what's some good AUDIO BOOKS

i guess the answer would just be, audio versions of books you like. but are there any audio books that are like classics of the audio genre?

haven't heard any myself, but all the naxos audiobooks are meant to be great, and if i wanted a book on tape, that's where i'd look. their catalogue is huge.
http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/northamerica/index.htm

oh you can download too.

wow there really are tons. classy stuff!

listening to the dubliners audio sample right now.

ooh shakespeare! this looks amazing:

http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/northamerica/341712.htm

audiobooks i have listened to and enjoyed:
slaughterhouse 5
freakonomics
jon stewart's book about america

Paul Giamatti reading "A Scanner Darkly"

Keir Dullea doing either PKD stories or "Solaris"

the BBC(?) production of "Solaris"

Also, i've gotten hooked on Doctor Who audios.

those solarises sound good!

wow, $14.95 for a 2-hour audio book. seems pricey!

can you get me a better deal?

possibly. I wonder where I could acquire such an audiobook at a cheaper price. Hmm.

Listening to The Trial now. I'm deciding on whether to be mildly annoyed that the male reader does the feminine voices in a slightly higher pitch.

like in a shrieking falsetto?

truly brilliant readings of classic speculative fiction here:

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/slugoftime

bump. looking for something i can listen to with my gf for a long-ass road trip.

what kind of stuff do you like?

i tend toward 'literary fiction' but i'm open to anything (comedy, non-fict) if it's done especially well as an audio book.

My wife really enjoyed listening to Murakami's 1Q84, but I haven't had a chance to yet. She tends toward more "highbrow" stuff than I; I listen when I'm exercising and doing chores and stuff, and I tend to zone out on it for minutes at a time, which isn't really conducive to heavier listening.

I needed a "brain break" from a lot of nonfiction I've been reading, I decided for listening I would catch up on the Sandman Slim books by Richard Kadrey. They're sort of like supernatural Mike Hammer books. Pretty well performed, but nothing earth shattering.

I quite liked the Word War Z audiobook, because the cast is stupidly good. Since the book is crafted as an oral history of a zombie plague, having different voices tell each story helps a ton.

I loved, loved, loved Spike Milligan's War Memoirs. But they only really work if you love Spike Milligan and his sense of humor.

My surprise of the year was young adult author Garth Nix's The Old Kingdom trilogy. They're read by Tim Curry with proper relish.

Ian McEwan works well in audiobook form, especially Enduring Love.

off topic, but there's a guy on you tube who reads gravity's rainbow so beautifully that he should be signed up to do the whole thing tout de suite

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100156240

one of the best i've ever heard.