Audiobooks, pros and cons.
I have never really attempted the audibook medium, and have not yet listened once to an example from beginning to end. Is it possible to appreciate a book fully only by
listening, without having the written sentences before you, to peruse?
But anyway, it
is closer in form to the ancient times before books, when tales were told around the hearth and campfire.
Most modern audiobooks I have started listening to, are read by young adult pretenders lacking mental maturity, overdoing it to sound dramatic, without real sense of rythm, pause, and emphasis. And I find them unbearable to listen to.
But there are rare excellent readings, like those I posted earlier in the Philip K. Dick thread.
Here, for those with tired eyes, is a very good, functional reading of W. H. Hodgson's
The Ghost Pirates. (When I read this novel some years back, I thought it dragged all through most of it; but the striking end was all worth it.)
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 14 Jun 17 | 04:21AM by Knygatin.