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I've been listening to "The Greystone Chronicles" series. It's super enjoyable and insane quality narrators (has a male and female).

It's a slightly in the future VR MMORPG setup, where you can earn real money by playing the game. It's pretty enjoyable. It has me wanting to listen outside of when I normally would (driving, going to bed) which doesn't happen often. Highly recommend
 
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slippery said:
I've been listening to "The Greystone Chronicles" series. It's super enjoyable and insane quality narrators (has a male and female).

It's a slightly in the future VR MMORPG setup, where you can earn real money by playing the game. It's pretty enjoyable. It has me wanting to listen outside of when I normally would (driving, going to bed) which doesn't happen often. Highly recommend
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Giving this a try with a free credit,but the book is only 14 hours long =(
 
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I've been listening to Mistborn, and I'm sad that I slept on that series honestly. Just reaching the end of the Well of Ascension atm.

How is Stormlight compared to it?
 
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I've been listening to Mistborn, and I'm sad that I slept on that series honestly. Just reaching the end of the Well of Ascension atm.

How is Stormlight compared to it?
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I actually like the Mistborn stuff a bit more than Stormlight. Pretty sure I'm in the minority though. They're both pretty good.
 
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Finished the third Audio book in "The Greystone Chronicles" and I'm pretty happy with all of them. Waiting on the Audiobooks for 4 and 5.

I might start one of his other series, but there are a few other things I want to catch up on first.

I feel like this is my first exposure to LitRPG outside of Daemon by Daniel Suarez (which I feel like might not qualify?). Is there much good stuff out there? Preferably with narration as good as this, because it was excellent.
 
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Finished the third Audio book in "The Greystone Chronicles" and I'm pretty happy with all of them. Waiting on the Audiobooks for 4 and 5.

I might start one of his other series, but there are a few other things I want to catch up on first.

I feel like this is my first exposure to LitRPG outside of Daemon by Daniel Suarez (which I feel like might not qualify?). Is there much good stuff out there? Preferably with narration as good as this, because it was excellent.
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4 hours in.

and OMG it is soo cheezy!!!

So far it is like reading SAO, heavy mixed with wow mechanics.
 
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Cheese personally doesn't bother me, as long as entertaining.
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It’s not. This is the most cringe shit I’ve read in a long time.

This is literally in the book:

“Boss, if we lower fees on the in game auction house we will lose billions of dollars. We should do it because.”

“Brilliant! Let’s do it. Who’s idea was this?”

“Boss, it was mine”

“Well congratulations on your $1M bonus!”
 
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Give it a little more credit than that. The premise was to get people to use it instead of black market because black market is more convenient.

That was still completely unnecessary hey look we are the good guys though
 
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Give it a little more credit than that. The premise was to get people to use it instead of black market because black market is more convenient.

That was still completely unnecessary hey look we are the good guys though
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The “black market” was just people advertising in chat and trading in person. And it’s far from the only example, the whole book is basically hey look we are the good guys. I mean the main in game conflict is the main character being so buttmad that some people PvP in a VR game that allows PvP. And killing npcs gets you put into e-jail for a year.

Every premise of the book is pretty much garbage. The characters are about as one dimensional as you can get too. Maybe in later books it’s better.
 
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I've always enjoyed Terry Goodkinds books "Sword of Truth" Series.
I've not had time to conitnue with them after the last book, but my new commute allows me the hours to listen instead of reading.
I've caught up on:
  • The Nicci Chronicles
and am eagerly awaiting the next one
Also caught up on his:
  • Children of D'Hara
mini series of books which i wish i would have waited to start since they are pretty short and i am dying to start book 4 now.

If you've not read his books, they are (IMO) awesome. He does have a tendency to repeat himself, but these are sword and sorcery type books, but not in your face sword and sorecery like Autumn Twilight for example.
Book 1 of the whole series is called "Wizards First Rule", I actually have most of his books in hardcover and signed as well :)
 
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Ok, finished the greystone Chronicle's book 1.

The voice acting was very good. The girl was 9/10 very pleasant voice, the guy I rate 7/10 , I didn't like some of his interpretations. But overall it was enjoyable.
It was a bit pricey for 14 hours. The story line had too much cheese and at some points unrealistic. For example the head of accounting, making $400,000 a year, had a son struggling to make ends meet in college.

Anyways lukewarm recommendation the voice acting probably makes it a "yes". The audiocrew is named The Sound Booth Theater Productions
 
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The entire Dune collection by Simon Vance.
I’m on Heretics now and enjoying the audiobook much more than the read years ago.
 
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I just finished the first two books in the Earthsea cycle, A Wizard of Earthsea and Temple of Atuan. Pretty good books, I slept on Ursula Le'Guin hard and then a couple of years ago I read The Left Hand of Darkness and resolved to get through everything she has.

Going through The Dead Zone now, never actually read that before or saw the movie. Just finished It, pretty good voice acting. Next up in queue is Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and The Raven Tower. Which, btw, is written by Ann Leckie, who wrote the Imperial Radch series, which is some damn good sci-fi. Apprently The Raven Tower is her first fantasy book so I'm looking forward to it.
 
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Ok, finished the greystone Chronicle's book 1.

The voice acting was very good. The girl was 9/10 very pleasant voice, the guy I rate 7/10 , I didn't like some of his interpretations. But overall it was enjoyable.
It was a bit pricey for 14 hours. The story line had too much cheese and at some points unrealistic. For example the head of accounting, making $400,000 a year, had a son struggling to make ends meet in college.

Anyways lukewarm recommendation the voice acting probably makes it a "yes". The audiocrew is named The Sound Theater
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That's really what it is imo. The voice acting is just some of the best. I need to look into more stuff they've done
 
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fibble girl is kind of hot
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lol ok enough creeper.
 
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Listening to some audio books now since I really can't read. It's amazing listening to a few books I read years and years ago that who the reader is makes a big difference in how the story comes off. Started one, didn't really get into it and picked up another copy. Different reader, night and day in the story.
 
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