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GrimTempest  Title: Board Manager
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Jezza_Belle posted:
GrimTempest posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
audiobooks just aren't my thing I guess.
i find it depends very heavily on the reader. you can have a fairly bad book read by a great reader and its good. and a bad reader can ruin the most epic book.
very true, I certainly can't listen to the ones that are monotone.
i use those to fall asleep at night 
best readers i can remember right off the top of my head were Claudia Black, Tim Curry and James Marsters. Marsters does the dresden files and while he was kinda stiff for the first few books he really got better as the series went on. Claudias voice is just candy for the ears and Tim Curry did an old recording of some of the Dune prequels and was just awesome with getting into each of the characters and making them come alive rather than just reading the dialog.
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Caoilin  Title: Instigator
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Jezza_Belle posted:
Name of the Wind ~ Patrick Rothfuss
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GrimTempest posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
GrimTempest posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
audiobooks just aren't my thing I guess.
i find it depends very heavily on the reader. you can have a fairly bad book read by a great reader and its good. and a bad reader can ruin the most epic book.
very true, I certainly can't listen to the ones that are monotone.
i use those to fall asleep at night
best readers i can remember right off the top of my head were Claudia Black, Tim Curry and James Marsters. Marsters does the dresden files and while he was kinda stiff for the first few books he really got better as the series went on. Claudias voice is just candy for the ears and Tim Curry did an old recording of some of the Dune prequels and was just awesome with getting into each of the characters and making them come alive rather than just reading the dialog.
I've had the dresden files for ages and never gotten around to listening.
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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the only audio book readers i like are claudia black (she's only read a book and i didn't care for the book but her sexy voice is fantastic regardless.), spike from buffy doing dresden and the dude that did the harry potter books.
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DunesVladHarkonnen Title: Moderator
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Caoilin posted:
and the dude that did the harry potter books.
I thought he was good as well. Listened to him when I had my laser eye surgery.
Caoilin posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
Name of the Wind ~ Patrick Rothfuss
Cool. This one is currently in my Amazon cart (Kindle version). Was on the fence on whether to buy and read it or not.
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-MrBean-  Title: Now With Extra Baldness
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Ariel: A book of the change by Steven RR Boyett.
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Kanga_Roo Posts: 439
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The original Dune changed the way I view the world. It added a lot of complexity to my view of relationships, choices, destiny verses self-determinism, energy, and had huge sandworms that could eat a bus. As an ecologist the world of Dune and the people who made their way in it was inspiring. It sounds trite - but I believe it.
Then Frank's son went and effed it up.
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Kanga_Roo posted:
The original Dune changed the way I view the world. It added a lot of complexity to my view of relationships, choices, destiny verses self-determinism, energy, and had huge sandworms that could eat a bus. As an ecologist the world of Dune and the people who made their way in it was inspiring. It sounds trite - but I believe it.
Then Frank's son went and effed it up.
SEE GRIM!?!?
SOMEONE who KNOWS what they're talking about.
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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i've never read dune. the movie kind of put me off. i mean i have it on my nook. i think i have all of them on my nook, actually. but i've never bothered reading them.
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Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Its been a great conversation piece when talking to gray hairs over the years.
Thanks for bubble wrapping the USofA and taking the fun out of everything you liberal F...'s
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