Audiobook recommendations?

[Charles Albert]

Just finished Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280 which, given the first person
narration, should make an excellent audio book.

love,
cfa

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Got to check out same James Lee Burke on audio!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Bekah
> >
> > On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Allan in WV
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Mar 19, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, just particularly interesting
> to listen to, is all. Thanks!
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