How and who reads an audiobook is important. I’m trying to listen to Wuthering Heights read by some dumb British bint and it sucks. I just got through Anna Karenina read by Maggie Gyllenhaal and it was great.Any recs?
Philosophy audiobooks are hard to find, especially if its not a popular philosopher, I havent been able to find a free mind and matter audiobook.The Philosophical investigations audiobook I found on youtube was surprisingly good in the sense that he really did sound like how I would imagine Wittgenstein would sound, the inflections and everything. But i feel like i remember the audio quality being a bit meh itself
The audible war and peace
>>24775748Read by whomst?
>>24775772I forget what her name is, she was in The Chronicles of Riddick. She does a fantastic job tho except for Napoleon
>>24775559>Fran DrescherDude
Most philosophy texts don't make for good listens unfortunately. Charles Taylor is a rare exception, and maybe it's because he blends in so much history and sociology. Harry Frankfurt is another, and Nagel's Mind and Cosmos was quite listenable.If you can pay attention to denser stuff though you can find a lot of Patristic stuff on YouTube if you're interested in that area. There aren't too many Neoplatonists outside of Plotinus recorded, but a lot of the Philokalia is there, the works of Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Augustine, or even later stuff like Saint John of the Cross. All of the Ladder of Divine Ascent and most of Origen can be found in good quality. I know that area won't appeal to many people but I'll throw it out there because it is an outlier where a ton of stuff has been recorded. Saint Bernard on the Song of Songs has some stuff recorded too, and Eckhart.
>>24775559Fran Drescher was low key hot
>>24775834This is also an interesting one. On Spotify Phronema of Our Fathers and Athonite Audio has a ton of Eastern Christian stuff. Phronema is pretty good quality too. They have pic related which is an interesting book. It compares Taoism and Orthodox Christianity, but with more of a view of using Taoism to investigate Christianity in the same way Greek thought was originally used because it was what they had on hand. It's by a monk so it's not a secular comparison, but more an inter tradition exploration.Now, for more introductory stuff the Great Courses and Modern Scholar lectures tend to be pretty high quality. The Great Courses Mind Body Philosophy is particularly good, and so are their lectures on the Platonic dialogues by Segrue. The Modern Scholar one on Plato and Aristotle is quite good too.
