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Posted: 1/19/2021 10:33:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/19/2021 10:36:05 PM EDT
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Have you read The Expanse? The Audiobook versions are great. Way better than the show.
Jefferson Mays is an excellent narrator. There's one book that was narrated by a different guy, it sucked. They finally redid it with Jefferson Mays. Make sure you get that version. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 10:44:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: The mom unit got me a subscription to audible and I need to use up the credits for books. Last month I got Ready Player 2, it sucked, especially compared to the first one. Looking for some other stuff, any ideas? I enjoy science fiction, but have read a lot of it. Recently finished “Greenlights”. It was pretty good. I listen 1/2 hour or so daily, it had me LOLing daily. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 10:54:47 PM EDT
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Quoted: The mom unit got me a subscription to audible and I need to use up the credits for books. Last month I got Ready Player 2, it sucked, especially compared to the first one. Looking for some other stuff, any ideas? I enjoy science fiction, but have read a lot of it. If you have an Audible subscription, you can "return" any audiobooks you don't like. When you do, you get the credit back and you can pick something else out. There doesn't appear to be any limit to how many times you can return stuff, or at least I haven't run into a limit and I've returned several audiobooks. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 10:57:39 PM EDT
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1st of the trilogy:
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:02:37 PM EDT
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There’s tons of titles included with your membership (Free books!)
I’ve downloaded tons. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:03:05 PM EDT
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Alas Babylon
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:17:55 PM EDT
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Thanks all!
Going to start going down the list from the first reply and on. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:18:53 PM EDT
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Bloody Mohawk if you are into Colonial and Revolutionary War history.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:20:52 PM EDT
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Blood Meridian
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:21:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Alas Babylon Southerguy’s avatar by Walter Issacson |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:22:31 PM EDT
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White Fragility
I got this to listen to shortly after I sold my guns, I’m turning over a new leaf and rejecting my whiteness. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:23:56 PM EDT
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Happy endings with Jim Norton
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:26:25 PM EDT
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The 'Bobiverse' series if you are into SciFi...
TriumphRider |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:26:51 PM EDT
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Skunk works
Blackhawk down The looming tower Soldat Chickenhawk Red circle No easy day Mathematical universe Marine sniper Killing Jesus Killing Kennedy Killing Lincoln Killing Patton Heretic Guests of the ayatollah Fly boys Elegant universe Can’t hurt me Brief history of time 13 hours Left of boom The dream machine Touching the dragon Some of the ones I enjoyed |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:28:34 PM EDT
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Best Post-Apocalyptic series hands down:
The Remaining by DJ Molle Best CW2 / American collapse: Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matt Bracken Best zombie series: Day by day armageddon by JL Bourne Very good post apoc with a sci fi feel at times: Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith Other good post apoc series: Tomorrow War by JL Bourne Trilobyte by JL Bourne Seven Cows Ugly & Gaunt (Christian themed too) by Mark Goodwin |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:29:02 PM EDT
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James Wesley Rawles Patriots the whole series is available
Earth Abides George R. Stewart Alas Babylon Pat Frank The Day of the Jackal Fredrick Forsyth Lucifers Hammer Larry Niven Blackhawk Down mark Bowden 13 Hours Mitchell Zuckoff |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:30:19 PM EDT
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Get some of the 15+ hour Jack Reacher or Mitch Rapp novels
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:30:32 PM EDT
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Rick Partlow has audio versions of some of his books now.
Larry Corrie has some good stuff. If you want some humor, try Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent. It was read by Adam Baldwin, which is a bonus. ETA The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter is frightening. Another good one is Halo: Contact Harvest, especially if you ever played any of the Halo games. I thought it was well written and provides a lot of background into the game and various characters and species. It is a good stand-alone book, too, if you never played the games. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:33:20 PM EDT
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Some of my favorite Audiobooks:
(but your library might have them on Overdrive. If they do, just borrow and use your Audible credits on stuff they don't have) American Sniper (NF) Lone Survivor (NF) Into Thin Air - Krakauer (NF) Perfect Storm - Junger (NF) Prisoner of Birth - Jefferey Archer (F) Day by Day Armageddon (Dystopian F) The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher (Fantasy) The Eight - Neville (F) The Rule of Four - Caldwell (F) Shibumi (F) Shogun The Caesar series from Conn Iggulden (HF) The Genghis series from Conn Iggulden (HF) I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Mcnamara (NF) The Night Circus (F) The Murder Room - Capuzo (NF) The Poisoner's Handbook - Blum (NF) Bernard Cornwell's - Uhtred series. Raiders from the North (?) I think is the first one. *If you like Sci-Fi and have read Steven R Donaldson, his short story books: Daughter of Regals, and Sir Vissel (sp?) and Other Tales, are fun books to read. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:35:14 PM EDT
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Tower of Basel
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:35:58 PM EDT
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American Desperado by Jon Roberts and Evan Wright.
I think I've listened 3 or 4 times. Definitely got my money's worth-written by the cocaine cowboy himself. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:36:20 PM EDT
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I just started the Star Wars trilogy based on Thrawn.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:37:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blood Meridian |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:38:32 PM EDT
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The Border Trilogy- Cormac McCarthy.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:39:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blood Meridian Great book. I wasnt a huge fan of the reading of the audio book however. Have you read the Border Trilogy? |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:40:43 PM EDT
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Michael Connelly - All the Bosch series
Patricia Cornwell - All the early Kay Scarpetta Series Joseph Wambaugh - Oldies but goodies David Rosenfelt - Andy Carpenter Series (simple but funny series for dog lovers.) John Grisham - Early books David Baldacci Sue Grafton - You can get 3 books for the price of one (ABC, DEF, GHI) I have ~ 300 books in my Audible library. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:41:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:43:24 PM EDT
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Anything from jl Bourne. Particularly fond of tomorrow war
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:48:33 PM EDT
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Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:51:45 PM EDT
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The best use of Audible credits is to get the books that are particularly expensive and/or long.
To that end, I recommend the 3 volumes of Shelby Foote's The Civil War. Not sci-fi, but an outstanding and thorough history lesson. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:56:02 PM EDT
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:05:25 AM EDT
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Undying mercenaries series
Omega force series Expeditionary force series |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:27:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blood Meridian Someone here suggested that book to me here a year or so back. I thought The Road was depressing....that book is like curiousity drawing you to look at a fatal accident scene and you walk away wishing you had not. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:29:03 AM EDT
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I bought all the rift war saga by Raymond E feist. Great books, have read and listened to them all more than once.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:29:48 AM EDT
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I'm listening to Frank Herbert's "Dune" right now. It is most excellent.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:30:15 AM EDT
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About Face by Colonel David Hackworth.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:37:19 AM EDT
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The dark tower series by Stephen King
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Posted: 1/20/2021 12:47:18 AM EDT
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I like Clive Cussler's series of books.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 1:17:28 AM EDT
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David Goggins
"Can't Hurt Me" |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 1:36:11 AM EDT
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FatedAlex Verus Series, Book 1
by: Benedict Jacka Alex is a diviner mage, and it is a very interesting take on magic. It's like Harry Potter for adults. There are 11 books so far and I've listened to them all. This is not my normal genre, but I thoroughly enjoyed the series. It helps that the narrator is fantastic, as well. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 1:55:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anything from jl Bourne. Particularly fond of tomorrow war I’m halfway through the 2nd of his new series, Trilobyte. I like DBDA and Tomorrow War better, but it’s not bad. This time it’s robots. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:03:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blackhawk down Be careful if you’re interested in that, there’s a 4hr abridged edition available, it’s narrated by Joe Morton (Miles Dyson from Terminator 2) The unabridged edition is 15hrs and narrated by an Alan Sklar. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 2:12:56 AM EDT
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My favorite scifi is the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:12:03 AM EDT
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Saturn Run
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:22:11 AM EDT
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World war z is an awesome audio book.
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:34:15 AM EDT
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Grisham Series. “The Pelican Brief” etc....
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:34:31 AM EDT
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Audible is great to get the classics without having to actually slog through them. Plato's Republic, Crime and Punishment, Homer, the Federalist Papers, Wealth of Nations, Common Sense, that sort of thing.
I mostly like nonfiction, or science fiction. I can listen to Starship Troopers all the way through, and then start it over again. Never gets old. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:36:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I just started the Star Wars trilogy based on Thrawn. Heir to the Empire, or the new trilogy? They're both solid. |
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Posted: 1/20/2021 6:37:01 AM EDT
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Full disclosure, I have not listened to the audio books, but I did read the books.
Folks in the FB fan group loved the audio books. The Galaxy's Edge series. It is NOT Star Wars related. The first book is Legionnaire. The first line is "The galaxy is a dumpster fire". |
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