Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series should be enjoyed by any Galactica fan. There are similar themes though it is a totally different story.
i love audio books !! i work midnights and listen to them all the time . my top picks for the perfect audio books are; 1.Harry potter
2.Enders game
3.dune
4.star wars books:)
Any of the Patrick O’Brian novels (Aubrey/Maturin) with Patrick Tull as the narrator are wonderful. I DO suggest you listen to them in order if you’ve never read the books (and, no, having watched the Master and Commander movie does NOT … repeat NOT!!! … count). They’re dense in nautical terminology, but O’Brian uses the “clueless” friend device in the person of Maturin which allows Aubrey to explain everything without it being one of those cliche “as everyone knows” scenes.
Great books, with a really good narrator. As far as I know, Tull narrates at least 18 of the 21 books.
kthxbai 
I can listen to the Hitchhikers guide series of audio books over and over as well as Douglas Adams other books, Dirk Gently’s holistic detective agency and long dark tea time of the soul.
As a kid, I loved to have stories read to me, even long after I could read myself. Very soothing. I found “books on tape” back in the day and have been hooked on audiobooks ever since. I’ve listened to sooo many in my time, but concur with all things Douglas Adams and the Harry Potter series. Also, Barbara Rosenblat is an amazzzing narrarator, so I love most of her work.
H2G2 and the Dirk Gentry books are great (the H2G2 radio plays are my current bedtime companions,) but why not get Neuromancer? Bonus: Music by U2 (or at least components thereof.)
Dune for long car drives.
Shogun, another long drive book (but you have to be into feudal Japan and samurai, which I am).
I loved The Da Vinci Code, for another long drive.
I’m finally caught up with my subscribed podcasts, so I signed up for Audible last night. OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING?!
I bought WWZ, used my free credit on Bloodsucking Freaks: A Love Story by Christopher Moore, and have been working on a list of what I want to download next.
Oh, and I was tickled to see that Audible has the first few of the Deathstalker series, produced by Graphic Audio. It’s my favorite book series, and anybody who is a fan of over-the-top space opera should give them a try. In the third book of the series, Deathstalker War, there’s a whole section of the book that is basically Heart of Darkness at Disneyworld. It’s fantastically creepy, violent, funny, and awesome, and the cast does a wonderful job.
I have been immersing myself in the works of Neil Gaiman- what a marvelous storyteller! He narrates his own, and he’s just wonderful at it!
Currently in the middle of Neverwhere.
The Graveyard Book was compelling, and Coraline, engrossing!
I still have 2 more book credits for this month!
Thanks for the suggests! Checking into:
Neuromancer, Hitchhiker’s, and Christopher Moore.
My, ‘my next listen’ queue is empty and in desperate need of replenishment!
I loved Shogun on paper- my mom, sis and I all read the series a loooong time ago!
Da Vinci was fun!
I knew I would get some goodies here!
Thanks again!
bkitty, if you’re checking out Christopher Moore, I also have to highly suggest (if they have it, I picked my stuff before checking) “LAMB: The Gospel According to Biff” by him. Hilarious, touching, etc. I’ve also been told that “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove” and “The Stupidest Angel” are wonderful.
I loved “Ender’s game” I listened to it because i got as an audio book because it was a free audio books from this site. Trust me it’s legal.
Yup. They’ve been around a while, and are completely legit (I’m not a fan of their model, but it’s better than most.)
Welcome aboard, BC.
Again: THANKS! woohoo! booky goodness!
Thanks! Duly noted! salivates over MORE
Try finding Stephen Fry’s versions. It’s like re-discovering the whole audio series all over again.
I’ve been listening to Susanna Clark’s “Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” for about, oh, three weeks now at work and I’ve still got at least ten hours left. It’s a great story, very detailed, and the narrator is wonderful. And yeah, it’s 32 hours long.
The audio book of World war Z is Awesome!
I loved Gaiman’s comics back in the day, and am now catching up on his other works myself.
So how’d you end up liking Neverwhere. I have it waiting (along with a good number of other audiobooks, podiobooks and podcasts) inside my iPod and it’s getting hard to ignore.
Just listened to his Fragile Things collection of short stories and found it a fun mix which has sparked a desire to search out his American Gods book.
As a good companion to Fragile Things, Fora.tv has a 2 hr talk by Gaiman on it (with readings) that can be viewed or downloaded as audio or video for free.
If you haven’t, give his Anansi Boys a listen. Loved it. It’s read brilliantly by Lenny Henry of the BBC’s Chef! fame, who pulls off some really nice island accents. (perhaps why Neil didn’t read this one himself).
Has anyone read/heard his and Pratchett’s Good Omens? May check that one out first since after just finishing Dune, I could use a little levity.
And as that’s my segue to Pratchette, let me also suggest the audiobooks of his The Wee Free Men & it’s sequel, A Hat Full of Sky. I love kid’s books, and these are 2 great ones about a young witch’s awakening. I feel hearing the Scottish names and words pronounced correctly (much like hearing the names in Dune) added greatly to my enjoyment of them too. I have yet to listen to the third, Wintersmith.
Considering the up coming arc, it’s worth mentioning these audio books again. Although I haven’t heard the Jim Dale version, the UK ones are read by Stephen Fry. I can’t imagine anyone being better than Stephen Fry at reading audiobooks, or anything else for that matter
Stumbled upon an interesting pairing while listening to some (free) podiobooks. I found J.C. Hutchins’ thriller trilogy The 7th Son, and the more hard sci-fi Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow contrasted nicely with each other. They both deal with ramifications of human cloning and it was cool to compare the two stories’ takes on it.
And since I’m shouting out podiobooks, let me recommend Mur Lafferty’s existential fantasy series Heaven (currently concluding with book 5) and the interesting take on the superhero genre, How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel by Patrick McLean as well.