Is there a /lit top books list
I've gone through this link and there are some few repeating titles which is confidence building to see
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/76gu28/your_top_ten_audiobooks_of_all_time/
and others online
https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-audiobooks
Nice. Now you will see a quarter or half of the posts vehemently debating whether consuming audiobooks is reading or not.
No, that is not under discussion. The answer is:
Readying physcial books are better
Sometime you need to give you're eye a rest, are doing the cleaning up and want to listen to something and be entertained.
This pertains only to which audibooks are good.
thank you for replying
Nice try audiocuck, make it less obvious next time.
I always fall asleep while listening to audiobooks from youtube
Why would anyone who is not blind or dyslexic want to listen to the monotonous drone of some homosexual actor instead of just reading the book? Is it like fat americans who claim to be disabled so they can ride their electric scooters to the mall?
Because if I am ironing clothes or cars I still can process text, just not read it from a book. Now if I listen to an audiobook I’m not dependent on my hands for that. Was this explanation sufficient or are you still troubled with this idea?
*driving a car
Reading is an activity that requires single-minded attention and focus. It's not made for multitasking. A book is not merely narration and dialogue. It's extremely easy to zone out to the drone of someone's voice, as if you're sitting in a lecture or lying in bed falling asleep to the story of some kind grandparent. I can't think of any book beyond the most basic YA fantasy/SF that can be meaningfully digested while multitasking
You can’t completely absorb any book on the first pass regardless of how you do it. If you’re doing a monotonous task like mowing grass, or as the other anon mentioned, ironing clothes, you’re fine. Some books will be harder than others, sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless
That's why I singled out YA/ fantasy/ SF. I mean if you want to read the latest manufacturing line Horus Heresy book then go for it. But you really can't listen to something like Pynchon or Livy without missing out tons of stuff.
Not all literacy fiction is hyper-maximalist furniture.
Pulp fiction
pnin read by stephan rudnicki
The book of the new sun series by Gene Wolfe narrated by Jonathan Davis is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. The sun also rises narrated by William Hurt is also great.
get out of my head fricker, i just downloaded that book of the sun audiobook. i look forward to it.
also the torrent i used came with maps that didn't come with my 2 volume tor edition. very neat.
Hell yeah brother. Enjoy it. That map is dope too.
dostos tbk read by bruce pirie, its on librivox. its the garnett translation if you care.
>librivox
i don't wanna listen to dosto, of all writers, being narrated by some lispy suburban american. seriously, the amount of saliva noises those librivox narrators make is enough to put anyone off audiobooks for life
most librivox is garbage but this one specifically is pretty good, i prefer it to most other tbk audiobooks i've heard.
https://librivox.org/brothers-karamazov-v3-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/
if you know of a better tbk audiobook, feel free to link it and i'll check it out.
I only listen to non fiction audiobooks. With fiction if I miss something I’ll be lost. With non fiction I can focus when it’s interesting and don’t mind missing some bits. I use it while cooking, cleaning, mowing the lawn, working out. Currently i’m listening to the alphabet vs the goddess by Leonard shlain. This dude postulates that when societies embrace the written word they become male dominating societies, ultimately leading to the relentless pursuit of science. It’s meticulously researched and there are obvious correlations throughout history proving his thesis. I can’t go back in time or change peoples minds but I can worship mommys more.
I don’t get it, these gays talk about audiobooks as plebe tier but would absolutely go to a “reading” of their favorite author. Human storytelling is first an oral tradition. If you don’t have a shit attention span an audiobook is an amazing way to take I a great work.
I’ll throw some good literary audiobooks out there hope others do the same: Stoner, leaving atocha station, post Humous memoirs of bras Cubas, journey to the end of the night, the novels, auster’s New York trilogy.
Those are all tried and true excellent audiobooks end to end: Now give me some good ones back that aren’t shit tier.
Whoops:
The novelist*, and I’ll throw in threshold by Doyle and the third policeman by O’Brien.
One hundred years of solitude, nostromo, my name is red, islands in the stream. Probably anything narrated by John Lee.
Nice man. Thx. Mostly non-basic b***h suggestions.
Come on IQfy moar…
Nice. Hadn’t heard of this one somehow.
Now I’ll do one to keep it going: A confederate general from Big Sur. Absurd, surreal, funny, not woke. Very good.
yeah agreed. I think proust can be kind of boring when read espically the 3rd book with the society shit. Like having that french guy on audible read it to you is like proust telling you his life <3
Mandatory Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time mention.
The best one is the old Brit reading LOTR and then the Mick reading Ulysses
I think some pretty heavy works can be tackled on audiobook, but can Ulysses? Need a notepad with you?
It should be read aloud either way so I figured mind as well hear it in a proper Dublin accent.
I read the first 1/3rd.
I didn’t know that. Cool. I’ve kind of ignored that book as not worth it. Wdy of it think?
Needs a few readings and cliff notes
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
I recently got Fahrenheit 451 on audiobook and I’d say it’s a great one to listen to. Easy to follow, not overly complicated. I also recently finished IJ on audio as well and was pleasantly surprised. I maybe wouldn’t recommend it for a first read, but if you want to do a second audio is fine, I definitely caught a lot I missed the first time.
I’ve been going hiking with the GF and we listen to the Andy Serkis narration of LOTR. Incredibly comfy
Unironically Lollita. Jeremy Irons has such a nice voice
Not IQfy get the FRICK out of my board you illiterate subhuman, you disgust me
I've said it a couple of times, but I highly recommend The Children of Húrin. Both because it's a good story, written by Tolkien, and because it's read by Christopher Lee, who is an amazing narrator.
https://voca.ro/1mYLX9O9Tx1k
Anybody anything else?
I get the obvious appeal for audiobooks, and arguing with someone over his enjoyment of them isn't very productive, but part of the magic of reading for me is seeing how good writers beautifully string together words in their language. For the same reason I try to avoid reading translations unless they're of a trusted sourcs as immersing yourself in a language is just as important to me as understanding the meaning behind the words.
>librivox
>listening to anyone other than D. E. Wittkower or Cori Samuel
Sad!
what if you read while listening at the same time, letting the voice keep you on a steady pace which would otherwise be fraught with many rereading of lines and retracking phrases/places/names
the sandman by Neil Gaiman is really good
If you've already read gravity's rainbow, the audiobook is actually excellent. If you haven't read it yet (at least twice tbh), the audiobook is too chaotic.