Speaking books.....

Netcurtains3 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:45 am **Posts:** 4217

I've started to listen to speaking books in the car (I rent them from the library - £1.50 a shot).

I've just finished "Kingdom Come" - J.G. Ballard (excellent - I doubt I would have read it as it contains too much description, and not enough dialogue ---- but description via speaking book sounds pretty good - you certainly seem to "read" different books when they are spoken to you rather than read).

I'm now onto "night circus" (by Erin Morgenstern). Also excellent said out loud.

Do you have any recommends?

kage_ar · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:34 pm

http://librivox.org/

They are FREE

When I drove 130 miles each day I listened to many audio books. I liked murder mysteries and Stephen King stuff.

Netcurtains3 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:45 am **Posts:** 4217

kage_ar,
yep, murders are good when read out loud. I agree.

GKC · **Joined:** Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:22 pm **Posts:** 13029

kage_ar wrote:

http://librivox.org/

They are FREE

When I drove 130 miles each day I listened to many audio books. I liked murder mysteries and Stephen King stuff.

I got some Librovox. Chesterton, Belloc, Knox. But their volunteer amateur readers are so...amateur.

GKC

Obi-Wan Kenobi · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:47 pm

I tried listening to The Adventures of Dr. Doolittle from LibriVox. Some of the chapters were well done. Some were done BY a GENtleman who FINDS it NECESSARY to speak VERY PRECISELY and OVERANNUNciate to the POINT of UNLIStenaBILITY.

kage_ar · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:11 pm

GKC wrote:

kage_ar wrote:

http://librivox.org/

They are FREE

When I drove 130 miles each day I listened to many audio books. I liked murder mysteries and Stephen King stuff.

I got some Librovox. Chesterton, Belloc, Knox. But their volunteer amateur readers are so...amateur.

GKC

Some of the mispronounced "Catholic" words in "Lord Of The World" drove me insane!

Tom Terrific · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:27 pm

I get my audio from livrivox and audible.com, mostly.

As for a suggestion, see if you can get "The Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey, read by Derek Jocobi ---- EXCELLENT and well-read.

Netcurtains3 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:45 am **Posts:** 4217

If you have any kids (or even, if you are like me, and like listening to kids books youself) the BBC do a Brilliant series on "Artemis Fowl" - Great Irish accents, and great science mixed in with Fairies. I got the one about Time Travel.

Great for long traffic jams.

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