some. sound effects I don't go for, but there's a whole company called Full Cast Audio that does a different VA for each character and underscores parts with music—they do dang good work.
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A minor thing that I've found to be fairly common with audiobooks these days is to apply a voice filter when people are talking via telephone or radio. Not enough to really distort it, but the frequencies are flattened.
That all you got?
There's a lot of unabridged Star Wars novels. Darth Plagueis by James Luceno, "Mercy Kill" by Aaron Alston... The first two Darth Bane novels are like that too.
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I heard some of the older books made by Rosemary Wells used to come with an audio cassette where it contains music and gives some of her books more life. Such as Benjamin & Tulip, Timothy Goes To Sxhool, and Yoko. But I wish the old audio for them were uploaded on You Tube. I heard a preview for some of her book by checking it out in Amazon as a preview.
"A Lady does not start fights but they can finish them"
The Art Of Asking by Amanda Palmer probably qualifies, as it features songs performed by the author. The effect wouldn't be the same on a written page
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I stumbled upon a few audiobooks that can be found online for any of the book by Beatrix Potter complete with music.
"A Lady does not start fights but they can finish them"
Graphic Audio specializes in this.
Their tagline is "A movie in your mind" and boy do they deliver.
In particular their production of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson is mind blowing.
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I've only listened to the Era 2 Mistborn books and half of The Shotgun Arcana - because most of their longer adaptations are outside of my budget right now - but they're a lot of fun.
The BBC often does book adaptations as well, and will rebroadcast them online sometimes. I think the most recent one was an Anansi Boys adaptation?
There's also a lot of original podcast audio dramas out there. Back in art school, when I listened to a lot of podcasts, I was particularly fond of the Decoder Ring Theatre (pulp adventure stories) shows and Were Alive (a zombie apocalypse drama). I've also been getting into Limetown lately, which is about a journalist investigating an incident where all of the inhabitants of a 'scientific village' disappeared mysteriously.
By "enhanced" audiobooks, I mean the kind that have music and sound effects in addition to the narrator throughout the entire unabridged recording with "unabridged" being the key word. I know two book that got this treatment, the novelization of Shada from Doctor Who and A New Dawn, that prequel novel of Star Wars Rebels.
Anyone else come across similar audiobooks?