Never tried them and I don't think I ever will.
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Never tried them and I don't think I ever will.
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Originally Posted by papayahed
And another thing for me is that, I got lost somewhere and I hate to rewind
Cds sub, :D
yes Nighty, that return and forward button...rewind and fast forward
I think they greatly subtract from the literary experience. Never for me.
I'm not very good at listening and doing nothing, radio and music are almost always background. So I think I get lost in a whole book to listen to. The last week I listened some short stories that won't be printed. That worked quite while doing the dishes and during late evening hanging tired on the couch. And I sometimes listen to public lectures or speaches in train, but a whole book I don't like, then I prefer reading.
Well, I like them sometimes. It is always more enjoyable to sit and read. I used to work at this boring job in the operations dept. of a local bank. Books on tape and my Walkman made that job a little more enjoyable.
I've never actually listened to an audio book. That is, however, a great suggestion, Virgil.
I do like to listen to authors read from their own works. That is, if they are good readers--some authors should never be allowed to read their own works. Robert Frost is one that I would place a restriction upon. But then there are writers that I love to listen to, like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound--and would you believe what a great reading voice Gertrude Stein has? I also heard recently a recording of Anthony Burgess reading from A Clockwork Orange; that was necessary.
Hi to all,
audio books has so many advantages compared to reading books,it saves somuch of time,it improves the listening and comprehension skills.
it's helpful for teachers (i.e;teaching resources),we can listen a audio books while driving a car for relaxation.
i prefer books on paper. how many hours of the same voice-no matter how resonant--would bore me... reading text on paper is also a better way to 'see' what the author is saying.
I always prefer reading a book to listening to an audio book. But I do listen to audio books on a regular basis. I have an hour to an hour and a half of driving each day 5 days a week. I used to just listen to the radio, but that gets old. So I started listening to audio books. I find it best to stick with books I've read before, short stories, or less complex novels. I wouldn't try Dickens or some of the Russian novelists in audio book form. Something by O. Henry, Edith Wharton, or Henry James, or your favorite books that you love but don't have time to read again. I wouldn't try any mysteries or any deep psychological pieces. I would only use audio books for pleasure. If you will be tested you need to read the book. When listening to an audio book you don't get immersed in the story. Sometimes you miss the little things. If you read it yourself instead of hearing someone else read it it's easier to remember the little things, which sometimes show up on tests.
Courtny
That is exaclty my problem. I recently tried an audio book but I found that if I tried to do something else while listening (i.e., work, play a video game, etc.), I couldn't give it the full concentration it needed. so the other option is to just relax and listen. And because of the fact that it is so relaxing, it does put me to sleep. Plus, there's the other things people mentioned; they move too slow, if you didn't unsdertand a part, it's more tedious to go back over, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by appledips
And yes, I dug up a thread that was dead for almost half a year!
audiobooks are great, i can't imagine the world without them. :) they don't take away anything from the literary experience because when i'm on the treadmill, food shopping, in my car, i cant hold a book; and what would otherwise be dead time is now brought to life. and there are certain books i dont want to read, like A Thousand Country Roads by Robert James Waller, which i'm listening to now. it's the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County, which i never read. great movie, though. :)
I'm disabled and so I can't hold a book in my hands like I once did. So, Talking Books or Audio Books are my only options if I want to read for pleasure.
I held out for a long time on audio books thinking that they were somehow sacrilegious. But then, not by choice, I began spending way too much time behind the wheel. So there I was, driving along, listening to the radio, when I slowly came to the realization that I’d heard the same damn ten or twenty songs about four-hundred times. And then, resentment set in.
So I started listening to language tapes - and now I can speak, badly:
Restaurant-Spanish
Restaurant-French
Restaurant-German
Restaurant-Italian
And
Restaurant- Brazilian Portuguese (or perhaps, Churrascaria-Brazilian Portuguese, Obrigado!)
And it’s kinda cool, but what’s the utility of that sort of thing for someone who lives in Atlanta – I suppose I could go to a Braves game at the “Ted” and holler “Ole” when Chipper hits a homer, but that’d probably get me a free ride down to Grady Medical Center’s psych ward.
So I bought a couple of lecture series from the Teaching Company. They were fabulous. I listened to a series on “The Story of Human Language” by John McWhorter, and one on “20th-Century American Fiction” by Arnold Weinstein. I absolutely loved these courses; but I am a man and thus I have a limited ability to multi-task, so when the material started getting complex, my driving suffered. Other drivers of the Loop-285 started regularly giving me the one-fingered wave and throwing greasy Chick-Fil-A wrappers at my truck.
Then one day I was wandering through my local Barns&Noble, sipping a Starbucks, and chatting on my Blue-Tooth enabled Sprint phone…yep, I was all Yuppied up. Well, I found an audio book by Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values, read by the author. I started thinking; I’ve never had a President of the United States read a book to me – so I bought it. Now I’m hooked. I also bought his book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, and I’ve been listening to it while simultaneously annoying my fellow drivers of metro ATL.
So, I don’t know. I’ve never tried true literature on tape and I don’t think that I will. At the end of the day, I somehow enjoy and even savor the experience of sinking into my ridiculously upholstered wing-back chair and clicking on the floor lamp and starting to READ something.