What are we listening to? (audiobooks)

[WT Sharpe]

I'm finally tackling Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwall. Never did read the ebook I bought for the MobileRead Book Club, but the audiobook is flying by.

[CRussel]

Who's the narrator, Tom? Maybe I can manage to finish it in audio format. (I did manage about 40%, but ran out of steam.)

[WT Sharpe]

The narrators do an excellent job. They are listed as Bruce Cornwell, Bernard Cornwell, and Dugald Bruce Lockhart.

The book has a lot of repetition, as if certain details were too juicy to be mentioned only once, or as if the author had forgotten that he had already told them.

[orlok]

I'm listening to In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story (In The Black Room) by Luke Smitherd. This was originally an episodic set of releases, now incorporated into the one recording.

The premise is intriguing - imagine waking up one day to find yourself in a small "room", looking out of someone else's eyes. You soon find you can also talk to them, you are the voice in their head.

My issue with it is that the author has chosen (been forced?) to read it himself. It would definitely benefit from a professional reader. The author reads every character in the same way, with the same inflections and style of speech (I think part of that is the way the characters are written, which is a flaw in his style, IMHO).

Also, very early on he mispronounces a word, a word that he has written, and it threw me right out of the story for a while. He pronounced "ethereal" as two words "etha reel". Goodness!

I'm a fair way through it now, and the story is developing enough to keep me listening, but I feel the experience would have been far better with a professionally produced product.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The narrators do an excellent job. They are listed as Bruce Cornwell, Bernard Cornwell, and Dugald Bruce Lockhart.

The book has a lot of repetition, as if certain details were too juicy to be mentioned only once, or as if the author had forgotten that he had already told them.

Yes, it does have a lot of repetition. But being a cynic, and an author, I'm more inclined to think that Mr. Cornwell had a contract for x number of pages and was having trouble meeting the page goal. However, that being said, there was certainly some useful information in the book, and I mostly enjoyed it for as far as I got.

[taosaur]

Bands of Mourning, the most recent Mistborn book by Brandon Sanderson, popped up in my library queue this week, and I'm really enjoying it around the halfway mark. A lot about the previous book, Shadows of Self, did not work for me at all, but this one has pulled me back into the series.

Originally Posted by booklover6

I just listened to Wool by Hugh Howey. The audio book was a great way to re-read the story. Now I'll listen to Shift, then Dust. I was able to get them all cheaply via whisper-sync for voice with kindle unlimited.

I've listened to the whole series three or four times now. It's my audiobook comfort food No complaints about the narration here.

[WT Sharpe]

Finished Seedfolks last night. It was interesting but rather short. A YA novel. For the moment I'm in-between aBooks.

[ApK]

I just started John Steakley's "Armor" since I'd seen it recommended a lot in the MilSF threads. I'm just a couple hours in, but it's not grabbing me yet.
If any one wants try to motivate me to stay with it, go for it! I could use the encouragement.

Oh, I also just listened to the abridged version of Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover" available from my library through Hoopla (as is Armor). It was entertaining and motivating.

[taosaur]

Originally Posted by ApK

I just started John Steakley's "Armor" since I'd seen it recommended a lot in the MilSF threads. I'm just a couple hours in, but it's not grabbing me yet.
If any one wants try to motivate me to stay with it, go for it! I could use the encouragement.

Oh, I also just listened to the abridged version of Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover" available from my library through Hoopla (as is Armor). It was entertaining and motivating.

I read Armor a while back (with my eyeballs). The prose is quite poor, which probably comes through more strongly (though hopefully omitting outright typos) on audio. Military SF is generally not my cup of tea, but I did find the book worthwhile as a quick pulp read with some meatier themes behind it. It's not something I would try on audio--for me, sci-fi generally takes a little too much concentration to follow on audio alone, though switching between text and audio works for some books.

[poohbear_nc]

Just acquired The Turn of the Screw read by Emma Thompson -- I can't wait to begin -- I'm going to use it as my bedtime story tonight!

[sydmalicious]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Just spent 20+ hours listening to Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Is that an audible book? That sound amazing.

[WT Sharpe]

I've decided to focus on Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë. Version 2 at Librivox is narrated by Ruth Golding, who does an excellent job. I'd go so far as to say her voice is perfect for the book.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by sydmalicious

Is that an audible book? That sound amazing.

Yes, here's the Audible link.

[sydmalicious]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Yes, here's the Audible link.

Thanks. Will pick it up soon.

[melmac]

Recently I've been alternating between Iron Druid(Kevin Hearne) novels and Lucas Davenport(John Sandford) two very different genres but both a lot of fun I've been enjoying them very much. But now its time to take a break from both authors as my pre-order for Justin Cronin's City of Mirrors has arrived and I'm very excited to start it hopefully it's on par with the first book in the series.