What is your favorite Audiobook? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Hyperion has full cast, the rest doesn't, but still very high quality narration.

Honourable mentions:

Alastair Reynolds and John Lee collaborations. Lee has the perfect voice and tone for Reynolds' precise (and somewhat aloof) language.
Neil Gaiman books. Gaiman does his own narration, and I can't imagine his books without his voice.

Dishonourable mention:

John Scalzi, read by Will Wright. Wright reads as if every line in Scalzi's works was hillarious. Scalzi is a very funny writer, but his books have somber set pieces, and Wright ruins the immersion there.

[-] androogee@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anything read by Wil Wheaton tbh, I just don't like him as a narrator. (I'm pretty sure you meant Wil Wheaton lol)

[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Sorry; you are right. I never saw that reader with any other authors, so it's not something that's really stuck in my memory.

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