I'd almost catch ultra-hell for this from most hardline 40k nuts out there, but that's pretty much how I go into Warhammer 40,000: the Black Library audio book versions of the books I'd already read. Those are almost audio dramas in themselves, and absolutely hilted with excellent voice acting and foley. I highly recommend anything you can find, but the readers tend to always be as grim and listenable as the work is readable, so be prepared for gothic misery. Funny enough, one of my favorite 'talking records' that I enjoy revisiting now and then is Laurie Anderson's _The Ugly One with the Jewels,_ a collection of stories she's published in a book she'd made. Anderson has a terrific voice for telling stories and ideas that only come out of the late 70s avant-garde frame of mind. Her story about her and Andy Kauffman, for example, is both hilarious and heartwarming, reminds me of my writing friend and I just a bit. Tom Waits' _Nighthawks at the Diner_ is also a 'performance' album that has some parts of him talking about stuff here and there between song, it's an overall great roadtrip album for solo driving in general, but that's just my flavor. I've had some people tell me how they can *stand* that timbre of growl in Tom's nicotine baritone.. _they're dead now._ heh, _that's also a lie~_ There's more to it sometimes than just 'books being spoken by a voice'. I think Dan Abnett's _Eisenhorn_ story is told in 1st-person, so I'd want to have an audio book of that... unless it's out already and I should go get it. And interesting perspective on the 'overuse of I' thing in writing, that kind of static word usage drives me insane when I see it ONCE ON A PAGE AT ALL, but that might just all be in my head.. along with the voices.. _and the promises._ terrific work as always, hope you're enjoying your day!
Those are all such thoughtful and unique recommendations! I've seen Warhammer 40k coming up a lot with the new game and I don't doubt that the franchise is super great but I'm also a bit afraid to get sucked into something that big right now lol Short stories though, that's definitely going higher up the list :D Thank you, you have a great day too!
Weirdly enough, I first got into audiobooks almost exclusively listening to ones narrated by the author. I like that particularly if it is someone's memoir/based on true events. One of me faves of those probably included Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I also loved Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, which is a beautiful book that helped me fall in love with mushrooms haha. I do think audiobooks also help to reduce the barrier of longer books for me. I listened to Stephen King's Fairy Tale at one point, and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver which there is no way I would invest the time into reading in book format (just too long for me), but as an audiobook at 1.5-2x speed, sure!
Oh yes! The commitment to longer works benefit is a thing I forgot to mention! I still don't really want to commit to an audiobooks that's days long either, but it's much faster to consume than reading it myself .. although, I don't *feel* like my reading voice is all that much slower ':)
@@The_Open_Book yeah I think sometimes even if it isn't all that different time wise, I can at least justify the longer books in audio form it by doing other things while listening, so it feels like less of a time commitment!
I'd almost catch ultra-hell for this from most hardline 40k nuts out there, but that's pretty much how I go into Warhammer 40,000: the Black Library audio book versions of the books I'd already read. Those are almost audio dramas in themselves, and absolutely hilted with excellent voice acting and foley. I highly recommend anything you can find, but the readers tend to always be as grim and listenable as the work is readable, so be prepared for gothic misery.
Funny enough, one of my favorite 'talking records' that I enjoy revisiting now and then is Laurie Anderson's _The Ugly One with the Jewels,_ a collection of stories she's published in a book she'd made. Anderson has a terrific voice for telling stories and ideas that only come out of the late 70s avant-garde frame of mind. Her story about her and Andy Kauffman, for example, is both hilarious and heartwarming, reminds me of my writing friend and I just a bit. Tom Waits' _Nighthawks at the Diner_ is also a 'performance' album that has some parts of him talking about stuff here and there between song, it's an overall great roadtrip album for solo driving in general, but that's just my flavor. I've had some people tell me how they can *stand* that timbre of growl in Tom's nicotine baritone.. _they're dead now._
heh, _that's also a lie~_
There's more to it sometimes than just 'books being spoken by a voice'. I think Dan Abnett's _Eisenhorn_ story is told in 1st-person, so I'd want to have an audio book of that... unless it's out already and I should go get it. And interesting perspective on the 'overuse of I' thing in writing, that kind of static word usage drives me insane when I see it ONCE ON A PAGE AT ALL, but that might just all be in my head.. along with the voices.. _and the promises._
terrific work as always, hope you're enjoying your day!
Those are all such thoughtful and unique recommendations! I've seen Warhammer 40k coming up a lot with the new game and I don't doubt that the franchise is super great but I'm also a bit afraid to get sucked into something that big right now lol
Short stories though, that's definitely going higher up the list :D Thank you, you have a great day too!
Weirdly enough, I first got into audiobooks almost exclusively listening to ones narrated by the author. I like that particularly if it is someone's memoir/based on true events. One of me faves of those probably included Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I also loved Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, which is a beautiful book that helped me fall in love with mushrooms haha.
I do think audiobooks also help to reduce the barrier of longer books for me. I listened to Stephen King's Fairy Tale at one point, and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver which there is no way I would invest the time into reading in book format (just too long for me), but as an audiobook at 1.5-2x speed, sure!
Oh yes! The commitment to longer works benefit is a thing I forgot to mention! I still don't really want to commit to an audiobooks that's days long either, but it's much faster to consume than reading it myself .. although, I don't *feel* like my reading voice is all that much slower ':)
@@The_Open_Book yeah I think sometimes even if it isn't all that different time wise, I can at least justify the longer books in audio form it by doing other things while listening, so it feels like less of a time commitment!