Hack, Harf

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Not sure if this is an extremely tenacious cold or some nasty allergies, but man SOMETHING has my eyes swelling up and burning. I keep trying to do things and failing because it hurts to have them open.

I think I'm going to be forced to try audiobooks to keep myself entertained. Any that y'all can recommend as being particularly good?

Comments

[nobleplatypus]

I have a lot of love for the Immortals Quartet audiobooks. They are like candy for the ears.

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Here's a huge collection of public domain audiobooks. I haven't tried it, but I've heard the quality varies widely. Still, might be worth a try. Having typed that, I realise it's a pretty flimsy recommendation.

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins!!! As read by the dulcet Ian Holm :)

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

Well, these are all based on my personal tastes, but... Audible.com has an awesome range and you can listen to a quick sample of anything you're interested in to make sure the reader's voice isn't going to give you fits. There's often abridged and unabridged versions of the same book available; I'm picky and never get abridged if there's a full version.

Anything by Dorothy L. Sayers, especially if it's read by Ian Carmichael or fully dramatised by the BBC.

The Brother Cadfael series, by Ellis Peters.

Anything by Terry Pratchett. (My husband HATES the ones read by Tony Robinson, his voice gets right on his nerves, but I like him fine. He tends to read the abridged versions, anyway.)

I've got a bunch of ones by David Weber, notably the 'March Upcountry' series. I've also got 'Off Armageddon Reef', but I've never been able to make it through more than ten minutes because with that one I *do* have issues with the reader's pacing and pronunciation (especially of the Japanese sorta-loanwords in the first segment. Argh). Like I said, sample. :P

Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Sharing Knife' and 'Vorkosigan' series. Good books, awesome worldbuilding, great reader.

Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries. Also her Corinna Chapman stuff, but check the samples for that too; they've used different readers, with wildly different styles.

I've also got a ton of Patricia Wentworth mysteries; the Miss Silver ones are awesome. :)

Hope you get better soon and manage to amuse yourself in the meantime!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hah! Your tastes run very close to mine--I love Brother Cadfael, David Weber, Terry Pratchett, and the Vorkosigan series, but I'm always wary of audiobooks of stuff I like--most of the readers I've heard drive me crazy. I'll have to try them! (I just realized an audio version of any of the Tiffany Aching series would be ... interesting, if nothing else.)

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

I've got the Tiffany Aching ones. Male reader, but he does a really good job! :)