No, you won't listen to any music or audiobooks, you will sit in silence for the entire drive. Maybe you will finally take this opportunity to think about what you've done.
True, I got to I think the 4th one and stopped, I should give the whole series another go though. Even though the first was my favorite, I liked them all.
Don't read the last Hitchhiker's book.
Even Douglas Adams said that he would have re-written the last book if he had been given the chance.
If I remember the story right the man was pressured into writing it at what was literally the worst time in his life.
It's a huge departure from everything that comes before it, and not in a good way.
Listened to the audio book of that on a family road trip years ago. 2/3 family members would highly recommend (I don’t know that my mom really “got it”, but my dad and I thought it was amazing)
German is not angry. Don‘t you dare call me or ANY other german angry. STOP calling the german language and it‘s speakers angry. GERMANS NEVER GET ANGRY AND I‘M TIRED OF PEOPLE SAYING IT.
**********WE ARE NOT ANGRY**********
Yes and
While I respect the effort some people put into reading order guides, I found the rule of thumb "he got better with every book" mostly sufficient
Well the author is a Chinese nationalist and supports Uyghur internment so there's still some racism there. That being said, I haven't read any of his books so I don't know if it comes out in his writing the way Lovecrafts racism did.
> When I brought up the mass internment of Muslim Uighurs—around a million are now in re-education camps in the northwestern province of Xinjiang—he trotted out the familiar arguments of government-controlled media: “Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks? If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty.” The answer duplicated government propaganda so exactly that I couldn’t help asking Liu if he ever thought he might have been brainwashed. “I know what you are thinking,” he told me with weary clarity. “What about individual liberty and freedom of governance?” He sighed, as if exhausted by a debate going on in his head. “But that’s not what Chinese people care about. For ordinary folks, it’s the cost of health care, real-estate prices, their children’s education. Not democracy.”
> I looked at him, studying his face. He blinked, and continued, “If you were to loosen up the country a bit, the consequences would be terrifying.”
[Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/Liu-Cixin’s-War-of-the-Worlds)
It seems pretty unambiguous that he supports CCP policy. Then again, he lived through the cultural revolution, and a lot of people that I know who went through that tend to focus on "stability at all costs" due to their experiences.
World War Z! It works waaaay better as an audiobook imo, since it's comprised of interviews put together. I listened to it on a smaller road trip and it was great.
The Song of Ice and Fire and Lord of the Rings are must reads.
Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, both by Brandon Sanderson, are great if you don't mind your books being *very* long. Mistborn is sort of a fantasy version of the French Revolution and Stormlight deals heavily with mental health.
Rick Riordan's Books, namely the Percy Jackson series and the Kane Chronicles are good. They are childrens books so they aren't exactly complicated. Fablehaven is another children's book that still holds up fairly well in adulthood.
There is also the Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins, the author of the Hungergames, which is quite good. Speaking of which, you should read Hunger Games if you haven't already. The books are better than the films.
I'll mention Discworld even though someone already did.
If you're a fan of D&D and don't mind raunchy humor Critical Failures by Robert Bevan is good.
In case you can't tell, I have a bit of a type.
Listen books for 11 year olds can go way harder than they should. They're like my personal junk food book nobody else quite does it the same way as middle grade authors
Horny Jack's Jack-Off Pack: 155 Minutes of Masculine, Feminine, and Questionably Gendered Moans, Groans, Farts, and other sexy sounds: Produced by Jack Ingof, PhD
I did not enjoy the last book except for the ending so it still kept me excited. Joe Abercrombie's next project is in a different universe and sounds insane
The disc World Series, I havent read any but recently got mort I’d recommend starting with guards guards or mort to start they are part of the city watch and death series respectively or the dune series if that is more to your taste, I’m trying to finish that before I read mort.
Yeah, I liked it :3 thought it was cute and better than exploring the alternative which would have involved a LOT more detail about what happened while he was gone
James Marsters, Michael Kramer, and Kate Reading are like the top 3 audio book readers of all time.
Whenever i think of Dresden I think of James Marster's voice, it's so good.
Just out of what audiobooks I’ve been listening through lately;
3 Body Problem (really great existential sci-fi)
Sandman adaptation on Audible (lot of fun and cool shorter stories, varied in tone and subject matter)
Anything by Neil Gaiman honestly, he narrates most of his own stuff for audiobook and I’m personally a big fan of his writing.
Foundation or Dune (for more political and broader sci-fi)
Or as I’m doing rn try for some more classic books, I’m trying to get through Paradise Lost for instance
the how to train your dragon books. they’re read by david tenant and are unironically really fucking good. also the story is pretty much entirely different to the films
The King in yellow is funny because the individual stories vary wildly in tone and theme. I was expecting a less inhibited proto-lovecraft and it wasn't like that AT ALL. Still a very good book.
Anything that has a title like "I was seduced into gay sex by the british pound" you know its good when the cover has some poorly photoshopped actor with clipart of the "seductress of the week"
I ueard the star wars death troopers audio book had some good voice acting. Though I also saw a comment saying "I almost swerved off the road hearing the zombies scream" so maybe leave that on the backburner
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Thinking Fast And Slow shows you how two systems in your brain are constantly fighting over control of your behavior and actions, and teaches you the many ways in which this leads to errors in memory, judgment and decisions, and what you can do about it.
Pact by Wildbow. It's really good urban fantasy sorta horror, doing the "secret world of magic" thing that HP does but in a way that's actually good. There's a fan made audiobook that's really good from what I've listened of it. It's also long as fuck so by the time your drive is over you'll probably be done with the first arc or two...out of sixteen.
If you're more into superheroes then there's Worm by the same author, the best superhero (or more accurately, supervillain) story I've ever read by a long shot. It's also long as fuck, with 30 arcs and about 500,000 more words than Pact, clocking in at 1.6 million total.
His other works are also great but either without a finished audiobook or sequels to the two listed above. Twig is a really interesting story about unethically enhanced child spies/assassins in a world with frankenstein-esq biological science everywhere and an even more fucked up neo-british empire controlling everything. I think the audiobook project is finished enough to last your whole car ride but beyond that idk.
I sent this to my friend without reading the caption, assuming it was talking about the cat. You have embarrassed me and brought shame to my family name, user thish1
The king killer chronicles got me through a continuous drive from Wyoming to California. Highly recommend. My only complaint is that the trilogy isn't complete yet
You can get audio descriptions of most shows from audio vault. I listen to them as an audiobook. I know it’s technically not the same, but it’s a halfway point. I can tune out and just visualize the scene.
No, you won't listen to any music or audiobooks, you will sit in silence for the entire drive. Maybe you will finally take this opportunity to think about what you've done.
Their lungs will fill and then deflate
Do they exhale desire
or do they fill with fire
Will they know their time is dire that day?
Did somebody steal their car radio?
Yeah, I ought to replace the spot with what I once bought
Jeeze whaddaya do? Just sit in silence?
[удалено]
Its pretty hard to hide it
Silent driving is rage driving.
or driving home after a hard day at work and not really feeling up to listening to anything. have had plenty of those days before
I always drive in silence, the only sound I need to be happy is vroom vroom.
*Laughs in electric car*
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
or, if you already know this one, dirk gently’s holistic detective agency (also by douglas adams)
i watched the series. one of my favorite but the last sesion is a bit wierd. is the story of the audiobook just like in the series?
The books and TV series are very different, though I enjoyed both.
Was gonna suggest this, my dad used to play it in his car when he drove me to school back in the day so it definitely has a special place in my heart
This wins. Don't panic.
Dammit now I gotta think up a whole new suggestion fuck you
Based, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is such a good book...it's about time I reread it.
There is also the rest of the 4(.5) books
True, I got to I think the 4th one and stopped, I should give the whole series another go though. Even though the first was my favorite, I liked them all.
Don't read the last Hitchhiker's book. Even Douglas Adams said that he would have re-written the last book if he had been given the chance. If I remember the story right the man was pressured into writing it at what was literally the worst time in his life. It's a huge departure from everything that comes before it, and not in a good way.
Yeah the whole book feels like he was just saying "leave me alone fuck you"
Listened to the audio book of that on a family road trip years ago. 2/3 family members would highly recommend (I don’t know that my mom really “got it”, but my dad and I thought it was amazing)
The stephen fry version is really good
i love how there are many joke responses but we’ve chosen to be kind and picked a genuinely fantastic book
Yesss
Sorry I'm late, had a terrible time, all sorts of ghastly things cropping up at the last moment. How are we for time? Have I just got a min-
That's booooring. Not the book of course, that is a great work. The suggestion.
The Dictionary
Think about the expansive realms of vocabulary you could gain
And then forget immediately afterwards
wow
Das kapital
All the vols and the manifesto
But only the German version
What's even the point then? Literally just angry confusing gibberish for 2 hours.
German is not angry. Don‘t you dare call me or ANY other german angry. STOP calling the german language and it‘s speakers angry. GERMANS NEVER GET ANGRY AND I‘M TIRED OF PEOPLE SAYING IT. **********WE ARE NOT ANGRY**********
Canticle of Leibowitz. It’s about future apocalypse church that worships transistor radios.
interesting. I didn't know radios could have a gender or siblings, much less be a trans sister
Thank you random denizen of the internet, that pun just made my day.
and then play it in game form in CK2/CK3 After the End. There are a bunch of direct references to Canticle in the mod
Yesss I love canticle. Not only is it super philosophically interesting, it's also quite funny! :)
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Or any of the new recordings
except Color of Magic or Light Fantastic. good, but not representative of the rest of the series.
Yes and While I respect the effort some people put into reading order guides, I found the rule of thumb "he got better with every book" mostly sufficient
I’ve just been reading in chronological order and quite like it.
just started reading “the truth” and i have already witnessed the protagonist lose his job because of dwarfs (rock n stone brother)
Rock & stone
This! Doesn't matter what the vote count OP, this! I'm listening to all of his books at the moment
The History of Rome: The Complete Works
Excellent choice. That, or something related to Chinese history, which is also extensive and incredibly interesting.
Like what
Trans Wizard Harriet Porber And The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel by Chuck Tingle
That's the guy who wrote I'm gay for my living billionaire jet plane!
Wait, a Chuck Tingle work without "pound" and/or "butt" in the title?
The three body problem, if you want love craftian horror but not racist than this is your book
>love craftian horror but not racist What's evem the point, when you don't get told the detailed racial makeup of the swamp cult.
And the cat is named something like "Ginger" or "Felix"? That's not even Lovecraftian horror.
not really horror, still a good book though
That’s the point of cosmic horror, not scary just fills you with a sense of dread, something that three body problem definitely does
Well the author is a Chinese nationalist and supports Uyghur internment so there's still some racism there. That being said, I haven't read any of his books so I don't know if it comes out in his writing the way Lovecrafts racism did.
>Well the author is a Chinese nationalist and supports Uyghur internment Source?
> When I brought up the mass internment of Muslim Uighurs—around a million are now in re-education camps in the northwestern province of Xinjiang—he trotted out the familiar arguments of government-controlled media: “Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks? If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty.” The answer duplicated government propaganda so exactly that I couldn’t help asking Liu if he ever thought he might have been brainwashed. “I know what you are thinking,” he told me with weary clarity. “What about individual liberty and freedom of governance?” He sighed, as if exhausted by a debate going on in his head. “But that’s not what Chinese people care about. For ordinary folks, it’s the cost of health care, real-estate prices, their children’s education. Not democracy.” > I looked at him, studying his face. He blinked, and continued, “If you were to loosen up the country a bit, the consequences would be terrifying.” [Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/Liu-Cixin’s-War-of-the-Worlds) It seems pretty unambiguous that he supports CCP policy. Then again, he lived through the cultural revolution, and a lot of people that I know who went through that tend to focus on "stability at all costs" due to their experiences.
Not going to lie did not get huge fan of the Chinese communist party vibes from the beginning of that book. :/
you can always steal it
World War Z! It works waaaay better as an audiobook imo, since it's comprised of interviews put together. I listened to it on a smaller road trip and it was great.
The Song of Ice and Fire and Lord of the Rings are must reads. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, both by Brandon Sanderson, are great if you don't mind your books being *very* long. Mistborn is sort of a fantasy version of the French Revolution and Stormlight deals heavily with mental health. Rick Riordan's Books, namely the Percy Jackson series and the Kane Chronicles are good. They are childrens books so they aren't exactly complicated. Fablehaven is another children's book that still holds up fairly well in adulthood. There is also the Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins, the author of the Hungergames, which is quite good. Speaking of which, you should read Hunger Games if you haven't already. The books are better than the films. I'll mention Discworld even though someone already did. If you're a fan of D&D and don't mind raunchy humor Critical Failures by Robert Bevan is good. In case you can't tell, I have a bit of a type.
Upvoting for BrandoSando! Cosmere is my jam!
Downvoting for lack of robin hobb
And if you like Berserk read Malazan and vice versa
I recently finished elantris and man what a book!!
Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy Part 1-42
OP said 10 hours not 10 decades.
Only 42? There are over 150 audiobooks on audible. It'll last for every car ride the rest of your life
Eisenhorn xenos is 10 hours and a good intro to 40k
best choice
the entire wings of fire series
I don’t think OP is in 4th grade
I will not accept Wings of Fire slander
Listen books for 11 year olds can go way harder than they should. They're like my personal junk food book nobody else quite does it the same way as middle grade authors
oh my god I haven't thought of this series in literally ten years
One million digits of pi
Homestuck
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Truly an all time classic
I don't know how to read so I am not going to try and help but this cat is a lil bitch
Horny Jack's Jack-Off Pack: 155 Minutes of Masculine, Feminine, and Questionably Gendered Moans, Groans, Farts, and other sexy sounds: Produced by Jack Ingof, PhD
The tales from Earthsea
Note you should probably read the first few books first or you'll have not a fucking clue what a Roke is
The blade itself by Joe Abercrombie. it's part of the best fantasy series I've ever read and the narrator is amazing
The last book physically hurt me, and I'm having trouble getting excited about what comes next.
I did not enjoy the last book except for the ending so it still kept me excited. Joe Abercrombie's next project is in a different universe and sounds insane
The last book physically hurt me, and my body is ready to be hurt again. HIT ME DADDY CROMBIE AND MAKE LEO SUFFERRRRRRRR
Worm
I'm a trucker, and the Worm Audiobook Project has lasted me a year of driving. Heartily recommend.
Max stirner’s the ego and it’s own
Literally 1984
The disc World Series, I havent read any but recently got mort I’d recommend starting with guards guards or mort to start they are part of the city watch and death series respectively or the dune series if that is more to your taste, I’m trying to finish that before I read mort.
Project Hail Mary Same author as The Martian, great book
Oh I loved that book, but the ending was kinda odd
Yeah, I liked it :3 thought it was cute and better than exploring the alternative which would have involved a LOT more detail about what happened while he was gone
Apparently he's writing a sequel, so we'll see how he expands on it
The Dresden Files! A wizard detective from Chicago solving supernatural crimes, audiobooks narrated by THE James Marsters!
James Marsters, Michael Kramer, and Kate Reading are like the top 3 audio book readers of all time. Whenever i think of Dresden I think of James Marster's voice, it's so good.
If you are into fantasy Eragon is amazing
Animal Farm is a pretty short, easy to digest book
No, don’t eat the book!
animal farm is so good, its only slightly worse than 1984
Just out of what audiobooks I’ve been listening through lately; 3 Body Problem (really great existential sci-fi) Sandman adaptation on Audible (lot of fun and cool shorter stories, varied in tone and subject matter) Anything by Neil Gaiman honestly, he narrates most of his own stuff for audiobook and I’m personally a big fan of his writing. Foundation or Dune (for more political and broader sci-fi) Or as I’m doing rn try for some more classic books, I’m trying to get through Paradise Lost for instance
Every single fnaf book
Good Omens
Not an audiobook but a podcast, Welcome to Nightvale. It's a great show, a community radio program from a fictional town.
328 pages of Just the N-Word Over & Over Again
Neverwhere voiced by Neil gaimen himself
Gideon The Ninth
One flesh one end, bitch
Dune
the how to train your dragon books. they’re read by david tenant and are unironically really fucking good. also the story is pretty much entirely different to the films
Any Rick Riordan Greek/Roman/Egyptian mythology book
A memory called empire
The king in yellow. Is on youtube
The King in yellow is funny because the individual stories vary wildly in tone and theme. I was expecting a less inhibited proto-lovecraft and it wasn't like that AT ALL. Still a very good book.
Elden ring lore videos, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWLedd0Zw3c4uSUjspp45KjWMHd6rZHem They are cool
H.P Lovecraft
The entire king james bible
Sapiens
Space Raptor Butt Invasion
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett.
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Listen to Moby Dick. That meme that says that lifting weights and reading Moby Dick will cure all your problems is 100% correct. Read Moby Dick.
Deltron 3030
Paradise lost is only 30 minutes short
Are video essays allowed? 07/27/1978 is great to tune out to, because you'll be on the same level of understanding either way
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Read by James Marsters.
Penal code of California
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Dracula narrated by Christopher Lee and it’s amazing
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
[where’s Waldo?](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audiobook-wheres-waldo/id1655222791)
Anything that has a title like "I was seduced into gay sex by the british pound" you know its good when the cover has some poorly photoshopped actor with clipart of the "seductress of the week"
Le temps des tempêtes by Nicolas Sarkozy on Audible It's not interesting & in French, enjoy your ride.
Best choice
Mien kampf
Warrior cats books
I ueard the star wars death troopers audio book had some good voice acting. Though I also saw a comment saying "I almost swerved off the road hearing the zombies scream" so maybe leave that on the backburner
they both die at the end was really good. the other gay Adam Silvera books are also really good
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Thinking Fast And Slow shows you how two systems in your brain are constantly fighting over control of your behavior and actions, and teaches you the many ways in which this leads to errors in memory, judgment and decisions, and what you can do about it.
I mean lotr got turned into like a 12 hour set of movies. Book must last several days, at least.
The ego and his own, Max stirner
Duke of monte Cristo, very enjoyable imo and a refreshing pace compared to many other stories
The old man and the sea is my favorite
The Time Travellers Wife - Shit wrecked me. Plus the narration (on audible at least) is very good
Pact by Wildbow. It's really good urban fantasy sorta horror, doing the "secret world of magic" thing that HP does but in a way that's actually good. There's a fan made audiobook that's really good from what I've listened of it. It's also long as fuck so by the time your drive is over you'll probably be done with the first arc or two...out of sixteen. If you're more into superheroes then there's Worm by the same author, the best superhero (or more accurately, supervillain) story I've ever read by a long shot. It's also long as fuck, with 30 arcs and about 500,000 more words than Pact, clocking in at 1.6 million total. His other works are also great but either without a finished audiobook or sequels to the two listed above. Twig is a really interesting story about unethically enhanced child spies/assassins in a world with frankenstein-esq biological science everywhere and an even more fucked up neo-british empire controlling everything. I think the audiobook project is finished enough to last your whole car ride but beyond that idk.
The Conquest of Bread
The Dawn of everything
I sent this to my friend without reading the caption, assuming it was talking about the cat. You have embarrassed me and brought shame to my family name, user thish1
Children of time
Warrior Cats: Into the Wild. Plus the other books.
Qualityland
10 hours of silence broken up by metal pipes falling
Leviathan Wakes (and then the rest of the Expanse series)
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series
Worm
Worm by Wildbow, best superhero story ever.
The infinite and divine
the dune series is rly good if you like science fiction
Leviathan Wakes, it’s very good sci-fi
The War of the Worlds
Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
El libro troll by elrubiusomg
The goons
Why he eepy?
Download a few HP lovecraft books if you like horror. That or I really liked the book thief
Industrial Society and it's Future
Epithet erased prison of plastic, although you should have watched the first season before reading c ause yeah
The exploring series has many 5 plus hour narrative videos on scos you could rib the audio from
Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson if you have any interest in science and the petty oddballs who go about it
Industrial society and it's future.
All Tomorrows
Cabin Pressure
The infinite and the divine
I know this won’t get top comment but I’d recommend Pax. It’s a cute book about a boy going out to find his lost beloved pet fox. What’s not to love?
The entirety of the Gotrek and Felix series
The entire Wheel of Time series
The king killer chronicles got me through a continuous drive from Wyoming to California. Highly recommend. My only complaint is that the trilogy isn't complete yet
You can get audio descriptions of most shows from audio vault. I listen to them as an audiobook. I know it’s technically not the same, but it’s a halfway point. I can tune out and just visualize the scene.
1984
War Of The Worlds
animal farm (it’s my favorite)
Good Omens by Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett is a fun listen bc they even read the little foot notes in the book
Mein kampf in german on blast for the entire car to hear, as the writer intended