Books vs Audio books
Feb. 3rd, 2005 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottishlassSigh ... 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.
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.
