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Hey, awhile back I was trying to find audiobooks of Camus's work. Didn't have much luck in English but now UK Audible has added a couple English langauge works including the Plague and the Stranger. Thought Id mention it if anyone else is interested in that.
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Has anyone had issues with chapters playing out of order? I have an audiobook I've redownloaded a few times with the same result each time. While it reads as Chapter 1 in the Audible app, I get the "This is Audible" announcement and then playback goes midway into what's actually chapter 5 at least. Seems like it's only happened with one audiobook in my library that I know of, but it's one I've finished, deleted, and redownloaded to my Android phone if that matters.
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Maybe it was downloading and once it caught up to where you last listened (or where you think you last listened) it jumped there.
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Jan 2, 2019 21:47
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Mister Facetious posted:
Now if only they would fix upcoming releases and when you select newest arrivals have it sort automatically so it shows the soon to be released books first, instead of some poo poo that's coming out in 2020. *Just checked* Turns out newest arrivals isn't working at all right now on upcoming releases who knows maybe they tried to fix it.
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You can gift books of your choice to other people again! 
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Has anyone had issues with chapters playing out of order? I have an audiobook I've redownloaded a few times with the same result each time. While it reads as Chapter 1 in the Audible app, I get the "This is Audible" announcement and then playback goes midway into what's actually chapter 5 at least. Seems like it's only happened with one audiobook in my library that I know of, but it's one I've finished, deleted, and redownloaded to my Android phone if that matters. I haven't experienced this myself, but I've seen reviews mention it. Check reviews of the book in question maybe? I remember seeing something that suggested it was an issue in some of the single-file downloads of books that were initially multi-part downloads.
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Jan 2, 2019 23:15
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Didn't see this article posted here https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-releases-six-free-celebrity-narrated-audiobooks/ I might check out Wizard of Oz but I feel like he isn't going to read as his Kimmy Schmidt character
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Jan 3, 2019 01:34
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Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a really good neo-noir (or neo-hardboiled I guess?) story with a neat alt-history spin. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez. I think it's technically YA, but it's really fun.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. I have yet to listen to it, but audible has the sherlock holmes stories read by Stephen Fry that clocks in around 60 hours. It has been in my library for years. I really should press play on that some time. I've only read a story or two in my life, and that was in school.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. There is a brilliant version of the moonstone by Wilkie Collins if you want to go back to the beginning of the genre, and the Campion and Lord Peter Whimsey books are also fantastic.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. The Third Policeman
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precision posted:The Third Policeman Does this work well with all the footnotes? It's an amazing book and holds a very special place in my heart -- a conversation about it at a bar is literally the reason my parents met (and hence kinda why I exist) but there are lots of footnote digressions that might not play well in audio?
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Much obliged folks.
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Jan 7, 2019 16:51
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ghouldaddy07 posted:Good Evening fellow goons. I'm looking for some mystery or detective audiobook recommendations. I would recommend the Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Cormoran Strike books. Fantastic narrations by Robert Glenister.
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XBenedict posted:I would recommend the Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Cormoran Strike books. Fantastic narrations by Robert Glenister.
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mystes posted:Speaking of which, I hadn't realized that the fourth book finally came out. It's quite good. She's really starting to fill Strike and Robin out a bit.
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XBenedict posted:It's quite good. She's really starting to fill Strike and Robin out a bit. Now I just have to decide whether to wait for it on Overdrive or buy it from audible.
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Jan 8, 2019 16:28
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Mister Facetious posted:The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez. I think it's technically YA, but it's really fun. Really enjoying this one. The absurd setting combined with the Noir plot works really well.
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Jan 8, 2019 16:51
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Anyone else listen to the last days of August? The audible original
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Mister Facetious posted:The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez. I think it's technically YA, but it's really fun. I've listened to a lot of A. Lee Martinez, including this one. They're all pretty fun and absurd. "Emperor Mollusk Versus The Sinister Brain" is my favorite, I think.
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Jan 29, 2019 20:38
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I loved that one. Hell, I love them all. My collection is a mix between Kindle and Audible, since the narrators can be hit or miss. I've been listening to a ton of C.T. Phipps lately. Great narrators for all of his stuff and his stories are all enjoyable, but he suffers from Ready Player One syndrome; he can't stop with pop culture references (or bizarre snipes at Pratchett) even when chronologically improbable, like his Teenage Weredeer series (20-40 year old references by a woman under 20). Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jan 29, 2019 21:14
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I bought Marx's Capital around summer and only just finished it, mostly through sheer stubbornness. Remind me not to get any more books laden with tables, formulas, lists and footnotes*. *Footnote: So many footnotes. End of footnote. Cleansing my pallet with a collection of Stephen King short stories.
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Jan 30, 2019 16:04
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I'm now listening to the other audible original, "The man on the mountaintop". I'm enjoying it as well.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:40
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If anyone's interested, Walmart is now in the audiobook game via kobo. The cost is $9.99 compared to Audible's $14.99 but the selection will probably be worse. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobooks
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That'll be a given, since Audible/Amazon is probably a larger publisher of audiobooks than everyone else combined. That said, Kobo has a referral bonus in the hamburger menu and offers price matching, so yay for competition in the marketplace. And they already have a Canadian store (with less content per genre because yeah). 
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Feb 12, 2019 18:02
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Hardawn posted:Anyone else listen to the last days of August? The audible original It's really well done, as always with Ronson. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more of a reception here, as I believe one of the principal characters was a goon.
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Feb 13, 2019 17:33
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I was going to grab the book White Trash: The 400 Year History of Class in America until I skimmed the top review, and grabbed Fantasyland instead. It was a very interesting listen, especially after being recommended the podcast "The Dream" about Multilevel Marketing scams.
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Got an email for a free credit, so check your emails yo!
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Mister Facetious posted:I was going to grab the book White Trash: The 400 Year History of Class in America until I skimmed the top review, and grabbed Fantasyland instead. White Trash is actually an interesting book. The Audio presentation is a bit dry though...even for nonfiction.
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I just finished A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes about the Russian Revolution. Since this topic is barely mentioned let alone covered in American schools I learned A LOT and recommend it as long as you can take dense histories. The author never goes on about anything overlong, there’s just a TON of poo poo that went down between 1890 and 1924 in Russia. My takeaway is that the Russians are a cursed people who haven’t really caught a break in like 400 years... I’d like to continue on with the history. Anyone got any recommendations for history of the USSR from the rise of Stalin to, say, the end of WW2?
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Lordshmee posted:I just finished A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes about the Russian Revolution. Since this topic is barely mentioned let alone covered in American schools I learned A LOT and recommend it as long as you can take dense histories. The author never goes on about anything overlong, there’s just a TON of poo poo that went down between 1890 and 1924 in Russia. My takeaway is that the Russians are a cursed people who haven’t really caught a break in like 400 years... That reminded me I was gonna listen to russian rulers podcasrt, which already has 160 episodes apparently. It seems to be rather poorly recorded, though. At least in the beginning.
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Just finished The Anubis Gates read by Bronson Pinchot, did not expect Balki to be so talented. His different accents were all spot on and almost every character sounded unique. Also the book is a good example of time travel done correctly imo.
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Mar 3, 2019 18:49
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Bronson Pinchot did an excellent job on The 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. Dude is a LEGIT audiobook narrator.
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He might be too good; I bought a Larry Correia fantasy book set in the Prohibition era (Hard Magic) for a couple bucks, and Bronson does the period vernacular so well I can't follow it...  
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jeeves posted:The 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. Oh poo poo, there's an audiobook?
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XBenedict posted:White Trash is actually an interesting book. The Audio presentation is a bit dry though...even for nonfiction. I'll second that, but I didnt notice the narration being all that. I thought the reader was pleasant enough and seemed even a bit wry in her reading of descriotions. But I read a lot of pretty dry histories via audiobooks. Now more than ever with a 3 hour round trip commute 
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Hello, I'm looking for the best audiobook version of the Harry Potter books to listen to while stoned out of one's mind. Not Wizard People, Dear Reader, that's only the first book
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