Meloni - Storyteller - Audiobooks!

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Snagged from Audio Book Reviews on Publisher's Weekly dot com.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace, read by the author and various narrators. Hachette, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60024-737-8

A host of talented narrators and actors—including television actors John Krasinski and Christopher Meloni—deliver nuanced performances of the late Wallace's classic. But it's the author himself who steals the show: his gentle, almost dreamy voice unlocks the elaborate syntax and releases the immense feeling concealed by the comedy and labyrinthine sentences. While the various narrators ably capture the essence of the text, Wallace's renditions of such stories as “Forever Overhead” and “Death Is Not the End” are transcendent. Essential listening for Wallace fans and a fine introduction for newcomers. A Little, Brown hardcover. (Oct.)


I WANT IT.


For those of you who have not had the pleasure of listening to Meloni on audiobook, please make time to listen. He reads both fiction and nonfiction - and they're fantastic. He does voices, he speaks Italian, he is entertaining and guh, his voice.

TESTIMONIALS BY PEOPLE YOU TRUST TO KNOW THE GOOD SHIT.

colleendetroit sez, "There's nothing like lying in the dark and listening to Chris Meloni read to you. *GUH*

trillingstar sez, "Okay, listening to CM say "fuck my brains out" - ten times in a row *koff* - alone is worth the $. *guuuh*


You can find Takedown: The Fall of the Mafia Empire and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men over at Audible dot com, or on Amazon.

Then there's True Justice, by Robert K Tannenbaum, and The Attorney, by Steve Martini. I found both of them on iTunes.

On one of them, he's introduced as Christopher Melon, which makes me laugh.


He also reads a bedtime story titled The Little Half Chick.
Hoppity-kick. The end.


BTW,

LEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEeee has an audio book out too. You can listen to it here. It's a YA book called Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen. More info here.

Comments

[beatmy-heartout.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY already have both Lee's audio book and those 2 older Meloni ones. HELL yes. Hearing that both of those delicious men with their hot voices spoke for hours on end, well, I jumped at obtaining those hahaha :D

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Clearly we are well-versed in Goodness. Yeah, I sort of tune out and just let their voices um speak to me. Which of the two older ones do you have? Hopefully the one with "fuck my brains out"! Because. Yes. Yes, please. Don't mind if I do.

[beatmy-heartout.livejournal.com]

True Justice and The Attorney hahahahaha. I do NOT specifically remember THAT! But omg I remember lots of good stuff throughout. Clearly it's time to go relisten immediately and die all over again. Mmmmmmmm yes.

[severina2001.livejournal.com]

I need more time in the day. And money. But mostly more time in the day.

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Maybe you could listen on some of your jaunts around town, or with one earbud in at work, or in the tub. Mmmmmm. Or falling asleep at night, all tucked into bed. Just saying. *g*

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

[nindevotee.livejournal.com]

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of listening to Meloni on audiobook, please make time to listen. He reads both fiction and nonfiction

Thank you! Thank you for the heads up! I had no idea!

he speaks Italian

No shit?! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!

colleendetroit sez, "There's nothing like lying in the dark and listening to Chris Meloni read to you. *GUH*

In Italian no less.

trillingstar sez, "Okay, listening to CM say "fuck my brains out" - ten times in a row *koff* - alone is worth the $. *guuuh*

*thud*

Re: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

[trillingstar]

You're totally welcome. :D

He does speak Italian, though it's only a couple of phrases, and not the whole book or anything (sadly). So... you can rewind that bit a lot, lol.

Serious thuddage. *shoves thud cushions under you*

Re: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

[roxymeloni.livejournal.com]

*swoon* *thud**falls on top of Nindevotee*

OMG I had no idea. How did I miss this? That is why I come here, for the news I really do need to know. Fuck CNN!

How could you suggest to Severina to listen to Teh Meloni while she is out running errands? Could you?? I would rape innocent bystanders! *blush*

Mmm. I MUST MUST have this. I must hear him reading to me in my bedroom in the dark and hear him speak Italian. His voice makes me crazy...ok his everything makes me crazy but his voice really does it to me every time.

*rolls over and tries to help Nindevotee up*

[nindevotee.livejournal.com]

I found a cheaper price at Amazon. (http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1913/4531396a3fc6bc9m3.jpg)

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Cool!

[roguemarch.livejournal.com]

I have Lee's and I loved it! And The little half chick is so sweet! (hoppity kick!). I want the Meloni ones too! *whines*

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They are totally worth it. Mmmmmeloni. *drools*

[beechercreature.livejournal.com]

OMFGUUUUHHHH, WANT. ALL. NAO. *grabby hands*

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*tsk* Toddlers and their grabby hands. I mean. Rarz.

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I saw that a few days ago and laughed, a lot, because colleendetroit and I talked about doing something very similar with Lee & Meloni's audiobooks. We even had an outline, but then... idk, never happened. So yeah, I'll second that motion. Bring it!

[roxymeloni.livejournal.com]

Do EEET!