Books vs Audio books

[scottishlass]

Sigh ... I thought while I travel by tram and bus to my work each day, I got a bit lazy and bought my first audio book. So I can doze and listen instead of reading ... ah well ... I don't think I'm a too audi-sensitive person. Why? Because I actually don't like audio books as I have discovered in the last three days *LOL* The characters have different *voices* IMHO. Not at all as I imagined them to sound when I read them ...
In the past three days I missed having my eyes caress each word, making love to a sentence and straying back and again to a favourite or particularly witty passage. I missed lingering, strained to hear the innuendos I know are there and which I love to relish while reading. With the audio book it was just on and on ... and even though the reader had a beautifully modulated and inflected voice, I quit the book after being half through. I have the REAL book, so I will start that anew and read it. It is much more enjoyable this way.

Comments

[kazbaby]

I really know what you're talking about with this. I'm not too keen on audio books for the most part. I hate being read to, I have to see it for myself. But I did make an exception here while back and bought the audio book for Interlopers, just because it was read by Ben Browder. This one was really worth it because he added something extra to the characters.

/end still sleepy fangirl moment.

*g*

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem ... now. I used to enjoy listening to "Hörspiele" when I was young, but now I have precise ideas about how people should sound in my head. And if it involves characters from a movie ... then its worse. I can't even tolerate the spanish dubbing in movies because I KNOW how actors real voice sounds like.
Worst exoerience ever: spanish dubbing of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

They should make voices and special effects noices, like my daddy when he reads bedtime stories a radio program.