I love audiobooks. Stephen Fry reading the Harry Potter series is amazing. Phillip Pullman (and a cast of dozens) reading The GOlden Compass, equally so.
There are readers who just don't do it for me. I don't know who the fellow is who reads Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, but I just didnt like his voice that much.
As others have said... its the narrator/reader who makes the difference. The advantage for me in audiobooks is that I sometimes read the text too quickly and skim over important things which go unnoticed. With an audiobook, I get to have it all.
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