Audiobooks

Just finished the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl book and look for suggestions! I also am a big fan of John Scalzi, especially those narrated by Wil Wheaton.

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Read This Book on a Silent Hill: Meditations, that they won't tell you (www.youtube.com)

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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself - Harriet Jacobs - Audiobook (amys-room.blogspot.com)

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https://amys-room.blogspot.com/2023/05/incidents-in-life-of-slave-girl-written.html

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Highly Recommend Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (lemmy.world)

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He is probably one of my favorite authors and I love Fuzzy Nation. I also swear he must have been a lawyer in another life.

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What was the latest great audiobook you listened to? (www.audible.co.uk)

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For me it was Audibles "The Great Courses - Ancient Egypt" with Egyptologist Bob Brier. It's 24h long but it is really worth it.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (lemmy.world)

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Just saw there is a new Dungeon Crawler Carl book out. Hopefully they have the audiobook out soon. That may be one of most favorite series.

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Sci fi books (lemmy.world)

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So in the past few months I've consumed three body trilogy, the bobiverse, expanse series, dogs of war (meh), quantum earth x2 (meh) and project hail Mary. I really enjoyed most of these, with dark Forest being my favourite read lately. What should be in my reading list next, as I get close to the end of the expanse books?

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Looking at Prime, there are a few free audiobooks that aren't tied to Audible. There are more free ones tied to Audible. What are the pros and cons of Audible? (lemmy.world)

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Is there a term for different styles of audiobook production? (lemmy.world)

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I've been listening to a bunch of audiobooks from the public library here recently and there are various levels of production effort. I listened to a Star Wars audiobook (Alphabet Squadron) when I needed something simple for a flight and was blown away by the amount of sound effects (lasers, start ships flying around, environmental sounds etc) and different characters. Is there a term for this?

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Basic narration: One voice artist, maybe they do different voices for characters and narration. Maybe not.
Multiple artists: Different characters get voiced by different actors. It might be for different POV chapters or even line by line when characters speak to each other.
Sound effects: Environmental sounds (wind, rain, cafe chatter etc), event sounds (alarms, gun shots, etc), audio effects (speaking with radio effect, echos, cave sounds)
Music: In the Star Wars book there was even background music for the various characters. Wow! Also the Star Wars into music is always welcome.

I guess it's way more expense to do it this way and would love some more examples of good audio production.

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In anticipation of tomorrow's floodgates. Let's talk about audiobooks with chaos (lemmy.world)

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I'll start. Especially since DCC5 ebook drops on the 3rd, andI just finished a second listen to books 1-4.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is my vote for a top tier audiobook with complete chaos