recommend me an audiobook?

[boxofdelights]

I just signed up for Audible. Is there anything from there that you would recommend? I read everything, but don't have a lot of experience listening to books. I do listen to podcasts. I care a lot about the enjoyability of the voice.

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[loligo]

No, I started with audio. I had assumed, ever since Murderbot explained the purpose of Sec Units in the first book, that its human parts appear male, because its makers would want to make their product look maximally intimidating to humans. But I don't know how much of that assumption was shaped by the voice of the narrator.

(I basically picture it looking like a Ken doll turned into a weapon-loaded cyborg -- bland and generic, yet ticking all the cultural boxes for masculinity.)

[telophase]

I read the novellas first, and then listened to the first one with Toby in the car, which was his first time with the story. Afterward, I asked Toby whether he imagined Murderbot as male- or female-bodied afterward and he said male-bodied, because of the narrator. I envision Murderbot as female-bodied, and I think that's because the author is, but I'm not entirely sure.

[luzula]

I tend to see Murderbot as more female than male too, but I think that's because they are fannish and fandom is more a female than a male space.