I've been downloading audio books from Audible.com for while now and I really think it's the best thing to hit the internet since porn.
But I'm getting real close to running out of books an authors that I am familiar with, so I need suggestions on what to listen to. I usually listen to some form of SF, but that doesn't mean that's what I want to hear.
Suggest anything that you think is good.
EDIT: Here's a list of stuff I have liked as thin suggested. Sorry, I was way tired and shouldn't have been at a computer. Now I know what it is to be Zammy. ;-0
Airframe (Unabridged) - Michael Crichton
Angels and Demons (Unabridged) - Dan Brown
Dreamcatcher (Unabridged) - Stephen King
Dune: The Battle of Corrin (Unabridged) - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (Unabridged) - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: The Machine Crusade (Unabridged) - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Life of Pi (Unabridged) - Yann Martel
On Writing (Unabridged) - Stephen King
Pompeii (Unabridged) - Robert Harris
Snow Crash (Unabridged) - Neal Stephenson
The DaVinci Code (Unabridged) - Dan Brown
The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Timeline (Unabridged) - Michael Crichton
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Unabridged) - Philip K. Dick
Xenocide (Unabridged) - Orson Scott Card
Thanks in advance.
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You feel like throwing together a quick list of what you've picked up so far? That would give me a better idea for suggestions for you.
-thin
Stephen King's & Peter Straub's The Talisman and Black House are both pretty good reads, and I think are a bit better than a lot of King's solo work. They're both good and long, too. Frank Muller's narration for them is great as always.
If you want to give something lighter a try, both of David Sedaris' books they have there (Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim) are hysterical, but in a really sweet way. I think being read by the author is something that really enhances the books in that respect. I wish they'd drop an Audible version of his other book (the name of that one escapes me at the moment).
You don't have much by way of straight fantasy on that list, but if you don't have a direct aversion to it, I can't recommend highly enough George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords). It's almost more historical fiction of the medieval flavor, as it's heavy on the realism and kind of minimal on the fantasy, but I will say without qualification that they are the best Audible discovery I've made. I have been absolutely blown away by how great, how unique, and how riveting those books are. So far, three of a planned six have been published (the fourth is expected this summer), so if you're averse to starting an unfinished series, there's that, and they are long as the dickens. It doesn't look like that would be an issue to you, but I figured I'd forewarn you just in case--all three are in the 35-40 hour range. The narrator, Roy Dotrice, is really fantastic as well.
Any of that sound interesting?
...yeah, that was me. :oops:
-thin
I've not been in to Fantasy in the past, I come from a Asmovian background but I really am looking for something fresh.
Speaking of fresh, I heard David Sedaris on "Fresh Air" and had been looking at his books on Audible. His sister is pretty funny too.
I think King may be the reason I want something lighter. I'm about halfway through The Dark Tower and I'd finished Dreamcatcher right before... so I need something not as dark.
I'd kill to be able to get Dan Simmons' Hyperion series off Audible.
If you're wanting lighter, then the George RR Martin books are not the route you want to go. Not right now, anyway, although I think you should still give them a try later on down the road.
I thought King Solomon's Mines was a fun listen, too. It's an adventure story that's a little antiquated, but I think that's part of its charm, and it's relatively light stuff. Avoid the sequel, Allan Quatermain, however. Where King Solomon's Mines' pacing is at times deliberate, Allan Quatermain outright drags for what feels like half the book, and its narrator (a different one than the one who reads KSM) is positively funereal. Although I think they actually move funerals along faster than he moves that book.
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