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Audiobooks!

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Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?
 
Good idea to promote audio books which hopefully inspire more young adults to read as well.
My local library continues to sponsor summer reading contests which is a good thing.
 
Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?

The only one's I've downloaded are Star Wars novels. Like Bloodlines and Rogue One: Catalyst.

If you're ever interested in dabbling into horror, I recommend listening to some creepypastas online (internet horror stories). You don't have to pay for them, because a lot of YouTubers already do readings on them. A lot of them are just straight up terrible with tons of cliches and whatnot, but when there's a diamond, it's a good time.
 
The only one's I've downloaded are Star Wars novels. Like Bloodlines and Rogue One: Catalyst.

If you're ever interested in dabbling into horror, I recommend listening to some creepypastas online (internet horror stories). You don't have to pay for them, because a lot of YouTubers already do readings on them. A lot of them are just straight up terrible with tons of cliches and whatnot, but when there's a diamond, it's a good time.

Nope. Not interested in horror. I was when I was younger and it started messing with my mind.
 
Nope. Not interested in horror. I was when I was younger and it started messing with my mind.

Ah. Well, not for everyone. I do remember a few horror movies scaring the lights out of me when I was really young, but looking at them now, those movies are just really bad. I like creepypastas a lot because they have to rely on conveying horror through words, rather than relying on cheap jump-scares.
 
my wife and i listen to a ton of audio books on Audible. this isn't really within the suggested genres, but i'd highly recommend the Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French. the first book was kind of an onramp into that world, and by the second, i was hooked. i have listened to the last chapter of the most recent book dozens of times because it's so good. it could almost stand alone as a short story. that book is read by Hilda Fay, who is one of the best narrators that i've ever heard.
 
I have been spending a lot of time driving over the last year so have jumped back in to audio books. I never have enough contiguous quiet time out of the car to listen to or read books these days. Here is my suggestion (a year late!):

The Dresden Files

Things I love about the Series:

1) It's mix of goofball, action and drama is nearly perfect for me.

2) Butcher is able to write about crazy things in a way that fool you into thinking they make sense.

3) A recurring cast of characters that are all great and different

4) Probably the most consistent universe I've read in the fantasy genre. Butcher sets the laws of his magical universe and then sticks to them.

5) James Marsters is an awesome narrator in the audiobook series.

6) On a personal level, the character Harry Dresden is a nerd/Wizard/detective whose internal monologue through the series, as well as his idle chat with other characters, also includes his love of movies, books etc. I've never read a character more in tune with my own taste in pop culture to the point they seem like easter eggs written into the story for me.


When you get into the books and try describing them, or plot elements from them, to friends and family you get a weird feeling that is kind of like describing a dream. Something that makes perfect sense to you in a dream state ends up sounding insane when verbalized... The Dresden Files series is 15 books of exactly that.
 
audio books....or audio plays (ie, full cast drama or whatever, but sound-only)
 
Ive been thinking about publishing my works on audio, but as an indie writer the costs are super expensive. Arrgh. On my to-do list for the future, I guess.
 
Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?

Like alternate history?
 
Like alternate history?

That's fine too, but more like taking a historical event and imagining what the conversations would be, minor details that happened, etc. Or just a fictional story in a specific historical period like the Civil War or the Roaring 20s.

This summer, though, I'm focusing on dystopian novels. I've got The Handmaid's Tale beside me ready to read.
 
That's fine too, but more like taking a historical event and imagining what the conversations would be, minor details that happened, etc. Or just a fictional story in a specific historical period like the Civil War or the Roaring 20s.

This summer, though, I'm focusing on dystopian novels. I've got The Handmaid's Tale beside me ready to read.

Neuromancer and A Scanner Darkly are classics if you havent read them and a new one that is pretty good is The Circle

Also the Man in the high castle is dystopian and alternate history
 
Neuromancer and A Scanner Darkly are classics if you havent read them and a new one that is pretty good is The Circle

Also the Man in the high castle is dystopian and alternate history

Thanks! I'll add them to my list. :)
 
Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?
Best FREE sci-fi title from Audible this year: The Dispatcher
"One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.

Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.

It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late...before not even a Dispatcher can save him
."


My top paid Sci-fi pics:
  • Galaxy's Edge (it's what star wars should have been and told from the point of view friends on opposing sides of the conflict and how they do what they can to help each other without violating their respective oaths).
  • The Martian (Mark Watiney faces several challenges not mentioned in the movie)
  • Expeditionary Force (the first half of the first book is kinda boring until the character Skippy enters the story, then it's the funniest sci-fi series ever)
  • Ascend Online (99% of the book is about this amazing new game but if you pay close attention to the background details the game is actually an alien invasion of Earth)
  • Pathfinder (a unique take on time travel and our first colony on another planet)
  • Children of Time (science experiment goes horribly wrong...or, wonderfully right...after sabotash)


I could go on, there's so many :)
 
Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?

You should consider podcasts too if you already haven't. One of my favorites is Joe Rogan. He usually does about 4 or 5 per week and they're long form (usually 2-3 hrs.), very interesting interviews with a wide variety of famous people and specialists. He has many that concern health/fitness and also talks a lot about that himself.
 
Now that I'm off for the summer, I want to listen to some audiobooks. The genres I'm interested in this summer -- health/fitness, fantasy/sci-fi and historical fiction. Any good ones out there?

I don't think I am going to be able to sleep tonight. Am listening to an audiobook. It's a satire of The Great Gatsby. Written by Joy Behar, It's about Donald Trump, and it's called The Great Gasbag. I'm only through 2 chapters, and my stomach hurts like a mother****er. I can't stop laughing.
 
If you've never heard Harlan Ellison read one any of his short stories, you ought to.

I first heard this many many years ago and someone just told me that it was available on Youtube. This is one of the best audiobook experiences of my long list of audio book experiences. Enjoy!

Harlan Ellison reads his short story A BOY AND HIS DOG

 
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