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Audiobooks for g\f

JokermanJokerman Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
So my girlfriend loves audio books,

I mean loves them.

So in an effort to be a good boyfriend, I'm going to load up this I-pod nano full of nothing but audio books for her, as she just switched stores and now has an hour long commute to work.

She just finished with the twilight series (no comments, please) and she loves zombies, horror, and she hates clowns and cows (I have no idea how that would impact the kind of fiction she would read).

I'm kind of lost here, as I've never really listened to audiobooks and I want this to be a special gift she really likes.

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  • VeitsevVeitsev Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Zombies?

    World War Z, absolutely fantastic audiobook.

    Its available on itunes too.

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  • JokermanJokerman Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Veitsev wrote: »
    Zombies?

    World War Z, absolutely fantastic audiobook.

    Its available on itunes too.

    Holy shit, how did i not think of this?


    Anymore? I'm thinking of putting the stand on it, so yes she even likes king.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? That's available as an audiobook.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    America: A Guide to Democracy Inaction.

    Read my Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's hilarious..

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  • GiraGira Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    http://librivox.org/ is a good site for free audio books I've pointed some of my students towards before.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I second WWZ, it is an amazing audiobook by a full cast.

    I also suggest American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Its awesome and its narrated by George Guidall, by far the best audiobook narrator I've heard.

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    No zombies, but Bill Bryson's books are a good "read" in audio form.

    I enjoyed "In A Sunburnt Country" quite a bit as it was read by him, and "A Short History" was really good, if not a little long.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I second WWZ, it is an amazing audiobook by a full cast.

    I also suggest American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Its awesome and its narrated by George Guidall, by far the best audiobook narrator I've heard.

    Lenny Henry doing Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" is also fantastic.

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  • An-DAn-D Enthusiast AshevilleRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    If she likes pseudo-classic stuff, than get the Alchemist. Read by Jeremy Irons (IE: Scar from Lion King). He made that book for me.

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  • NisiNisi Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Host by Stephanie Meyer is also a really good scifi audiobook. The road by Cormac McCarthy is really good, but quite depressing.

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  • November FifthNovember Fifth Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Harry Potter books read by Jim Dale.

    The Discworld Books by Terry Pratchet.

    Neil Gaiman- Fragile Things, Stardust, Neverwhere

    The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, read by Barbara Rosenblat.

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  • ascannerlightlyascannerlightly Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    stephen king + zombies = cell

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  • FibretipFibretip Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro, read by Ron fucking Perlman. It's a vampire thriller story, absolutely fantastic, real chills at times, very good story, really interesting characters, and an excellent reading by Perlman.

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    the tamora pierce books are very enjoyable light fantasy books aimed at girls. i think they are all available as audiobooks now (i personally hate audiobooks but an itunes search shows them there). if you look into them, start with the alanna quartet, then the immortals quartet, then the protector of the small quartet. (alternatively check out the circle of magic quartet then the circle opens quartet)

    that's a really sweet thing of you to do, i am sure she'll love it

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  • JokermanJokerman Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Thanks for all your help guys, i really do apreciate it.

    After hinting around for a few days, trying to get a guage on what she's read (She said Cell was one of her favorite books ever, so kudu's, Scannerlightly), I've narrowed it down to this list,

    Harry potter series
    The Strain
    The Host
    I am Legend (Dur, why am i not remembering this?!)


    I think this should be enough to keep her occupied. If anyone has some final suggestions, I'd still aprecciate it, and once again, thanks for all your help.

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  • xeviqxeviq Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    stephen king + zombies = cell

    Cell doesn't have zombies. They're zombie-esque at first...

    I highly suggest the book by the way; it's great. I cranked it out in about 2.5 days.
    It's also the only book ever that has made me cry.

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  • TheFullMetalChickenTheFullMetalChicken Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    A second for Terry prachett
    Harry potter is also read by Steven Fry (never heard one but I love Steven Fry and would listen to that man read anything)
    Also not sure if it's for her but The Partner by John Grisham one of the best audio books ever IMO

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  • truck-a-saurastruck-a-sauras Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I second WWZ, it is an amazing audiobook by a full cast.

    can't be stressed enough. fucking all star cast for that audio book.

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  • Wedge BiggsWedge Biggs Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Fucking awesome audio version.

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  • NisiNisi Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    As already said, WWZ is amazing.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Since you said you're doing this for her long commute to work, get her a car adapter of some sort for the Nano. Google tells me it is quite possibly illegal to listen to headphones while driving. It most certainly is illegal in the state of Washington, for example. Avoid the possibility it is also illegal wherever you live as well.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    A second for Terry prachett
    Harry potter is also read by Steven Fry (never heard one but I love Steven Fry and would listen to that man read anything)

    Stephen Fry reads the shit out of Harry Potter. I prefer him to Jim Dale (who is still excellent).

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  • LidjisLidjis Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Jonathon Cecil reading anything by P.G. Wodehouse is a treat.

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  • truck-a-saurastruck-a-sauras Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    KalTorak wrote: »
    A second for Terry prachett
    Harry potter is also read by Steven Fry (never heard one but I love Steven Fry and would listen to that man read anything)

    Stephen Fry reads the shit out of Harry Potter. I prefer him to Jim Dale (who is still excellent).

    if she is a Harry Potter fan, then look for the Brad Neely "Wizard People: dear reader" sort of a MST3K of the first potter film. I've got a copy burned to CD to listen in the car. funny stuff.

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  • ascannerlightlyascannerlightly Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    xeviq wrote: »
    stephen king + zombies = cell

    Cell doesn't have zombies. They're zombie-esque at first...
    psychic zombies

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