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I read with my ears. Help me to listen!
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I have some credits on audible from their 48 hour sale recently. Currently I am listening to game of thrones, but once I finish with everything that series currently has to offer, I need somewhere else to go. I've listened to game of thrones, which I really enjoy, and Solaris, which was fantastic.
I think I enjoy unabridged, but if someone wants to educate me on different types, be my guest.
I want more books. Steer me toward some awesome ones, preferably one credit, and preferably longer than shorter, but that's by no means a requirement.
I've wishlisted Dune, right now, because, well, it's Dune, and I've never read it. I assume few people will combat me on that decision, but where do I go from here?
FYI: I am very poorly read. Aside from a few series of fantasy novels, and a few classics from school, I have read next to nothing. So fire away.
I think I enjoy unabridged, but if someone wants to educate me on different types, be my guest.
I want more books. Steer me toward some awesome ones, preferably one credit, and preferably longer than shorter, but that's by no means a requirement.
I've wishlisted Dune, right now, because, well, it's Dune, and I've never read it. I assume few people will combat me on that decision, but where do I go from here?
FYI: I am very poorly read. Aside from a few series of fantasy novels, and a few classics from school, I have read next to nothing. So fire away.
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Ready Player One (80s geek fan service)
War of the Rats (somewhat factual historical fiction around the Stalingrad snipers)
Hornet Flight (fun WWII spy thriller)
Jackdaws (same as Hornet Flight, same author, also fun)
Harry Potter series (fantastic, superhuman voice acting)
The Mistborn series (starting with The Final Empire) was a good listen as well if you'd prefer fantasy. They are a very different, far less gritty, flavor of fantasy than Game of Thrones though. They're in the 25-30 hours per book range.
But really I will consider just about anything. I was also going to wishlist catch-22, for much the same reason as Dune: because I've never heard a negative comment about either, etc.
Yeah. I don't want to limit recommendations to on genre or another, definitely. I'm in the market for just about anything. That list is something I'll look at pretty closely.
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V5BLIW
There are four books, that's the first one.
I'll second Redshirts, I just read it and it was very clever.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I'm also fond of Lauren Beukes. She has two books on amazon in the audible format. Moxiland is the harder sci-fi, while Zoo City won a big award but is science fantasy.
The Hyperion Cantos is absolutely amazing and definitely deserves at least a second.
By William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Burning Chrome (short story collection), Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History (the last three aren't sci-fi, sorry, but I can't help myself, Internet forums are too full of people telling each other to read science fiction books that aren't as good as normal books for me to just recommend sci-fi)
By Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
By Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
By George Orwell: 1984
By Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
By M. John Harrison: Light, Nova Swing
By Douglas Adams: All his books, I don't want to type all this shit
By Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle
By Iain M. Banks: Read (listen to?) the Culture novels in order, starting with Consider Phlebas
I'll second Lauren Buekes also.
My old man is currently listening to this on his commute and really likes the narrator.
And Tycho you just keep up the recommendations for whatever you think is worth ear-reading. Like I said, genre is a preference, not a rule.
I've read, from this thread's suggestions, Harry Potter, everything by Douglas Adams, Neuromancer, 1984, and several from Tycho's list of 100 best books, and I've pretty much enjoyed all of them, so these suggestions are hitting home.
There's not that much actual SF - Red Dwarf, and also Brian Aldiss reading classic SF, plus his novel Hothouse , and the 7Th Dimension program, but lots of other good stuff and its free.
For hard sci-fi I'll recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's my favourite hard sci-fi book by a country mile and the audio version is really nice.
I actually listen to a lot of audio books while working. My favourite are:
Misucophilia by Oliver Sacks
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Song of Ice and Fire books, but you've got those
All of the Dresden Files books. They're really light and fluffy, but they're fun enough
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis--a rare circumstance where I prefer the audio book to the print book.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Couple of others I could recommend that aren't sci-fi, but it doesn't look like they're available on Audible.
Some classics have already been mentioned, 1984, Catch-22, etc.
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
In the fantasy realm, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule is Book 1.
Couldn't agree more. These books are amazing, but even more incredible when read by Jim Dale.