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Fiction audiobooks you've enjoyed?
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I set a goal for myself to get through as many of Stephen King's books as I can before the end of the year. To date, I've gone through over half of the Dark Tower series, The Shining, Dr. Sleep, It, Later, Under The Dome, Bag of Bones, Desperation, If It Bleeds, and I'm working on The Stand right now. Most of them are quite long, 15 - 50ish hours.
If you're not into horror, I still highly recommend The Dark Tower series. The recordings for the first 5 books are over 100 hours. They unfortunately had to change narrators in the 5th book, as the original sadly passed away. He did an amazing job at bringing the characters to life.
If It Bleeds is a short story collection, but it contains a sequel to King's The Outsider, followed by Holly, which just came out last month.
I listened to the extended version of the stand.
It was 48 hours long and has a diatribe about people complaining about him being verbose.
Excellent storyteller, but he is long winded.
And it really didn't make the ending any better.. I didn't feel rewarded after that slog. Personal victory maybe?
Yeah... Me neither.
I like audio books because they are slower than I read, which is more peaceful. I read words all day. I'm just done with that in my personal time, aside from the fact that I can listen to books when doing other things.