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Is there any good places for BBC Radio dramas other than archive.org?
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Aug 5, 2018 14:51
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Professor Shark posted:Is there any good places for BBC Radio dramas other than archive.org? Audible has a large number.
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Aug 5, 2018 17:23
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So I was looking at the work Gail Carriger has done since the last book of hers I purchased (since her new book is out and I loved it as usual) and noticed that they rereleased one of her books as Booktrack Editon. Looking around I found out that this means adding music to the narration. Do these add anything substantial enough to be worth purchasing a second time?
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Aug 6, 2018 16:49
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lofi posted:I've been listening to the audiobook of Gormenghast, and I'm absolutely loving it - which is weird, given I found the actual-book-version impenetrable. I think it's because I can draw while I listen, and let the atmosphere sink in rather than reading and being all 'why is it taking three pages for a dude to walk across a room, ffs'. That's great to hear, I've been trying to decide whether to tackle it in audio, where I do the vast majority of my reading but which isn't always good for denser or more challenging material, and paper. Do you find you're able to keep up with it without zoning out?
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Aug 6, 2018 19:10
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Cast Under an Alien Sun is so good. Slow to start but give it an hour.
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Aug 6, 2018 20:54
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Any political/sociological books on modern Russia, maybe covering the past decade or two? Im coming to the end of Gorbachev: His Life and Times and I'd really like to know more about Russia since they've been in the spotlight. But just as importantly, I'd like to know more about the people. How they feel about the world, about each-other, class, rights etc. Basically a Russian version of Age of Ambition, which is basically a survey course on the people of 2010s China.
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Aug 6, 2018 22:44
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Kestral posted:That's great to hear, I've been trying to decide whether to tackle it in audio, where I do the vast majority of my reading but which isn't always good for denser or more challenging material, and paper. Do you find you're able to keep up with it without zoning out? Better than I can with the book, yes. If I get distracted I might miss a line, but in Gormenghast that's less than the blink of an eye, so it's perfect!
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Aug 6, 2018 22:48
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If anyone's looking for a combination of Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Ringworld, Han Solo, and Farscape, may I recommend 85 hours of: Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions 1-16.5 Just some very chill space hijinks.
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Aug 7, 2018 18:18
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luscious posted:Cast Under an Alien Sun is so good. Slow to start but give it an hour. I liked this book a lot too. The sequels got less and less interesting though and I'm still working through the final book in the series. It's a weird sort of modern take on "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".
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Aug 7, 2018 20:49
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Mister Facetious posted:If anyone's looking for a combination of Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Ringworld, Han Solo, and Farscape, may I recommend 85 hours of: Already got this but haven't listened to it yet. I'll have to bumb it up... Thanks.
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Aug 7, 2018 20:50
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Whatever you do, don't switch books or you'll never find your spot again, since it's a multipart download.
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Aug 7, 2018 21:25
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Mister Facetious posted:If anyone's looking for a combination of Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Ringworld, Han Solo, and Farscape, may I recommend 85 hours of: space fanfiction is very bad unless the author is good and there being 85 hours makes me think it's some stream of consciousness from a dude who's only diet is other sci-fi. confirm/deny?
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Aug 7, 2018 22:07
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buglord posted:Any political/sociological books on modern Russia, maybe covering the past decade or two? Im coming to the end of Gorbachev: His Life and Times and I'd really like to know more about Russia since they've been in the spotlight. But just as importantly, I'd like to know more about the people. How they feel about the world, about each-other, class, rights etc. Basically a Russian version of Age of Ambition, which is basically a survey course on the people of 2010s China. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible is a pretty sensationalized but good look at modern Russia.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:08
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poisonpill posted:space fanfiction is very bad unless the author is good and there being 85 hours makes me think it's some stream of consciousness from a dude who's only diet is other sci-fi. confirm/deny? It's not fanfiction, that's merely the closest analogy I can give to the setting/genre feel. It's a compilation of full length and short stories involving the galaxy's best conman and ex-navy fighter pilot Bradley Carlin "Carl" Ramsey and crew. Hilarity and mild incompetence ensues. It also has magic because why not. You can get most of them separately if you wanted to, but at one credit per book, why would you ever want to when the whole thing is one by itself? Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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Aug 7, 2018 22:45
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Mister Facetious posted:If anyone's looking for a combination of Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Ringworld, Han Solo, and Farscape, may I recommend 85 hours of: Seems a bit rude to post the tapes they play to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in this thread but hell,
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Aug 8, 2018 00:38
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But I didn't say 
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Aug 8, 2018 00:44
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I was looking up why Phil Gigante didn't continue narrating the Hap and Leonard books and welp, turns out he's a convicted sex offender/child predator.
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Aug 9, 2018 18:42
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Lumbermouth posted:I was looking up why Phil Gigante didn't continue narrating the Hap and Leonard books and welp, turns out he's a convicted sex offender/child predator. Yikes. It's gonna be weird listening to Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said again
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Aug 10, 2018 12:33
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2 books for 1 credit fantasy sale over on audible. They have some okay stuff on there. Got Mogworld and Overlife Dreams
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Aug 12, 2018 19:33
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I grabbed Mogworld when it came out, but couldn't get past the first chapter because Yahtzee sounds so utterly lifeless compared to his Escapist reviews.
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Aug 12, 2018 20:51
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KingShiro posted:2 books for 1 credit fantasy sale over on audible. They have some okay stuff on there. Got Mogworld and Overlife Dreams Otherlife Dreams is an aggressively mediocre harem fantasy LitRPG sexist towards men, women and everyone else. The only way to even remotely enjoy it is to take stiff MST3K/F Plus reading on it.
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Aug 12, 2018 23:41
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Today I listened to an audio version of  Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0uTHY9OyQ the reader was pretty good and I found it very easy to listen to.I don't suppose anyone knows of any English language audio books on Albert Camus? Audible only has French language versions. 
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Aug 19, 2018 22:54
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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life By: Robert Zaretsky Narrated by: Daniel Galvez II Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Albert-Camus-Elements-of-a-Life-Audiobook/B016JBMC1I quote:In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus' development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man
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Aug 19, 2018 23:25
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Thanks but I'm afraid that just takes me to .co.uk homepage so I'm guessing its American exclusive. Though looking on UK site they've recently added some German language versions which is slightly more useful, maybe their getting around to English releases sometime in the future.
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Aug 20, 2018 00:18
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In theory you should be able to register to Audible.com, as it existed before they made a specific site for each country's Amazon. As an example, all my books were purchased through the American site as there was no .ca at the time. Indeed, I'll order things through Amazon.com if it beats the Canadian prices after currency and import fees (it usually does, wtf) The only problem is that accounts on Amazon and their affiliates aren't unified, which means having both Audible accounts open in your phone at once is a no-go. On desktop, not a problem. On phones... ugh. It loving sucks because Amazon charges the same price for a subscription on the Canadian website (a ~25% discount), but since it doesn't include my previous .com purchases, I'm resigned to paying a premium to keep my content all in one account. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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Aug 20, 2018 01:08
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There is a 3 books for 2 credit sale on now, but the only things on there are stuff I already have in kindle form (not that that's stopped me before), Before They Are Hanged and Norwegian Wood, can't find a 3rd though.
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Sep 17, 2018 01:53
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I grabbed "I Want My MTV", "Year Zero: A Novel", and "As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making of The Princess Bride".
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Sep 17, 2018 06:02
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I find 3 books for 2 credits is a pretty poo poo deal unless it's any 3 books. With such a limited selection, you're bound to buy some crap you don't really want or need. Better to keep those credits and use them on things you really want.
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Sep 17, 2018 19:49
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Mister Facetious posted:"As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making of The Princess Bride". This was really good, but heads up: there's a part in the middle where he gets a new mic or something between recording sessions and it's SUPER jarring for a few pages. Also Billy Crystal sounded like he recorded his interludes on a phone in the middle of a party. Other than that, fantastic book.
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Sep 18, 2018 17:14
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I looooooooved Semiosis. One of the main characters is a sentient plant. Please give it a try. It’s so good.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:34
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luscious posted:I looooooooved Semiosis. One of the main characters is a sentient plant. Please give it a try. It’s so good. I just finished listening to "Children of Time" which was great, about a terraformed but abandoned planet being resettled by the last hope of humanity but something is waiting for them... Anyhow it was really gripping. I asked in the recommendation thread for something in the same loop Scifi and Audible. Semiosis looks perfect! I love the idea of plant consciousnesses, sold me. Credit used, can't wait for my lunch break walk to get started.
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Sep 19, 2018 18:13
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spandexcajun posted:I just finished listening to "Children of Time" which was great, about a terraformed but abandoned planet being resettled by the last hope of humanity but something is waiting for them... Anyhow it was really gripping. I asked in the recommendation thread for something in the same loop Scifi and Audible. if you find it slow at first just keep going. It realllllly gets reallllllly good.
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Sep 20, 2018 20:41
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On the topic of sentient plant audiobooks: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a race of sentient mangroves who were uplifted by being given little scooters with RAM to let them remember things long enough to commit them to their long-term biological memory, and I love Pete Larkin's voice so much I got three other books he narrates.
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Sep 21, 2018 00:58
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Tanith posted:On the topic of sentient plant audiobooks: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a race of sentient mangroves who were uplifted by being given little scooters with RAM to let them remember things long enough to commit them to their long-term biological memory, and I love Pete Larkin's voice so much I got three other books he narrates. Should I listen to the first in the series or just jump into the sentient plants? I grabbed The Dog Stars, I Let You Go, and Year Zero in the recent sale. I'm listening to An Ember in the Ashes right now. Just returned Vox (it's like weird Handmaid's Tale rip off? Not interesting enough for me). luscious fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Sep 21, 2018 03:35
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Senerio posted:This was really good, but heads up: there's a part in the middle where he gets a new mic or something between recording sessions and it's SUPER jarring for a few pages. Also Billy Crystal sounded like he recorded his interludes on a phone in the middle of a party. God drat, does he have the best speaking voice. 
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Sep 24, 2018 00:07
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luscious posted:Should I listen to the first in the series or just jump into the sentient plants? Fire Upon the Deep is the first, Deepness in the Sky is a prequel and... mostly unrelated. They're both really good. Never did read Children of the Sky, maybe I will one of these days. How does FUtD work as an audiobook? It's been a long while since I read it but I recall there's a lot of galactic usenet posts with long headers that might be weird when read aloud. Similar to Excession by Banks, IIRC.
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Sep 24, 2018 13:52
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luscious posted:if you find it slow at first just keep going. It realllllly gets reallllllly good. Finished, this was really good. But it really left some hanging threads for me Why did the glassmakers originally leave bamboo city? Where did they come from? Uh, did they turn out ok, there was only like 20 left or something, is that enough to even breed? Also, they like sort of explored the idea that the pacifists were actually quite violent, the society originated with a murder, all be it somewhat justified IDK, so many ideas that could have been explored more but still it was good. Also, so many poop jokes 
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Sep 26, 2018 04:58
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spandexcajun posted:Finished, this was really good. But it really left some hanging threads for me Why did the glassmakers originally leave bamboo city? Where did they come from? Uh, did they turn out ok, there was only like 20 left or something, is that enough to even breed? Also, they like sort of explored the idea that the pacifists were actually quite violent, the society originated with a murder, all be it somewhat justified IDK, so many ideas that could have been explored more but still it was good. Agreed on most things. I think that it was kinda hinted at that the glassmakers left because they didn't like the fact that Stevland controlled so much? They didn't trust him and became nomadic but that didn't make sense to me either, because as they discuss, nomad life really wasn't working for them. But who knows ~ And with the pacifists yeah there was a lot of weird poo poo going on from the start? The rape, the murders... Some of the things that they were recommending got really weird - the way that they treated the glassmakers once they were captured. It's not really surprising to me that there was a revolt... I think that the author didn't want to have to deal with things that were unpleasant and instead focus on the plants and new world part? Another criticism that I had that some reviewers also had is that she jumps generations and KINDA explains but also KINDA doesn't so the first time it's like wait what and after that it's easy to understand but WHAT ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED INBETWEEN. I'm torn between whether or not I think it's lazy. I know she wanted to get so much into a manageable book though, so I can appreciate why she did it regardless of the fact that I think it may be kinda lazy. I can look past that stuff though because legit it's so good. I'm onto a recommendation from my sister right now, but will soon be back to Yozef on book 3 of that series.
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Sep 26, 2018 18:52
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NmareBfly posted:Fire Upon the Deep is the first, Deepness in the Sky is a prequel and... mostly unrelated. They're both really good. Never did read Children of the Sky, maybe I will one of these days. You are correct, they're very similar. There's also some in Michael Crichton's Sphere. All the narrators have their own "computer" voice(s), and Larkin reading the entities advocating exterminating humans was fun.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:41
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The climactic end to Richard Roberts' Please Don't Tell My Parents YA fiction series was pretty fun. The ending seems pretty final, too. I doubt there'll be any more books unless he expands the universe with other characters, like the prequel release did. There's some volume balance issues where you get some distortion with all the yelling and singing during the Gerty(sp.?) Goat parts though. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 03:54
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