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.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 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.
AI has enough going for it, I don’t want it ruled by boobies
Lord knows there’s enough creepy fucks in the world already
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!Do we enjoy audio books due to their convenience or because we crave having someone to read to us like when we were children?
It never even occurred to me that there would be audio books of poetry…but it feels like it would be highly dependent
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.
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.
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.
You are. They're wrong
Thank you
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.
It depends, honestly. Most of the time, I'm just a shocked Pikachu.
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?Hrmm... that all makes perfect sense! I dozed off to a poetry reading before.
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.
Fair enough. You post beautiful photos, including many that arouse, but all are moving.
This too
I only say yes for the novelty factor. The few people I am comfortable saying yes to and receiving from are aware of it. I have yet to have any surprises so far...
There is a time and place for everything... even on Lit.It's funny that there are threads where I am comfortable discussing my erection and others where it strikes me as unseemly.
He'd definitely need to have an accent for me.
