What Are You Thinking? Continued 14

I never thought of it that way. Now I realize why I crave sometimes wanting to listen.
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I can’t listen to Audi fiction and it might be because it feels so dispassionate and impersonal. I do love audio non-fiction though in part because I LOVED college lectures.
I love non-fiction and fiction BUT I cannot handle the way poetry is read. Poetry is supposed to be raw emotion slapped onto pages and they read it like it's a shopping list.
 
Do we enjoy audio books due to their convenience or because we crave having someone to read to us like when we were children? 🤔
I can only make myself listen to audiobooks if they have a ready great narrator, like Stephen Fry. I could listen the that man read the phone book, he is a delight!
In general, I prefer to read with my eyes, so I can reread certain parts if I zone out (fully awake) without actually processing the words I just read, or actually drift off to sleep. With audiobooks, I could fall asleep while it keeps playing for hours, and spend nearly that much time searching back for the spot where I left off.
That being said…if my honey wanted to read me a bedtime story, I would not say no! Bonus that he could see when I fell asleep and put a bookmark in it, whereas a recorded audiobook could not.
 
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I love non-fiction and fiction BUT I cannot handle the way poetry is read. Poetry is supposed to be raw emotion slapped onto pages and they read it like it's a shopping list.
It never even occurred to me that there would be audio books of poetry…but it feels like it would be highly dependent
on the reader. Like I’d listen to Andrew Scott read anything
 
I can only make myself listen to audiobooks if they have a ready great narrator, like Stephen Fry. I could listen the that man read the phone book, he is a delight!
In general, I prefer to read with my eyes, so I can reread certain parts if I zone out (fully awake) without actually processing the words I just read, or actually drift off to sleep. With audiobooks, I could fall asleep while it keeps playing for hours, and spend nearly that much time searching back for the spot where I left off.
That being said…if my honey wanted to read me a bedtime story, I would not say no! Bonus that he could see when I fell asleep and put a bookmark in it, whereas a recorded audiobook could not.
Stephen Fry is amazing. His Mythology books are my audio-faves. I *think* I've also downloaded him narrating Sherlock Holmes, but have not yet listened. 👂
 
I can only make myself listen to audiobooks if they have a ready great narrator, like Stephen Fry. I could listen the that man read the phone book, he is a delight!
In general, I prefer to read with my eyes, so I can reread certain parts if I zone out (fully awake) without actually processing the words I just read, or actually drift off to sleep. With audiobooks, I could fall asleep while it keeps playing for hours, and spend nearly that much time searching back for the spot where I left off.
That being said…if my honey wanted to read me a bedtime story, I would not say no! Bonus that he could see when I fell asleep and put a bookmark in it, whereas a recorded audiobook could not.
Hrmm... that all makes perfect sense! I dozed off to a poetry reading before. 😬 And have no clue where to go back to.. And there's something soothing about having a loved one read out loud for you..
It never even occurred to me that there would be audio books of poetry…but it feels like it would be highly dependent
on the reader. Like I’d listen to Andrew Scott read anything
I listened to two separate authors read their own works. Their voices were lovely, but so utterly devoid of emotion that it killed my enjoyment for their works.
 
I can only make myself listen to audiobooks if they have a ready great narrator, like Stephen Fry. I could listen the that man read the phone book, he is a delight!
In general, I prefer to read with my eyes, so I can reread certain parts if I zone out (fully awake) without actually processing the words I just read, or actually drift off to sleep. With audiobooks, I could fall asleep while it keeps playing for hours, and spend nearly that much time searching back for the spot where I left off.
That being said…if my honey wanted to read me a bedtime story, I would not say no! Bonus that he could see when I fell asleep and put a bookmark in it, whereas a recorded audiobook could not.
I’ve never listened to an audiobook and I feel like this is why. I’ve thought about putting one on while driving but think I’d still get too distracted and realize I missed a dozen paragraphs and have to rewind.
 
Hrmm... that all makes perfect sense! I dozed off to a poetry reading before. 😬 And have no clue where to go back to.. And there's something soothing about having a loved one read out loud for you..

I listened to two separate authors read their own works. Their voices were lovely, but so utterly devoid of emotion that it killed my enjoyment for their works.
I’m sorta clarifying things in my mind as I talk about this. But I think I dislike fiction not because it’s devoid of emotion but it’s because it’s devoid of “my” emotion? If I wanted a radio play I’d listen to a radio play. That’s not why I read fiction if that makes sense. The voices and emotion and emphasis “I” place on things is part of the joy. I don’t like ceding that work to anyone else?
 
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