If you're starving hungry, would you only eat crumbs, when you can have the whole meal??
If you're dying of thirst, would you only take a sip, if you can have the whole bottle??
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If you're starving hungry, would you only eat crumbs, when you can have the whole meal??
If you're dying of thirst, would you only take a sip, if you can have the whole bottle??
unabridged. Don quixote is one of the best books i've ever read and Ilm constantly recommending it to anyone and everyone. I read the abridged version when i was younger and still enjoyed it but with the whole book the depth of the story expands to quite a different level
'Ever since I came down from the heavens and ever since I looked down from the top of them at the Earth and saw it was so small, that great urge I had to be a governor has been cooling off a bit- what's so marvellous about ruling over a mustard seed, and what's so lordly or important about governing half a dozen men the size of hazelnuts? because it seemed to me there weren't any more than that on the whole Earth. If your lordship could see your way to giving me a little bit of heaven, even if only a couple of miles or so of it, i'd be happier with that than with the biggest island in the world.'
sancho panza (from don quixote)
I know this is slightly off-topic, but I completely agree on this point. I tried listening to audio books when I was driving, since I used to have a very long commute to work, but I zone out and miss entire sections of the book. It's very hard to actively listen. Otherwise, the voice just ends up like a hum, going in one ear and out the other.Quote:
As for the poster who uses audiobooks, I cannot even understand how you can get even close to the same experience with an audio copy as you can with the text.
Abridged ? Pistols at Dawn,mate.
Oh, I would never intentionally read an abridged version.
I read one a long time ago. I absolutely cannot remember what it was anymore, but I bought the abridged version without realizing it. Then, halfway through the story I realized that I bought the wrong version. That bothered me a lot because I felt that I may have missed out on something. So I try to make sure that I only buy the unabridged versions of novels.
I agree on a personal level about going for the unabridged versions of books. But I am an adult, and I think that some abridged classics can be a great starter for children, who can get a taste of the book, and carry on and read the full version if they liked it.
As for audio books, I think they are another great way of getting great literature across. I listen to them a lot, as when you work full-time, you don't have the leisure to sit and read. I can be catching up on my "reading", while catching up on my chores. In fact, I've just finished The Mayor of Casterbridge (again), and it doesn't preclude you from reading the novel too, which I have done. I would say listen to the unabridged versions though.
I am a school librarian, and I have started to buy more audio books, as not only do they get the children into the books, but we also have some visually impaired students. Why should they be denied great books?
Basically, I love reading, first and foremost, but there is a place for audio versions, for those who cannot physically read, and those of us who are so busy, they can keep up with their fix of books while doing the mundane stuff of everyday life.
im sure abridged versions have a meaningful place in the wide world of reading, but i know i dont like it when we sing the first, second and fourth stanzas of hymns!