I listened to several books by Simon Winchester - non-fiction about geological events such as Krakatoa, the San Francisco earthquake, as well as his "The Professor and the Madman" about the beginning of the OED. He narrates several of them himself and is good at it. Recommended.
Back in the day, I listened to all the Patrick Obrien books while commuting. One reader was much better than the other and now I can't remember which.
These days I find I can't concentrate on new audiobooks, so I listen to old favorites while I embroider.
Hmm. Looking back thru my Audible library, I =think= the better narrator was Patrick Tull, but I couldn't swear to it.
Patrick Tull is ridiculously good in the Aubrey-Maturin novels! That's the way I read those books, with his narration. So good.
-t, I liked Project Hail Mary, and I didn't like the one in-between, so there's another data point.
Trevor Noah narrated Born a Crime in exactly the tone you would expect. I had read the book before it was chosen for book club, so I listened to it the second time. You can hear his delivery while reading, and no one else could have read it as well.
(I'm making notes of the good narrators)
Weir seems to have one character voice, so his POV characters sound exactly the same from book to book. If you can get past that, Hail Mary is fun, if a bit too long.
Yes, I enjoyed the science fun of Hail Mary, but some sections could have been far more concise.
Also excellent, is Rob Inglis reading The Hobbit and all of The Lord of the Rings. Also good for very long trips and for re-reading in troubled times.
I just recently started Axiom's End and so far I'm really enjoying it, but I'm having some difficulty dealing with the fact that this is an AU period piece set in *2007*. (My assumption that the year is significant because it puts the existance of smartphones and the 2008 financial crash in the book's near-future, but mostly there is no way 2007 was long enough ago to be a setting for a sci-fi AU.)
That’s way too specific and recent. I am intrigued but bewildered
Also checking for narrators y’all have mentioned. Adjoa Andoh, the best part of Bridgerton, is fantastic with Pride and Prejudice and also does Ann Leckie’s books, as well as many books I don’t know but am now tempted to listen to…
