What (audio book) are you currently listening to?

I’ve been using Audible a lot recently.

Should I start a new thread for audio books? Or do we just combine them in the regular book thread.

Well the other thread is titled "what book are you currently reading", and audio books aren't really reading, so I'd say you should keep them separate.

I’m currently listening to “Hard to Handle” by Steve Gorman from the Black Crowes.

Just finished Dio’s Rainbow in the Dark audiobook. It’s good to hear his thoughts on his early years, but the book ends too soon! It basically just goes up to his Sacred Heart solo album. Many more albums came after and there was no mention of Sabbath’s Dehumanizer album. Kinda disappointed about that. The book simply wasn’t finished…
If he survived, he would have covered a lot more years.

Troublezone wrote:

Just finished Dio’s Rainbow in the Dark audiobook. It’s good to hear his thoughts on his early years, but the book ends too soon! It basically just goes up to his Sacred Heart solo album. Many more albums came after and there was no mention of Sabbath’s Dehumanizer album. Kinda disappointed about that. The book simply wasn’t finished…
If he survived, he would have covered a lot more years.

I agree, it ends too soon, but I think there will be a second book. Thought I read somewhere that there was more to it, but not sure why they ended it there.

I just got done listening to The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Now I'm listening to Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. Great four book series I highly recommend.

Wrecked Neck wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Just finished Dio’s Rainbow in the Dark audiobook. It’s good to hear his thoughts on his early years, but the book ends too soon! It basically just goes up to his Sacred Heart solo album. Many more albums came after and there was no mention of Sabbath’s Dehumanizer album. Kinda disappointed about that. The book simply wasn’t finished…
If he survived, he would have covered a lot more years.

I agree, it ends too soon, but I think there will be a second book. Thought I read somewhere that there was more to it, but not sure why they ended it there.

I just got done listening to The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Now I'm listening to Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. Great four book series I highly recommend.

It kinda makes sense for his widow/manager to have another book… “part 2”. That’s more $$! She’s like Sharon Osbourne’s greedy sister.

I’m gonna start “For the Sake of Heaviness” (the history of Metal Blade records)

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

I tried to do the audio book trip, didn't click for me.

Likened it to ordering dinner for me and somebody else getting to eat it.

James B. wrote:

I tried to do the audio book trip, didn't click for me.

Likened it to ordering dinner for me and somebody else getting to eat it.

You don’t like the idea of the actual author reading the book?

Troublezone wrote:

You don’t like the idea of the actual author reading the book?

Nope

Just cause ya know how to write, doesn't mean ya know how to read out loud.  

The chances of anybody reading it to me the same way I read it in my head is pretty slim. It matters.

James B. wrote:

The chances of anybody reading it to me the same way I read it in my head is pretty slim. It matters.

Is it Bobcat Goldthwait or Gilbert Gottfried?

Troublezone wrote:

James B. wrote:

The chances of anybody reading it to me the same way I read it in my head is pretty slim. It matters.

Is it Bobcat Goldthwait or Gilbert Gottfried?

It's not a voice
People emphasize certain words for impact when speaking.(An author can get over excited reading his own text) It can distract from normal comprehension compared to reading the same text yourself, comparable to how proper/improper punctuation & grammar changes context.

James B. wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

James B. wrote:

The chances of anybody reading it to me the same way I read it in my head is pretty slim. It matters.

Is it Bobcat Goldthwait or Gilbert Gottfried?

It's not a voice
People emphasize certain words for impact when speaking.(An author can get over excited reading his own text) It can distract from normal comprehension compared to reading the same text yourself, comparable to how proper/improper punctuation & grammar changes context.

Thanks for the detailed response. To each their own I guess…

Btw, I was joking.

Troublezone wrote:

Btw, I was joking.

I figured as much.... It was funny

Finished listening to Corey Feldman’s Coreyography book.

Currently working on Dave Grohl’s The Story Teller.

Rocannons World, by Ursula K LeGuin.

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourse from the Pali Canon, by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

So curious what speed do you audio listeners listen to the books? If it's fiction I usually just listen at normal 1.0 speed, but for nonfiction I bump it up to 1.5 speed. Anyone else listen at higher speed? Tried higher, but sometimes the words seem cut off at times.

Wrecked Neck wrote:

So curious what speed do you audio listeners listen to the books? If it's fiction I usually just listen at normal 1.0 speed, but for nonfiction I bump it up to 1.5 speed. Anyone else listen at higher speed? Tried higher, but sometimes the words seem cut off at times.

Listen to stories 1.0.

Listen to most podcasts at 1.5 or 1.75. Can't stand how slowly some people speak.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Wrecked Neck wrote:

So curious what speed do you audio listeners listen to the books? If it's fiction I usually just listen at normal 1.0 speed, but for nonfiction I bump it up to 1.5 speed. Anyone else listen at higher speed? Tried higher, but sometimes the words seem cut off at times.

Can't stand how slowly some people speak.

That's a good point too, sometimes I'll speed up a fictional book because the reader talks so damn slow.

Wrecked Neck wrote:

So curious what speed do you audio listeners listen to the books? If it's fiction I usually just listen at normal 1.0 speed, but for nonfiction I bump it up to 1.5 speed. Anyone else listen at higher speed? Tried higher, but sometimes the words seem cut off at times.

I have no idea. I just press play. Whatever speed Audible uses.

Kerouac. On The Road.

Son of a Milkman by Brian Wheat