Anyone else addicted to Scott Brick? Suggestions needed...

My husband refuses to listen to anything not read by him. This is becoming an issue, since we are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel with what's available.

Any narrator suggestions?

TIA!
Alana

Well not the answer you are looking for but I too am addicted - whenever I look for a new audiobook I search on Scott Brick before I look for the author! However, I also like Stefan Rudnicki (sp?) and the guy who reads the Michael Connelly Bosch books - I think it's Lou Cariou - again spelling might be dodgy but check out the Connelly books on audio.

Thanks for the suggestion - I will look into it!

Scott Brick is really great. I enjoyed listening to him read Under the Banner of Heaven about fundamentalist mormonism, and Alexander Hamilton about fundamentalist capitalism (just kidding, actually it's a very good biography).

I also really enjoy listening to George Guidall - particularly Mayflower, Master and Margarita, and Crime and Punishment.

I do the same thing with Barbara Rosenblat.

As far as Scott Brick goes, has your husband tried The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman? It is very good!

I just listened to my first Brick, Light in August and am now on my second.

Is there any hope for me?

Probably not. But a word to the wise - don't try listening to 2 at the same time. I usually have one audio going in the car, and another in the house. Once, they were both Scott Brick. They were different authors, but similar styles and plots. I was so confused! I had to lay off Scott for a about a month after that.

He does a good reading on The Devil in the White City which I just finished the other day.

I experienced by first Scott Brick last week with Harlan Coben's wonderful The Innocent. It was only the second audio I've tried and Scott Brick was way superior to the earlier Joe Mantegna recording of
Robert Parker's School Days. Scott's inflection of voice is so subtle and unlike Mantegna he doesn't overdo the women's voices. Listening to him read was
a dream come true. And then when I looked his website up he looks like such a weird fellow, nothing
like his beautiful, calm voice. I did a search on amazon and I'm not really interested in the other books he's read that they list, but The Devil in the White Cityis one I definitly I want to hear and I'm so happy he's the reader.

Once I got hooked on Scott Brick's voice, I found myself choosing books I would never have considered, just to hear him read. I have found several new favorite authors that way.

Definitely not. I can't listen to him. He seems to emphasize the wrong words, linger too long on parts of words, and his reading just seems too affected, not natural. I've been listening to audio books during my commute for the last six months or so, and his Devil in the White City is the first one I just can't listen to. Listened to 30 hours of New York: The Novel and loved every minute. Think the narrator was Mark Bramhall. It was amazing--men women, different accents, all interesting and convincing.

I have never heard him utter a single syllable, yet folks mention him often - he must read stuff in which I don't have much interest.

Myself & a close friend both listen to many audiobooks. We both agree that we highly dislike Scott Brick for his lilting, overly melodramatic intonation. He must be popular however, since he seems to show up more than any other narrator. Therefore, I would be happy to pass on some suggestions.

The first book that made me remember the name of Scott Brick was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I then noticed him in a variety of science fiction. He narrates the entirety of both the Dune series by Frank Herbert & later his son Brian Herbert (with Kevin J. Anderson) and the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. I believe he also narrates Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. That's all that comes to mind off the top of my head but I will add more as he makes his inevitable reappearance.

As a side note, the old cassette versions of the first three Dune books authored by Frank Herbert are narrated by Connor O'Brien who I have always enjoyed very much.

Am I allowed to make a suggestion? WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? by Budd Schulberg. The great American novel.

Thanks for the kind words everybody. Oh, and everybody else, I understand, I don't listen to me either. ;)

Best,

Scott Brick

Wow! A response from the man himself. In honor of the aforementioned reply, I shall add Spin and Axis by Robert Charles Wilson the the growing list of Scott Brick narrated works. Saturn's Race by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes was also read by Brick. Not the best of novels, but perhaps worth a read for a die hard Niven fan.

(raising my hand...) I'm addicted! I'd listened to a Steven J. Cannell book a few months ago called Cold Hit and liked it a lot. Earlier this week, a coworker let me borrow Nelson Demille's Wild Fire and I enjoyed it immensely as well. I knew I'd heard the narrator before and decided to look him up. Once I realized he did Cold Hit as well, I figured he was a huge part of the reason I enjoyed both books so much! He's great! I usually pick audiobooks simply based on how interesting the summary is on the back, but now I'm going to start specifically searching out those narrated by Brick. Scott, if you're out there, you're frickin awesome!!

I really enjoyed the naration of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and followed it up with The Omnivore's Dilemma. Highly recommended! Thanks Scott!

I listened to him read The Passage and swore I'd never listen to anything else read by him for the reasons eloquently stated by Nately18 in >11 Nately18: and Y.T. in >14 ScottBrick: (sorry, Mr. Brick, but there it is). Now, though, I find I am stuck because I'm in the middle of the Pendergast series and he is the reader for the next book which I can't find at the library in print form and simply must read NOW. (At least he is a better reader of that series than Rene Auberjenois, who reads the last few in the series. I dislike Auberjenois's reading style and nasally voice even more than Mr. Brick's.) On the other hand, I listened to and loved Devil in the White City and don't recall that I had any problem with the reader.

Now, Barbara Rosenblat (or whatever alias she reads under) ~ she's a reader I am addicted to!

I think he does a very good job of the Clive Cussler books. I have been working my way through the Oregon Files series and preferred his reading over the most recent narrator (Jason Culp?).

Wow. I stumbled on this thread because I did a google search for Scott Brick in order to confirm that everyone else agreed that his narrations are unbearable. He narrates almost everything in sci-fi/fantasy, and it's maddening. YT and Nately18 have it right.

If you're looking for other people (and you should), I highly recommend Jim Dale. He is the most incredible narrator ever. He does the Harry Potter books. He also reads "Around the World in 80 Days", the newish Peter Pan books by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and an original version of "Peter Pan." Two more great narrators - Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs. They read Terry Pratchett's books. Douglas Adams does an incredible job in a self-narration of the Hitchhikers books and Dirk Gently. Finally, Roy Dotrice is fun to listen to (Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin).

Outside of Sci-Fi Fantasy, I really like Ron McLarty, who reads some Dave Baldacci books.

There are alot of good narrators out there that I like very much. but i must say ,scott brick is the best. I can never get enough of his reading. you are the freakin man

Scott Brick reads Michael Crichtons' The Lost World , MASTERFULLY!

As well as his work reading, The Foundation & Empire series by Isaac Asimov. Brilliant work!

~Big fan