Audiobook recommendations?

[Becky Lindroos]

I was put off by the sample voice for Bleeding Edge - I am a California girl! But I’ll give it a try.  Yes, I thought Inherent Vice was good on audio - Ron McClarty is an experienced reader.  I also listened to The Crying of Lot 49 and enjoyed it but imo, the reader was kinda pathetic.  This was 2007 so maybe that was part of it.  (I got it when it came out.)   It seems like Pynchon & company hand select the voices every time rather than picking a reader and sticking with him as many authors do - this is good considering that each book by Pynchon is very, very different voice-wise.  

Bekah 



On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Inherent Vice was great on audio. Now listening to Bleeding Edge. It's taking a minute to get used to the narrator's voice, but I think it's growing on me.
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> Got to check out same James Lee Burke on audio! 
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> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> I like listening to crime and suspense books - Thomas Cook is good,  James Lee Burke (as read by Will Patton) is great. There are lots and lots - depends on your tolerance for violence or your taste in style, etc.  Also depends on the reader’s voice.
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> Recently listened to Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson -  excellent.  Also the J.K. Rowling crime novels written under the name Robert Galbraith are surprisingly good -  old fashioned English who-done-it with a war-crippled (Afghanistan) detective and his side-kick.  The Silkworm (#2) has a literary theme with the publishing industry as the setting. There are lots of allusions, references, in-jokes, etc. relating to literature as well as a mad author as victim.
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> Bekah
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> On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Charles Bowden's reading of his MURDER CITY book is simply incredible. Knowing that it's being read by a dead man really adds to the experience
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> > Allan in WV
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> > Sent from my iPhone
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> >> On Mar 19, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, just particularly interesting to listen to, is all. Thanks!
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