Audio Book Fiction

All day at work I'm allowed to listen to music. I thought I'd give it a shot one day with the first Harry Potter book. Time melted away like butter. Since then I've listened to the whole series and just finished book 1 and book 2 of the Eragon/ Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini. I loved both. Does anybody know of any comparable stories or just any good fiction and/or fantasy AUDIO BOOKS they'd recommend I listen to? Thanks for all the suggestions
Thank you LJ K. I'll be looking to the earthsea one you mentioned. and thanks everyone else, but I specifically said FANTASY AND/OR FICTION AUDIO BOOKS. and i didn't ask for where to look either, i just wanted some PERSONAL OPINIONS on AUDIO BOOKS
oh yeah and i'm still open for more suggestions. please do conitinue

I would suggest taking a look through your local library for audio books. They are free to check out and I have found several good audio books there such as The Last Apprentice: Revenge of The Witch.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. You might find something you like there.
http://librivox.org/

Since you go through a lot of audio books it sounds like you would benefit from an audio book club in which you can buy, rent, and/or download audio books. (And save you $$)

Audible
http://www.audible.com

Simply Audio Books
http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/audio-bo oks-list-genre/Science%20Fiction%20& %20Fantasy/1/

Other audio books you may like:
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman (3 books)

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Oh, and don't forget to take a look around for free podcasts. They are a great way to past the time. You can find a lot of great ones at itunes
http://www.itunes.com

And since you are a Harry Potter fan you should definately be checking these out these:

MuggleCast
http://www.mugglecast.com/

PotterCast (from The Leaky Cauldron)
http://www.pottercast.com

2007-09-23 01:43:32 by aka_shorthi

At their peak, over thirty million Americans read pulp fiction stories and novels every month. These readers shared a passion for adventure that ...

I haven't actually listened to an AUDIO BOOK, ever. Will you accept these from me, they are a mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Listen to Free Audio books:

http://isohunt.com/

http://www.librivox.org/

http://www.yakitome.com/

http://www.free-books.org/

http://www.loudlit.org/collection.htm *****

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categori es/1

http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio _book_podc.html *****

http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Aud iobooks/dp/202/

2009-06-25 15:23:40 by Sup

Price: $0.99

I need A good fiction 8th grade audio book

There's tons of great fiction at Gutenberg.org in electronic text format. You can convert any electronic text format into an audio book with YAKiToMe! http://www.yakitome.com. The result can be listened to on your computer or downloaded/podcast to your iPod.

2008-09-29 11:58:02 by John D

Price: $30.00

I recently downloaded the audio book "Star Wars: Courtship of Princess Leia" from iTunes and saw that it was abridged.
Looking at the rest of the audio books on iTunes I saw that all of the star wars books are abridged.
Why is that?

Many audio books, not just Star Wars audio books, are released in an abridged format to condense material to a suitable length.

Novels are supposed to be read silently to oneself, which is generally faster than reading aloud. To release a complete version of the novel in audio form would likely last over 20 hours and therefore be very expensive to both the publisher to produce and the consumer to purchase, so instead the publisher will remove anything from small references to entire scenes which are considered superfluous, i.e. they do not move the story along.

2008-11-04 22:53:54 by niv_bp

I like to read urban fiction books but some time i will read the book in a day or two and I will lose track of my day to day agenda so I found audio very useful i can still do what I need to do and read my favorit books ...most of the places online do not have black urban fiction on audio so can any one point me In the right direction.

Check your public library to see if they bought the audio books. That would be legal.

Otherwise audio books for books written after 1923 online would be illegal. The author wants payment. The actor reading the book wants payment. The sound engineers want payment and the equipment must be paid for.

Librivox is legal because the books are out of copyright and the people that read them are volunteers.

2010-03-20 22:51:32 by ZZ