What is /lit/'s stance on audio books?
>>8090509
"Depends"
>>8090513
On what?
>>8090509
Sign of the Apocalypse
if read by the author or by some competent narrator a book can improve significantly
but it mostly depends on the book really
>>8090509
Pleb shit.
>h-hah-a MUH COMMUTE
just shoot yourself already you pathetic piece of human waste
>>8090516
How much the written form matters to the text, the density of the material, the themes, the dialogue.
Writing isn't just the capturing of speech, its a form of communication in of itself and translating it can lose much just in the same way translating speech to writing can lose much
>>8090526
>>8090532
consider this
I was listening to some book by Haruki Murakami and there was a part where a young woman was being very horny over the telephone, talking dirty making some kind of very very lewd and verbose invitation to fuck her and the whole part just made feel sick, it was distasteful but I've never seen myself as a prude but then I realized the book was being read by an elderly man and not a young woman at all.
why is this thread made every day
I used George Guidall's audiobook for my3rdreading of Gravity's Rainbow
I do not so much like the audiobook format and I miss a lot, but I'll be damned if Guidall doesn't nail the voices. I will never read Pynchon's narration and characters in the same way again.
>>8090531
There's nothing wrong to listen to an audio book on the way to work.
Jesus christ you need help.
Hate them. I feel as if Listening to a vital conversation from outside of the room it takes place in.
>>8090547
Again it depends, an easy example for instance is if the author/reader is male and he has to read a females voice and vice versa, its probably ok some of the time but other times it could take you out of the immersion
Only if the reader is great like this guy is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIQynsWpBpQ
Only if it's narrated by a cute sounding girl so I can pretend I have someone to love.
Only if you're blind
