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Whoa, I have just discovered audiobooks, and they are awesome.  I'm thinking of getting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Name of the Rose in the current Audible sale. Good choice, or should I consider something else? What about Kazuo Ishiguro's books? Worth getting?
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Aardark posted:I'm thinking of getting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Name of the Rose in the current Audible sale. Good choice, or should I consider something else?
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Apr 24, 2017 07:22
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I signed up for Audible a few months ago and apparently forgot about it until now, so I already have a few credits in my account. I'm definitely staying subscribed, since right now I have a job where I can wear headphones all day. I used to just listen to bullshit podcasts, but audiobooks are way more fulfilling. Also, I tried out their returns process, and it blew my mind a bit. You can just return any book within a year of purchase for any reason (including "didn't like it") with two clicks. Pretty awesome.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:41
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Bought another "meta" fiction book, "Villains Rule: The Shadow Master, Book 1". It's kind of similar to the podcast series "How To Succeed in Evil", in that it centers around the activities of a consultant for villains of "the fantasy realms". I have quite a few books narrated by Jeffrey Kafer now; he's absolutely solid.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:40
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Aardark posted:Whoa, I have just discovered audiobooks, and they are awesome. Get remains of the day read by Dominic West, this is something that should be mandatory for everyone imo. It's read beautifully and will rip your heart right out of your chest. I went in blind and ended up sobbing uncontrollably on a train.
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Apr 24, 2017 08:20
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Anyone have favorites in the Kindle Unlimited selection? They have a shitload of audiobooks for the cost but it seems like a good number of them are self-published crap or YA dystopian sparkle vampire book series
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Apr 24, 2017 16:11
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Syrinxx posted:Anyone have favorites in the Kindle Unlimited selection? They have a shitload of audiobooks for the cost but it seems like a good number of them are self-published crap or YA dystopian sparkle vampire book series 
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Apr 25, 2017 13:39
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I have 4 (soon to be 5) credits...and I'm at a loss on what to get. What are some good space operas? Are the Dresden Files worth getting if I've already read the books? Horror would also work. Horror seems like it would be hard to get right in an audiobook, but The Bird Box was surprisingly good.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:36
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Devorum posted:I have 4 (soon to be 5) credits...and I'm at a loss on what to get.
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Apr 25, 2017 16:34
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Devorum posted:I have 4 (soon to be 5) credits...and I'm at a loss on what to get. John Dies at the End, by David Wong. Hex, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn. Horns, by Joe Hill. Night Film, by Marisha Pessl. Mostly horror there, some thriller/mystery.
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Apr 26, 2017 14:14
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Devorum posted:I have 4 (soon to be 5) credits...and I'm at a loss on what to get. James Marsters does a fantastic job with the Dresden Files, so it depends on whether you like the books enough to want to go through them again. I certainly did. For space opera, perhaps the Expanse series? I've only read them, so I don't know how good the audiobook version is though. There's an excellent TV adaption that just finished season 2 as well. http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Leviathan-Wakes-Audiobook/B00P9XDQFY/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1493213626&sr=1-1
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Apr 26, 2017 14:34
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Devorum posted:I have 4 (soon to be 5) credits...and I'm at a loss on what to get. I enjoyed Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series.
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Apr 26, 2017 15:40
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Mister Facetious posted:Bought another "meta" fiction book, "Villains Rule: The Shadow Master, Book 1". Never heard of this before but the sample was good and 2 hours in, it's definitely a strong recommend. Very funny stuff.
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Apr 29, 2017 23:18
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precision posted:Never heard of this before but the sample was good and 2 hours in, it's definitely a strong recommend. Very funny stuff. The only third example of the genre I can think of is the "Blackjack" series, which is really just about a dude who's a superhero and kills lots of people while he figures it out.
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Apr 30, 2017 16:12
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I liked Forging Hepheastus, about a group of Supervillain recruits.
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May 2, 2017 17:15
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Syrinxx posted:Anyone have favorites in the Kindle Unlimited selection? They have a shitload of audiobooks for the cost but it seems like a good number of them are self-published crap or YA dystopian sparkle vampire book series Marcus Sakey's 'Brilliance' Series is pretty good, as is the "Wayward Pines" trilogy by Blake Crouch. "Off To Be The Wizard" and the 'Magic 2.0' series by Scott Meyer. Also, anything and everything by Octavia Butler, especially the "Xenogenesis" series (sometimes referred to as "Lilith's Brood").
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May 3, 2017 18:05
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So Frank Muller died and didn't finish The Dark Tower. Sad.learnincurve posted:Get remains of the day read by Dominic West, this is something that should be mandatory for everyone imo. It's read beautifully and will rip your heart right out of your chest. I went in blind and ended up sobbing uncontrollably on a train. Aardark fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 16:44
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Aardark posted:So Frank Muller died and didn't finish The Dark Tower. Sad. He died like a decade ago, but I didn't know that until after I finished his Moby Dick reading and was extremely bummed. That guy effortlessly nailed some notoriously difficult prose with style.
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May 5, 2017 05:13
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It does suck about Muller, but at least they brought in George Guidall, who is a spectacular reader (though as a big fan of Gravity's Rainbow I'm somewhat biased). Oh, and Stephen King himself for one book. That's... less spectacular.
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May 5, 2017 05:17
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Anyone buy and try one of the recent glut of "gamer lit" novels? i.e., Critical Failures, Scott Meyers' Magic 2.0, LitRPG, etc. Basically anything cribbing Sword Art Online/Tron/Ready Player One/Reamde
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May 10, 2017 17:43
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Mister Facetious posted:Anyone buy and try one of the recent glut of "gamer lit" novels? Magic 2.0 is a fun series, book 3 was really good and I just picked up 4. It sometimes gets a bit too goony for my tastes but it kind of makes sense considering the characters and the author himself mostly seems aware it's goony. The bigger problem for me is that Luke Daniels is the narrator and since I like Space Opera I have probably over 50 audiobooks with him narrating and he can't do many different voices so yeah. Critical Failures is a series in which every character is an unlikable rear end in a top hat who tries to dick over everyone else. It's enjoyable if you like that kind of thing. NPCs is really good fun D&D world parody book. It's a lot more light hearted than Critical failures and I think it's a lot better too. LitRPGs Awaken Online - Cribs heavily from Accel World for a western Lit-RPG and the author in general seems extremely well read in the genre and can write words well too. It's actually really good. Phantom Server - A Lit-RPG written by some old Russian dude who probably has never played a video game in his life and wrote this novel on his windows 95 computer and just wrote a science fiction book in the genre based off only reading other things in the genre. Continue Online - It's about depression and loss and a guy trying to get into this new game as a distraction it's a lot more literary and words than most of the genre. First book has like a total of 1 combat scene ever. It's either a love it or hate it one for the genre. Those are probably the only LitRPGs worth getting unless you really really really like to hear about STATS AND LEVELS. Way of the Shaman is probably the "best" of the more traditional ones and I would avoid The Gam3 and Sector 8 like the plague as they are really bad. ShinsoBEAM! fucked around with this message at 21:50 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 21:38
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Mister Facetious posted:Anyone buy and try one of the recent glut of "gamer lit" novels? Magic 2.0 is a lot of fun. The narration is good enough.
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May 11, 2017 21:14
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Not specifically "gamer lit" but if you want some humorous light fantasy, the first 7 or 8 of Robert Asprin's "Myth Adventures" books are pretty breezy and cool. Can't speak to the quality of the audio versions but the samples I just listened to sound fine.
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May 11, 2017 22:52
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Mister Facetious posted:Anyone buy and try one of the recent glut of "gamer lit" novels? why would anyone with a brain want to listen to that crap
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I enjoy meta-humour and irony. And it can't be worse than anything written by  Serious answer: None of the authors I like have anything coming out for at least a few months/a year, with the possible exception of Jim Butcher. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 06:08 on May 12, 2017 |
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May 12, 2017 06:02
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REAMDE wasn't terrible to listen to if you keep in mind that it's Stephenson trying to write an airplane bookstore thriller and kind of failing at it. I didn't refund it, so I guess its worth a listen 
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May 12, 2017 14:43
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I liked Reamde, but the narrator is comically awful at doing accents (especially the Scottish one).
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May 12, 2017 15:35
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Audible is having another 2 for 1 sale for the next week. I would totally recommend Ghost in the Wires and the Things They Carried.
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May 16, 2017 02:32
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XBenedict posted:Magic 2.0 is a lot of fun. The narration is good enough. Seconded, Thirded, whatever. The whole Magic 2.0 series is really great. Kind of a dumb funny adventure you can turn your brain off for.
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May 16, 2017 16:35
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The first Magic 2.0 book was dorky fun but I thought it kind of drained the concept and couldn't see where the series would go from there and I never bothered with the follow ups. Are they worth it? Do they go somewhere interesting because "computers are magic" can only carry a series so far.
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May 17, 2017 08:31
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The other books are more of the same, nothing really new but enjoyable. If you liked that you might like "We are legion" by Dennis E Taylor.
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May 17, 2017 14:07
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General Emergency posted:The first Magic 2.0 book was dorky fun but I thought it kind of drained the concept and couldn't see where the series would go from there and I never bothered with the follow ups. I actually really liked the 3rd book. It involved team good guy getting thrown into a very poorly programmed video game like fantasy world by the villain and are unable to escape unless they beat the game, which is a buggy unfinished mess with a hack plot.
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May 17, 2017 15:08
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Sounds like the eighties movie Dungeonmaster.
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May 17, 2017 16:46
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:I actually really liked the 3rd book. It involved team good guy getting thrown into a very poorly programmed video game like fantasy world by the villain and are unable to escape unless they beat the game, which is a buggy unfinished mess with a hack plot. Has anyone read the new installment yet?
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Any audiobooks y'all would recommend specifically for kids? Taking a long car ride with my 5.5 and almost-4 year old this weekend. Something less advanced than Harry Potter (he can more or less keep up, she can't) but more advanced than...I don't know, the Gruffalo, but particularly with a reading that would hold their attention.
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Habibi posted:Any audiobooks y'all would recommend specifically for kids? Taking a long car ride with my 5.5 and almost-4 year old this weekend. Something less advanced than Harry Potter (he can more or less keep up, she can't) but more advanced than...I don't know, the Gruffalo, but particularly with a reading that would hold their attention. Roald Dahl, maybe? Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing With Dragons series? James Herriot? Tanith fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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i liked Stuart Little when I was a kid. It is a good length and sort of meets between picture and chapter book.
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Habibi posted:Any audiobooks y'all would recommend specifically for kids? Taking a long car ride with my 5.5 and almost-4 year old this weekend. Something less advanced than Harry Potter (he can more or less keep up, she can't) but more advanced than...I don't know, the Gruffalo, but particularly with a reading that would hold their attention. My brother's two kids are both about 6 months younger, and he just uses a Surface with Disney films wedged in between the front seats.  If you want Stephen Fry, he did a Winnie the Pooh collection: - https://www.audible.com/pd/Winnie-the-Pooh-Audiobook/B002VA98V4 A. Lee Martinez has some YA fiction that might be a good listen for young children: - https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Emperor-Mollusk-Versus-the-Sinister-Brain-Audiobook/B0078U4P7O - https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-F...f_rd_s=center-4 Rudyard Kipling is a personal favourite of mine: - https://www.audible.com/pd/Kids/The-Complete-Just-So-Stories-Audiobook/B002V0JUY4 And seconding Roald Dahl and the Stuart Little author. Also, Charlotte's Web.
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Habibi posted:Any audiobooks y'all would recommend specifically for kids? Taking a long car ride with my 5.5 and almost-4 year old this weekend. Something less advanced than Harry Potter (he can more or less keep up, she can't) but more advanced than...I don't know, the Gruffalo, but particularly with a reading that would hold their attention. League of princes, it's a light-hearted all family comedy that is a parody sequel to a bunch of Disney movies your kids probably already saw. It also has Bronson Pinchot narrating who is AMAZING. https://www.audible.com/pd/Kids/The-Heros-Guide-to-Saving-Your-Kingdom-Audiobook/B007W4FB5Q?qid=1496323720&sr=1-2
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Tanith posted:Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing With Dragons series? I second this one. They're really fun.
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