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For me, audiobooks really depend on the narrator. Some, I will listen to the first few paragraphs and immediately determine that I simply cannot listen to the entire book. FWIW, in my case, most audiobooks fall into the "I can't listen to the entire book" category. I find it horribly annoying when the narrator tries to create uniquely different voices for each character. They typically fail badly at that. What they usually end up with is a bunch of annoying sounding morons as characters.
An example of a good narrator IMHO, who also happens to be the books author, is Bill Bryson. I loved his reading of his own book, "In a Sunburned Country". I want to go back someday and listen to his reading of "A Walk in the Woods". But since I've already read the book (wonderful!), and seen the movie (just OK), the audiobook is a bit down towards the end of my list. Probably I will read/listen to some of his other books before circling back to listen to Woods.
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