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I'll start first: (bear in mind I usually listen to audiobooks)

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir |A guy finds himself stranded in space aboard an international space vessel where he has to remember who he is.
  • The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater |A true story about how hanging with the wrong crowd can have life-altering consequences
  • The Animorphs series by KJ Applegate |Young adult series in which a group of kids find an alien, get the powers to morph shape into animals, as well as uncover an alien takeover conspiracy (Plus, detailed depictions of how grotesque those transformations are!)
  • Saga by Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples (Comic, ongoing) |Following the story of Hazel, a baby born from an ex-soldier and an enemy combatant, Saga shows how gowing up and raising a kid in a wartorn universe can have highs and lows.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The graphic audiobooks are great too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried audiobooks only twice for.. not even 10 mins each time. Once a proper audiobook read by a human and another time a text-to-speech thing.

They're not for me, I find myself trying to do something else because I'm "Free" and I just can't multitask, I can barely pay attention to it and walk.
Furthermore, English is not my native language. While my English is not too poor, it's an extra mental obstacle, which makes brain have to do some extra gymnastics. When reading in English, I read at my own pace, but when listening ... :P

You mentioned in your other comment it's 15+ books.

Which 15+ ? I'm aware of the two Mistborn eras which are.. 3 + 4 = 7.
And I think he wants to write a 3rd Era - but hasn't.
Maybe you're including the Stormlight Archives which are 5 if we count Wind and Truth.
Where are the other 3+ I'm missing? :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give the sample a try on their website. It's just a 5min excerpt. Trust me, it's not like audiobooks where a robot or one person is just talking. This is a full on production with voice actors, special effects and all. If you still don't like after that, then I will agree with you :)

https://www.graphicaudiointernational.net/mistborn-series-set.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'll admit this sounds awesome, thank you!

I still don't think it's for me though, due to the sort-of-language-barrier. I feel I'd miss out on a lot of the details by trying to listen.
I followed this excerpt well enough because I had already read it.

Even if I understand the words spoken (which is not always the case), and especially for fantasy books where we make up new words (skaa), or invent concepts (burned tin), it makes it harder to follow unless I'm already familiar with them.

As an example of the first reaction when reading, the brain working: "What do you mean, burned tin? Isn't tin a metal, let me double check. Yes, did he bring a forge? Wait, what, in his ... stomach? Ok I guess I'll understand this better later."
When I'm reading I pause and continue at my own leisure, when I'm listening I already missed out on the next 20-30 seconds of audio if I'm trying to figure this out or end up forgetting about this to pay attention to those 20-30 seconds. Sure enough, sometimes the explanation comes right after, but not always :)

That being said, this does sound awesome and I may try it for books I already read!

--
As for my previous question, which books am I missing from those collections you mentioned 15+?
I checked his bibliography and from what I could tell, either you were talking about another series or some of the short stories such as The Eleventh Metal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Regarding the other books, that was a different user. I can't help you there :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Oh doh, my bad :) Thanks again!