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Big Finish are doing some interesting Doctor Who stuff at the moment. John Hurt is reprising his role as the War Doctor for 12 stories, and Paul McGann is starring in The Time War, due out 2017.

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I've just started listening to The Girl On The Train.

Not at all what I was expecting, bu very intriguing. Looking forward to the drive home.


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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Ok, I'm a bit new to this audiobook game.

I loved the Alan Partridge books because they're read by Alan.

I enjoyed the Vic Reeves autobiography because it's read by Vic.

I enjoyed the Narnia books because they're recordings of BBC radio play versions of the books, with a full cast and other trappings.

Now, what I'm having trouble with is fiction. Is it typical for the reader to "do" the voices for all the characters? Because I started listening to Shantaram the other day, and while I found the aussie guy doing an Indian accent a little off-putting, I found him putting on a sultry female voice for the protagonist's love-interest absolutely ludicrous, and I had to stop listening and delete it. No way am I listening to 48 hours of that nonsense.

Is that normal? Or is it more common for voices to be read flatly, in a he said, she said, kind of way?


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Generally, the reader will 'do' the voices.

Oddly, The Girl On The Train has multiple narrators, which is rare.


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Yeah, I can't get on with audiobooks like that. It's full audio plays or GTFO.

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I think that's one of the reasons I like the Dresden Files audio books. James Marsters is an actor, not a narrator.

I can't tolerate the discworld audio books after the first two because of the awful voices, sadly


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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The worst one by far was the Dragonlance opener, Dragons of autumn Twilight. The guy reading that didn't even try. They would have got better reading from a voice synthesizer


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Is The Wheel of Time worth getting on Audible. I've never read the books, so I was interested in spending my next credit on something epic.


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I think that's one of the reasons I like the Dresden Files audio books. James Marsters is an actor, not a narrator.

I can't tolerate the discworld audio books after the first two because of the awful voices, sadly


Try one of the later ones

There are two types of Discworld audio , the abridged versions are all read by Tony Robinson (and are normally only about 2 hours or so)- the full unabridged early ones are read by either Nigel Planer , or Celia Imrie

At one point they changed and had them all read by Stephen Briggs (friend of Terry and the person who adapted a lot of the books for the stage) , he still 'does the voices' as such but they sound a lot better (to me at least) - from a quick search it looks like he took over around book 24 (The Fifth Elephant) so give one of the later ones a try.

There are some dramatizations but they do tend to be very abridged and you lose a lot from them (the radio 4 version of "The Amazing Maurice" is one of the better ones out there).


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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This

http://nerdist.com/tons-of-doctor-who-a ... to-stream/

Might also be of use to some of you - list (with links) to a lot of the Big Finish Doctor Who stories which you can stream free on Spotify


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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DavPaz wrote:
Is The Wheel of Time worth getting on Audible. I've never read the books, so I was interested in spending my next credit on something epic.


WoT starts great, but is ruined by Jordan's terrible prose and inability to advance a plot for most of the second half, then picks up hugely when Brendon Sanderson takes over. I don't know how much it being an audiobook would help with the interminable books 4-8 stretch, but it might be a big improvement.

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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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An audiobook of a tedious book would probably just make it worse, if anything. It's not like you can really skim read.

Ones I've enjoyed lately have been:

Sapiens

and the follow-up

Homo Deus: A Bried History Of Tomorrow

American Gods, which is a fantastic version of Gaiman's preferred text and with a full cast.

Ready Player One, read just by Wil Wheaton but it just having a single narrator didn't bother me at all.

Currently just started listening to Neverwhere.


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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That American Gods audiobook sounds sexy.

I got Le Carre's Smiley series as radio plays recently, and it benefits so much from having a full cast. Smiley is played brilliantly too, a truly down-trodden, intelligent, world-wearied man. Highly recommended.

I can also recommend Louis Theroux revisiting his weird weekends. Fascinating stuff. But he does the voices. And when the voice is a pimp saying "And then I let that bitch slide up and down on my dick" (or something to that effect), it's teeth grindingly awful/brilliant.

Honestly, I don't know why his publisher didn't tell him to ditch the voices. But it's worth listening to.


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 Post subject: Re: Audiobooks RMD
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I'm about halfway through Ready Player One, as read by Will Wheaton. It's the most amazingly geeky, fantasy wish fulfilment, pile of nonsense I've ever 'read'.

Very enjoyable.

Also, when Wheaton does a 'grown up' voice, he sounds just like Tim Allen.


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Yeah it's undemanding but really good fun.

Currently listening to Doug Stanhope's "Digging Up Mother" which is fucking brilliant as an audiobook.


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Yeah it's undemanding but really good fun.

Currently listening to Doug Stanhope's "Digging Up Mother" which is fucking brilliant as an audiobook.


I tired a little of it by the end. His dull-voiced mates were doing too much of the narration as he was too sozzled to carry on.


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Yeah, a bit maybe, I'm nearly at the end and really enjoyed it, though.


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Talking books that have accompanied me on my ramblings and runnings lately have been, Children Of Time and We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Children Of Time was a space opera and a good one at that, definitely worth the time. I'm about halfway through We Are Legion which is more of a romp and loads of fun so far.


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Ended up listening to all three of these "Bobiverse" books. They started off strong but each one was better than the last and I actually loved them by the end.


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Talking books that have accompanied me on my ramblings and runnings lately have been, Children Of Time and We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Children Of Time was a space opera and a good one at that, definitely worth the time. I'm about halfway through We Are Legion which is more of a romp and loads of fun so far.


Loved Children of Time when I read it. So, very good!

Bought We are Legion a while back, but never got round to listenting to it. Started because of your recommendation and I'm really enjoying it.

I was put off because I'm wary of the somewhat new trend of[i] 'science fiction geek authors, writing science fiction that only references science fiction because they've only read science fiction, and all their characters are science fiction geeks that keep talking" and it boggles my mind it's getting big directors adapting it all*.

But half way through Bobiverse 1 and it's managed to side step (most of) that. It's just great fun. Addictive and I'm enjoying every second.


* e.g. The Martian, Ready Player One etc.

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Ok, I'm a bit new to this audiobook game.

I loved the Alan Partridge books because they're read by Alan.

I enjoyed the Vic Reeves autobiography because it's read by Vic.

I enjoyed the Narnia books because they're recordings of BBC radio play versions of the books, with a full cast and other trappings.

Now, what I'm having trouble with is fiction. Is it typical for the reader to "do" the voices for all the characters? Because I started listening to Shantaram the other day, and while I found the aussie guy doing an Indian accent a little off-putting, I found him putting on a sultry female voice for the protagonist's love-interest absolutely ludicrous, and I had to stop listening and delete it. No way am I listening to 48 hours of that nonsense.

Is that normal? Or is it more common for voices to be read flatly, in a he said, she said, kind of way?


The unabridged His Dark Materials Books have Pullman as the narrator and a cast for the main parts. It's brilliant.

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Clearly pulpy military scifi with a teenager's sense of humour is where it's at.

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Talking books that have accompanied me on my ramblings and runnings lately have been, Children Of Time and We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Children Of Time was a space opera and a good one at that, definitely worth the time. I'm about halfway through We Are Legion which is more of a romp and loads of fun so far.


Loved Children of Time when I read it. So, very good!

Bought We are Legion a while back, but never got round to listenting to it. Started because of your recommendation and I'm really enjoying it.

I was put off because I'm wary of the somewhat new trend of[i] 'science fiction geek authors, writing science fiction that only references science fiction because they've only read science fiction, and all their characters are science fiction geeks that keep talking" and it boggles my mind it's getting big directors adapting it all*.

But half way through Bobiverse 1 and it's managed to side step (most of) that. It's just great fun. Addictive and I'm enjoying every second.

Yeah there are occasional nerdy references but they're only really ever asides, jokes about naming things etc. I loved all the hard scifi stuff about these space battles sometimes over in less than the blink of an eye having occurred at relativistic speeds, the time dilation, "frame-jacking". I just thought it was all pretty clever but not in your face clever. There's some pretty deep stuff in there but it somehow never felt contrived.


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Currently listening to Enlightenment: Now. I've found myself getting increasingly morose about the state of the world, especially since having a daughter. But in a rational way this book lays out a compelling series of counterpoints to the gloomy intuitions about the trajectory of humanity that it can be hard not to acquire from years of following the news. And there's just some really interesting facts along the way. Definitely the book I needed right now.


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I have 2 credits on Audiable.

I already have the chimp paradox and the dev ops handbook.

Any books in a similar vain to to listen to?

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Thanks, those will fit the bill.

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I did not know you could pause audible.. will give me chance to listen to the books

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I did not know you could pause audible.. will give me chance to listen to the books


Yep, you can also rewind 30 seconds or skip forward 30 seconds. It's a well put together player.


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Started listening to Mythos by Stephen Fry, after I decided to give God of War another go on the PS4. Admittedly God of War deals with Norse mythology, but it was the trigger I needed.

I highly recommend it. Those Greek gods were some fucked up dudes, with a serious problem with eating their own babies and general familial murder. Fry's analogies and matter of fact language make it all highly relatable, though I must confess I struggle to keep track of who is who, there are some many names being thrown at you.


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Thanks! I bought this after reading your post. I have fallen asleep three times, so have restarted it three times. I’m enjoying it, but also enjoying the words and descriptions run over me, and combined with my exhaustion i keep dropping off.

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Thanks! I bought this after reading your post. I have fallen asleep three times, so have restarted it three times. I’m enjoying it, but also enjoying the words and descriptions run over me, and combined with my exhaustion i keep dropping off.


When I listen to audiobooks, I think I spend 30% of the time asleep. That's part of the reason I listen to them, a pleasant space to inhabit and doze off on the commute. Some books are brilliant for it. Shantaram is so ludicrously long that I could sleep for 30 minutes and not really miss anything of too much import.

But Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - I listened to that recently and every time I nodded off, another few millienia would pass. Really lost the plot. So I had to relisten to a lot of that.


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Started listening to Mythos by Stephen Fry, after I decided to give God of War another go on the PS4. Admittedly God of War deals with Norse mythology, but it was the trigger I needed.

I highly recommend it. Those Greek gods were some fucked up dudes, with a serious problem with eating their own babies and general familial murder. Fry's analogies and matter of fact language make it all highly relatable, though I must confess I struggle to keep track of who is who, there are some many names being thrown at you.


Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology audiobook is good, if you can get past his slightly irksome accent. The Norse gods are even more ridiculous than their Greek cousins, with a healthy dose of cross-dressing, getting drunk, turning into sexy horses and stealing things from giants.


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Started listening to Mythos by Stephen Fry, after I decided to give God of War another go on the PS4. Admittedly God of War deals with Norse mythology, but it was the trigger I needed.

I highly recommend it. Those Greek gods were some fucked up dudes, with a serious problem with eating their own babies and general familial murder. Fry's analogies and matter of fact language make it all highly relatable, though I must confess I struggle to keep track of who is who, there are some many names being thrown at you.


Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology audiobook is good, if you can get past his slightly irksome accent. The Norse gods are even more ridiculous than their Greek cousins, with a healthy dose of cross-dressing, getting drunk, turning into sexy horses and stealing things from giants.


I happen to have that one reserved from the online library, I think. Yup, I do!

Available in a month and a half (a long wait as I reserved it about three months ago).


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Started listening to Mythos by Stephen Fry, after I decided to give God of War another go on the PS4. Admittedly God of War deals with Norse mythology, but it was the trigger I needed.

I highly recommend it. Those Greek gods were some fucked up dudes, with a serious problem with eating their own babies and general familial murder. Fry's analogies and matter of fact language make it all highly relatable, though I must confess I struggle to keep track of who is who, there are some many names being thrown at you.


Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology audiobook is good, if you can get past his slightly irksome accent. The Norse gods are even more ridiculous than their Greek cousins, with a healthy dose of cross-dressing, getting drunk, turning into sexy horses and stealing things from giants.


Nice, think I will give that a go next. Wherever they hail from, gods are dicks.


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New Dresden Files audiobook!


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