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WoG
Jul 13, 2004
I'm listening to DeLillo's 'Falling Man' now, and while I'm enjoying the book, I can't really recommend the audiobook. It could be worse, but the reader is pretty bland.

The best I've listened to recently would probably be a few McCarthy novels. Their pacing and language just fit beautifully with being read aloud, and both Richard Poe ('Blood Meridian') and Tom Stechschulte ('The Road', NCOM) are top class readers.

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WoG
Jul 13, 2004
Only midway through the book, but to grade the voice performance alone, two thumbs firmly upward for Ron Silver's reading of Roth's American Pastoral.

WoG
Jul 13, 2004

ZhouEnlai 2.0 posted:

- Lolita
Brilliantly narrated by Jeremy Irons.
He also did Brideshead Revisited, which I'm most of the way through, and is already the best audiobook performance I've heard.

WoG
Jul 13, 2004

blakout posted:

if your local library supports it theres a lot who use the overdrive system for free audiobooks. only problem is the DRM its horrible, anyone have experience actually getting your books to work on an ipod?
(sorry for the months-late response; haven't looked here in forever, but)

The last time I used overdrive, it recognized my standard thumbdrive as an mp3 player, and allowed me to export (ie, copy drm-free mp3s) to it.




The last audiobook I listened to was Lawrence Block's Eight Million Ways to Die, read by the author. He's got a great voice for it; very disappointed he hasn't done many more of his own.

WoG fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Dec 20, 2011

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