karp narrates the prose, and has a Shakespearean actor read his lyrics by his rap alter ego "Hot Karl" because he's too embarrassed to voice them himself.
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The only book I have for that criteria is "Coreyography" by Corey Feldman. He does pretty good impressions of some of the people he countered in his acting career.
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Audible notified me that two books I had on my wishlist were available on a 2 for 1 credit sale list, so I picked up Blood Meridian and The Water Knife. I haven't read anything by Bacigalupi before but that book was a heck of a ride and make the newest mad max look stupid as poo poo. Do any of his other books on audio have excellent narrators? And Blood Meridian is my second Cormac McCarthy (I read The Road and hated the movie of it) and I'm really enjoying the style and prose and narration.
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How do you guys find these 2 for 1 sales?
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EdsTeioh posted:How do you guys find these 2 for 1 sales? Right now all I see is a 3 for 2 sale but for most sales to show up you have to have at least 1 credit available.
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Pretty much. Widest selection, in house content a la Netflix, and the most deals. Also, I just finished The Rookie: Galactic Football League by Scott Sigler. Excellent production values; there are crowd effects, ESPN style highlights, wacky commentators and more. It's the coming of age story of a backworld prodigy coming to terms with his culture and the wider galaxy. I'm not really a football guy (lol CFL), but I've been wanting some Blood Bowl style/hardcore sports IN THE FUTURE! fiction.
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A good poster posted:Is Audible pretty much the best place to find audiobooks? Given that a lot of the best audiobooks are "Audible studios productions", yeah for sure. It's amazing.
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Mister Macys posted:Pretty much. Widest selection, in house content a la Netflix, and the most deals. Beware, most of Sigler's other stuff is goreporn horror or goreporn action/horror. You can find the entirety of the few three or so of his Galactic Football League books online free if you're willing to search around itunes archives and poo poo. coyo7e posted:So I've been struggling to figure out how to get BeyondPod to work on my phone, but in the meantime I tracked down some old-favorite audiobooks (which are free.) coyo7e fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Yeah, I was scrolling back through the thread for ideas, and came upon that post. I can't be arsed to go podcast hunting though, that plate is plenty full.
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Picked up the most recent Irvine Welsh on Audible (they don't have his new-new one yet), A Decent Ride. It has characters from his other Scotland books (Trainspotting, Glue, Porno, Skagboys) and so far is far superior to the aggressively nihilistic and awful Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. The narrator is amazing too, but if you're not Scottish or familiar with the accent you'll probably be lost.
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Mister Macys posted:Yeah, I was scrolling back through the thread for ideas, and came upon that post. Sounds like amazon changed their song because Sigler always was talking about how he couldn't sell anything he'd put up for free.
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Ended up picking up Snow Crash with my most recent credit. Man, Jonathan Davis is AMAZING. I dug him on the Gibson books, but him actually rapping the Sushi K parts... 
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I got my copy of Snow Crash bundled inside the box of a 3d polygon-based multiplayer tank game - for macintosh. To this day I have no idea why, but thanks Velocity Software, you guys kicked a lot of rear end. God bless the early 90s
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coyo7e posted:I got my copy of Snow Crash bundled inside the box of a 3d polygon-based multiplayer tank game - for macintosh. To this day I have no idea why, but thanks Velocity Software, you guys kicked a lot of rear end. Did that game run in the Metaverse???
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Just got my credit and thought I'd give World War Z a try to see what all the fuss is about. Am only about 2 hours in, but so far its been pretty dire. Which is a shame because it COULD be so got-dang good. The idea of an oral history, Studs Terkel or Ken Burns style, is fantastic but its handled so poorly in its rush to cram as many over-acting celebs as it can into the production, real people just dont loving talk like they do in this book. The whole point of WWZ is ruined if the production doesnt sound like a documentary, and it doesnt.....it sounds like a bunch of celebrities reading a script. It started pretty badly when they had a grizzled old Chinese revolutionary doctor spout cheesy Americanisms in his thick chinese accent, it certainly hasnt improved any since then. I've already mentally moved on from it in getting Blood Meridian on sale, so I reckon I'm going to cut my losses on WWZ and get my credit back.
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If you want harrowing, may I recommend Black Hawk Down? Picked it up when it was the daily deal about a week ago. In movie terms, I've reached the point where the Pakistani tanks and Malaysian APCs with US 10th Mountain troops have picked everyone up from their holding position in the city, and are cutting the dead pilot(s) from the... first? crash site. And there's still 15 chapters to go.
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Simiain posted:Which is a shame because it COULD be so got-dang good
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EdsTeioh posted:Did that game run in the Metaverse??? 
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Simiain posted:I've already mentally moved on from it in getting Blood Meridian on sale, so I reckon I'm going to cut my losses on WWZ and get my credit back.
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Is there any good service for free or cheap audiobooks? Like some app with just a monthly fee? I searched in the google store and it sent me to audible where I.... think I pay them every month and then buy books besides that? I listen to audiobooks for about 10-12 hours a day and I can't be spending 30 bucks for 8 hour books. Like spotify for audiobooks or some such.
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If you're a Prime member, they have some free audiobooks and playlists you can listen to, but I'm not sure it's going to be as extensive as a Spotify for audiobooks. For what it's worth, $15 a month gets you 2 credits (I think) and if you're smart and get things on sale, you can really stretch that, especially if you spend the credits on longer, more expensive books.quote:blood meridian is AMAZING, great narration and good lord the Judge is freaky It's literally my favorite audiobook and I listen to it about once a year or so. It's also just a fantastic piece of writing and I would complete dark rituals if it meant I could have half of McCarthy's writing talent.
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