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Old 03-16-2012, 09:58 AM   #16
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I don't know about the best, but I can certainly remember the worst. The book or series of books was the fantasy series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. The guy who was reading it had a really heavy Bronx or Jersey accent. It was like Tony Soprano doing Bada Bing in your ear. Suffice it to say I didn't get very far with those audio books, but I did love reading the novels.
I dunno. Just about anything you could do to Stephen R. Donaldson's books which distracted you from the characters and the story would improve them...
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Frank Muller was one of the best for audiobooks. His voice alone brought to mind a seasoned wild west adventurer and fit so well with the content of King's Dark Tower series.

If, like myself, you have time on a daily commute then an audiobook can be be very welcome companion. I highly recommend finding and a least listening to one of the Muller read books.
F'in-A, Bubba.

I agree Frank Muller is good. He's probably the only reason I ever got all the way through Moby Dick.

Susan Ericksen, who does the JD Robb "In Death" books is amazingly good, even allowing for her somewhat curious choice of making Detective Peabody sound like the androgynous "Pat" from Saturday Night Live.

So is Lou Diamond Philips, who did a really good job on the last Tom Clancy book I listened to. I like Lou as an actor, but still was somewhat surprised at how good a job he did.

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Old 03-16-2012, 10:54 AM   #18
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I dunno. Just about anything you could do to Stephen R. Donaldson's books which distracted you from the characters and the story would improve them...
Well you'll love these then. Let me send them to you.
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Old 03-16-2012, 11:20 AM   #19
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I love listening to the Narnia series with my children, It reminds me of being a child myself! I hold so many precious memories for those books!

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Frank Muller does an excellent job with Moby Dick also.
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I wasn't that impressed, his pacing and tone kept changing every few minutes.
You would love Peter Ganim's narration of Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson. I listened to 3 hours of it driving home after Thanksgiving. I stuck with it that long because the book was interesting, but the narration had few changes of pace or inflection. I finally quit before I put a bullet in my head.
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Old 03-16-2012, 12:18 PM   #22
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Yeah, that's the point! Follow the ebb and tide of the story, crescendos and climaxes with dramatic change to tone and pace...
It wasn't dramatic, it sounded like he was running out of air and rushing the last sentence he was reading, before pausing the recording. When he started up his tone and pace were normal again. It broke up the narrative and I found it distracting.
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I don't listen to many audio books (it has been more than 15 years since I have done that regularly and then it was always with my parent's on long trips), but I did hear John Cleese narrate The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis a few years ago and loved it.
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Old 03-16-2012, 05:22 PM   #24
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James Masters reading Jim Butcher's Dresden files. You fell he is the character telling you his story.
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Old 03-16-2012, 09:27 PM   #25
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James Masters reading Jim Butcher's Dresden files. You fell he is the character telling you his story.
I think you mean James Marsters.

Roy Dotrice did most of the Song of Ice and Fire books.
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Rob Inglis reading the LOTR trilogy is sublime.
Jim Dale's rendering of the Harry Potter series is also exceptional.
I don't mind Spike reading The Dresden Files but they are not my favorite.
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Rob Inglis reading the LOTR trilogy is sublime.
Jim Dale's rendering of the Harry Potter series is also exceptional.
I don't mind Spike reading The Dresden Files but they are not my favorite.
What about Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter?
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Beresford Bennett's narration made Colson Whitehead's Zone One a very enjoyable experience for me. He struck just the right pace for that particular book (on the faster side) and I can't think of anyone who would do a better job.
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I really liked the work of Nathan Lowell in Trader Tales. Best of all they are free:
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks...+solar+clipper
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I really liked the work of Nathan Lowell in Trader Tales. Best of all they are free:
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks...+solar+clipper
Free!? I love free! Which do you recommend?


And, by the way, what's the easiest way to download the whole book from that site?
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