Questions tagged [audio-book]
A taped reading of a book or book condensation reproduced in audiocassette or digital sound form.
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What accents are used to represent the various factions in audiobooks for the Shadows of the Apt series?
In the audiobooks Ben Allen is the narrator, and each city/kinden seems to have a distinct accents (except Collegium and the Wasp Empire, where each character seems to be distinct) many of which are ...
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Comedy audiobook heard on Audible. In the far future the known universe is ruled as an empire by 'Greatest Britain.'
The protagonist Isaac Steele works for the government. He does not however agree with many of their policies. For example he lets an alien who is illegally living on Earth go, when the police would ...
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What are the gaps in the Foundation audiobook?
I started listening to the Foundation series on Spotify. I noticed a few small gaps in the audio and was wondering what they were. Initially, I thought it might have been Spotify censoring it for some ...
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Sci-fi book about a brain chip implanted in your head that would tell you anything your phone could and more
Around 5-7 years ago, I listened to an audio book about this new technology that came out where you could have a chip implanted in your head that would tell you anything your phone could and more. If ...
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Did Kobna Holdbrook-Smith use the wrong voice, at one point, in Lies Sleeping?
In Lies Sleeping the text of the book says:
"We're not being casual," said Dr Vaughan. "This is a post mortem, not a dissection."
But the voice Kobna uses in the audiobook, at ...
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Medievalesque fantasy stories on audio cassette in Early 1990s
As a small child in the early 1990s I eagerly listened to a series of short stories on audio cassette that took placing in a strongly medieval world, involving a jester (who perhaps ultimately gets ...
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Book with a fae prince who can only be seen by a teacher who lives in a small village
I'm looking for a book that I saw on tiktok months ago, I don't remember the title and the video that I saw has been deleted. The book has a blue or purple cover and it was most likely self published. ...
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Book of Irish fairy stories, including a story about a girl who rescues her father from selkies after he harms one
When I was young I often listened to books on tape during car rides. One that I have fond memories of was an audiobook with a collection of Irish folk/fairy stories. I was hoping someone would know ...
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Children's story: Boy travels with knight to the castle
When I was a child in the 90's, we had some cassette tapes with some stories. This one was about a boy who rides with a knight to the castle, with the hope to become a knight. Things I remember from ...
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Book about AI called "Angels" who look after a child left alone on a spaceship
I'm trying to find a story about one or more AI called "Angels" who look after a child left alone on a spaceship.
I think they ended up landing on Earth, and it turned out it was set in the ...
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Why is Stephen Fry's narration of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone an hour longer than Jim Dale's on Audible?
Since the pandemic, J.K. Rowling released Stephen Fry's version of the audio book for free. However, the Jim Dale version is 8 hours 18 minutes and Stephen Fry's version is 9 hours 33 minutes. I know ...
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Audio book space adventures with Will, Kyrell, and the Professor from the 80s [duplicate]
This is at least 35 years old, so early 80s, but my parents had some audio books on cassette for young children. The most I can remember about the stories that it featured a boy called Will who would ...
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Stories about Lancelot and Galahad, which I heard on a record
When I was a kid (probably in the early 1980s), I borrowed a pair of LPs from the local public library, each of which told the story of one of the mightiest knights of the Round Table: first Lancelot ...
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Audio book novel about a human-like alien who comes to Earth and loves gin
I'm looking for the name of a novel. I listened to it in audio book form on cassette tapes in the early 2000s. This will be tough because I'm lacking a lot of details.
The basics are that an alien ...
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"That's no (inanimate object), that's my WIFE!" (mid 1970's audio media)
I've searched several different ways and I find what look like they could be references to the line I am thinking of, but I can't find an authoritative reference.
I am remembering an audio media ...
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