What shall I "read" next?

[luckykaa]

I signed up to audible last month.  Bought Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. 

The way it works is you pay a subscription and get one book a month.  You can buy books individually but it's usually much much more expensive that way. 

I'm now on month 2.  I get another book.  Choosing is hard.  Not fond of epic fantasy.  Quite fond of science fiction but that's not mandatory.  I find it hard concentrating on too many characters in audiobook, so would prefer something not in third person omniscient. 

So I'll solicit recommendations. 

Anyone read anything good recently?

edit: Damn!  No William Gibson.

edit2: linky

Comments

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

my face audibles have been

strange and norell (d'oh!)
the BBC LOTRO radio plays
all the pratchetts
HHGTG

I'm finding this blagged from radio 4 are a bit easier listen than books when driving.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Damn!

While your recommendations are perfect for my tastes, they're a little too perfect, being either the ones I've listened to, or (in the case of Pratchett) ones I know far too well.

I agree. LOTR and Hitchhikers are both fantastic. I think I have the Guards guards radio play kicking about here as well.

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

heh. ok.

I also enjoyed
- the mighty boosh radio series
- the brightonomicon
- the screwtape letters
- Trollogy (kids book but *ace*)
- earthsearch

if I have spare credits I get 'the best of science fiction and fantasy magazine' , which is a handful of short sotries and I'm bound to like some of them

[omylouse.livejournal.com]

Link us to the list of books you can choose?

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

okay.

[beermat]

Iain M Banks, "Matter"
Mostly as I'm reading it right now and enjoying it.

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

Are you on .co.uk or .com (and yes - It does make a difference) ...

We have a little in excess of 300 unabridged books between the two of us ... many of which aren't on .co.uk

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

.co.uk

And you're right. Were I on .com, I'd have gone for Black Powder War, but I'm not interested in abridged books.

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

Yes - we only do unabridged too. Theres even more on .com if you can persuade someone with a US mailingaddress/credit card to set you up an account ....