I'm not allowed to read at my desk at work, but I can listen to music...so I plan to get some audiobooks. Any particular audiobooks with very famous or otherwise interesting narrators? Like the author reading his own book, for example.
Links to any suggestions would be appreciated. It's been pretty hard to find (free) audiobooks for ones I've been searching for.
You could also use lectures
Search Great Courses lectures and look through the catalog, then you can get most of them by torrenting
Also check out Yale OCW, which is just recordings of Yale courses. A bunch of universities do this if you dig around, basically just a free Yale education
And many lectures on Youtube, search Wheaton college philosophy lectures on Youtube for example
I torrented all my audiobooks. As long as it's professionally done, it will be good and you will like it.
That being said, if you're looking for someone famous try Lolita read by Jeremy Irons. He did a great job.
There's also a set of Edger Allan Poe stories read by a number of famous people which is also really good. The most popular story of the set is The Raven, read by Christopher Walken. It's on youtube and only like 15 minutes so you should really check it out.
Paradise Lost has an unironically great audiobook you can find on Youtube from Sheev himself. But a fair warning if you're not going to pay attention just give up while you're ahead and read it in your own time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINzUBvQ5nw
While browsing the other day I found not an audiobook but a dramatized version of Life and Fate with great voice acting and music. It's a depiction of the life and times of different characters in WWII derivative of Tolstoy and Chekhov. Only the first two episodes are on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Fw70Gu2k4