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My wife only does books audibly and she gets em all for free from the library
 
fishonjazz said:
My wife only does books audibly and she gets em all for free from the library
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dis is what i was thinkin. Plus there's other sites online that have free too. i was wonderin if audible.com had some other unique feautures tho cuz it seems pretty popular, and cuz im bombarded with their ads like all day err day
 
ElRoach0 said:
Go back and pick up where you left off. The last two books were pretty great.
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I hated how one dimensional the characters are, how predictable everything was. Good guys always win and never die even when you think they did.

I really hate how they are always saying "women are like this or that and act like this or that blah blah blah" and "men are always this way or that way blah blah"

I mean rand is supposedly in a battle to save all of mankind against demons and devils and the most evil beings there are.

Yet he won't kill a female demon just because he doesn't want to hurt women, even though she is a mass murdering evil demon.

It got super annoying after a while and I was not enjoying reading it anymore.


The lenght of the series was not the issue for me, it was the fact that I was not enjoying reading it...... it was like a chore to read it, I had to make myself do it so I said screw it and just read the summary on wiki to know how it turns out and then started reading a book I enjoy once again
 
fishonjazz said:
I hated how one dimensional the characters are, how predictable everything was. Good guys always win and never die even when you think they did.

I really hate how they are always saying "women are like this or that and act like this or that blah blah blah" and "men are always this way or that way blah blah"

I mean rand is supposedly in a battle to save all of mankind against demons and devils and the most evil beings there are.

Yet he won't kill a female demon just because he doesn't want to hurt women, even though she is a mass murdering evil demon.

It got super annoying after a while and I was not enjoying reading it anymore.


The lenght of the series was not the issue for me, it was the fact that I was not enjoying reading it...... it was like a chore to read it, I had to make myself do it so I said screw it and just read the summary on wiki to know how it turns out and then started reading a book I enjoy once again
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That's unfortunate. But I understand your opinion.

Still, the last two books aren't quite as predictable(but still kinda).
 
HeavenHarris said:
dis is what i was thinkin. Plus there's other sites online that have free too. i was wonderin if audible.com had some other unique feautures tho cuz it seems pretty popular, and cuz im bombarded with their ads like all day err day
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Even after you stop paying, the books your "credits" provided you are available to download to your account forever. No waiting for licensing, no checking out and checking back in.
 
ElRoach0 said:
Even after you stop paying, the books your "credits" provided you are available to download to your account forever. No waiting for licensing, no checking out and checking back in.
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Ever used the exchange function? I've been thinking of dumping some books but it seems to hard to find a trade.
 
Problem with free library audio is the low selection and long wait times. Then, when you get a book you can get bombarded with books you've waited for months for but now can't read them all in time.

Audible is expensive but it's convenient and ther isn't any competition.
 
franklin said:
Ever used the exchange function? I've been thinking of dumping some books but it seems to hard to find a trade.
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I wasn't even aware it existed. I'll have to look into it when I get home.

Another series I forgot, that I shouldn't have as it was what started me reading again, was the Sword of Truth series. It was pretty good. Terry Goodkind is kinda off his rocker though.
 
Gonna miss being a college student when it's over. Access to a humongous library is awesome
 
franklin said:
I've been so tempted to spring for this series. $210 for the full collection isn't cheap though.
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I have read it all the way thru three times. It is so lengthy and so complex that you miss and forget a ton of stuff. Like little fights, political intrigues or forshaddowing events. It truly is a story on an epic scope.
 
I read the first 7 or 8 wheel of time books. Then I stopped reading the female POV characters because there were boring. Then I stopped reading the books at all.
 
LazyD said:
Gonna miss being a college student when it's over. Access to a humongous library is awesome
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You want to read periodicals for the rest of your life or something? Seems like most decent sized city public libraries should suffice for post college reading, no?
 
Qman said:
I read the first 7 or 8 wheel of time books. Then I stopped reading the female POV characters because there were boring. Then I stopped reading the books at all.
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There are certainly characters I like more than others but a couple of those female characters really go out swinging at the end. Several of the heroes get killed.
 
I used Audible for a while and it was worth it--because I was able to built up a collection pretty quickly and cheaply, and then cancel my subscription. Now I have a bunch of long books on audio I can listen to when I'm cleaning or something.

For 15 dollars I think you get one or two credits a month (plus a free credit for a free trial--you could sign up and get a free audio book, I think (and when you quit they give you a free audio book, too). You can use this credit on almost any book, no matter the size/quality of the production. So I used one month's credit on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest--a massive novel over 600,000 words. That was the best audio performance I've ever heard. Kudos to the narrator, he made a notoriously hard book a blast to listen to. But anyways, that audiobook would have cost me like over 30 dollars for the whole thing, because it was 8 tapes (or eight files, I always think of audiobooks as tapes).

So if you subscribe for a month and use it to get War and Peace or something, it's a good deal.

Another way you can get an audiobook cheaply is if you have a kindle. I bought A Prayer for Owen Meany for my kindle for 2.99 (it was a special). And then, I saw to my amazement, that the audiobook version was only 2.99 also, because I had bought the kindle version. If you buy the kindle version first they mark the audiobook way down. How could I say no. (this was obviously sort of a purposeful undersell by Amazon to get me to buy kindle books and audio books from their services so they can destroy all real business and own the publishing business and then the world. I remember buying Dance with Dragons the day it came out on Amazon; they were selling it, a brand new hardcover, for like 12 dollars. Probably at a loss. But it's not even a rounding error for them. They were just trying to screw everyone else.)

tl;dr: there are a lot of ways to get cheaper/free audiobooks from audible if you look around. If you have an audiobook you really want just sign up for a free trial download the free book and then cancel before they start the subscription. A lot of the audibooks have great quality and narrator. Claire Danes narrates A Handmaid's Tale for instance, and it's really dope. Love you Claire.

Call me Claire.
 
franklin said:
Audible is expensive but it's convenient and ther isn't any competition.
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Incorrect. Download bittorrent and visit thepiratebay; never have to worry about books again. (to be fair, the only reason I'm torrenting them is because I got tired of waiting weeks and weeks for books at the Library, and then not finishing them before they were due, getting fines, etc. I only DL the books that I can get at the library. I can justify the **** out of this.)

ElRoach0 said:
Another series I forgot, that I shouldn't have as it was what started me reading again, was the Sword of Truth series. It was pretty good. Terry Goodkind is kinda off his rocker though.
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The way Fish feels about Wheel of Time is how I feel about TSOT. Rahl was a certified bad *** for like 3.5 books, and then... it just got really boring, long winded, and repetitive. I did enjoy the Mord Sith though. Delicious.

And whoever said that Guidell in the Dark Tower was the best narrator ever obviously didn't listen to Frank Muller do the first three or four books of the series (before he turned himself into a vegetable on a motorbike). THAT guy could narrate.
 
E.J. Wells said:
Incorrect. Download bittorrent and visit thepiratebay; never have to worry about books again. (to be fair, the only reason I'm torrenting them is because I got tired of waiting weeks and weeks for books at the Library, and then not finishing them before they were due, getting fines, etc. I only DL the books that I can get at the library. I can justify the **** out of this.)



The way Fish feels about Wheel of Time is how I feel about TSOT. Rahl was a certified bad *** for like 3.5 books, and then... it just got really boring, long winded, and repetitive. I did enjoy the Mord Sith though. Delicious.

And whoever said that Guidell in the Dark Tower was the best narrator ever obviously didn't listen to Frank Muller do the first three or four books of the series (before he turned himself into a vegetable on a motorbike). THAT guy could narrate.
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Lets get something straight about this... Mueller did great. Much better than guidell over all. But with the first book, limited characters, the gritty voice of guidell's was just perfect for that book.

That just happened.
 
ElRoach0 said:
Lets get something straight about this... Mueller did great. Much better than guidell over all. But with the first book, limited characters, the gritty voice of guidell's was just perfect for that book.

That just happened.
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I can see that. However, he absolutely mutilated Susannah and don't even get me started with Eddy Dean. He is the PERFECT Callahan though.
 
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