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Kraps posted:What are you talking about You're not familiar with facetiousness, are you?
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java posted:So maybe this is a bit pedestrian, but I really enjoyed the audiobook version of Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain." For very similar reasons, I also deeply enjoyed the first few chapters of The Stand. Based on these two data points, can anyone make any recommendations for other books I should check out? Crichton has several books that I remember liking a lot when I was younger. Andromeda Strain and Sphere being the two I liked most, so maybe try Sphere. If it's body/disease specifically you want, Asimov's Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain is actually very good.
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Yeah, don't let the movie sour you on Sphere, it's pretty good.
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Just finished red rising. Good story and amazing narration. Highly recommended.
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^^^ SEquel is pretty good as well. I've tried twice to listen to all 3 in a row and keep wandering off but it may be because I've gto a lot of studying right now.Mister Macys posted:Yeah, don't let the movie sour you on Sphere, it's pretty good. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Mister Macys posted:You're not familiar with facetiousness, are you? You can never be too careful. Lock In was good but I think my favorite part was the oral history of the outbreak. The audio format is perfect for that style and is partly why WWZ is a brilliant listen as well.
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Jan 16, 2017 19:07
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I'm very rarely not trying to be a joker, even when I'm factual. 
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I just finished the audiobook of "The Underground Railroad." The book itself is great and recommended reading (or listening) but I'm very impressed by the reader Bahni Turpin. She was able to do believable voices without being cartoonish and her pacing was wonderful.
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Just finished listening to Hop on Pop and boy are my ears tired, from so much reading
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coyo7e posted:^^^ SEquel is pretty good as well. I've tried twice to listen to all 3 in a row and keep wandering off but it may be because I've gto a lot of studying right now. Holy loving hell does that second book end on a sour note. What a great hook to book 3. Emphasising my previous recommendation, this series is brilliant.
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Audible's "send an audiobook to a friend" feature is just wonderful for sharing book recs.
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Senerio posted:Audible's "send an audiobook to a friend" feature is just wonderful for sharing book recs.
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Jan 26, 2017 08:56
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Having an unsolicited audiobook sent to me sounds like some kind of nightmare.
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Jan 26, 2017 09:36
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A human heart posted:Having an unsolicited audiobook sent to me sounds like some kind of nightmare. You've never had a friend hand you a book and implore you to read it?
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I haven't listened to audio books in years and just got 1q84 from audible the other day. I quite like the story, but the narrators are a bit boring. Can you recommend any audio books with great narration and a great story? Preferably 20hr+.
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Eezee posted:I haven't listened to audio books in years and just got 1q84 from audible the other day. I quite like the story, but the narrators are a bit boring. Any particular genre? The Lies of Locke Lamora series clock in over 20 hours. I'm listening to the second right now, and it's completely insane.
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Those both sound pretty good. I wanted to watch the 11-23-63 TV series anyway, might as well listen to the full book. Thank you. I don't have particular genre preferences as long as the story is suspenseful. Maybe leaning a bit towards SciFi, but anything is fine.
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I got Off to Be a Wizard from the free Amazon Prime stuff http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Off-to-Be-the-Wizard-Audiobook/B00IIS32NI and love the narrator. The story is pretty fun, too! I'm on the 2nd book now and bought the 3rd (also, the voice for Philip reminds me of Devin Townsend's Ziltoid voice which cracks me up. He also read Three-body Problem which was an OK book, but I wanted to find more that he narrated. It's interesting how much of a difference it can make. I went through Seveneves last year. The lady narrating had some voices that really annoyed me. I ended up not liking the characters because of it for no reason other than her voice!
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Are there a lot of deals on the US Audible? Their German website doesn't seem to have any.
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I usually get everything through amazon kindle and add the audible narration (whispersync). It's a good bit cheaper than the Audible website. I've got most books I have for less than $10 USD. Not sure if they're US only. If you can stand reddit, their audiobook group points out deals though it seems some are US only. They had these up recently: http://audiobookaneers.com/2017/01/...arker-and-more/ and /r/audiobooks posted:http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/A-Man-Called-Ove-Audiobook/B00MEL8VSG
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Catch 22 narrated by Trevor White, he absolutely nailed the pacing which is always the thing people struggle with.
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I have Ready Player One on my audible account and I can't make it go away help
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If you wanted a long listen, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is long. I thought the narration was fine, but I'm not a good judge of that.
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ElGroucho posted:I have Ready Player One on my audible account and I can't make it go away
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Syrinxx posted:Wasn't that narrated by space nerd Wil Wheaton? I thought it was ok what's the problem hmm i wonder
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Syrinxx posted:Wasn't that narrated by space nerd Wil Wheaton? I thought it was ok what's the problem i'm going to guess that elitist goons only read ~literature~~
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internet inc posted:i'm going to guess that elitist goons only read ~literature~~ i dont really understand how 'elitism' could be thought of as bad if it stops people from reading ready player one
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coyo7e posted:Apologies for the lazy "would you mind doing the walking for me?" post, but honestly... Would someone who's familiar with this feature and knows how to use it, just give a rundown of how it works and how you make it work? It sounds cool as poo poo http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5240/kw/Send%20this%20book This is the best summary for this. It's straightforward, honestly, if a bit confusing. (Right?-)Click book, Send this Book, and choose a destination.
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A human heart posted:i dont really understand how 'elitism' could be thought of as bad if it stops people from reading ready player one I bought it on a recommendation from Audible, listened to about 15 minutes, the pulled a  and read some reviews, and now it sits in my list, mocking me.
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You can get a refund from Audible quite easily, even if you bought it ages ago.
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ElGroucho posted:I bought it on a recommendation from Audible, listened to about 15 minutes, the pulled a
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Seriously though, if you go into my purchased books you can get a refund with a couple of clicks and the book is gone from your list.
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AzureSkys posted:I got Off to Be a Wizard from the free Amazon Prime stuff If you dig that style of story, I'd entirely recommend We Are Legion (We Are Bob). https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ Its got a similar style of computer programmer/nerd getting put into a bizarre setting and having to deal with it creatively, and is narrated by Ray Porter, one of my favorites. Even if most of the politics are absurd caricatures, it's really rather fun.
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learnincurve posted:Seriously though, if you go into my purchased books you can get a refund with a couple of clicks and the book is gone from your list. Going to go give this a try, thanks
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Is the version of Dune on Audible any good? I'm hell bent to finish it this year.
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EdsTeioh posted:Is the version of Dune on Audible any good? I'm hell bent to finish it this year. It's good, but the "full cast" part is misleading, only certain "big" scenes are full cast, the rest has one narrator. Also, while I can't speak for everyone, a lot of the enjoyment I had from reading Dune came from cross-referencing stuff in the appendices (snippets of Fremen, etc.), which obviously the audio version can't do.
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learnincurve posted:Seriously though, if you go into my purchased books you can get a refund with a couple of clicks and the book is gone from your list.
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SomeMathGuy posted:It's good, but the "full cast" part is misleading, only certain "big" scenes are full cast, the rest has one narrator. Also, while I can't speak for everyone, a lot of the enjoyment I had from reading Dune came from cross-referencing stuff in the appendices (snippets of Fremen, etc.), which obviously the audio version can't do. Is there only the full cast version?
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