Fantastic show! I hope you guys do another one in the near future.
looking fwd to all your recco's, as usual I have Audible credits piling up and no idea what to spend them on!
Great post! Very hard to pick out a good audio book without being able to 'take a peak' like a 'paper book'. I happen to have just posted a bit about the audie's on my blog, Chick with Books, and this ties in nicely! I also happened to shamelessly promote your blog at that time too!
Suzanne
Chick with Books Blog
http://tinyurl.com/mxzbh2
Thanks, everyone!
Suzy, we fully intended on covering the Audies, but the episode ran very long. We may try to include it in next show, but in the meantime, thanks so much for your post, which everyone can read here:
http://chickwithbooks.blogspot.c...st-
bedtime.html
and for what you had to say about BOTNS! Honored to be a favorite of yours.
Thanks for this show. I love both "real" books and audiobooks for different reasons and always have one of each on the go. 
My favourite audio book of all times is American Gods by Neil Gaiman, read by the amazing George Guidall. You talked a lot about narrators in the podcast - I think he is one of the very best, and he portrays the novel's different characters in the most gripping way.
For books read by the author, I highly recommend anything by Steve Martin. I've listened to him reading his novella "The pleasure of my company" and his autobiography "Born standing up" and both are an absolute joy.
So much to respond to! For now, I'd like to respond to Heidi Estrin's question as to whether or not listening to audiobooks count as reading an audiobook: I would have to answer "yes." I remember reading an article in the NYT years ago wherein a critic said "no," as the printed page required the reader to use "an inner voice" to help interpret the material and; an audiobook preempted that "inner voice." I believe, however, that regardless of how ardent a reader one is, that inner voice is often under-developed and/or muted, especially when handling material that is not immediately within our ken. Audiobooks help develop that inner voice. Moreover, regardless of how the material is ingested, the same set of critical and analytical abilities some into play. Both the reader and the listener should be able to discern the narratives, the mechanics of the story (such as plot, setting, irony, foreshadowing, etc) as well as have a more visceral or personal response to the material.
The best narrators do not get in the way of the material. They are supposed to be the mediums of the writer's intent. In these cases, the narrators surrender themselves to the text so completely, they become the text or protag of the story. Great examples of this would be Nadia May narrating the Barbara Tuchman non-fiction history books ("The First Salute," "The Peoud Tower," "A Distant Mirror,"etc.) as well as Simon Prebble narrating "1984" (by George Orwell) and, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee and narrated by Sissy Spacek.)
Thanks for another great podcast. This is my favorite so far.
I think that listening to an audio counts as "reading the book".
In addition to George Guidall and Barabara Rosenblat, a favorite narrator of mine is Davina Porter.
Audio recs: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley read by Davina Porter (I've listened to this three times).
Agatha Christie mysteries. BBC Audiobooks America is releasing these in new digitally remastered editions. They are great.
I agree with Ann that shorter, faster paced books are better on audio. I've tried several large fantasy novels on audio and just couldn't get through them. The exceptions are Harry Potter books and The Mists of Avalon.
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