[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 03 November 2022 - 03:07 PM, said:

Yep that's the one I was going to get but I'll hold off for now!

I should note, it's not that Martin Shaw did a bad job. He's excellent from what I hear....the problem lay in transferring an analog recording to digital, you get all kinds of weird hiccups and echoes that would not be able to be cleaned up.

A new digital recording will simply be superior.

[Tiste Simeon]

So I'm a bit lost with audiobook choices now. I recently finished ROTK as narrated by Andy Serkis and the whole trilogy was perfection. I'm considering doing some other Tolkein stuff eventually but at the moment I'm a bit on pause with it all.

I do have The Heroes and BSC by Abercrombie but I'm not sure I'm feeling that at the moment (despite loving the audio version of The First Law trilogy).

I've listened to everything else in my library. I have 4 credits. Reading back through this thread makes me want to get the Rivers of London series. I think I read the first two books a while ago but I would essentially be starting afresh.

However there's, like over 9000 books in that series and I've only got 4 credits. Hmm... Thoughts?

Oh, and obviously I've caught up with Sandman Act 3.

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 27 November 2022 - 09:52 PM

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Tiste Simeon, on 27 November 2022 - 09:49 PM, said:

So I'm a bit lost with audiobook choices now. I recently finished ROTK as narrated by Andy Serkis and the whole trilogy was perfection. I'm considering doing some other Tolkein stuff eventually but at the moment I'm a bit on pause with it all.

I do have The Heroes and BSC by Abercrombie but I'm not sure I'm feeling that at the moment (despite loving the audio version of The First Law trilogy).

I've listened to everything else in my library. I have 4 credits. Reading back through this thread makes me want to get the Rivers of London series. I think I read the first two books a while ago but I would essentially be starting afresh.

However there's, like over 9000 books in that series and I've only got 4 credits. Hmm... Thoughts?

Oh, and obviously I've caught up with Sandman Act 3.

RIVERS in not a bad choice. The narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is excellent.
Another is the DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC trilo by Victoria Schwab. They use Reading and Kramer, the same narrators who did WoT and TSA and it is a pleasure to listen to them work with something a little edgier.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Rivers of London is excellent! Go for it and you will not be disappointed!

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 28 November 2022 - 02:32 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 27 November 2022 - 09:49 PM, said:

So I'm a bit lost with audiobook choices now. I recently finished ROTK as narrated by Andy Serkis and the whole trilogy was perfection. I'm considering doing some other Tolkein stuff eventually but at the moment I'm a bit on pause with it all.

I do have The Heroes and BSC by Abercrombie but I'm not sure I'm feeling that at the moment (despite loving the audio version of The First Law trilogy).

I've listened to everything else in my library. I have 4 credits. Reading back through this thread makes me want to get the Rivers of London series. I think I read the first two books a while ago but I would essentially be starting afresh.

However there's, like over 9000 books in that series and I've only got 4 credits. Hmm... Thoughts?

Oh, and obviously I've caught up with Sandman Act 3.

RIVERS in not a bad choice. The narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is excellent.
Another is the DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC trilo by Victoria Schwab. They use Reading and Kramer, the same narrators who did WoT and TSA and it is a pleasure to listen to them work with something a little edgier.

Hmm the only Schwab book I have read is Addie La Rue which was excellent so I'm interested in that!

[Tiste Simeon]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 28 November 2022 - 03:30 AM, said:

Rivers of London is excellent! Go for it and you will not be disappointed!

Yeah I remember really enjoying them when I did intimately read them.

Argh decisions!

[worry]

Use your credits on the more expensive ones and then buy the cheaper ones. You're gonna want them all!

[Gorefest]

All the Discworlds.

[champ]

I normally don't do audio books preferring to read but I've got into them lately for the gym. Just finished a full listen through of all the Dresden books, they were really fun in that version, James Marsters is epic as Harry Dresden.

[Tiste Simeon]

I've downloaded the first Rivers of London book.

[Tiste Simeon]

champ, on 28 November 2022 - 08:00 PM, said:

I normally don't do audio books preferring to read but I've got into them lately for the gym. Just finished a full listen through of all the Dresden books, they were really fun in that version, James Marsters is epic as Harry Dresden.

Yeah so this sounds amazing but there's already like 17 books and I have all of them on Kindle so I feel while I'd love to listen to this I'd rather save my credits for books or series I've never read (yes I know I've admitted to reading the first 2 Rivers of London books but that doesn't count. I've read Dresden numerous times!)

But, then again it is Spike...

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 28 November 2022 - 10:13 PM, said:

champ, on 28 November 2022 - 08:00 PM, said:

I normally don't do audio books preferring to read but I've got into them lately for the gym. Just finished a full listen through of all the Dresden books, they were really fun in that version, James Marsters is epic as Harry Dresden.

Yeah so this sounds amazing but there's already like 17 books and I have all of them on Kindle so I feel while I'd love to listen to this I'd rather save my credits for books or series I've never read (yes I know I've admitted to reading the first 2 Rivers of London books but that doesn't count. I've read Dresden numerous times!)

But, then again it is Spike...

He's excellent and sounds nothing like Spike.

[Tiste Simeon]

Oh my goodness you guys Rivers of London audiobook is just amazing! I liked the books a fair amount when I read them a while back but now I LOVE them and I've not even finished book 1! Kobna Holbrook Smith is a brilliant narrator and he really brings the story to life!

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 28 November 2022 - 02:32 AM, said:

...

RIVERS in not a bad choice. The narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is excellent....

Tiste Simeon, on 09 December 2022 - 01:54 PM, said:

Oh my goodness you guys Rivers of London audiobook is just amazing! I liked the books a fair amount when I read them a while back but now I LOVE them and I've not even finished book 1! Kobna Holbrook Smith is a brilliant narrator and he really brings the story to life!

I do not lie.

....except for when i'm lying....

[worry]

1 Abyss always tells lies and 1 Abyss always tells the truth, but there's only 1 Abyss. Solve this riddle.

[Primateus]

I've been listening to the first installment of Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. It's narrated by some guy named R.C. Bray.

The first book is included in Audible premium membership and, to be honest, I've been kinda looking at it a bit askance, thinking that it's just some kind of self-published drivel that some dude in a trailer, or something, scribbled together from various cereal boxes and somehow it became just popular enough to be made an audiobook.

But I broke down Wednesday and started the first one.

HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS, but it is funny.

It's not very original, probably a bit derivative and it definitely has a bit of "Humanity Fuck Yeah" air about it. But it's funny. The Sci-fi is good, but not something you won't have read before.

But the story, the story is pretty damned good, plus the two protagonists are fucking hilarious. It's "stupid funny" and not high-intellectual funny.

Maybe it's because I'm a simpleminded guy, but it's funny as hell. So if you're a simpleminded guy, or girl, like me, then I think you will like it.

[Chance]

Primateus, on 09 December 2022 - 05:45 PM, said:

I've been listening to the first installment of Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. It's narrated by some guy named R.C. Bray.

The first book is included in Audible premium membership and, to be honest, I've been kinda looking at it a bit askance, thinking that it's just some kind of self-published drivel that some dude in a trailer, or something, scribbled together from various cereal boxes and somehow it became just popular enough to be made an audiobook.

But I broke down Wednesday and started the first one.

HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS, but it is funny.

It's not very original, probably a bit derivative and it definitely has a bit of "Humanity Fuck Yeah" air about it. But it's funny. The Sci-fi is good, but not something you won't have read before.

But the story, the story is pretty damned good, plus the two protagonists are fucking hilarious. It's "stupid funny" and not high-intellectual funny.

Maybe it's because I'm a simpleminded guy, but it's funny as hell. So if you're a simpleminded guy, or girl, like me, then I think you will like it.

Strangely enough they also get better along the way. Tried the series on random chance a few months ago and they get even more hillarious along the way with some really fun aliens after a few books.