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3spades posted:Its easy to use but that fucker drains battery like nothing should. Every time I am done listening I have to go to the running apps and kill it or it will drain the battery while idle. It averaged 35% of my battery use on 2hours a day listen and using the widget for quick access.
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Farecoal posted:Why the hell did Detrice change his voice for Melisandre in ADWD? It was so awesome before, it made her sound really menacing and manipulative. Now she sounds like an old Chinese sterotype Personally, it makes me feel like he phoned it in.
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Jul 29, 2012 19:08
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Geektox posted:Anyone listen to the Game of Thrones/ASoIF audiobooks? There seems to be a couple of narrators, and I'm not sure which one to go with. I went to the 2 credit subscribe after 6 months or so, and now I am gonna ease back a bit since I have been getting a ton of audiobooks but not having time to get to them all yet. I love having a half dozen books I haven't read yet, in every device I own. Great for walks and biking and stuff.
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Aug 22, 2012 03:59
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Maybe you should try some self-help books about overcoming your personal sexual hangups.
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Aug 22, 2012 21:59
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Thesaurus posted:Can you recommend any books that deal with my specific hangup? It involves being turned off by listening to extended graphic descriptions of a mishappen dwarf having sex with a prostitute, read by an old man impersonating a woman's voice.
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Aug 23, 2012 01:30
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Mister Macys posted:Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy. How do you feel about Zelazny's Amber? Honestly curious. Also the audio books' narrator's quality, if you have heard them? I just started them this month, and I am digging his sort of noirish narrator prose, and clipped dialogue. I read the first three GRRMs before I got the audio, but holyshit are they looooooooong to listen to!  coyo7e fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 31, 2012 01:38
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I've never had any complaints about Audible's service, once I changed my subscription from 2 credits to one but they charged me twice, for two and then one, for some reason (I'd made the change pretty close to the renewal date,) and when I called up I was treated very courteously and they reversed both the charges and confirmed that I was on the 1-a-month subscription. I got 3 free credits that month, and went back to two credits shortly after since I was tearing through books.
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No I'm intrigued though, since I have a bunch of ebooks and some of them I also have on audible.
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Sep 10, 2012 17:48
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Got Cloud Atlas. It's got a great narrator.
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Oct 24, 2012 23:03
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^^^^ I read the first and second recently, they were great, although I kind of wandered away from the second book midstory, I'll definitely re-listen to them both sometime in the near future. I'm kind of kicking myself for not having picked these up 10 or 20 years back since I've been hearing about them all my life, but I thought it was a much more stereotypical High Fantasy setting.
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Oct 25, 2012 01:22
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leftover posted:Scott Sigler was already mentioned in this thread, and I'm almost done with all of his audio stuff... so I was hoping someone has any good recommendations for some other horror novels in audiobook format.
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Nov 7, 2012 02:53
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leftover posted:I actually read that book, just thought I'd mention it since I was asking for zombie titles. "Jack Wakes Up" is great fun along the lines of "Get Shorty" or something, and "A Long Way From Disney" can pull tears.
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Kneel Before Zog posted:Any suggestions for an audiobook with a narrators voice that can lull me to sleep? Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is excellent, entertaining, and very engrossing. Nine Princes in Amber also has a narrator which I enjoy listening to as I nod off - the narrator and prose for Corwin feel sort of clipped or curt, like a hard-boiled private eye in a crime noir movie.\ non-literary recommendation: Hardcore History from the Dan Carlin podcast. Extremely high production values; Dan Carlin has been a radio professional for many years, and it shows. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh coyo7e fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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I didn't know much of anything about him until I got into Amber recently however, he's a pretty cracked pot. That quote of his where he's bitching about there not having been a NAMBLA around when he was a horny confused minor were 
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Nov 29, 2012 23:47
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mystes posted:You're thinking of Samuel Delany.  And yeah, iTunes is a miserable way to organize your audiobooks. I had to rename a lot of files as well when I used it for podcasts and stuff.
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Ulio posted:Thanks Macys, I'll see if they do a book I want to read.
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Prophaniti posted:Taking my newborn out for long walks is begging for audiobooks. I found the shortstory Thanasphere by Kurt Vonnegut which wasn´t bad and after that Wintersmith by Terry Prattchet performed by Steven Briggs, which is nothing short of amazing. His naration is great, his voices fit the world of discworld perfectly. I several times walked around my town with a wide grin on my face and laughed at complete strangers.
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Jan 8, 2013 18:17
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I wasn't nearly as impressed with the rest of the series, after a while you get awful tired of pages-long descriptions of jumping around by flicking coins.
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I dunno, I had a hard time remaining engaged in the second book due to the lack of a certain character who provided a lot of personality for me. I kind of lost interest and wandered away from the series, I think halfway or 2/3 through the third book.
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Jan 8, 2013 23:19
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Ice Phisherman posted:and Lev Grossman's The Magicians (I wanted to like this book, but it pushed far past the deep end for smugness and self-indulgence). Thanks a ton for the heads-up though, I've got some regrettably terrible books that I picked up from the sci-fi thread etc, which ended up being unreadable/unlistenable.
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Picked up John Dies at the End on audible. Narration is excellent, book is ridiculous and I've definitely been cracking up a lot at work while listening to it.
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Danith posted:I just got lasik and today my eyes are so dry and blurry I just want to keep them closed and listen to a book but they are so expensive! I was looking at that book someone posted at the top, Theft of Swords: Riyria Revelations, Book 1 and it's like $42 unless I want to try out a audible subscription :|
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Apr 15, 2013 22:54
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Wade Wilson posted:The voices of Mr. Wednesday and Mr. Ibis in particular were very good in the full cast American Gods, though (and Czernobog, but come on).
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Apr 18, 2013 23:34
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Meme Emulator posted:You guys need to expand your horizons a little bit
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Apr 25, 2013 22:29
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bpower posted:Hardcore History just released a new episode about religious mania in medieval Germany. I don't think I ever sat slaw-jawed for so long. Its absolutely chilling. Highly recommended.   or anything however, that was released on 4/22/13. I got it last month via BeyondPod and the RSS feed.
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Wade Wilson posted:It took me entirely too long to realize who one of the main characters was relative to the first book in the series in that one.
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xcore posted:This, but I would also like to ask; Why are audiobooks so goddamn expensive? Something about membership rubs me the wrong way (I would really like to keep the stuff I read/listen to). $35 bucks for a book just seems massively steep. Surely the costs involved in a audiobook are less than a printed paperback but paperbacks are more than half the price. Syrinxx posted:Podcasts are just people who are too lazy to write. Audiobooks are pretty much the opposite. I've certainly listened to more than a few audibooks with far worse production values and editing than any random episode you can pull from that show.
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^^^^ I think a lot of GRRM's audiobooks are 2 credits on audible, or at least they were when I got them years back. Also, what happened with the Returns thing on audible? I picked up Ex-Heroes and whew is it ever a stinker, but I can't figure out how/where to try and return it on amazon or audible. Wade Wilson posted:That is a poo poo example because that podcast makes money from donations and merchandise sales, something audiobooks don't have the advantage of being funded by.
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Syrinxx posted:Go to your Account Details: https://www.audible.com/account-details  edit: the Black Count meanders a lot at the beginning (and probably a lot, later, as well,) but it's really riveting. The entire premise of Dumas' greatest crime in his novels being about allowing someone to be forgotten, really changed the way I look at his works. And John Dies at the End had me crying I laughed so much. I haven't done American Psycho yet, the novel took a while to work into the rhythmn so I'm saving that one for a special occasion. 
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Strange Matter posted:Haha the Dune audiobook cast is awesome. Sure, let's have Leto talk with an American accent and give Paul an English one. Also have Gurney Halleck be played buy a comedian doing a Jack Nicholson impression. "Heeeeere's Gurney!" 
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Nov 9, 2013 00:28
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I got The Left Hand of God off audible recently since I wanted to re-read the series, and the narrator is not that great. He's kind of a monotone and doesn't do much to differentiate between characters' voices during dialogue, etc. I am not stoked on his job at all however, the book is still solid (if a little overly grimdark a la the Prince of Thorns series) fare.
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Thanks, I've been reading this thread for a while though. The second book has a different narrator who's way better however, and it wasn't horrific, just not on the level I had wanted for the first book.
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Jan 12, 2014 05:25
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yoslow posted:I have an 8 hour car ride, anyone have any comedy audio book recommendations similar to Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt? John Dies at the End, but it's longer than 8 by a good deal.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:22
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mastajake posted:I'm listening to the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks and really enjoying them. The narrator is really good at voices.
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Apr 7, 2014 19:40
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Mojo Threepwood posted:Thanks for the tip, downloading now.! It was rated around 4.7, looks well worth a credit. Rapacity posted:I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this has been mentioned but I recently listened to the audiobook of A Clockwork Orange on YouTube and it is superb. I had my doubts about the likely quality of an audio version given the unique language of the book but this narrator absolutely slays it. If there's the equivalent of an Oscar for audiobooks, this guy deserves it.
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Apr 12, 2014 22:23
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fliptophead posted:Prior to this was Infected narrated by the author Scott Sigler. It follows the plight of an ex college footballer cut down in his prime due to a knee injury who is one of the first to be infected by this virus which turns people into homicidal maniacs. He also has daddy issues. There is a CIA guy whose partner is killed by one of the infected and now bears a grudge against any infected person and a doctor for the CDC who is tasked with finding out what's causing the infections along with her whacky sidekick. The book was alright but I got bored in places as it seemed to just repeat the same scenes over and over. He is an enthusiastic narrator but terrible with female characters (as a counterpoint to the above). As background this story was originally self published on the web as a serialized podcast then later picked up by Crown Publishing. There are spots where the editor could make some major cuts and not impact the story in any way. The good news is that is enjoyable schlock and I'll be getting the next one in the series once I'm ready for more. The fun thing about listening to Sigler is that he really hams it up a lot and is obviously enjoying himself a ton.
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Syrinxx posted:Picked up a couple books I wanted, thanks. I wish there was a way to permanently filter out "lovely vampire Twilight love books for dumbasses" on Audible.
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May 5, 2014 14:18
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Sir Rabia Tirnova posted:Audible has a sale on atm for "under the radar" books for $4.00 Also there's some Clive Barker - I've always wanted to read The Hellbound Heart. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 21:52 on May 12, 2014 |
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So here's a request, anyone have recommends on fiction or non-fiction about nature, fishing, hunting, camping and the like? Something along the lines of A River Runs Through It would be most excellent, or perhaps some Steinbeck (although they seem to not be available for purchase on audible right now, which is a shame because I'd love to listen to Cannery Row or Travels With Charlie again). I'm trying to break the second or third inception level by going fishing and listening to a book about fishing and stuff. Not Patrick McManus or other comedy "sports" writers.
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Mister Macys posted:Does Jeremy Wade's memoir on the making of River Monsters count? 
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