Audiobooks

[Freya]

I'm busy these days with little time to myself. One of the jobs I have, I do have a lot of time to myself and I get bored. But it's the situation that I can't just pick a book up and read because I have to put the book down anytime I get a customer. So I do have time but I don't. I've been thinking about getting some audiobooks but I don't know where.

I checked out audible.com but was suspicious, because I get that way, and googled their "free" trial. turns out it's a scam, It'll still charge you after you cancel and such. They also only have the books in a .aa format that it's ridiculously hard to change over to another format unless you use their player to play it or an ipod. I don't have an ipod xP


http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1284760995l/8182682.jpg

I want How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper because I like that kind of stuff and I want a silly fun romance novel to listen to. I don't want something super serious that I have to pay a lot of attention to. Something that'll put me in a good mood and I can just pause.

Anyone know of a good site that I can get stuff off of? Possibly for free :shifty:

Also, Do any of you listen to audiobooks?

EDIT: Heh I found it >.> STILL WANT TO KNOW OF GOOD AUDIOBOOKS AND STUFF THOUGH!

[Unbreakable Will]

I recently got a Kindle, and I've heard you can get audiobooks on there but I haven't tried to so I'm not too sure. I know for a fact that Itunes carries a large amount of them but they can be pricey. I have a paranoid personality and tend not to trust free sites so I don't really know any.

[Shlup]

I tried listening to Harry Potter on audiobook but hearing the old British dude try to do a Hermoine voice was breaking my balls. I have considered downloading a few to listen to while I fall asleep though.

[Miriel]

I've used audible's free trial at least 10 or so times (all you need is a new credit card number + email address) and I have NEVER been charged after I canceled. I've been using Audible via their free trial and also through their paid subscription for 3 years. I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

Favorite Audiobooks Ever (like, you can't stop listening to it, it's amaaazing)

Dune
The Help


Really Good Audiobooks

Born to Run
Golden Compass
Garlic & Sapphire
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Water for Elephants


Great Audiobooks read by the Author

Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Live at Carnegie Hall, or anything else by David Sedaris
I Am America and So Can You - Stephen Colbert


Recommended with reservations

My Life in France - GREAT book, but awful narrator. It wasn't so bad that I couldn't get through it, since the book itself was fascinating.
Her Fearful Symmetry - Fantastic narrator. Really great first half of the book, horrible ending.
Casino Royale - Fantastic narration, insanely sexist/misogynistic book!


Recommended for fun, easy, maybe a little trashy listening

Sookie Stackhouse books
Innocent Traitor
Eragon
:bou::bou::bou::bou: my Dad Says
Some Girls


Some tips:

Audiobooks with a full cast are almost always amazing. But they're hard to come by. It's like listening to a play.
Audiobooks read by the author are almost always amazing. It's like listening to the author tell you a story since it's most likely going to be told in first person perspective.
Listening to audiobooks of books that I've read often, or recently makes me fall asleep. It either has to be brand new or something I read years ago.
Listen to samples of the audiobook, if the narrator annoys you in that 20 sec clip, they're going to bug the :bou::bou::bou::bou: out of you if you listen to the whole thing.


There's a long list of books I didn't like at all in audiobook format. Life of Pi, Inkheart, Game of Thrones, American Gods, etc. Luckily with audible's free trials, you don't lose out too much if you pick up a stinker.

[Bunny]

I cannot listen to audiobooks because I get distracted too easily and focus on other things, which means I don't listen to the person talking in my ear and miss everything.

[Miriel]

I listen to audiobooks mostly while driving up and down the state of California.

I'm pretty sure there are times when I would have fallen asleep at the wheel if it weren't for audiobooks! Audiobooks can save lives!

[Freya]

OH WOW! Thanks Miriel!

I've listened to about two hours of that one I had posted earlier and I love it. It's kinda lighthearted and fun but he narrator does a perfect alaskan accent. Her male voices are kinda ugh but I like her narration.

I'll have to check out Dune. I've been meaning to actually read the book but haven't gotten around to it.

[Pixel]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but i love audiobooks. I usually listen to autobiographies, usually of british comedians. Alan Carr, Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee. Its great listening to them recounting events in their lives.

Others I quite liked:
The Lovely Bones
Jurassic Park
A Walk To Remember

Im listening to the Hunger Games series atm

If anyone is interested in something Final Fantasy related in audiobook form, you might like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um_I9yYtXGk
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WhcEaIn8cw

[krissy]

dune is one of my favorite books, but i am not sure if i'd want to listen to it

[Miriel]

The audiobook version of Dune is done with a full cast and I think is extraordinarily well done.

[Forsaken Lover]

A lot of people find The Silmarillion to be very dull reading but I frickin' loved it. I think the fact i used the audiobook version of it helped a lot.

I pretty much only use audiobooks because of my eyesight. It's just not practical for me to read long books.

Sean Bean read a children's version of the various Arthurian Legends.

[Araciel]

Can't audiobook anymore. Used to when working as delivery helper...Listened to a ton of fantasy novels.

[Pixel]

Is Dune narrated with voice actors, or is it just done with voice actors creating the scenes without narration?

BBC's Lord of the Rings is done like a radioplay, which is interesting, but id rather listen to the authors words

[Slothy]

The audiobook version of Dune is done with a full cast and I think is extraordinarily well done.

I may have to check that out. Dune is hands down one of my favourite books (and series) ever.

[Yeargdribble]

I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I get a lot of them from TPB to be honest. I found Orson Scott Card's books there easily and have picked up many there since.

I've really considered an audible subscription. Can someone convince me. I mean, the dozens of podcasts I listen to all evangelize for it, but looking into their little point system seems a little frustrating. I mean, I'd subscribe and get basically a book a month, right?

Hell, I finished the entire Hunger Games trilogy in 2 days. So what happens when I blaze through a book and have to wait until the next month to get another one? Doesn't the subscription fee just end up being roughly the equivalent of buying the audiobook elsewhere and with less DRM?

I also hate that I can't import my outside books like from Librivox (great place for hit or miss free audiobooks of public domain works) to the Audible app. I want a better audiobook player and Audible is certainly a good player, but I hate that the ecosystem is so locked down.

[Chris]

Nothing beats Harry Potter as read by Stephen Fry. Such lovely evenings I've had in the company of that man's voice!

[Freya]

Oh man my old thread! Btw that book was hilarious and I now love everything by molly harper. I haven't listened to stuff as much as I use to cause now I'm too busy to even do that but I hear Dune is awesome with its full cast.