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On 2/27/2017 at 18:47, LaveDisco said:

But at some point it's crazy world building worked

 

I'm still getting through it slowly, and I got to the bit where

 

 

 


Yossarian starts an epidemic of "moaning" whilst General Dreadle is talking
 

 

 

and I was laughing out loud in my bed, so I'm warming to it :)

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Wow I love Audible.

 

Saw there was a new 70 hour Stephen Fry reading of Sherlock Holmes.

 

Returned my existing Sherlock Holmes collection bought at the start of 2016 and used the credit on the new one!

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21 hours ago, Exidor said:

Just had to pop in and say that the guy who reads the Witcher books is brilliant. He does Geralt as a kind of scouse Sean Bean, which works really well.

Agreed. Think his name is Peter Kenny, was just out cutting the grass and listening to the 5th one. :)

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When do y'all listen to these? I want to but I feel like im way too fidgety to just lie there and listen to an audiobook. Like what kind of atmopshere and setting?

 

The last audiboook I read through to completion was in primary school, the water boy or something?

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29 minutes ago, buizel said:

When do y'all listen to these? I want to but I feel like im way too fidgety to just lie there and listen to an audiobook. Like what kind of atmopshere and setting?

 

The last audiboook I read through to completion was in primary school, the water boy or something?

When gaming, driving, cleaning the house. When i go to bed, I've taken to falling asleep to them with the 15min sleep function.

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Driving to car (bluetoothed), before bed and work lunch time.

Sometimes just about the house through the soundbar.

 

Anyone listened to the "Crackanory" stuff that's all free atm? Not sure if worth faffing with.,,,

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On 12/8/2016 at 22:48, Timmo said:

The Lies of Locke Lamora is incredible - go for it.

 

http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Lies-of-Locke-Lamora-Audiobook/B004K4EMHE/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1481237395&sr=1-1

 

Just want to say thank you for this recommendation. I've only just recently delved into the first audiobook (due to finishing my other series and a lot of podcast). I'm about half way through and I'm really enjoying it. It's making me laugh out loud a lot too, which I have to try and cover up when I'm at work,

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ZOK

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I thought I'd drop in briefly to recommend you hep cats listen to the Dune audiobook: https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Dune-Audiobook/B004FTBFSI

 

Now it's obviously amazing anyway because it's Dune, but it really is a simply delicious slice of audiobook cheese. It's mostly narrated by Simon Vance who does a wonderful job, but it has a whole cast who pop in and play individual characters from time to time with no warning, so it's fairly unusual as they go.

 

There are some occasionally incongruous characterisations as a consequence, the most jarring being Baron Harkonnen. The actor playing him has given him the full James Earl Jones treatment, whereas Vance has opted for something closer to a mockney Brian Blessed. But Dune is so bonkers anyway that this all kind of adds to the fun really.

 

I haven't read Dune in many years so it's gratifying to find I'm still as in love with it as I once was. Treat yourselves rllmukkers!

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@ZOK now that's what I call good timing, just finished all the song of Fire and Ice series and was wondering what I could listen to while worldbuilding in Stellaris. I was considering going through all the Alistair Reynolds books, but that sounds ideal.

 

Meanwhile I've got so many podcasts backed up because of GRRM that I don't want to open Pocket Casts for fear of red bubbles with numbers in them.

 

Plus I've got Slaughterhouse Five which was on offer a little while ago.

 

ASOIAF are well worth listening to, if you have the spare 150 odd hours that it takes to listen to them, so much detail and so much left out of the TV series that I hadn't twigged, reading them before watching the show. Only off bit is in book 4 where the accents all change, and then revert back in 5... And Arya just sounds wrong.

 

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I'm listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and it is bloody fantastic. Does what the very best science book does - in that you feel you already know all of it, but it's just the author is articulating thoughts you've never managed to verbalise.

 

Brilliant stuff.

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On 2017-5-2 at 20:09, LaveDisco said:

I'm listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and it is bloody fantastic. Does what the very best science book does - in that you feel you already know all of it, but it's just the author is articulating thoughts you've never managed to verbalise.

 

Brilliant stuff.

 

Just finished the brilliant Chasing the Scream, so started on this. It's great so far. 

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I've got audible credits to use up and again I've no idea on what. I just finish Children of Tine which was amazing. 

 

I got Wind Up Bird Chronicle a while back and tried that after I remembering I enjoyed it a lot years back when I was a teenager and thought Murakami was the best thing ever. But! The narrator is unbearable. I can't stand it! 

 

In open to all genres really - would love some suggestions of what people have enjoyed recently. I've never read any Agatha Christie so I'm going to see if they have any good collections. 

 

Im really annoyed that the last Three Body Problem isn't on there yet.

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1 hour ago, Laine said:

I should have said I've listened to that. I liked the first one a lot but I'm not feeling the second.

 

Aye book 1 is definitely the best, but I've still been really enjoying it, I'm near the end of book 3 now. I did find it lost something when

 

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Bug and the Sansa Twins were killed though as I enjoyed them all as a group rather than just Jean and Locke.

 

No spoilers, but book 3 brings back the Galdos through flashbacks, which is enjoyable.

 

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Looking at ones I've enjoyed recently...

 

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - dramatisation of a true story of a murder case in 19th century Iceland with lots to say about how shit it was to be a woman back then

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - spooky goings on in the Antarctic in the 30s

Uprooted by Naomi Novik - fantasy/fairy tale thing with roots in eastern european folklore

The Fifth Season by N K Jemison - post-apoc fantasy sort of thing, first part of a trilogy

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski - the first Witcher book, set of short stories again with roots in trad folklore and fairy tales

The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell - still not entirely sure what happened in this but it's a sort of Gaimany, David Mitchelly modern urban fantasy sort of thing narrated by a butler, which always improves any story

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - see above

 

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