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What are some books you listened to as an audio book that you liked better than reading it yourself?

I liked the new Thrawn book last year. The guy did a good job on all the voices and they included Star Wars sound effects. I'm looking forward to the sequel later this month. I wonder how LotR would be. I imagine the songs would sound much better than when I tried to sing it in my head.

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The Magic 2.0 series. The reader does a magnificent job hitting the timing and pauses which really brings out the humor and wit. If you're just reading it you may miss or skip right over some of it.

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1 hour ago, gyroprotagonist said:

the Dark Tower (series) was really great as an audio book.  I think the last one was done by a different reader, though. 

Same guy did Talisman and Dark House and i am sure a lot of other King books

The first guy did a great job (I think he did the first 5 books), the second guy sucked.

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Barry Bostwick does a masterful job bringing Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas to life. By far Tom Robbins' best. A self-centered stockbroker gets desperate and horny. She runs into a most unusual character. About 18 hours of humor, folklore and history.

FWIW, local libraries can get most audio books for you for a pittance to listen to. Mine charges 50 cents or so.

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If you like police detective novels, Michael Connelly has some good ones. Make sure you go with Harry Bosch.

 

Aaronovitch has a couple of pretty good vampire stories, told with a lot of humor: Moon over Soho and Rivers of London come to mind.

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Hail Mary - Andy Weir was great.  Demon Copperhead is really good so far too.

Red Rising was, eh...

 

I'm looking for a few more listens if anything else comes to mind..

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The Expeditionary Force books would not be near as funny without the way the guy does the voice of Skippy.

Going back to the original post, I listened to the first Thrawn book (I think it was the first one) and the way the guy kept doing "Double Vision" made me nearly turn off the damn thing.  Not sure what was worse, the author writing that or the guy performing it.

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On 7/12/2018 at 7:24 AM, SimonBolivar said:

I thought The Martian was set perfectly for an audio book and the reader did a great job.

Project Hail Mary is also phenomenal on audio. Waaaay better than the book. 

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James Lee Burke books featuring the semi-alky take no shit Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, read by Will Patton, are superb.  His Scotch and smokes voice as Dav’s former NOLA PD partner Clete Purcel puts you right there in the mysterious Atchafalaya basin with the criminals and gators.

The early John Sandford “Prey” series books are also good.  Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers and an assortment of kooky Minneapolis/ St Paul LEO characters (think Lenny and Squiggy)  flesh out Sandford’s good stories. Sonewhat formulaic but really good listens.

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Steven Pacey knocks the Joe Abercrombie books (First Law Trilogy and its related works) out of the fucking park. 

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