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  • (Score: 2) by TLA on Sunday May 31 2015, @09:38PM

    by TLA (5128) on Sunday May 31 2015, @09:38PM (#190501) Journal

    Yeah, I'm lazy when it comes to digesting fiction, but there again I can't read when I'm asleep - I discovered a trick while I was at school learning French, I'd tune my longwave to a French radio station and leave it playing all night, I Aced every single test I did. Ended up pretty fluent, actually. I carry that on now with fiction, right now I've got the Dune series queued (almost finished Machine Crusade), after House Atreides (I don't go by any particular order), I'll start on the Discworlds - all 40 of those, in order this time, read by Nigel Planer. I'd not heard of the Anderson title in the above list, but me being a huge Anderson fan I'll be on the lookout for the audio in short order.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 02 2015, @06:43PM

    by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 02 2015, @06:43PM (#191226) Journal

    Audio books are great, but they are typically much more expensive. I do like https://librivox.org/ [librivox.org] though.

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    • (Score: 2) by TLA on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:09PM

      by TLA (5128) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:09PM (#191228) Journal

      there are some fantastic narrators out there. Catherine Asaro narrates her own, she's got a lovely voice - I could listen to her narrate the phone book all day. On a loop. There's also Jim Dale (Harry Potter series), Stephen Fry (I'd listen to him narrating pretty much anything), John DeLancie (the more darkly comic the book the better), John Hurt can read me any political thriller he sets his voice to, and I would die happy if Nichelle Nichols would narrate Saturna's Quest. I'm biased in saying that, as I've met her (and got her to sign my copy).

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