a friend bought me the first couple Tiffany Aching books for my birthday last year, so I would like to read it that way first.
You know what? I think they're better on audiobook, actually. Because I have an unhappy tendency to read too fast and skim over things, and there's so much awesome humor in Pratchett, that listening to them is better for me. And David's right: Stephen Briggs is utterly wonderful. (I'm partly through Wintersmith right now.)
I think Patrick Bell does a fabulous job with the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien. And Rob Ingles is really good reading Tolkein (they even recorded some of the appendices!).
Next up, after I finish Tiffany Aching, I'm going to listen to all of Harry Potter. That should get me through a couple months of commuting.
Ooh, the OPL does have all the HP audiobooks. That sounds like a good plan after
The Graveyard Book.
And then maybe one day I'll try to do an audiobook of a book I haven't already read. Heh.
And then maybe one day I'll try to do an audiobook of a book I haven't already read. Heh.
(Fiction) audiobooks only really work for me if I've already read the book.
I'm afraid I'd have to concentrate too hard on hearing every word if I hadn't read the book before. And with a real book, I can easily flip back to refer to things.
I love listening to Neil Gaiman's books read by the author, ditto with Stephen King. They are both quite good at narration. The Game of Thrones audio books are fantastic, i can't recall the actor's name off the top of my head but he's quite good. I do find myself going back and skimming through a hard copy of the books to pick up the bits i glossed over while listening.
Roy Dotrice reads GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire books - and it's already been announced that he will read the next one too.
I did pick up
The Graveyard Book,
and I saw that they also had
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
read by Eric Idle, so how could I resist??
Has anyone listened to the
Good Omens
audiobook? That one could be fun.
I have. It's quite good, although I think (heresy!) I enjoyed straight Pratchett more.
I know many Buffistas have been affected by cancer. I highly, highly recommend The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. It's a fantastic history of cancer and cancer treatment, with a generous dose of public health and awareness.
