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NikkolasKing posted:Thinking a lot more about the awesome video game Red Dead Redemption 2, figured I should finally pick up a couple history books on the plight of Native Americans. I have the "general history" probably most every American knows but I never really read up on anything. It’s a specific situation but the book Killers of the Flower Moon.
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I finished all the Expanse books on Audible and first two books of Three Body Problem. Really enjoyed all of that. Dark Forest had more than one thought-provoking idea in it. I want to finish Death’s End now, though I must say it drags a little in the first few hours. Hope it will be worth it. Stil, Three Body Problem trilogy is worth listening to for Dark Forest alone. I’ve got Blindsight recommended to me next - and all the recommendations from this thread. Keep them coming! kaaj fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Feb 18, 2024 03:46
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kaaj posted:I finished everything on Audible for Expanse How did you like the entries after book five? I'm only up to Nemesis Games, and I'm not sure about continuing with the rest of them.
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Mister Facetious posted:How did you like the entries after book five? I'm only up to Nemesis Games, and I'm not sure about continuing with the rest of them. I had a midpoint crisis but ultimately I think I got attached to characters and just wanted to hear more of their adventures. Really liked the setting too. I’m trying to remember which part of conflict happened in book 5 and which in 6 but I did really enjoy the story after that.
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4-5-6 is the low point of that series. When #6 was first released I totally thought that it was the end of the line the whole thing and was pretty annoyed. Thankfully the next third of the series takes such wild swings that it was worth it.
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kaaj posted:I had a midpoint crisis but ultimately I think I got attached to characters and just wanted to hear more of their adventures. Really liked the setting too. I’m trying to remember which part of conflict happened in book 5 and which in 6 but I did really enjoy the story after that. Book 5 was earth getting 9/11'd. I don't remember the rest of it
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jeeves posted:4-5-6 is the low point of that series. I didn’t watch the TV series but I believe that season 6 of it goes up to the end of book 6? Which may be an option to go through the slog. As you said, story in the last three books is worth it.
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Book 8 is my favorite in the expanse, definitely worth it getting to the last arc in the story.
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kaaj posted:I want to finish Death’s End now, though I must say it drags a little in the first few hours. Hope it will be worth it.
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kaaj posted:I didn’t watch the TV series but I believe that season 6 of it goes up to the end of book 6? Which may be an option to go through the slog. As you said, story in the last three books is worth it. Tv series def goes up to the end of season 6, but they made a completely baffling decision to adapt one of the short stories into like the first 10 minutes of each of season 6’s very brief 6 episodes. To like set what happens in season 7… which of course never got filmed.
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Thanks to Audible having a 3 month free trial, I’ve gotten into listening to audiobooks after a loooong hiatus. I’m not sure what to spend my first of three credits on so far but I’m listening to Between Two Fires. Excellent book, and really good narrator too! Highly recommend it so far if you like sort of grounded historical fantasy (the part with the fight against the river monster with the hand on its tail was genuinely chilling)
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I tried listening to Expanse and got to the book where there is a completely hackneyed "we're going to FRAME the PROTAGONIST so EVERYONE HATES HIM" plotline and dropped it right there. Maybe it gets better but I wasn't in the mood to deal with a book of everyone being a moron and believing an obvious lie for cheap drama.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Thanks to Audible having a 3 month free trial, I’ve gotten into listening to audiobooks after a loooong hiatus. I’m not sure what to spend my first of three credits on so far but I’m listening to Between Two Fires. Excellent book, and really good narrator too! Highly recommend it so far if you like sort of grounded historical fantasy (the part with the fight against the river monster with the hand on its tail was genuinely chilling) I still think about this book a lot. The tone hit just right for me, it's got the pulpiness of Evil Dead or maybe Diablo 1 but also lots of genuine horror and awe. Hopefully someday I can find another dark fantasy novel in a similar vein.
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The beware of chicken audio books are a ton of fun just finished listening to 1-3. Which I did after finishing the Cradle audio books and Travis Baldree can read me a book anytime.
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Yeah, after Cradle I've been listening to some pretty terrible stuff just because it was narrated by Travis Baldree. Apparently he has his own series that he's written, anyone know if it's any good?
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Koryk posted:Yeah, after Cradle I've been listening to some pretty terrible stuff just because it was narrated by Travis Baldree. Apparently he has his own series that he's written, anyone know if it's any good? Yeah. It's not exactly high stakes, but it's quite cozy.
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Richard Poe is the king of audiobook narration. Frank Mueller is a high ranking member of the King's Court. Who else is there?
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George Guidall is up there
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escape artist posted:Frank Mueller is a high ranking member of the King's Court. I'm gonna say it, I prefer Simon Vance's version of Interview with the Vampire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6T0J1wxFA
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Frank Muleler is in my top-five favorites list, but I can’t imagine him doing a better job with that series than Simon Vance. He was really good. I just finished The Tender Bar and loved it. I can’t imagine the print book being as entertaining. The narrator had voices for all the main characters, and there were a lot of them, and all good.
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escape artist posted:Richard Poe is the king of audiobook narration. Frank Mueller is a high ranking member of the King's Court. Michael Kramer for sure.
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escape artist posted:Richard Poe is the king of audiobook narration. Frank Mueller is a high ranking member of the King's Court. Bill Homewood is up there for me. Love it whenever he busts out a West Country accent for an appropriate character. Mueller is untouchable though, RIP
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This is somehow the first I've heard of Richard Poe, and it led me to listen to the first few minutes of 48 Laws of Power. Great narrator, but holy poo poo that book is like The Sociopath's Handbook. I admit to a soft spot for Stefan Rudnicki, since the full-cast version of Ender's Game he was in was one of my first audiobooks. You know who else kicks rear end as a narrator? Tim Curry. He rules in Audible's versions of Dracula and Journey to the Center of the Earth, and I quite enjoyed his take on Sabriel. Speaking of Draculas, Christopher Lee did only a very few audiobooks, but one of those is Children of Hurin, and he is perfect for it. It's an absolute goddamn shame he was never commissioned to do The Silmarillion. Still, Martin Shaw's take The Silmarillion is fantastic - I greatly prefer it to Andy Serkis's version. Lee actually did a fair number of audiobooks back in the day, but many of them haven't been re-released, and you have to go on YouTube to find them - he read a ton of Poe, and it's all quite good. Rounding out the Tolkien narrators, Rob Inglis does he my preferred versions of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. He sounds like your grandfather reading those stories to you at bedtime, and it's perfect.
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The stuff he does may not be as highbrow, but I absolutely love Jeff Hays doing narrations. That guy is insane. https://www.tiktok.com/@mattdinniman/video/7253325710570409259
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Agreed on Guidall and Kramer too Kestral posted:This is somehow the first I've heard of Richard Poe, and it led me to listen to the first few minutes of 48 Laws of Power. Great narrator, but holy poo poo that book is like The Sociopath's Handbook. It's the most read book in jail, and it is banned in some jails. I got through a quarter of it. It was pretty interesting with the historical tidbits but I think the advice is basically what you said, how to be a sociopath. Check out Poe's version of Blood Meridian. I think it's the best audiobook ever recorded. He does such an incredible job with it, sometimes I just flip on random chapters.
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cant cook creole bream posted:The stuff he does may not be as highbrow, but I absolutely love Jeff Hays doing narrations. That guy is insane. I only know Jeff Hays from narrating Dungeon Crawler Carl books and his performance there easily put him as my personal Top 1 narrators.
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Is there a significant difference between the ensemble version of dune on audible vs the older one narrator version? A lot of times I've found the ensemble version is not as good as the single reader. Just wanted to know if anyone had opinions on the recording/acting quality.
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Artonos posted:Is there a significant difference between the ensemble version of dune on audible vs the older one narrator version? A lot of times I've found the ensemble version is not as good as the single reader. Just wanted to know if anyone had opinions on the recording/acting quality. I haven't listened to both but I thought the ensemble one was good.
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I thought the ensemble version was really, really well done. It has different voices for most characters, a little music and some sound effects, but they’re all good and not distracting. It helped me keep everything straight and listen to all 9,000,000 hours while building a staircase in my house
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poisonpill posted:I thought the ensemble version was really, really well done. It has different voices for most characters, a little music and some sound effects, but they’re all good and not distracting. It helped me keep everything straight and listen to all 9,000,000 hours while building a staircase in my house Sounds perfect for when I'm bottle feeding my infant in the middle of the night then! Thanks for both the quick responses. I recently watched the first movie again and it made me remember how much I liked the books so long ago.
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I have started avoiding ensemble versions of audiobooks in general because the sound effects are often so loud and distracting, taking away from the narrative rather than adding to it (haven't listened to the Dune one, just a general comment).
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The dune one from the mid 2000’s is notorious for entire chapters missing from the full-cast readings and it just defaults back to the original single narrator. It’s like, people are gonna buy dis poo poo and we have the sole rights to make an audiobook so eh why bother with the effort to pay a cast to do the whole thing amirite?
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Arthur Morgan Is Your American History Teacher in New Red Dead Redemption Audiobookquote:Roger Clark, who plays Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, is set to narrate an audiobook that looks at American history through the lens of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption games. Audible Pre-Order. I'm doing it right now. https://www.audible.com/pd/Red-Deads-History-Audiobook/B0CKM6FB83 Sorry I'm kinda obsessed with this game and this is an entirely unexpected blessing. I'm shouting to the rooftops for any other fans.
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NikkolasKing posted:Arthur Morgan Is Your American History Teacher in New Red Dead Redemption Audiobook Sure, as Arthur would say, that sounds pretty cool.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl has been mentioned a couple of times the last few pages so I'm a little late to the party, but I bought the first book two weeks ago and holy hell what a fun series this turned out to be. I usually don't listen to podcasts or audiobooks when I'm not commuting or working but I have spent several hours just chilling on my couch listening to Jeff Hayes saying the most insane poo poo and having a grand ol' time. I'm about a third of the way through book 6 now and I'm dreading having to wait for new releases. Has anyone read any of Matt Dinniman's other stuff?
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It's not as good at all, don't bother. In fact the Kajiu Surgeon one is apparently incredibly gross for no good reason.
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I liked Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon.  It is gross as hell though.
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I looked it up and it made me laugh because the author has apparently added a blurb telling their fans to please skip the book.
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CrazySalamander posted:I looked it up and it made me laugh because the author has apparently added a blurb telling their fans to please skip the book. I don't remember that, but I do remember that the dedication begs his mother to skip reading the series. I get the impression that Matt Dinniman is one of those Gen Xers who got brainpoisoned by goupy horror movies and that Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon was his way of channeling it into something productive. Seemed like a good book, but way too gross for me to finish. I've heard that Dinniman's Dominion of Blades is supposed to be decent, although I've not read it mself.
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