Audio Books - Do you like em?

[Julie]

They are not a book replacement for me, just a different format that sometimes is a bit more relaxing sometimes. Great for travelling too

Definitely

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't have the patience to just listen to words being spoken.
Funny thing is, I always roll my eyes when people tell me they don't have the patience to read a book.
Can't really do radio either, news maybe, but not drama and I even find myself drifting off during ISIHAC

 

[Julie]

I don't have the patience to just listen to words being spoken.

Funny thing is, I always roll my eyes when people tell me they don't have the patience to read a book.

 

[Orang Utan]

well exactly, that's why it's a funny thing. Weird how some can listen and some can read. I avoid meeting at work but am quite happy to read the minutes or the presentation later on.

 

[Biddlybee]

Don't think I've ever listened to an audio book. I do like people reading to me though, so maybe I should give it a go.

 

[two sheds]

I haven't really listened to audio books, I love the radio 4 plays and productions though (downloaded compulsively from bbc7 over the last couple of years). PG Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Dorothy L Sayers, love em dearly.

And of course all the Hancocks, Goons, Richmold Crompton (Martin Jarvis can't be beat there, sorry spangles), Giles Wemmbley Hogg, Steve Coogan, etc etc.

 

[Cid]

Occasionally a cheeky line of K and an audio book in bed adds a new dimension, but that is another forum discussion.

Nice little vice isn't it?

 

[citydreams]

I was just thinking about this for my MP3 player, cheers Badgers!!

Did you find any good'uns?

 

[citydreams]

Going to give

Real Pirates - Introduction (by Captain Charles Johnson) a try

 

[bus]

I've only ever listened to two and both times they were of books I'd already read, namely the Regeneration trilogy (which i guess is technically three books) and the amber spyglass.

I don't know why I don't listen o more really - I think it's just habit not to.

 

[Badgers]

Bored of TV and film last night and could not be bothered to read.

Stuck a Harry Potter audio book in bed (at about 19:30) and drifted off

Pleasant

 

[fear-n-loathing]

enjoy listening to them mainly because i'm such a slow reader that it takes me months to finish a book

 

[derf]

I use them in the car. Breaks up the boring long drives.

 

[Badgers]

Just had a new one land on my desk this morning:

Lemony Snicket's - A Series of Unfortunate Events

This is the complete, unabridged set on CD so is quite a project at 58 hours and 21 minutes total running time


If you wanted this for any reason then get it from The Book People as it is REALLY cheap.

 

[nosos]

Love politics/philosophy ones.

Can't get myself to listen to them on trains though.

 

[Badgers]

Radio 7 is getting a lot of attention in our flat right now - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/

 

[Cid]

Love politics/philosophy ones.

Can't get myself to listen to them on trains though.

I've been going through the teaching company lectures (American company that records lecture series etc)... They're pretty good, some of the lecturers are quite irritating though.

My work is great for stuff like this; it's mostly manual, repetitive stuff in between designing, so the linguistic bits of the brain aren't engaged at all... This means you actually absorb a lot of the stuff you hear, rather than it going in one ear and out the other... Currently listening to James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman whilst waiting for more TTC lectures, it's pretty good.

I'm aware I'm quoting a post from 2007 btw.

 

[panpete]

I haven't got the attention span to listen to them, which is a shame as they sound a good idea.
It's not a disiterest thing, but an inability to focus.

 

[panpete]

I would need to keep pressing the 'rewind' button, like I had to when watching a good video.

 

[Badgers]

Just got about a years worth of free listening for those dark winter months.

 

[Stoat Boy]

I have a two hour drive everyday, minimum, to work and back and always have an audio book on the go. Get them from the Libary although they charge

 

[Badgers]

Listened to some more of Brian Aldiss Hothouse on Radio 7 last night which was interesting.

 

[rubbershoes]

I have a two hour drive everyday, minimum, to work and back and always have an audio book on the go. Get them from the Libary although they charge

torrents are your friend

there's more than you could ever get round to listening to on demonoid

 

[Badgers]

Listening to PG Woodlouse on Big Toe Books at the moment.

 

[Badgers]

Just had a new one land on my desk this morning:

Lemony Snicket's - A Series of Unfortunate Events

This is the complete, unabridged set on CD so is quite a project at 58 hours and 21 minutes total running time


If you wanted this for any reason then get it from The Book People as it is REALLY cheap.

We are ploughing through this at the moment

 

[Red Horse]

I thought they'd be great but found i'd rather just read as they are fooking slow. Put one on when i was sick and couldn't be bothered to read which was pretty good, other than that I'd only really use them in the car.

 

[Ax^]

Bored of TV and film last night and could not be bothered to read.

Stuck a Harry Potter audio book in bed (at about 19:30) and drifted off

Pleasant

falling asleep to steven fry reading harry potter

hmm any wierd dreams.. quite sure that could give you some horrific sex dreams if you eaten cheese before hand

 

[Orang Utan]

falling asleep to steven fry reading harry potter

hmm any wierd dreams.. quite sure that could give you some horrific sex dreams if you eaten cheese before hand