Enjoyed my first Audio Book

[abbynormal52]

Originally Posted by Debi

I've used audiobooks to help me sleep for years.

My first suggestion is to listen to something that you've already read/heard so you're not tempted to try to stay awake to find out what happens next.

I'm also not a fan of the "dramatized" versions that seem so prominent now. Just the words please.

I have a very large playlist of favorites that play on a loop so there's no silence when I wake up during the night. If I wake up I listen to whatever story is playing and drift back to sleep.

One of my all time favorite voices is Davina Porter.

I hope there's a nugget in my comments that might help.

This is all such good direction Debi, cannot thank you enough! I had thought about re-listening to what I've read, and your reasoning is excellent. I also think I would sleep more hours at a time if I do it your way, if I can play mine on a loop as well I'm using my Android, Librivox, and a timer-app set for 90 minutes. I think a loop is what I'll try tonight

Definitely with you on the "dramatized", words only for me too denise

[abbynormal52]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Who is the narrator?

Did I answer you Jon? If I didn't I so apologize! I've still been listening to mostly, Kara Shellenberg. Hope the spelling is right on her. Sadly, she has passed away for some years now.

I found a man I really like, but he's too good I think as I couldn't fall asleep I was so enthralled in his narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four". The book is amazing and I'd only ever saw it on tv in the past.

David Clarke is his name (narrator).

Anyway, I came back in to see the different answers I got here so I can find more books. It's hard because I wasn't much of a reader before the last few years, and never read the classics etc. Too many movies except my fave book did become To Kill a Mockingbird, and I loved the move as well

[arjaybe]

It's encouraging that people seem to prefer straight narration.

If you don't like a woman reading a story told by a man, how do you feel about a male narrator reading the dialog of women?

[abbynormal52]

Originally Posted by arjaybe

It's encouraging that people seem to prefer straight narration.

If you don't like a woman reading a story told by a man, how do you feel about a male narrator reading the dialog of women?

I don't like the dramatized, but Kara Shellenberg's was ok until it started raking on my nerves.

I prefer a narrator with a good story-telling voice, male or female, unless the book is being told by the person, then the voice should match in my opinion. It was weird with one narrator I came across in the book Swiss Family Robinson.

I think it was a female and she had to talk about her wife. It may have been the other way around, a male narrator had to talk about being a wife, mother, something like that. It just sounded too corny, but I love that story so I'll search for it again

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by abbynormal52

I don't like the dramatized, but Kara Shellenberg's was ok until it started raking on my nerves.

I prefer a narrator with a good story-telling voice, male or female, unless the book is being told by the person, then the voice should match in my opinion. It was weird with one narrator I came across in the book Swiss Family Robinson.

I think it was a female and she had to talk about her wife. It may have been the other way around, a male narrator had to talk about being a wife, mother, something like that. It just sounded too corny, but I love that story so I'll search for it again

I've listened to some full-cast and really enjoyed them. I've also listened to some Graphic Audio and rather enjoyed them. Graphic Audio is like listening to a radio drama but it's the full book.

[abbynormal52]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've listened to some full-cast and really enjoyed them. I've also listened to some Graphic Audio and rather enjoyed them. Graphic Audio is like listening to a radio drama but it's the full book.

Yes, I think I might be ok with that, it's just one person trying to talk like all the characters I didn't like. Some voices just come across well for me, others are like finger-nails on a chalk-board.

I have real bad anxiety and I have to be selective with types of stories, and now I realize, different types of narration. I actually did a "search" last night for "bedtime stories for adults" something comforting