Audiobooks

Tone71

Anyone else listen to them?

I love em, wish I had found them ages ago, yesterday had to drive to Leeds and back (from Surrey) and listened to Tony Iommi`s Black Sabbath book, it`s excellent and made the hours fly by.

However after 8 hours of stories of Black Sabbath, I needed a change and started listening to The Martian, on chapter 9 now and it is also brilliant, made an hour in the gym fly by.

I guess if you are not solitary often it would be hard to find the time, but Im happy my dull gym session has now become interesting!!

Any other suggestions to listen to?

TTony

Bbc podcasts.

Grunfeld

BBC podcasts for sure

also love a couple of US ones:

Skeptics Guide to the Universe
On Being

And although these cost they are very good:  The Great Courses  series.  (Massive discounts available with negotiation).

fretmeister

Sherlock Holmes stories.

Excellent abridged version of "Hound" read by Tony Brittain.

What about radio plays? "Old Harry's Game" was ace.

TTony

fretmeister said:

What about radio plays? "Old Harry's Game" was ace.

Indeed.  The R4 afternoon dramas cover a broad spectrum, but there have been some excellent ones.  Plus the classic serial broadcasts on a Sunday afternoon.  You just need to work out how to d/l them.

Fazer

I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan

bazxkr

Yeh..big +1 for the BBC too.. all the plays and dramas are top gun...

If you like Lord of the Rings listen to the 1980s production....13 hrs...magnificent.
And big names playing the parts

Used to love the Sherlock Holmes episodes with Clive Merrison too...

I'd buy these adiobooks and rerun again and again

fretmeister

Most are available from your local library.

Borrow the CD and rip them.

Rocker

PG Woodhouse.  Blandings or Jeeves and Wooster.  Much better than the radio.

duotone

Desert Island Discs podcasts are good, free and there a good database of people to choose from. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs Am tempted to get the Audiobook for the TuneIn Beatles book, I think it's around 50 hours of audio!

Tone71

I like the sound of 50 hours of desert island discs, I also really like the Radio4 plays in the afternoons and will admit to listening to The Archers  whilst waiting !

dafuzz

I've been doing the same thing as I walk to and from work.

There's a whole article on lifehacker (iirc) about free audiobooks. I can't find it but here is one of the sites that I can remember: https://www.librivox.org/ 

Fazer

these are meant to be great:
http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

ThorpyFX

i subscribe to audible and i listen to books on the commute, its a great use of otherwise boring time

Grumpyrocker

I'm working through Simon Vance's readings of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books at the moment. I've read the books many times but I'm really enjoying trying out audiobooks for a change. Vance is such a good reader - he brings the characters to life - so it's more like a radio drama than just a reading of a novel. People really rate Patrick Tull's readings of the books, but I tried one and didn't like all his huffing, puffing and pausing, sounded like he was about to drop dead while reading.

Meanwhile read The Martian myself last week, excellent stuff, am looking forward to Ridley Scott's film.

dafuzz

More free stuff:

http://www.openculture.com/

duotone

Fazer said:

these are meant to be great:
http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

Am checking this out now, ten minutes in and seems very good, and well done with a narrator. It reminds me of this American Life podcast actually.

Bogwhoppit

I listened to my uni pdf coursebooks through the windows text to speech facility (think Stephen Hawking). I quickly realised why I spent many hours asleep.  Mr Hawking sounds very interesting when talking about space, but he bores the tits of you when discussing 'Foucault discourse analysis'.