Good Audiobooks

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Pwig

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11,956 posts

269 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Hi Folks,

About to do an 8 hour trip in the car on Thursday

Anyone got any good recommendations for a good Audiobook?

Can be anything, Autobiographies, novels etc.

Just something to keep me and the wife entertained for a few hours.

I've got Amazon prime if that helps smile

Thanks in advance biggrin

mizx

1,570 posts

184 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Prime won't help other than the free 3 month audible trial you can get (3 books), they operate fairly separate to Amazon. I'm not sure exactly what you get on Kindle with Prime, you might be able to borrow one that has whispersync.

Not sure I can recommend anything as I only listen to D&D novels, there's some good standalone books I can think of but you probably need to know the setting a bit. Unabridged novels are anything from 10 hours, up to 30 odd for 7-800 page stuff, so you'll probably want to be looking at abridged, short stories or biographies.

Edited by mizx on Tuesday 11th October 16:05

scotlandtim

319 posts

127 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy

Sign up for an Audible free trial and download it.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks as I drive too much and this is one of the best i've come across in ages!

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

185 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Anything by Bill Bryson, preferably read by himself.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

mizx

1,570 posts

184 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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HOGEPH said:
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Or he could take an 8 hour drive on each of the next five Thursdays biggrin I know it's meant to be good in all seriousness, abridged 10 hour version too but opinions look mixed.

towser

919 posts

210 months

Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Big audible listener, tend to "read" scifi and fantasy in the main. But....maybe some of the Robert Galbraith ( JK Rowling) Cormoran Strike series would be a decent listen?

The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill.

Or the Lewis trilogy - Peter May

Pwig

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11,956 posts

269 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Thanks for the suggestions so far folks! The spy one sounds good.

As an Alternative anyone know any good autobiographies?

Already done Ronnie O Sullivan, Murray Walker, Duncan Bannatyne and Chris Evans

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Sunday 23rd October 2016
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Pwig said:
As an Alternative anyone know any good autobiographies?

Already done Ronnie O Sullivan, Murray Walker, Duncan Bannatyne and Chris Evans
Particularly enjoyable (for me) over the last couple of years have been "Becoming Johnny Vegas", "From The Elephant to Hollywood" (Michael Caine) and "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed..." (Alan Alda).

None of those are terribly "exciting", but have a good few chuckles and poignant moments to keep them at above-average ear candy as audiobooks (and it helps that they were all read by their authors).

Ozzie Dave

563 posts

247 months

Thursday 27th October 2016
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If you are into sci-fi, check out bigfinish, I must admit their reimagining of Blakes7 & the prisoner are my favorites, but also lots of others are well worth a listen to

Flip Martian

19,512 posts

189 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Michael J Fox's first autobiog is excellent, as is Steve Martin's - they both read them.

SBQuattro

679 posts

180 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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HOGEPH said:
Anything by Bill Bryson, preferably read by himself.
Was just about to post exactly that !! :-)

Interesting, educational, and often quite funny !!

BenWRXSEi

2,343 posts

133 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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scotlandtim said:
Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy

Sign up for an Audible free trial and download it.
Definitely this. Also The Martian is a very well read audiobook (I enjoyed it way more than the film).

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 16th November 2016
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just started using amazon audible.

listening to the new Alan partridge book, it is really good, never thought it would be.

jukkha156

25 posts

110 months

Wednesday 7th December 2016
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Mark Webber (aussie grit and Damon Hill (watching the wheels)) are very good.

For fiction: 11/22/63 (Stephen King)

Ken Follet - Fall of Giants/winter of the world/Edge of Eternity (huge epics but very good)

The Stone Man (Like Simtherd)