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Posted: 12/27/2016 11:41:31 AM EST

Guy reads a lot for audiobooks these days. His voice was torture in Scalzi's Redshirts.

I almost didn't get Ready Player One because he was narrating. But he did pretty good. He's no John Lee but this book was not bad at all. There's also an easter egg in there for him.

I wonder what it feels like to have been the most annoying character in TV history.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:48:14 AM EST

[#1]

You lost me at audio book, and Will Wheaton can get bent.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:49:20 AM EST

[#2]

Shutup Wesley.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:50:10 AM EST

[#3]

wheet-in?

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:52:10 AM EST

[#4]

Why on earth would I want to listen to him? He's still annoying in Dark Matters!

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:52:25 AM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:52:40 AM EST

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FPNI

Guy has built a career on "poor me" "everyone hated me"

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:54:07 AM EST

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Posted: 12/27/2016 11:55:03 AM EST

[#8]

will wheaton the anti gun hillary supporter?

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:56:38 AM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

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Clearly you don't listen to Die Antwoord, they're all the audio entertainment I need in life.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:57:06 AM EST

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Posted: 12/27/2016 11:57:09 AM EST

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Read his Twitter feed. He's a fucking man-child.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:57:10 AM EST

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His tweets re: anything political are the most hateful, vile crap imaginable, despite his "tolerance".

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:57:21 AM EST

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Dark Matter, not a bad show. Jodelle Ferland.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:57:38 AM EST

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It's Wil, not Will.

Just an fyi, back to the regularly scheduled bashing.

Posted: 12/27/2016 11:59:28 AM EST

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Posted: 12/27/2016 11:59:42 AM EST

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Right now I'm mainly listening to Bush and Rush.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:00:19 PM EST

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It's Wil, not Will.

Just an fyi, back to the regularly scheduled bashing.

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I know, but I'm not going to give him that special snowflake spelling kind of respect.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:00:21 PM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

Clearly you don't listen to Die Antwoord, they're all the audio entertainment I need in life.

It is not the Die Antwoord that's making chores more fun, it's the meth.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:00:32 PM EST

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I listened to ready player one while patrolling. I enjoyed the book but that was before I found out he is an ultra-regressive. I just can't bring myself to listen to any more of his narration.

On that note, don't follow Mark Hamill on twitter. I'm a huge Star Wars/Hamill fan but he's a raging leftist as well. Leave my SW's alone

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:03:07 PM EST

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I listened to ready player one while patrolling. I enjoyed the book but that was before I found out he is an ultra-regressive. I just can't bring myself to listen to any more of his narration.

On that note, don't follow Mark Hamill on twitter. I'm a huge Star Wars/Hamill fan but he's a raging leftist as well. Leave my SW's alone

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They are just monkeys that dance for us. Who cares what they say?

The guy who wrote RPO has to be a regressive as well. Just going by the dystopian setting and how he envisions Earth got there.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:03:39 PM EST

[#21]

Peter Coyote narration is best narration.

If somebody like wheathin is narrating, I'll read the fucking book!

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:06:45 PM EST

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Hard anti-gun supporter.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:07:17 PM EST

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I put on Secret of Nimh for my teenager the other day, she was requesting an old animated film of her youth.

Realized WW did the voice for one of the annoying little mouse kids.

Anyway, Wil is a tool these days. He went from the wise sage of "don't be a dick on the nets," to being an absolute fuck for anyone not of the liberal bent.

I don't mind his audiobook readings, as I'm old enough to remember the nasal readings from Grover (always just one take) Gardner. Still think the best audio book reader was Frank Muller. His "Red October" is amazing to listen too, and even makes old Charles Dickens' stuff awesome and engaging.

As for Wheaton, I think its admirable that he still has a life and a career after growing up as a kid star in Hollywood. That place chews up kids and fucks em up bad. He was good in Stand by Me, and he was alright as Wesley all things considered. Some say the showrunners mortally wounded his character with "shut up Wesley!" but I think they destroyed everyone's ability to take him seriously in the third episode of the TNG series when he got wasted and took over engineering. (That's the ep where Tasha Yar boned Data, btw).

Nowadays, he's just another fucking prima donna who thinks because he used to memorize lines that makes in a political pundit or something.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:07:33 PM EST

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Peter Coyote narration is best narration.

If somebody like wheathin is narrating, I'll read the fucking book!

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No, he did alright in Ready Player. Maybe someone clued him in and he got a voice coach or whatever. I'm super picky about this. If there's a sex scene with a dude narrating I skip over it. Can't stand to hear a guy going Ohh Oohhh yeah lick my taint in falsetto.

I'll give Coyote a try but I can't imagine how anyone could read better than John Lee. Maybe recommend me a book.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:08:03 PM EST

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Met Wheaton years ago in San Francisco. I was there for MacWorld Expo, he was signing books at a bookstore next to my hotel.

Douchebag deluxe. I cringe now if he's in an episode of STTNG. Can't watch it.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:09:28 PM EST

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Peter Coyote narration is best narration.

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Michael Kramer is excellent as well.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:21:00 PM EST

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Ready player one, was fucking horrid i was looking forward to it as every "best" list had it on it.

once you rip out the references it was nothing but a non nonsensical terribly lame dues-ex story with memberberries.

it was post apocalyptic except when it wasn't, the main character some how knows everything* from the 70-80-90's pop culture and to top it all off hes also the best at old arcade games, memorized thousands of hours of TV programs.

i would have been fine had he known the shit but the author tries to appeal to every variation of fandom in addition to the normal person, so one paragraph is about the wonder years then the next is about some obscure 70's Japanese tv show, then its Dungeons and Dragons etc etc....

honestly its the big bang theory of books really stupid but he talked about X and i love X.

also FWW hes completely retarded.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:22:53 PM EST

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Read his Twitter feed. He's a fucking man-child.

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YUP

FUCK HIM

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:23:26 PM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

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Yup. Audio book junkie here.

I get them from the library, so they're "free". My commutes don't bother me a bit if I've got an audio book going.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:24:24 PM EST

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Dark Matter, not a bad show. Jodelle Ferland.

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Is it bigger on the inside? I must know!!!

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:28:39 PM EST

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Ready player one, was fucking horrid i was looking forward to it as every "best" list had it on it.

once you rip out the references it was nothing but a non nonsensical terribly lame dues-ex story with memberberries.

it was post apocalyptic except when it wasn't, the main character some how knows everything* from the 70-80-90's pop culture and to top it all off hes also the best at old arcade games, memorized thousands of hours of TV programs.

i would have been fine had he known the shit but the author tries to appeal to every variation of fandom in addition to the normal person, so one paragraph is about the wonder years then the next is about some obscure 70's Japanese tv show, then its Dungeons and Dragons etc etc....

honestly its the big bang theory of books really stupid but he talked about X and i love X.

also FWW hes completely retarded.

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Almost $300 billion dollars at stake, 8 billion people in the world, and they've been searching for three years, iirc. So, yeah, the guy who wins the quest is going to be knowledgeable by default. He has self selected. He is #1 out of 8 billion. I award you no points, and may Anorak have mercy on your soul.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:31:10 PM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

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This. I drive to the Key West from SWFL about 25 times a year and it seriously makes it fly by listening to a good story.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:33:11 PM EST

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Wil Wheaton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nae9L4EdRs

I fucking give up:
You should be nicer to Wil Wheaton

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:36:40 PM EST

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This is why I couldn't listen to him reading a book.

I'd be constantly yelling "shutup Wesley!"

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:48:38 PM EST

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Now audiobooks I love - great to listen to while driving or knitting. My favorites are the entire Odd Thomas series, the Deed of Paksenarrion (although with the sequel series the quality dropped a bit), and... pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman just because he tends to do his own audiobooks.

Not sure I'd care to listen to Wil Wheton though. I mean I don't mind his appearances on TBBT, and his attempts to show everyone how geek-chic he is but... meh. I'd rather listen to someone else.

Posted: 12/27/2016 12:49:21 PM EST

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Posted: 12/27/2016 12:57:12 PM EST

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Lied about his MeeMaw dying, fuck that guy.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:02:16 PM EST

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I occasionally watch her show on MSNBC.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:04:56 PM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

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You lost me at audio book, and Will Wheaton can get bent.

One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

I drink beer and listen to good music when I have to do domestic chores.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:11:56 PM EST

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You could do him a favor and tell him to quit gargling seamen on one of his social media accounts. Just let him know it screws up his voice

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:12:04 PM EST

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Hard anti-gun supporter.

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He's a flaming lib. Everyone calls him King Cuck these days.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:13:32 PM EST

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Ready Player One was a fun read. I enjoyed all the long forgotten references.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:15:54 PM EST

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I hate that guy.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:19:38 PM EST

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Ready player one, narrated by Will was really good. Highly recommended. Disagreeing with his politics and enjoying his entertainment aren't mutually exclusive. I don't care about ANY entertainer's political views. I DO wish they would keep their mouths shut, however... like their celebrity status somehow makes their political opinion more valid. Just shut-up and entertain me.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:20:40 PM EST

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yup

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:24:05 PM EST

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It makes me giggle to see his sad face since the elections.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:29:24 PM EST

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Motherfuck Wil Wheaton

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:35:59 PM EST

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One of the best inventions of the modern era.

Stuck in traffic? Relax and enjoy the story.

Have to clean house? That sucks. Enjoy a story while you dust.

It is the elixir to drudgery.

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That's what music is for.

Posted: 12/27/2016 1:46:29 PM EST

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Always figured (before I bothered to look and confirm) the reason Wheaton was such an ass on the Big Bang Theory....it came naturally and he was one in real life.

I was right