[Cause]

I have an audible account I want to close but before I do that I need to use all my credits or lose them (quite the racket). I am looking for seven new books to try that are good in audible format. Something to listen too while driving mostly, or perhaps during un-taxing work.

I have a preference for Fantasy, Crime-thriller, and maybe some interesting non-fiction books.

Do any of you have any good recommendations.

[Baco Xtath]

Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear are read by Nick Pohdel and are absolutely awesome. He also reads This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, which is the sequel to John Dies At the End, which is likewise great, both crazy in a really fun way. The Way of Kings was really good as were all the books of the Mistborn series. Alloy of Law was a lot of fun. Night Circus was good, sort of enchanting. Magicians and its sequel were good.

I've actually enjoyed my sci-fi audiobooks a bit more: Richard Morgan's Thirte3n and his Takeshi Kovacs series are freak'n awesome. All the Iain M. Banks audiobooks were great. Ready Player One was one of my favorites this year. Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds was phenomenal. And probably the best I've listened to, The Gap Cycle (5 books) by Stephen R. Donaldson were beyond epic.

Every book listed has a good narrator. If the narrator is bad, I simply cannot listen to a book.

[Ukjent]

In the non-fiction part check out The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins.

[Rictus]

i'd recommend all the Black Company books read by Mark Veetor(?) That man must be Croaker himself.
There's a sample on youtube, I think.

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[Ukjent]

Its ok if you are riding the buss or walking/driving. But I'll never listen to one at home .

[lastname]

Audio books are perfect for those books that you have to "read" despite them being a bloody waste of time. Case in point ... err ... *cough* ... books 7 through whatever of WoT

Play them while at work and if you miss a couple of chapters because you are ... well ... working, no big deal.

[Baco Xtath]

Briar King, on 09 May 2013 - 02:38 AM, said:

I've never listened to one. How dif is the exp from reading and listening to the same book? I may need to try it one day.

I love audiobooks, more than reading probably. I feel like I'm completely immersed in the worlds and their stories. Especially if the narrator is good. I didn't care too much for Gardens of the Moon because the narrator didn't do Fid and Quick justice. Whereas I loved Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear precisely because the narrator was so good.

I don't read fast but I sure don't read every single word. When you listen to a book, you hear every word and the entire experience is probably five to six times longer than what it would take to read. I listen to books whenever I drive, shop, workout, or do any task that doesn't require a lot of thought. Actually, my favorite thing to do is to go fly fishing up in the mountains while listening to a good book. Sometimes I'll pick a short 9 -10 hour book for that and am able to finish it off between the drive and time on the water.

[Salt-Man Z]

It could depend on your learning type. I'm a visual learner, not an auditory one. I haven't listened to an audiobook yet, but my main fear is that my attention would drift, or that I wouldn't pick everything up just by listening. By contrast, I immerse myself in text, giving it my full attention (I can't read when the TV is on, for example) reading every word, sometimes more than once if I'm trying to puzzle the meaning out of a particular sentence or paragraph.

[Overactive Imagination]

Salt-Man Z, on 09 May 2013 - 03:06 PM, said:

It could depend on your learning type. I'm a visual learner, not an auditory one. I haven't listened to an audiobook yet, but my main fear is that my attention would drift, or that I wouldn't pick everything up just by listening. By contrast, I immerse myself in text, giving it my full attention (I can't read when the TV is on, for example) reading every word, sometimes more than once if I'm trying to puzzle the meaning out of a particular sentence or paragraph.

Sorry to break the news bro but learning styles ain't real.

P.S. Try out a frackin' audio book bro!!

[Silencer]

Dresden Files, as read by James Marsters. Perfection. If you haven't already, it's probably worth listening to even if you've read the books.

[Overactive Imagination]

I recently got the audiobooks for gardens, deadhouse, and memories. Seems like a cool thing to listen to as an alternative to listening to music

[opiate taylor]

I agree with Baco Xtath about the GotM narrator. He was too... something. Like when he tried to do the voices of old women and little girls: yuck. I definitely prefer the 2005 version with Geoffrey Centlivre reading.

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[Baco Xtath]

opiate taylor, on 14 June 2013 - 04:49 AM, said:

I agree with Baco Xtath about the GotM narrator. He was too... something. Like when he tried to do the voices of old women and little girls: yuck. I definitely prefer the 2005 version with Geoffrey Centlivre reading.

I'm listening to Deadhouse Gates right now and I cringed when I heard the voice for Karsa; absolutely horrible. The voice belonged to a skinny weakling. It's like the narrator has no idea who he is and how he should sound. Makes me not really want to continue listening.....but I probably will anyway

[HiddenOne]

Why can't there be a full cast of voice actors to do this up right?

[Ezor]

If you are looking for a great audiobooks, I have to recommend Wolrd War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I haven't listened to many adiobooks, but from the few I have, this has been the best by far. The story is about a guy going around the world interviewing survivors of the zombie war so it is perfect as an audio book. There is also a full cast of voice actors in this one. Well a few characters are played by the same voice actor but I didn't even notice this before looking it up on wikipedia.

This post has been edited by Ezor: 28 June 2013 - 05:48 PM

[Kaamos]

I've subscribed to Audible for a couple of years, and Michael Kramer has become my favorite reader. He enlivens most of Brandon Sanderson's novels (Mistborn, The Way of Kings, even the new YA fantasy Rithmatist which was light but pretty good), even made the quite insufferable writing of Wheel of Time tolerable with his characterizations.

Scott Brick's performance of Stephen R Donaldson's Mordant's Need was awesome.

If you're into YA fantasy, check out The Bartimaeus Cycle (Simon Jones' reading).

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I'm listening to Deadhouse Gates right now and I cringed when I heard the voice for Karsa; absolutely horrible. The voice belonged to a skinny weakling.

Argh blargh. Bloke has four lungs and a chest like the trunk of an oak, shouldn't he by default sound something like Christopher Lee in a subterranean cave? O_o