{"account": null, "authorFlair": {"t5_2qknd": {"akrist": null, "Emalani": null, "LiveshipParagon": null, "SkoulErik": null, "undeadgoblin": null, "BasicSuperhero": null, "71509": null, "Designer_Working_488": null, "amtastical": null}}, "commentLists": {"t3_1ixpi9c": {"head": {"id": "t1_meo4jk0", "type": "comment"}, "tail": {"id": "t1_metarmo", "type": "comment"}}}, "comments": {"t1_meo4jk0": {"author": "akrist", "authorId": "t2_eftl6", "collapsed": false, "collapsedReason": null, "collapsedBecauseCrowdControl": null, "collapsedReasonCode": null, "created": 1740471311.0, "depth": 0, "deletedBy": null, "distinguishType": null, "editedAt": null, "gildings": null, "goldCount": 0, "id": "t1_meo4jk0", "isAdmin": false, "isDeleted": false, "isGildable": false, "isLocked": false, "isMod": false, "isOp": false, "isSaved": false, "isStickied": false, "isScoreHidden": false, "next": {"id": "t1_mes2bo1", "type": "comment"}, "parentId": null, "permalink": "/r/Fantasy/comments/1ixpi9c/what_fantasy_audiobooks_get_you_making_the/meo4jk0/", "prev": null, "postAuthor": null, "postId": "t3_1ixpi9c", "postTitle": null, "score": 4, "sendReplies": true, "subredditId": "t5_2qknd", "voteState": 0, "bodyMD": "I suppose I'll be the first to say it this time: the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks are phenomenal and the books themselves are chock full of both hilarious and epic moments. I frequently have to pause them to keep control of myself when listening in public.", "body": "

I suppose I'll be the first to say it this time: the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks are phenomenal and the books themselves are chock full of both hilarious and epic moments. I frequently have to pause them to keep control of myself when listening in public.

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This sounds like one to listen to at the airport \ud83d\ude02. Okay there's a cat named Princess Donut. I want to listen to this now.

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I was working in the yard yesterday listening to Witness for the Dead. At one point the main character is with a sort of coworker he really hates. \nAnyway despite normally being incredibly patient and tolerant and rarely willing to ask man or god for help, when this coworker shows up and starts on their usual bullshit he sends up a quick prayer to the goddess of earthquakes \ud83d\ude02

\n\n

It just sent me, giggling to myself in front of everyone!

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The fictional character's way of saying lord help me \ud83d\ude02

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Mainly because of the absurdity of the humor; The First Law by Joe Abercrombie. It's a brutal series with some pretty gory scenes, but Joe manages to insert a lot of humor into it, that makes you gross out and laugh at the same time. Makes for awkward moments on the bus, when you try to fight the faces xD

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The sex scenes in Before They Are Hanged are absolutely hilarious in the audio book version. I wonder how long it took them to get a clean take, because I would have been cracking up if I was the narrator.

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"gross out and laugh at the same time" is what's happening with T Kingfisher's\u00a0What Moves the Dead\u00a0right now haha. Macabre and unsettling.

\n\n

Brutality and gore though. Agh. I wouldn't go for that. But whoever stumbles onto this thread will know what to get into if that's what they'd be interested to experience absurdity and gore.

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Not the whole book, but there was that scene in She Who Became the Sun, an otherwise spice-less book, where for like a solid ten minutes the author describes Zhu Chongba just absolutely *destroying* their wife, if ya know what I mean.

\n\n

I'm a mailman, I listen to my audiobooks with a bluetooth speaker, so you can imagine how mortified I must have looked driving around a residential neighborhood with that on. (Thankfully the street was deserted but still. lol

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Hahahahaaaa I am cackling imagining the neighborhood mailman doing this. Oh gosh this is a good snort-your-tea-outta-your-nose one.

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The Iron Druid books had me chuckling as I walked all round London (a place where anything other than staring at the ground and avoiding eye contact when in public is against the law)

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Hahahaha walking around chuckling to yourself while staring at the ground and avoiding eye contact\u00a0

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Rachel Harrison's books do this to me.

\n\n

Such Sharp Teeth, So Thirsty, and The Return have all made me chuckle and laugh out loud at various times in public.

\n\n

Part of it is that her books always have incredible narrators who convey the neurotic and sarcastic tone of her protagonists so well. There's something really funny and silly about a person worrying about mundane thing while simultaneously freaking out as they're running away from a supernatural monster.

\n\n

Also her characters just have a... realness to them. They feel like people, with depth. Sometimes (often) really stupid, silly people, but real people. Like people I know in real life.

\n\n

Providence by Max Barry did this to me too. Again, partly because Brittany Pressley is such an incredible narrator.

\n\n

But also, that book, even though there are literally only a handful of characters in the entire book (it is somehow both a cosmic Space Opera and also kind of a locked-room mystery, at the same time) all of them are so well developed that I couldn't help but laugh and cry with them.

\n\n

By the end of that book I felt like I knew Talia Beanfield as a human being, even though she's just a fictional character.

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\ud83e\udd79

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"They feel like people, with depth"
\n"I couldn't help but laugh and cry with them"
\n"By the end of that book I felt like I knew Talia Beanfield as a human being"
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Discworld is probably a pretty basic answer. Twenty years ago, when I flew home for summers and Christmas during university, my flights would always have a super long layover at an airport with a remarkably solid bookstore. It was the best post-exams treat because I\u2019d get a fancy hot chocolate and a new Discworld (they always had one I didn\u2019t own) and sit in a big armchair and read the whole thing cover to cover, laughing out loud the whole way through.

"}, "t1_mes4915": {"author": "Emalani", "authorId": "t2_3dvjghc5", "collapsed": false, "collapsedReason": null, "collapsedBecauseCrowdControl": null, "collapsedReasonCode": null, "created": 1740521587.0, "depth": 1, "deletedBy": null, "distinguishType": null, "editedAt": null, "gildings": null, "goldCount": 0, "id": "t1_mes4915", "isAdmin": false, "isDeleted": false, "isGildable": false, "isLocked": false, "isMod": false, "isOp": true, "isSaved": false, "isStickied": false, "isScoreHidden": false, "next": {"id": "t1_meskdtt", "type": "comment"}, "parentId": "t1_mepocye", "permalink": "/r/Fantasy/comments/1ixpi9c/what_fantasy_audiobooks_get_you_making_the/mes4915/", "prev": {"id": "t1_mepocye", "type": "comment"}, "postAuthor": null, "postId": "t3_1ixpi9c", "postTitle": null, "score": 2, "sendReplies": true, "subredditId": "t5_2qknd", "voteState": 0, "bodyMD": "Oh my gosh yes, Terry Pratchett has this effect. These books are the perfect air travel companions!! Did anyone wonder what you were reading?? I feel like if I saw you, I'd be compelled to ask. Which I have done to people before. I am not shy about that \ud83d\ude06.", "body": "

Oh my gosh yes, Terry Pratchett has this effect. These books are the perfect air travel companions!! Did anyone wonder what you were reading?? I feel like if I saw you, I'd be compelled to ask. Which I have done to people before. I am not shy about that \ud83d\ude06.

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Yeah, a few people asked! I was perfectly willing to be a Terry Pratchett evangelist whenever circumstances allowed. :)

"}, "t1_metarmo": {"author": "Emalani", "authorId": "t2_3dvjghc5", "collapsed": false, "collapsedReason": null, "collapsedBecauseCrowdControl": null, "collapsedReasonCode": null, "created": 1740535166.0, "depth": 3, "deletedBy": null, "distinguishType": null, "editedAt": null, "gildings": null, "goldCount": 0, "id": "t1_metarmo", "isAdmin": false, "isDeleted": false, "isGildable": false, "isLocked": false, "isMod": false, "isOp": true, "isSaved": false, "isStickied": false, "isScoreHidden": false, "next": null, "parentId": "t1_meskdtt", "permalink": "/r/Fantasy/comments/1ixpi9c/what_fantasy_audiobooks_get_you_making_the/metarmo/", "prev": {"id": "t1_meskdtt", "type": "comment"}, "postAuthor": null, "postId": "t3_1ixpi9c", "postTitle": null, "score": 2, "sendReplies": true, "subredditId": "t5_2qknd", "voteState": 0, "bodyMD": "Awesome! Spreading the word of good books. Almost like how people say hi to pet a dog haha they'll say hi to find out what you're reading.\n\n>*\"Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.\"*", "body": "

Awesome! Spreading the word of good books. Almost like how people say hi to pet a dog haha they'll say hi to find out what you're reading.

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"Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'."
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Some books and audiobooks are so immersive that they make you physically react\u2014jaw dropping, wincing, side-eyeing the narrator like Excuse me, what?! or laughing your face off. Whether it\u2019s flat out hilarious, an unexpected plot twist, or a moment so intense you have to pause and process, these are the ones that get you dropping your laundry all over the floor. Books are welcome too, I can't seem to edit the title to update.

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For me, most recently, T Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s The Fall of the House of Usher) has been prime \u201cWTF did I just hear?!\u201d material. The crazy mushroom lady had me raising an eyebrow and snorting at the same time.

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Edit: Placing Lucille Ball's face here as an example. There are some parts, like a mushroom sending out a cloud of putrid rotting flesh smell that makes me go eeewwwwww. And then some parts that make me laugh.

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https://i.redd.it/62ikjqcw0dle1.gif

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I don't often read anything horror (this is a blend of\u00a0paranormal fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror) and I went with this one on a dare. I like audiobooks with British accents.

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Also, not going to name specific titles because spoilers. But with one of V.E. Schwab's books I had a "I THOUGHT THAT DUDE WAS DEAD" moment.

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And yes, the Empyrean series is one for a whole range of facial expressions.

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This is a just for fun post. Let it rip!

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Emalani

2025-02-25 07:32:38

What Fantasy Audiobooks Get You Making the Weirdest Faces? Please tell me which books get you reacting like a lunatic in public or private!

Some books and audiobooks are so immersive that they make you physically react—jaw dropping, wincing, side-eyeing the narrator like Excuse me, what?! or laughing your face off. Whether it’s flat out hilarious, an unexpected plot twist, or a moment so intense you have to pause and process, these are the ones that get you dropping your laundry all over the floor. Books are welcome too, I can't seem to edit the title to update.

For me, most recently, T Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher) has been prime “WTF did I just hear?!” material. The crazy mushroom lady had me raising an eyebrow and snorting at the same time.

https://i.redd.it/62ikjqcw0dle1.gif

I don't often read anything horror (this is a blend of paranormal fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror) and I went with this one on a dare. I like audiobooks with British accents.

Also, not going to name specific titles because spoilers. But with one of V.E. Schwab's books I had a "I THOUGHT THAT DUDE WAS DEAD" moment.

And yes, the Empyrean series is one for a whole range of facial expressions.

This is a just for fun post. Let it rip!

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What Fantasy Audiobooks Get You Making the Weirdest Faces? Please tell me which books get you reacting like a lunatic in public or private!