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#1 Aug 12 2014 at 5:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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Free D&D "Legend of Drizzt" audiobooks from Audible

Narrated by the likes of Al Yankovic, Felicia Day, David Duchovny, Wil Wheaton, Melissa Rauch and Ice-T

Available for free at Audible for forty (40) days starting August 12th 2014 12:01am ET through September 20th 2014 11:59PM ET.

Edited, Aug 12th 2014 6:59pm by Jophiel
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#2 Aug 12 2014 at 8:29 PM Rating: Good
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I think I'll have to start listening to them on my 9 hour trip home Saturday.

If I start playing this will it play in order automatically or do I have to look up any specific order. I'm downloading the app on my phone right now.

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Finished download, started playing it, seems it goes in order.

Edited, Aug 12th 2014 11:04pm by TirithRR
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#3 Aug 14 2014 at 6:21 AM Rating: Good
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This will be good for next weeks plane-bus-car trip to the midwest. Smiley: thumbsup
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#4 Aug 26 2014 at 6:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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I got around to actually "buying" these (as opposed to just posting the link) because I assumed I had to make an Audible account and didn't feel like hassling with it. Turns out they're owned by Amazon so you can just use your Amazon login. Ironically, when I checked out,it told me that I could go to Google Play to get the Audible app to listen to them rather than pointing me towards the Amazon app store Smiley: dubious
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#5 Aug 26 2014 at 6:32 PM Rating: Good
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Yes, I was pleasantly surprised I was able to use my Amazon account (auto logged in already) to get it. I listened to the whole thing on my drive home. Enjoyable stories.

I think I liked Sean Astin's narration the best. He read "Wickless in the Nether". Probably my favorite of the books read. Just because of how light hearted the whole thing was.

I didn't care for Felicia Day's narration. And it was the very first story.

I think "If Ever They Happened Upon My Lair" was second on my list. Wil Wheaton did a decent job on that one.

I had never read the stories, so it was all fresh for me.

I missed a few lines here and there on some of the duller stories, mostly due to the crazy driver around Chicago that felt he had to police the interstate by racing ahead of anyone driving faster than him and purposefully blocking them behind him.
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#6 Aug 27 2014 at 6:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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How did Ice-T do?

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“Pegasus. Pegasi. That’s horses with wings,” Ice-T exclaimed. “Motherf--kers talk like Yoda: ‘Outside I go, into the sun thereof, in, out…’ How do you read this sh-t?... Motherf--kers live in places that don’t exist… This motherf--ker got a sword that talks to him and sh-t.” And so on and so on, like a J.R.R. Tolkien if he’d just been honest


Edited, Aug 27th 2014 7:53am by Jophiel
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#7 Aug 27 2014 at 10:46 AM Rating: Good
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I liked his book. If it's the one I remember. Talking sword. Evil-Good Drow that wasn't Drizzt. He did slow down and enunciate the names noticeably. But his voice was clear and steady. Not much of a voice actor in terms of changing it from character to character but I clearly understood and followed the conversations.
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#8 Aug 27 2014 at 3:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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Started listening on my drive home. Agreed about Day's narration and made it most of the way through the second story which was better done.

I actually remembered reading the first story in Dragon Magazine umpteen years ago. I'm fairly sure I've read the second one as well but not sure if that was also published in Dragon or if I read it somewhere else.

Edited, Aug 27th 2014 5:00pm by Jophiel
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#9 Aug 28 2014 at 8:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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This joker narrating the Artemis story (Greg Grunberg I believe) is terrible. I'm listening to a conversation between a 14 year old and an 18 year old and he's voicing it like one is a gravely voiced old man and the other is an overacting Shakespearean performer.

Man, audiobooks are friggin' expensive. I thought to pick up a few audio versions of books I own but never got around to reading and listen to them during my commute instead. But you're looking at $25-$40 each. To add insult to injury, Amazon gives a discount if you own it as an e-book but not if you've bought the physical book through them.
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#10 Aug 28 2014 at 10:12 AM Rating: Good
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Ya. I did pretty much the same thing. Never looked at them before but the free book made me look (worked as planned I guess)

I did notice that you could buy a monthly subscription for 15 bucks which gives you 1 book credit per month. And it sounds like you keep the books even after stop your subscription. Different levels that give you different number of credits too.

I was surprised by the individual prices but when I thought about it I guess they are paying people to read them and the editing, etc behind it. And I would imagine sales volumes are not that high.
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#11 Aug 29 2014 at 9:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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You can sign up for the trial period via this link and you get two credits for books for starting the trial rather than just the one credit advertised via Audible's front page.

I figured I'd go with it and drop a credit on Metro 2033 which I own (via the free PDF version from buying Last Light) but always read in fits and starts and then get lost among the Russian people & station names I've forgotten since last time. But the audiobook is $33 on its own... ouch.


Edited, Aug 29th 2014 10:20am by Jophiel
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