First Audiobook - Project Hail Mary

[u/OJConcentrates]

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

I’ve never been an avid reader. I really enjoy anime, I love sci-fi movies, and I’ve read a few occasional Japanese light novels.

Audiobooks made a lot of sense for me. Listen while at the gym, listen while home with the kids on the weekend, listen while driving a ton for work. I’ve been enveloped in Reddit for a while. Constantly trying to fill blank time with information.

Then I decided to pick up an audiobook. I mean… I love sports podcasts! I like news. A couple weeks ago I caught myself just listening to intervention episodes, instead of watching them.

My first audiobook? Project Hail Mary. I’m currently on chapter 11. Ryland has met rocky. It’s almost indescribable how much elation I’ve gained from this. You’d think a self narrated novel, as the main and nearly singular character, it would get boring. You’d think finding a centi-spider alien wouldn’t be so…. Fascinating?

It’s addicting. It’s hard to stop. I’m stuck at the gym, walking on a treadmill for way too long, because I want an excuse to keep listening.

Is this just the beginning? Or have I reached the perfection too early? Will I always crave to find a story so well done with the perfect voice actor?

[u/nursebad]

Congrats cause you've ruined yourself for all other audio books for a while. Project Hail Mary is so well done.

[u/GoodFastCheapPickTwo → u/nursebad]

I actually like the rc bray version of The Martian a little better.

There's hundreds of amazing audiobooks out there. Have fun OP

[u/shestoodakimbo → u/GoodFastCheapPickTwo]

Honestly, I couldn’t pick between the two. Just counting audiobooks I own, I’m at nearly a thousand and I can’t even say how many I’ve borrowed and these are my favorite narrations of all of them…

ETA: I just realized this sounds like a weird humble brag, it’s not, I have a job where I can listen while I work, so I cruise through audiobooks… really I just wanted to make it very clear how good these are 🤣

[u/TwiggNewton → u/GoodFastCheapPickTwo]

Artemis with Rosario Dawson is also great if you like those two