Podfic and audiobook recs
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luzulaLike a hamster, I have a tendency to save up good fic, podfic, audiobooks and books against some unknown future scarcity, instead of reading/listening at once. I made myself stop doing this when I was alone up in the mountains, because when exactly was I going to have time to read and listen to all this if not now?
Probably everyone who likes podfic in due South has listened to this already, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ann_ciudad's reading of Speranza's Some Strange Prophecy is so very, very good. I love everything about it. The other really good podfic I listened to up there was pandarus's reading of Queensguard, by aramuin. It's Supernatural RPS, but I listened to it pretty much as original fic, and as such, it's very enjoyable.
I also listened to a couple of professional audiobooks, some in Swedish and some in English. I was completely riveted by an audiobook of Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow (an SF book about a Jesuit mission to another planet). I'd read the book before, but enough time had passed that I had forgotten the plot. The reader (David something--can't quite make it out) is quite good, especially with all the different accents, and I like the book for its ensemble character--it's really about a group of people, not just one main character. Another audiobook which might as well be professional, but isn't, is Laurie Ann Walden's reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles for Librivox. I just love her reading. She has a mild accent--possibly it's southern US?--that's very pleasant to listen to.
Now a tiny little rant. I've been listening to audiobooks of Isaac Asimov's early robot books, but I'm constantly on the brink of stopping. They don't exactly have stellar women characters to begin with, but the (male) reader does women's dialogue in a sort of high-pitched bimbo voice that annoys the hell out of me. Arrrrgh.
Probably everyone who likes podfic in due South has listened to this already, but
ann_ciudad's reading of Speranza's Some Strange Prophecy is so very, very good. I love everything about it. The other really good podfic I listened to up there was pandarus's reading of Queensguard, by aramuin. It's Supernatural RPS, but I listened to it pretty much as original fic, and as such, it's very enjoyable. I also listened to a couple of professional audiobooks, some in Swedish and some in English. I was completely riveted by an audiobook of Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow (an SF book about a Jesuit mission to another planet). I'd read the book before, but enough time had passed that I had forgotten the plot. The reader (David something--can't quite make it out) is quite good, especially with all the different accents, and I like the book for its ensemble character--it's really about a group of people, not just one main character. Another audiobook which might as well be professional, but isn't, is Laurie Ann Walden's reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles for Librivox. I just love her reading. She has a mild accent--possibly it's southern US?--that's very pleasant to listen to.
Now a tiny little rant. I've been listening to audiobooks of Isaac Asimov's early robot books, but I'm constantly on the brink of stopping. They don't exactly have stellar women characters to begin with, but the (male) reader does women's dialogue in a sort of high-pitched bimbo voice that annoys the hell out of me. Arrrrgh.
