Audio Books - What are you listening to?

[stephRo]

I'm listening to Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda - a dynamic & inspirational story about the life of yogis written by a yogi. It was one of Steve Jobs' favorite reads

[Macneil]

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. I heard him reading it years ago on Radio 4 and bought the book and loved it, his voice is just perfect for the tale.

[paulguitar]

Macneil said:

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. I heard him reading it years ago on Radio 4 and bought the book and loved it, his voice is just perfect for the tale.

I’m reading the print version, it’s eye popping stuff!

Tragic loss.

[anonymous-user]

Loved Hail Mary, fantastic book.

Currently listening, for any Star Wars fans, to the Darth Bane Trilogy, set during the old republic about 1000 years before A New Hope.

Recently finished Darth Plageius, Master to Darth Sidious, setting the scene around Palpatines rise to power, really very good.

No good if you aren’t a Star Wars fan mind.

[Animal]

Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules For Life. Only just started, but it's pretty interesting thusfar.

[DoctorX]

Currently enjoying this. I do like this series and they’re long too so I’m getting my money’s worth

[Smiler.]

James Mahaffey.
Atomic Awakenings, then Atomic Adventures.
Outstanding work.

Before that, the latest Horowitz "Hawthorne" episode. Great fun.

Now on Blue Gemini.

Probably the other Mahaffey book next.

[anonymous-user]

If you like sally4ever, camping and Julia Davis comedy, give Dear Joan And Jericha. It is bloody brilliant, explicit but so funny if you like that sort of thing.

[blingybongy]

After enjoying Hail Mary so much I ventured onto Reditt to attempt to find something similar if such a thing exists.

So I give you...
I am Legion : I am Bob
The Bobiverse.

I'm struggling to describe the story but it's very entertaining and the narrator is very good.
Link below for story précis

https://bobiverse.fandom.com/wiki/We_Are_Legion_(W...

[Animal]

Finished Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment. Terrific book, but the narration lets it down to the extent that I started looking for another version on Audible.

Have also finished Dave Grohl's Storyteller. It's a fun book full of great stories and anecdotes. But...DG seems to be at pains to come across as a nice person and not say or reveal anything that might interfere with that. There's obviously talk of Nirvana and Kurt's death but not a single mention of Courtney Love: she's conspicuous by her absence and I can imagine only that either she threatened him with legal action of her name was so much as mentioned or he utterly despises her and so doesn't talk about her. Either way, it's a bit of a sugar-coated view of things.

[Piginapoke]

Just started listening to A Thousand Shall Fall, the autobiography of a RCAF ww2 pilot. Really well written and enjoyable so far

[Narcisus]

DoctorX said:

Currently enjoying this. I do like this series and they’re long too so I’m getting my money’s worth

I have The Pillars of the Earth on audio book and Kindle. I also have the paperback somewhere that I must have had for 10 years and I've still not read or listened to any of them yet !

Is it worth listening to this first ? I will get around to them sometime !

[Narcisus]

My main problem with Audible is .... Sleep ... I really do enjoy listening to books at bedtime but I usually fall asleep then only have a hazy recollection of where I need to start from.

[DoctorX]

Narcisus said:

I have The Pillars of the Earth on audio book and Kindle. I also have the paperback somewhere that I must have had for 10 years and I've still not read or listened to any of them yet !

Is it worth listening to this first ? I will get around to them sometime !

I don’t think it particularly matters whether you read that or this first. I’d read PotE first, personally.

[Narcisus]

DoctorX said:

Narcisus said:

I have The Pillars of the Earth on audio book and Kindle. I also have the paperback somewhere that I must have had for 10 years and I've still not read or listened to any of them yet !

Is it worth listening to this first ? I will get around to them sometime !

I don’t think it particularly matters whether you read that or this first. I’d read PotE first, personally.

[Animal]

Narcisus said:

My main problem with Audible is .... Sleep ... I really do enjoy listening to books at bedtime but I usually fall asleep then only have a hazy recollection of where I need to start from.

Audible has a sleep timer function.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Yep mines set to 21 minutes I have no idea why I've set it to that

[easytiger123]

A few that I've listened to recently and recommend.

1) The Way We Live Now. Trollope's masterpiece, as relevant today as when it was written, brilliantly read by Timothy West
2) The Madness of Crowds. Douglas Murray narrates his own book about identity politics, in his inimitably sardonic fashion
3) Stories I Only Tell My Friends. Rob Lowe reads his extremely funny and in places moving autobiography.

[Sam.]

AldotheApache said:

Loved Hail Mary, fantastic book.

Currently listening, for any Star Wars fans, to the Darth Bane Trilogy, set during the old republic about 1000 years before A New Hope.

Recently finished Darth Plageius, Master to Darth Sidious, setting the scene around Palpatines rise to power, really very good.

No good if you aren’t a Star Wars fan mind.

The original X Wing trilogy is being redone by Marc Thompson.

[Griffith4ever]

i spank audible books as I listen while I'm doing repetitive manufacturing work. My selections are quite sci-fi based.

Standouts for me:

Isaac Steel and the Forever man - very bizarre sci fi and funny. HHGTTG on acid.
Agent to the Stars - Brilliant and funny
Project Hail Mary - absolutely superb - from the author of Martian
American Gods
Space Team - all of them. Childish, great fun, laugh out loud space capers. Light listening
Bobiverse - all of them - proper nerdy stuff and quite funny
Expeditionary Force - all of them - low brow sci-fi space war stuff. Easy listening and many many hours of it.
Cage of Souls - surprisingly superb.
Will Destroy the Galaxy series - hillarious space capers
Apprentice series read by Miriam Margalese - great stuff.
Waking Gods and Sleeping Gods