Audiobooks

Does anyone here listen to audiobooks?

I am in my car alot and I listen to them all the time but I've been listening to them since middle school.

With rare exceptions I avoid abridged versions. There was a book that had both versions, the adbridged was 4 hours long, the unabridged was 12. How do you cut out 2 thirds of a story and have it make any sense? (weird when the adbridged and uanabridged versions are read by two diiferent people. Why not just edit the unabridged one?)

Anything that says read by author is a pass by me. They are authors are authors not actors. They are almost always terrible and have the weirdest takes on characters they created.

Famous A list actors are usually bad. (Charater actors are usally great, Will Patton gets really high marks for the dave Robicheaux series)

Sometimes if I see a book that I'm mildly interested in who narrates it will seal the deal. Anything read by Scott Brick, George Guidall or the late Frank Muller is worth listening to.

I've gotten my girlfriend into them. We'll take long weekend drives and listen and now she listens when commuting to work.

If you have a long commute and hit a lot of traffic I highly recommend that you give them a try.