Anonymous
08/22/2023 02:35
Subject: Re:Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
bumping this thread because someone started a new thread asking for audiobook recommendations.
Anonymous
07/26/2022 06:35
Subject: Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
Anonymous wrote:Agree that "educated" was really good. It felt like the author herself was narrating.
"Where'd you go Bernadette?" was a fun audiobook.
I also randomly listened to two actress autobiography audiobooks: Anna Kendrick and Judy Greer. Neither was exceptionally great literature, but it was a time in my life where I needed a simple distraction, and hearing someone around my age talk about their life felt like talking to a friend in a conversation where I could be low key and just listen. Judy played Karen in "Daisy Jones and the Six." It was interesting to hear her take on always being cast as a friend but never the main character.
You mean will play? Is this a movie I somehow missed?!?
Anonymous
07/26/2022 01:18
Subject: Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
Agree that "educated" was really good. It felt like the author herself was narrating.
"Where'd you go Bernadette?" was a fun audiobook.
I also randomly listened to two actress autobiography audiobooks: Anna Kendrick and Judy Greer. Neither was exceptionally great literature, but it was a time in my life where I needed a simple distraction, and hearing someone around my age talk about their life felt like talking to a friend in a conversation where I could be low key and just listen. Judy played Karen in "Daisy Jones and the Six." It was interesting to hear her take on always being cast as a friend but never the main character.
"Where'd you go Bernadette?" was a fun audiobook.
I also randomly listened to two actress autobiography audiobooks: Anna Kendrick and Judy Greer. Neither was exceptionally great literature, but it was a time in my life where I needed a simple distraction, and hearing someone around my age talk about their life felt like talking to a friend in a conversation where I could be low key and just listen. Judy played Karen in "Daisy Jones and the Six." It was interesting to hear her take on always being cast as a friend but never the main character.
Anonymous
07/26/2022 00:09
Subject: Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
I posted previously about struggling to find an audiobook that didn't annoy me. I have since listened to a couple I not only didn't hate, but really thought the narration added to the experience:
Call Me by Your Name
Achilles
Call Me by Your Name
Achilles
Anonymous
07/25/2022 23:24
Subject: Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
Anonymous wrote:Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Audio version was great.
+1 to this.
Anonymous
07/25/2022 21:44
Subject: Need a new book, preferably audio, can’t find anything to hold my interest
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
I love this author/narrator combo — more that I like the book itself.
+1 I got bored with this book about halfway through. Haven't finished - read some spoilers just for narrative closure.
Nothing To See Here was a great audiobook. I'm surprised you didn't like Remarkably Bright Creatures, given the others you do like! What bored you about it?
Maybe you're more in the mood for a mystery or a thriller? On DCUM's recommendation, I recently read - book, not audiobook - The Lies I Tell and I LOVED it.
OP here.
“Remarkably”…I’m not sure. I’ve even sped up the narration but it’s dragging! Maybe I’ll keep at it.
I’ve read and enjoyed most of what is suggested: Daisy Jones was the best audiobook!
I am PP and if you don't like it you don't like it! I really loved it but a slow and gentle meditation on octopuses, family, aging, life, and death, was exactly what I was in the mood for. I was sort of turned off by Lessons in Chemistry, actually, even though I finished it - and I think at another time I'd have loved it. Sometimes you're just not in the mood!
Daisy Jones was a great audiobook, agreed.