Comments on: Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.13: Music in Books, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and a Game about Similes

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:41:21 +0000

In reply to Anna N. Oh good! If you love YA, then Legal Sister's recommendations are perfect for you! I will ask her for more sometime -- I think she's working her way through the YA audiobooks available to her at the moment.

By: Anna N

Anna N — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:52:30 +0000

Hey! Thank you for taking my question! I’ll have to check out all of those audiobooks, starting with Finnikin of the Rock, because my library has it. I love YA!

Jenny-the-commenter, I absolutely agree about the narrator being make-or-break for audiobooks.

For all you other audiobook listeners, I utterly loved Anansi Boys narrated by Lenny Henry (who inspired Neil Gaiman to write the book in the first place, apparently), and Behind the Beautiful Forevers (nonfiction, but reads like fiction, and sad/amazing) narrated by Sunil Malhotra. Ooh, yay–I have just seen that he also narrates the audiobook of Eleanor & Park!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:38:54 +0000

This is going to sound weird, but when I was listening to a lot of audiobooks, I found that they were absolutely made or broken by the narrator. After a while, I started searching for books, not by what I wanted to listen to, but by who narrated them. Hands down, the best narrators I found were Frank Muller (he read a lot for Stephen King but many, many others as well) and Patrick Tull. A good narrator can absolutely bring a book to life — a book you might otherwise not have enjoyed — in a way you don’t expect.