I love any John Le Carré novel read by the author. Nobody reads better than Johnny, especially when he reads the dialogue for German, Czech or Russian women. Just gold.
I also enjoyed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the audiobook spoken word adaptation featuring Harry Dean Stanton, Jim Jarmusch and Maury Chaykin. It’s pretty wild. One of the hilarious parts is that Jarmusch, god love him, is just awful compared to the others. Good director, bad voice actor. Highly entertaining in good and bad ways.
World War Z by Max Brooks is a good listen. It doesn’t have a single reader but instead is read by a full audio cast including Mark Hamill, John Turturro, Carl and Rob Reiner and Alan Alda.
I recently listened to, and really enjoyed, P.G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves, as read by Jonathan Cecil, and can recommend it as one example of where the audio version brings something extra over reading it yourself. (Although I thought it was wonderful and hilarious, a couple of the customer reviews at audible.com thought it wasn’t as good as other Wodehouses.)
It’s a digital voice recorder, tyvm. I just can’t break the habit of saying “Tape recorder” I’m a child of the 80’s. Now if I only I could get these blu-ray Betamax discs to work…
Oh, you’re just not used to the Blu-Ray Digital 8-Tracks… the fade out at the end of each track is normal. Just wait a few seconds for the horrendous chunky “CLICK” as the tape heads move and it’ll fade back in.
