Does anyone have audible specific audiobook recommendations for something really excellent you listened to recently?
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@Rycaut here you go -
1. The Three Body Problem series by Cixin Liu - the series is amazing and the audiobook is well done.
2. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson - if you just want bang for your buck, this book is extremely long and pretty epic. Worth the credits.
3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - very nice rendition of another space book by the guy who wrote The Martian. Audiobook form suits the story.
4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh - this book is very polarizing. -
@nitinkhanna I’ve heard some mixed things about the Three Body Problem series - many fans of it, some critics, my instinct is I’m not sure it’s what I want to listen to right now. But a good suggestion.
I’m probably also not going to go for a Brandon Sanderson audiobook (for one I can’t remember which books of his I have already read and I have a few in ebook and some physical in my tbr queue already).
I’m also a bit ambivalent about Andy Weir (and some of his books are also on my tbr queue)
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@Rycaut Loved the Sandman (Neil Gaiman) audio books, all three of them, but esp. Act III.
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@levampyre I have the first two in my tbr queue (though I think they may be included in my subscription so not sure if act III would use up a credit. Also a bit disappointed in Gaiman at the moment. Sigh.
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@Rycaut I can recommend the Dr. Siri Paiboun mysteries by Colin Cotteril, starting with The Coroner's Lunch, which I think was an Audible freebie, but enticed me into the series. The Jim Butcher novels narrated by James Marsters are especially good. Summer Knight was excellent, and not even the best. The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow was great (I listened twice), but I read the print versions of The Cartel and the Border to finish the trilogy. #bookstodon
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@Originallyrose thanks! I’ve heard good things about the Jim Butcher novels but haven’t read them. Not familiar with the Dr Siri Paiboun mysteries - that’s entirely new to me I’ll have to look at them to see if they sound interesting. I have some other books by Don Winslow on my tbr queue.
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@Rycaut so, my perspective on ThreeBody - the Netflix series is utter and total dogshit. Do not listen to anyone who tells you otherwise, or uses that as the baseline for the story. The books are haunting, ambitious, and they deliver! Well worth your time if you are at all into SciFi proper. Mind you, the book spends the first few chapters on the Cultural Revolution and it is bloody!
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@Rycaut Babel by RF Kuang
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@LoraHughes been on my long list of books I want to read but also been one where I’ve been torn about the format. Whether I’d rather read it in print, ebook or as an audiobook.
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@Rycaut My son listened to the audio book while I read the print version. He said the reader was excellent, but the narrative has footnotes which aren't included in the audio book. That means little tidbits of info (not plot related but extraneous info some of us love to read) aren't read aloud, so depends on if that would bother you. The book is massive, so a real handful, if that's a factor for you.
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@LoraHughes yeah, I tend to prefer audiobooks that are unabridged and I do indeed like footnotes etc when they are present (and indeed such books are challenging for audiobook formats). I'll probably want to read it as an ebook (assuming reading the footnotes etc in that format isn't too annoying) or I'll read it in physical format - however I need to work down my eh slightly ok more than slightly out of control physical tbr stacks before I really should buy (or borrow) any more books