I have been looking for something to do between sending out inevitably unsuccessful job applications and losing my dole cash on cheap wine. To escape catching a horrible strain of cabin fever I decided that it would be a nice idea to go out on an hour long walk everyday. Can anyone recommend good audiobooks to keep me company on these journeys and distract me from the casual violence enacted on the streets of South London?

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duma key by stephen king

and

luna park by bee (read by dawsons creek's james va der beak)

very good audio books imo

i might add the worst audio book ive ever heard was the road. so fucking boring.

wheres your flute?

i threw it away?

you threw it away?

yes

ok

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thats the majority of the book. father and son talking the same dioage after each other. i dont think i can finish this book if its like this any more.

  On 8/16/2009 at 5:59 PM, chris moss acid said:

thats the majority of the book. father and son talking the same dioage after each other. i dont think i can finish this book if its like this any more.

Unfortunately it is. I found in a real struggle to get through (especially as I've only read like 10 books in my life) - they trundle about a bit and get hungry, find some place with food then trundle about a bit more (rinse, repeat)

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. It's a radio play... and I went through this period of listening to it about once a day back in November

  On 8/16/2009 at 6:01 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 8/16/2009 at 5:59 PM, chris moss acid said:

thats the majority of the book. father and son talking the same dioage after each other. i dont think i can finish this book if its like this any more.

Unfortunately it is. I found in a real struggle to get through (especially as I've only read like 10 books in my life) - they trundle about a bit and get hungry, find some place with food then trundle about a bit more (rinse, repeat)

Way to miss the point entirely... Maybe try reading the actual novel, it could just be cursed with poor voice-acting.

Yeah the actual book is amazing. I can't really imagine it translating to audio too well.

Thanks Iain C, will be sure to give it a listen.

I'm thinking about making a start on some Alan Bennett, I have just always been turned off by the idea in the past after his criticism of Witchfinder General. Fickle I know!

i just downloaded a collection of phillip k dick's works

i did read the book and listen o the audio book as well as reading it at the same time.. the audio book is slow as fuck and utter shit.. least when i read it i can skim a page of repeating diolog. but still i dont liek the repetativeness of it or the sons questions all the time.

  On 8/16/2009 at 6:19 PM, Iain C said:

Maybe try reading the actual novel, it could just be cursed with poor voice-acting.

It was the book that I read, it's unusual as it sounded like something I'd really like but, well I didn't

Anyone who know any good history audiobooks?

Maybe something in the lines of 'Dan Carlin's Hardcore History' podcast.

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer

this is my favorite audiobook.

there's a CD-quality torrent of this, if you look around.

also, the full cast production of Dune is good.

Tony Robinsons Midsummer nights dream.

It doesn't just contain this story though, there about 8 altogther I think, including the one where the broomstick gets broken in half and it just regrows and they keep multiplying and stuff and the house floods, its awesome just get it.

This is quite entertaining. If you like wham or George michael at all, it’s a must. Andrew reads it too. 

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• Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Audiobook)

A complete unabridged audiobook, read by regular cast member Chris Barrie (who plays Arnold Rimmer in the series) was released by Laughing Stock Productions in 1992. It has a total play time of about 8 hours and 15 minutes, and is now available in a variety of formats, including digital download from Audible.com. A much shorter abridged version also circulates.

barrie is quite the voice wiz, xlnt.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Physicists

https://archive.org/details/durrenmatt-the-physicists-2013-bond-whitehead-hodgkinson

radio play from

Theatre Audio Archive

https://archive.org/details/@jeanjoel?

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Dune Book 1 Audiobook

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Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins

https://archive.org/details/dune_20230417