Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted January 28, 2022 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2022 Latest 'read' for me - listened to Bill Bryson - short history of nearly everything. Perfect for the audio book format. Walls of information. Though engaging in the delivery still hard to absorb. I feel like if I was reading it I'd get hung up rereading bits to understand them properly but instead I just let it wash over me and absorbed maybe like 20% of it, but that's fine as I'll just listen to it again at some point. Perfect bedtime listening too to just drift of to. Now listening to Bad Blood, the book about the Theranos scandal. It's an interesting topic and the writing is very light. The writing is also a bit odd though where totally irrelevant details just gets thrown in randomly at times. The guy reading it doesn't have the best delivery either. But in all I'm enjoying it anyway because the subject matter is interesting enough to carry it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted January 28, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Latest 'read' for me - listened to Bill Bryson - short history of nearly everything. Perfect for the audio book format. Walls of information. Though engaging in the delivery still hard to absorb. I feel like if I was reading it I'd get hung up rereading bits to understand them properly but instead I just let it wash over me and absorbed maybe like 20% of it, but that's fine as I'll just listen to it again at some point. Perfect bedtime listening too to just drift of to. I remember reading this about 20 years ago. Every chapter would be the same. I'd start off fascinated initially, then have to re-read bits to keep up, then eventually coast to the end of the chapter with barely any comprehension. I might give it another go to see if I've got any smarter in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted January 28, 2022 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2022 I find it's a book that definitely got progressively more interesting for me. I didn't care that much about the space and atomic/elemental level stuff at the beginning but it got more interesting when life turned up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted January 28, 2022 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2022 Serafinowicz as Pratchett's Death is the most amazing thing. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/16/bill-nighy-narrate-terry-pratchett-footnotes-new-discworld-recordings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted January 28, 2022 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2022 Sounds brilliant from the article. Really hope they've done justice to the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted January 29, 2022 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2022 21 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Sounds brilliant from the article. Really hope they've done justice to the books. Yeah if they're any good I might have to start an Audible sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 Just finished Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier. Really enjoyed listening to this, Schreier is an excellent games journalist and in this book he tells the story of a load of games being developed in the last 15 years or so. A bit like a sleazeless Easy Riders and Raging Bulls. Shines a ton of light on game development and some of the dev’s stories are really interesting. The Stardew Valley guy in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 27, 2022 Moderators Share Posted March 27, 2022 I listened to As You Wish, which is Cary Elwes's memoirs of the making of The Princess Bride. It's fun and pretty short, and is really made by the fact that he got a lot of the people involved in the film in on the reading. After that I got the book of the Princess Bride, as read by Rob Reiner. He has a nice voice and obviously has a lot of lives for the story but tbh isn't the best narrator. Still good though Currently listening to Dracula. The book started really strong and then suddenly took a turn for the very boring with the diaries of Lucy and Mina. I hope it picks up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 1, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 1, 2022 On 1/29/2022 at 12:18 AM, Onyx2 said: Yeah if they're any good I might have to start an Audible sub. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2022/April/terry-pratchett-documentary-escape-to-the-discworld-audiobooks.html Update of sorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted May 2, 2022 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 2, 2022 21 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2022/April/terry-pratchett-documentary-escape-to-the-discworld-audiobooks.html Update of sorts. Yes I read this and the accompanying YouTube doc. Look brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 28, 2022 Moderators Share Posted June 28, 2022 Listening to Artemis atm. Rosario Dawson is fucking terrible at accents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted August 8, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2022 Jumped on the '3 months for half price offer' and have been loving Audible ever since. Went through Alien and Ghostbusters 1 & 2 proper quick. Sacked off Halloween as It didn't grab me like the others and I couldn't get on with the narrator. Despite the genre being massively played out I've really been enjoying R R Haywoods 'The Undead'. There's like 20 books and the vast majority of them seem to be free but I guess that's just a clever tactic to entice me to pay for the later ones once I'm in deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 Under The Dome- Stephen King Good King. Big mysterious semi permeable indestructible dome encases small American town. The whole place turns to shit after less than a week but thats kind of the point. Weird sex watch- Spoiler A gang rape and some necrophilia, standard King. In the Distance- Hernan Diaz Ginormous Swedish kid gets separated from his older brother on the trip to America. Spends his time walking around pioneer age America looking for him. A cross between seminal classics An American Tale and Fievel Goes West. I really enjoyed the adventure aspect to this but as the story goes on it turns in to a character study that I was a bit less hot on. Still excellent. Dead Man’s Walk I started this not realising it was a prequel in their series to Lonesome Dove but I’ve kept with it and the fact that it’s meant to be one of the weaker entries and I still find it very good has me breezing through it. Helped in large part to Will Patton doing the read. Who doesn’t want to listen Will Patton say cow boy stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 16, 2022 Moderators Share Posted August 16, 2022 Listening to Small Gods at the minute. First Pratchett one I've picked up. Really enjoying it! Scouse accent for Om is inspired. I don't particularly like the way the footnotes have been executed though. The pause is too long and kinda takes you out of it. This is one that I've never read the book of, so will be interesting to see how I feel when I listen to one I already know. Keen to hear your thoughts, @Onyx2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 17, 2022 Moderators Share Posted August 17, 2022 Ah balls. Just got to the philosophers with American accents. Really off putting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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