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 Post subject: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:48 pm 
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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?

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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:34 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:53 pm 
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kage_ar,
yep, murders are good when read out loud. I agree.

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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:29 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:47 pm 
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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.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:11 pm 
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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


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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:27 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Speaking books.....
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:00 pm 
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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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