Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Either of the audio books that Bruce Campbell did. Both are awesome.
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Damn. I do not know. I rented them from the hastings near me but they have since got rid of them. I really would like to own them too.
Fievel wrote:What I will talk about is Stephen Fry's performance.
Listening to the first book, I was amazed mostly by how much he sounded like Robbie Coltrane's Hagrid. Snape comes close to Rickman every once in a while, but Hagrid is the closest to the movie actor's voice.
Chris a.k.a StuntMike wrote:World War Z is a good audiobook for a long roadtrip.
Lord Voldemoo wrote:Chris a.k.a StuntMike wrote:World War Z is a good audiobook for a long roadtrip.
Absolutely! Nice production values and cast.
As I understand it, though, there are a couple of good stories that are in the book itself that were cut from the audiobook (something about a submarine??)
If anyone wants to know more about the comparison, check out the book of the month thread for WWZ. I'd find it myself but I'm too lazy. Beware spoilers in there!
I listened to much of Golden Compass (unabridged) while traveling this weekend...good audiobook, I'd recommend it.
Fievel wrote:
Yeah, there are some stories missing from the audio version of WWZ, and that sucks. Sucks because I'll have to try and read the book to find what I missed, but sucks even harder because they did a great job with that audiobook. I'd love to have heard more stories.
Seppuku wrote:Bah, these things are my new addiction. I even found myself almost walking in front of a bus yesterday whilst listening to the Audio Bible on headphones.
Seppuku wrote:I'm still not sure if Audio Books don't take away some of the fun of interpreting literature for yourself. Also, I'm not sure if some of the people who listen to these things know how much shit is often cut out.
Englishman Barker's latest novel, the first part of a trilogy, is an ambitious fantasy/horror fusion of dazzling scope which stands alone as a complete story. Nebraska postal clerk Randolph Jaffe works in the Dead Letter Room, opening and inspecting loads of undeliverable U.S. mail. Soon, through a series of cryptic dead letters, he taps into an ethereal network of mysterious revelations which provides access to enormous power channels. The customary battle of light forces versus dark forces commences, with greedy Jaffe heading the latter, and mad yet philanthropic scientist Richard Fletcher representing the former. Despite occasional and convenient lapses into nonsensical elements of fantasy which characterize too much of the genre, this original, intelligent treatment of a complex idea by the author of The Damnation Game ( LJ 5/15/87) and Weaveworld ( LJ 10/15/87) is amazingly believable and compulsively readable. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/89.
Fievel wrote:Ended up listening to Ready Player One, which I started on an earlier trip.... fuck that was a blast!!![]()
When that was done started listening to The Passage by Justin Cronin. I went into this really not knowing much about it other than it had to do with vampires (and I knew it wasn't Twilight).... and after a serious time jump and tonal shift my interest is hanging by a thread. I'll finish it out, but that jump was not what I was expecting.
Bloo wrote:Glad to hear you enjoyed Ready Player One. I'm currently listening to Redshirts by John Scalzi and read by Wil Wheaton (who is making a hbit of doing this geek/nerd friendly books LOL). I'm having a bit of trouble following it at the moment as Scalzi has "so and so said" after almost every bit of dialogue, which was playing with my ears. Also several of the characters have similar sounding names. But the story is a corker, so I'll put up with it, also Wil Wheaton is very good as the "reader" I guess you could say.
TheBaxter wrote:Bloo wrote:Glad to hear you enjoyed Ready Player One. I'm currently listening to Redshirts by John Scalzi and read by Wil Wheaton (who is making a hbit of doing this geek/nerd friendly books LOL). I'm having a bit of trouble following it at the moment as Scalzi has "so and so said" after almost every bit of dialogue, which was playing with my ears. Also several of the characters have similar sounding names. But the story is a corker, so I'll put up with it, also Wil Wheaton is very good as the "reader" I guess you could say.
i just finished reading this book (redshirts). i don't know if it was in my head because of reading your post, but i was EXTREMELY distracted by all the "he said/she said"s used after practically every single line of dialogue in the book. if you had a drinking game for every time the word "said" is said, you'd be drunk before finishing the 2nd page. that's just really poor writing style in my opinion. i can't say how annoying it would have been if i hadn't read your comment first, but i'm pretty sure i would've noticed anyway. overuse of the word "said" is a bit of a peeve of mine already.
as for the rest of the book, i liked the story. parts of it were very funny. not sure how much i cared for the last couple "official" chapters when the book goes from meta to being meta squared. i think i liked the codas even better though. the first one isn't really necessary, but 2 and 3 actually get pretty deep and touching in their way. a pretty radical shift from the main book which is more just light-hearted and fun.
TonyWilson wrote:Fievel wrote:Ended up listening to Ready Player One, which I started on an earlier trip.... fuck that was a blast!!![]()
When that was done started listening to The Passage by Justin Cronin. I went into this really not knowing much about it other than it had to do with vampires (and I knew it wasn't Twilight).... and after a serious time jump and tonal shift my interest is hanging by a thread. I'll finish it out, but that jump was not what I was expecting.
Stick with it if you can, the story shifts again and gets seriously tense and scary. And the sequel actually jumps back to the outbreak. Def worth it if you have the time.
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