NAY! Kudos to those who enjoy the audio books, but they are so slow for my liking. Like ssslloooowww, speeding up doesn't help. My mind begins to wonder like mrsc , instead of the story I end up focused on everything but the audio book. bonnieg I understand the accent thing, for years I was the same with Harry Potter until the movies came out, my dad never did any accents when he read to me, and all of a sudden the movies were there and the characters were now English, Scottish and Irish... like what!?! LOL Banana Boat and JaniceC I hate talking on the phone, unfortunately my job has a high need for phone conversations... There are great narrators out there, but for me I'll stick to my own voice in my head, and if I want to hear a male voice I ask my Sweet-tart.
Nay. I prefer reading a book rather than hearing a book. Honestly it's all due to the voices. I don't like one narrator. I'd like to hear a female do the female voices and the male do the male. I just laugh when I hear them try to do the voice of the opposite sex. For example, a favorite author has a male narrate all her books. The h in one particular book has a Southern accent from Georgia. When I heard him speak her lines I started to giggle. Also, I don't think I can hear the love scenes. I blush when I read them. I can only imagine how red I'll turn hearing it
There are some authors now that do have male and female narrators working together in one book. Mari remembers the narrators' names much better then I do.
No. My brain gets distracted when listening, also I have more trouble understanding everything and grasping the actions, even when I listen with concentration. Written words to brain always works a lot better for me than spoken words to brain. I often have a delay between hearing and understanding words. Also, I just feel that listening to romance books is kinda cringy. It's fine in my own head, but if someone else says it, it feels uncomfortable.
Post by truthandnothingbut on Jan 9, 2020 7:59:27 GMT -7
Yes. I love then and don’t have a favorite genre but i do have some that i love To re-listen too.
Some I have listened to multiple times are: Natasha Anders a ruthless proposition , Nalini Singh archangels blade and all the guild hunter books that are not about Elena and Raphael (lol weird right?), Gena Showalter- The darkest surrender, Kresley cole- the first 3 immortal after darks but especially #3, Dahlia West- burnout and easy, Anne Stuart- reckless, Thea Harrison- dragon bound #1, samantha young- on Dublin street
Janice and Banana Boat, I don’t like to talk on the phone either. Never have. I wasn’t one of those teenagers that lived on the phone and nothing has changed in the years since.
Mari, I agree that January LaVoy has some misses but I think she is getting better. Interesting how one reader will like a narrator and another feels the exact opposite. Richard Ferrone is the voice of Lucas Davenport in the Prey series by John Sandford. And I liked him when listening to I’m in the Mood for Love by Rachel Gibson.
But one of the reading tragedies (LOL) of my life is George Guidall reading the Mitch Rapp series by the late Vince Flynn. One of the earlier books was reissued with Armand Schulz as the narrator and it was so nice to listen to. I have tried with George Guidall off and on for years and the man literally puts me to sleep every time.
Male and Female readers on one book... I’ve not read many with this set-up but none of them have been impressive. A good narrator has many voices male and female and once into the rhythm of the story I find that it’s not even noticeable that one person is doing all the work.
As for reading in print versus audible, yes reading is faster. But if your life is spent with working alone for many hours on your feet with nothing but your own thoughts to keep you company... then listening is a gift. My ideal is having the audible and print at the same time. That way if the audible catches a glitch, I can backtrack later and see what was missed.
Driving... For the past two years I’ve had to be on the road a lot to deal with my Dad’s medical appointments. Audible books have kept me from going insane. When I hit the towns the CD goes off so I can handle the traffic and mostly find the exits. To not have a book to listen to on those 11 hours and sometimes more one-way trips... I just can’t even imagine it.
Thanks to all for posting your favorite readers, nice to know. Some I’m not familiar with.
Right now I’m listening to “Hellbent” by Gregg Hurwitz with Scott Brick. This is a re-read and excellent.
Janice and Banana Boat, I don’t like to talk on the phone either. Never have. I wasn’t one of those teenagers that lived on the phone and nothing has changed in the years since.
Mari, I agree that January LaVoy has some misses but I think she is getting better. Interesting how one reader will like a narrator and another feels the exact opposite. Richard Ferrone is the voice of Lucas Davenport in the Prey series by John Sandford. And I liked him when listening to I’m in the Mood for Love by Rachel Gibson.
But one of the reading tragedies (LOL) of my life is George Guidall reading the Mitch Rapp series by the late Vince Flynn. One of the earlier books was reissued with Armand Schulz as the narrator and it was so nice to listen to. I have tried with George Guidall off and on for years and the man literally puts me to sleep every time.
Male and Female readers on one book... I’ve not read many with this set-up but none of them have been impressive. A good narrator has many voices male and female and once into the rhythm of the story I find that it’s not even noticeable that one person is doing all the work.
As for reading in print versus audible, yes reading is faster. But if your life is spent with working alone for many hours on your feet with nothing but your own thoughts to keep you company... then listening is a gift. My ideal is having the audible and print at the same time. That way if the audible catches a glitch, I can backtrack later and see what was missed.
Driving... For the past two years I’ve had to be on the road a lot to deal with my Dad’s medical appointments. Audible books have kept me from going insane. When I hit the towns the CD goes off so I can handle the traffic and mostly find the exits. To not have a book to listen to on those 11 hours and sometimes more one-way trips... I just can’t even imagine it.
Thanks to all for posting your favorite readers, nice to know. Some I’m not familiar with.
Right now I’m listening to “Hellbent” by Gregg Hurwitz with Scott Brick. This is a re-read and excellent.
—Janie
Janie........I agree with you about George Guidall. I see him listed as a narrator and I Don't even consider buying the audio. I like to listen when I'm driving the long stretches of I-95. I stop the audio around Washington, D.C. because you have to keep your mind on the traffic but once I'm past the city I turn the audio back on. I have something on even when run local errands. I wouldn't mind the radio if there was more music and less talking. I refuse to pay for Sirius. I'm not in a car that much.
had to laugh today: caught an Audible ad; folks talking about how listening to a book is changing things for them: one guy said he now has 180 books. Yep, that's when I laughed!
had to laugh today: caught an Audible ad; folks talking about how listening to a book is changing things for them: one guy said he now has 180 books. Yep, that's when I laughed!
180 audio books? He's an amateur. I have 946 and friends laugh at me for being picky about what I buy when they have a few thousand audio books.
I like audiobooks but find I am very picky regarding voices (I always listen to samples first) and seem to prefer female narrators over male ones. There is something about the way male narrators read the female parts that just grates on my nerves. I've just given up on an (otherwise fine) audiobook with dual narrators because the male makes every female sound like an idiot.
I'll probably try the kindle version of this book later but I'll stay away from that narrator in the future.
"Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book." -Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
I like audiobooks but find I am very picky regarding voices (I always listen to samples first) and seem to prefer female narrators over male ones. There is something about the way male narrators read the female parts that just grates on my nerves. I've just given up on an (otherwise fine) audiobook with dual narrators because the male makes every female sound like an idiot.
I'll probably try the kindle version of this book later but I'll stay away from that narrator in the future.
There are a few narrators that can do male and female voices well, however, I do enjoy the audios that have both male and female narrators tag teaming on one book.
Right now I’m listening to one of my multiple re-reads. It’s a stand alone Suspense in the D. D. Warren series and has two female narrators, both doing a great job...
Post by truthandnothingbut on Feb 16, 2020 8:27:22 GMT -7
I just Got done listening to BUTTERFLY IN FROST by Sylvia Day. It was one that will keep me listening to audios. It was really good and not extra long.
Give it a try if you’re on the fence about listening to audiobooks
I just Got done listening to BUTTERFLY IN FROST by Sylvia Day. It was one that will keep me listening to audios. It was really good and not extra long.
Give it a try if you’re on the fence about listening to audiobooks
Thanks for the recommendation sounds like one I would enjoy. Have not listened to either of the narrators before, so another thing to look forward, too.
I wasn’t sure where to post, but thought I’d revive this thread after looking at the Happy Passover shout outs,
I recently came across this story (not romance — science fiction), and it’s an example of an instance where I think having the audio version enhances the story. For those of you who don’t like listening to the audio version, the full story is given, and it’s funny, but also pretty good.
The title is “On Venus, Have we Got a Rabbi” and the author is Phillip Klass, who wrote under the pen name of William Tenn. It’s rather different from his other books (I think there were about 7 volumes put out by Ballantine paperbacks, and I think his works were also later published by NESFA =(New England Science Ficrtion Association) Press. This story led off in an anthology called Wandering Stars
The back story is that Klass was interviewed on a NYC radio show titled “Spinning on Air”. The host had eclectic interests, and occasionally asked a guest to read. So, after a long interview session, there was Klass reading “On Venus HaveThe we got a Rabbi” This was almost pre-Audible, and a streaming Real Audio version stayed I the radio station’s archives for many years until the link was removed. (The reading was good enough that whenI stumbled across a reference to this program nearly 5 years later, that I made a digital recording of the stream).
In December 26, 2016 Tablet Magazine managed both print the text of the original story, and retrieve the version of William Tenn/Phillip Klass reading it. So, if you don’t like the audio version, you can read the story, and if you do like audiobooks you can “press play” on the box below the introduction to listen to the author reading the story. Here’s www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/on-venus-have-we-got-a-rabbi
Right now I’m listening to one of my multiple re-reads. It’s a stand alone Suspense in the D. D. Warren series and has two female narrators, both doing a great job...
Audible: Kirsten Potter and Katie MacNichol
Love You More by Lisa Gardner (3/11)
—Janie
I am in the middle of Here Be Sexist Vampires by Suzanne Wright. It has a female and male alternating. The female h in the book is british and the female narrator gives her a fairly standard little bit of posh accent. Every so often the male narrator gives the female character a broad cockney slangy accent that just makes me laugh because for some reason the male H is such a sexist asshat, I could totally see him hearing her accent that way instead of how it really is. I am easily amused at this point!