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My issue with audiobooks is that like the only time they're "good" for me to listen to them is when I'm driving... But then I'm just focused on the road and zone out to the book  If I'm home I'm on my PC /gaming. And audiobooks aren't good for programming when I'm on the clock, so...
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Get yourself some good podcast games imo
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Oct 24, 2021 16:21
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Yeah I can never pay attention to audiobooks, if I'm doing something else then inevitably I'll zone out and need to rewind it constantly and if I'm just gonna sit still and listen I'd rather just read the words myself. I read pretty quickly so I'm nuts about long series, I've probably read this one 3 or 4 times through
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Oct 24, 2021 17:40
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I commute by transit, so my commute is longer than if I had a car, and requires less attention. At home, it's good background entertainment when doing household chores.Rarity posted:Get yourself some good podcast games imo But also, I respect the issue of tuning out background speech automatically, even if I don't normally do it myself. Sometimes things just don't click for people.
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Oct 24, 2021 17:55
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To me the audiobooks are the best way to experience the series. Seeing they are putting out Eye of the World with a new recording with Rosamund Pike had me pretty nervous but the old recordings are still going to be for sale as well. Michael Kramer and Kate Reading can’t be topped.
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Oct 24, 2021 18:33
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The Wheel of Time audiobooks are pretty much the gold standard by which other audiobooks can be judged.
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Oct 24, 2021 18:49
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:The Wheel of Time audiobooks are pretty much the gold standard by which other audiobooks can be judged. I don't know, have you heard the Dune one that has a full cast? It's amazing.
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Oct 24, 2021 20:39
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I'm a big fan of the Discworld audiobooks narrated by Stephen Briggs. edit: His Good Omens is fantastic. Haven't listened to the full cast Dune yet. Been rereading it as an ebook on my phone.
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Oct 24, 2021 20:54
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Vavrek posted:I commute by transit, so my commute is longer than if I had a car, and requires less attention. At home, it's good background entertainment when doing household chores. I spend a lot of time in front of a computer, so I try to go for a walk for an hour or two every day or at least a few times a week. Which I find is a great time to listen to podcasts or audiobooks, as well as when playing a game. I play games like Picross a lot on my Switch for an hour or so before I go to sleep too, and I listen to one of them a good bit while doing that.
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Oct 24, 2021 21:15
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Simone Magus posted:I don't know, have you heard the Dune one that has a full cast? It's amazing. Speaking of, I was really hesistant when I heard they were doing an audio version of Sandman but that's really drat good too. The casting is amazing.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:45
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Vavrek posted:I'm a big fan of the Discworld audiobooks narrated by Stephen Briggs. edit: His Good Omens is fantastic. Yeah, Briggsy's audiobooks are the definitive Discworld readings. Bollocks to the ones Nigel Planer did - they're OK, but nowhere near as good.
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Oct 25, 2021 01:22
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I really wish Stephen Briggs would record the first half of the Discworld catalog. I would love to hear his version of Feet of Clay. Oh poo poo, this is the Wheel of Time TV thread. I've never read the books - too intimidated by the sheer amount of them - so I'll be going into this almost entirely fresh.
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Oct 25, 2021 02:47
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Soysaucebeast posted:Speaking of, I was really hesistant when I heard they were doing an audio version of Sandman but that's really drat good too. The casting is amazing. ohhhh heck yeah, I actually somehow forgot all about that and i just listened to last month lol. discworld ones are good too, yeas The Baroque Cycle narrator is just one dude but he does so many good accents and voices it's truly nuts
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Oct 25, 2021 13:14
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Fighting Trousers posted:I really wish Stephen Briggs would record the first half of the Discworld catalog. I would love to hear his version of Feet of Clay. Oh my god I can't wait. I hope we have more people seeing this fresh, too.
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Oct 25, 2021 13:35
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My problem with audiobooks is that I used to listen to them all the time when I had an hour commute to and from work. But now I got a work from home job and have no time to listen. I'm also crazy behind on my podcasts. Soysaucebeast posted:Speaking of, I was really hesistant when I heard they were doing an audio version of Sandman but that's really drat good too. The casting is amazing. How does that work? Sandman is a graphic novel, right? (I admit I don't really understand Sandman.) Is there a novel version I can read, or just the audio version and the graphic novel version?
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Oct 25, 2021 15:41
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thrawn527 posted:My problem with audiobooks is that I used to listen to them all the time when I had an hour commute to and from work. But now I got a work from home job and have no time to listen. Just the graphic novel - it was originally a comic serialised over 76 issues. But the story is very dense and narrative driven, which is why it also works as an audio play.
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Oct 25, 2021 15:51
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Jedit posted:Just the graphic novel - it was originally a comic serialised over 76 issues. But the story is very dense and narrative driven, which is why it also works as an audio play. Yeah, they do it straight up as a old school radio play so you get sound effects and background noise and everything. They added some narration by Neil Gaiman here and there when needed, but it's not as often as you'd think. I was worried that there was going to be a lot lost in translation going from a visual medium to an audio one, but it's surprisingly good.
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Oct 25, 2021 17:14
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Soysaucebeast posted:Yeah, they do it straight up as a old school radio play so you get sound effects and background noise and everything. They added some narration by Neil Gaiman here and there when needed, but it's not as often as you'd think. I was worried that there was going to be a lot lost in translation going from a visual medium to an audio one, but it's surprisingly good. I might have to check this out, and make the time for it. Sounds pretty fun.
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Oct 25, 2021 17:23
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One-billion-part 1981 BBC radio adaptation of LOTR with Iain Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam, FTW.
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Oct 25, 2021 17:45
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El Grillo posted:One-billion-part 1981 BBC radio adaptation of LOTR with Iain Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam, FTW. We had this on a cassette collection when I was young, the box was as long as my arm WAIT THAT WAS BILL NIGHY???
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Oct 25, 2021 18:05
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El Grillo posted:One-billion-part 1981 BBC radio adaptation of LOTR with Iain Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam, FTW. I remember listening to that on the radio, then reading the book for the first time afterwards. It was very good.
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Oct 25, 2021 18:15
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Rarity posted:We had this on a cassette collection when I was young, the box was as long as my arm WAIT THAT WAS BILL NIGHY???
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Oct 25, 2021 18:20
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The Aubrey-Maturin novels read by Patrick Tull are fantastic, you can tell by the voices he uses that he really gets the characters.
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Oct 25, 2021 20:03
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Amazon has a new interactive page up for the show. There's a map! https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Season-1/dp/B09F59CZ7R
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Oct 25, 2021 23:22
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Amazon has a new interactive page up for the show. There's a map! drat. That map and timeline is actually super cool.
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Oct 25, 2021 23:56
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Amazon has a new interactive page up for the show. There's a map! Am I missing a button or something? All I see is the teaser trailer and that Moiraine short that released a few days ago
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Oct 26, 2021 00:12
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CainsDescendant posted:Am I missing a button or something? All I see is the teaser trailer and that Moiraine short that released a few days ago Make sure you're logged into Amazon Prime. Then you can scroll down and see a picture of Tar Valon with "Your Journey Begins...." Keep scrolling and you'll get to the character bios, the map, and the timeline.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:15
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Weird, I'm definitely logged into prime but I'm just seeing the same show page that I've been seeing. I'll look into it Edit: other people have reported issues viewing the new stuff in Chrome, it's probably getting rolled out piecemeal or something. Viewing it in Edge worked fine. CainsDescendant fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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Oct 26, 2021 00:30
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 Reminds me of Rand on the cover of Fires of Heaven 
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Oct 26, 2021 01:35
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Sab669 posted:
No idea what to do with his hands.
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Oct 26, 2021 01:49
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The shot of the grown-over skyscrapers on the Breaking Of The World entry on the timeline is so neat. Its nothing you haven't seen in a million distopian future scifi shows, but seeing it in a show that otherwise presents itself as a to-the-hilt fantasy epic hits different.
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Oct 26, 2021 03:35
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Hell yeah lets get weirdly gender essentialist and put a paper thin veneer over the authors desire to be stepped on by a sister figure Actually no don’t
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Oct 26, 2021 03:45
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hell yeah lets get weirdly gender essentialist and put a paper thin veneer over the authors desire to be stepped on by a sister figure 
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Oct 26, 2021 03:55
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Sanguinia posted:The shot of the grown-over skyscrapers on the Breaking Of The World entry on the timeline is so neat. Its nothing you haven't seen in a million distopian future scifi shows, but seeing it in a show that otherwise presents itself as a to-the-hilt fantasy epic hits different. Oh nice. I stopped at the map, didn't realize there was a timeline there lower. I like how the timeline just changes calendars/dating systems without mentioning it.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:00
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Sab669 posted:
Lol
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Oct 26, 2021 04:03
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hell yeah lets get weirdly gender essentialist and put a paper thin veneer over the authors desire to be stepped on by a sister figure Spanked, not stepped on.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:06
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hell yeah lets get weirdly gender essentialist and put a paper thin veneer over the authors desire to be stepped on by a sister figure I know you're just lazy trolling but if you check the OP I did point out that the series unfortunately relies on gender essentialism in a heavy way and we're hoping the show runner and writers can provide a less 90s take on gender issues. But don't kink shame, let dead man enjoy his spankings and arms folded under breasts.
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Oct 26, 2021 10:52
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I know you're just lazy trolling but if you check the OP I did point out that the series unfortunately relies on gender essentialism in a heavy way and we're hoping the show runner and writers can provide a less 90s take on gender issues. The show already seems to be doing that. The biggest change we've seen in the promos is that Moiraine considers it possible that Egwene might be the Dragon, which means souls can switch genders on rebirth, which right there already is opening things up dramatically. I expect we'll see a lot more in that vein, which is great. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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Oct 26, 2021 12:12
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Captain Oblivious posted:Hell yeah lets get weirdly gender essentialist and put a paper thin veneer over the authors desire to be stepped on by a sister figure hell yeah
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It would be cool if lazy trolling to prompt spoilers everywhere was kept out of the TV thread imo.
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