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We have been doing more driving trips than ever before. We listened to all of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell books by CJ Box. A new Joe Pickett coming out in February, which is great because I love that series. Cassie Dewell was good, not as good as Joe Pickett, but I enjoyed the books enough to listen and not dose off (I am not driving).
We recently started Amos Decker series by David Baldacci. Very good character. I like when the author builds up a character so you know more about him or her than you know about your next door neighbor. He is a complex character, very tall, very big, former football player. Was hit early in his professional football career so savagely, he was hospitalized and woke up with perfect recal of every minute of his life. Strange phenomena. He is a detective, and his ability to recall the smallest details make him great at what he does to earn a living. He is a sad character, but I won't go into that.
We are always looking for good reads, and preferably audio books because we listen on planes and in our car. I specifically like mysteries and serial characters. I like knowing the character we will be listening to already from previous books.
We have considered Tom Clancy but I read some of his books and am unsure I would find the books good for listening. What do you think? I need something to keep my interest.
I loved Longmire on Netflix. Tried listening to the books. I was pretty bored listening to the reader of the audio books. His voice put me to sleep, plus he sounds really old, and Longmire is not THAT old. Too much description of things too. Weird to the point of making me roll my eyes. Maybe if I read those and didn't listen to them, I would be okay.
We enjoyed the David Wolf series of books by Jeff Carson but stopped when Audible (Amazon) was charging so much per book. The first two we bought got us 7 books and lots of listening. Now "Dire," the 8th book in the series is a buy alone book, and it is just too much to spend for a few hours of listening, and it's not available anywhere but Amazon. Amazon Exclusive, bah humbug!
What audio books can you recommend, preferably in a series? Our library is pretty good with most authors.
I do recommend the Mitch Albom books, pretty much everything he wrote is excellent but these are stand-alone books.
We recently started Amos Decker series by David Baldacci. Very good character. I like when the author builds up a character so you know more about him or her than you know about your next door neighbor. He is a complex character, very tall, very big, former football player. Was hit early in his professional football career so savagely, he was hospitalized and woke up with perfect recal of every minute of his life. Strange phenomena. He is a detective, and his ability to recall the smallest details make him great at what he does to earn a living. He is a sad character, but I won't go into that.
We are always looking for good reads, and preferably audio books because we listen on planes and in our car. I specifically like mysteries and serial characters. I like knowing the character we will be listening to already from previous books.
We have considered Tom Clancy but I read some of his books and am unsure I would find the books good for listening. What do you think? I need something to keep my interest.
I loved Longmire on Netflix. Tried listening to the books. I was pretty bored listening to the reader of the audio books. His voice put me to sleep, plus he sounds really old, and Longmire is not THAT old. Too much description of things too. Weird to the point of making me roll my eyes. Maybe if I read those and didn't listen to them, I would be okay.
We enjoyed the David Wolf series of books by Jeff Carson but stopped when Audible (Amazon) was charging so much per book. The first two we bought got us 7 books and lots of listening. Now "Dire," the 8th book in the series is a buy alone book, and it is just too much to spend for a few hours of listening, and it's not available anywhere but Amazon. Amazon Exclusive, bah humbug!
What audio books can you recommend, preferably in a series? Our library is pretty good with most authors.
I do recommend the Mitch Albom books, pretty much everything he wrote is excellent but these are stand-alone books.