Audible Island Books

[Steven Koteff]

The audience's agency in the pace of a book is central to literature as an art form, I think. Not that there's nothing to be gained by listening, just that there's also a ton to be lost, for me anyway. 

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Lovecraft read by Wayne June is fun stuff imo. And I agree with what you said Mark, it's hard for me to listen to the more complex stuff if I haven't already read it. The book goes on without me 
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>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can only listen to 'great' books, works of fiction in which every sentence, every word, matters and must be (somehow) felt...
>> if I have read the work at least once already. .....Moby Dick on a car trip to Michigan and back to New Jersey was (almost) as
>> good as Jeremy reminding me of Humbert. 
>> 
>> So, I am done. 
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>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's a great suggestion, Mark.
>>> 
>>> I don't do audiobooks very often but I'm partial to ones where the author reads his/her own work. 
>>> 
>>> I doubt he gets much love on here but I think certain sections of Hitchens reading his memoir are very good/moving.
>>> 
>>> Think about the format. I usually save audiobooks for things where the language (and the physical act of reading it typeset) is maybe less of a focus--things that are less stylized, or that have their linguistic integrity compromised by translation, etc. So with audiobooks I lean disproportionately to non-fiction or lighter fare. I usually end up saving the format for books I'm semi-interested in, but not necessarily enough so to spend my precious desk-time with. Or for books I absolutely love and need to consume in another format (hence Irons's Lolita's appeal).
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>>> The first Knausgaard book on audio is decent--at first I thought the guy reading it was overwrought but developed some affection for it. 
>>> 
>>> I heard a good audiobook of Anna Karenina once. I can imagine a perfect reading of Proust.
>>> 
>>> Go for something that has elements of orality/yarnness. 
>>> 
>>> If there's anything of Barry Hannah reading his work...
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> if still available, Jeremy Irons reading you LOLITA is unforgettable. 
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>>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I can't believe my powers have recall have sunk so low today, but here's a manifestation of the problem:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have credit for two audio books at Audible right now and have to use them by the end of the day and, although I admit that everything I want cost $7 or less cash(33 1/3's "Low", for example)  but the credits cost $15 each and can 'buy' recordings valued to over $50 each, so every purchase counts and I'm hesitant to 'just buy something.' 
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>>>>> I also have, for example, all the P titles that are in audiobook on audible snd most of the Jim Harrison (incl several never listened to) and many many more.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Listens are more for working in the greenhouse than for driving.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Leaning towards that recent title that's about a 'non fiction' love affair with an octopus but fear it may be more whimsical than real.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Open to suggestions, you don't even have to check Audible before checking
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm going to go sit in front of some bright lights
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> =Allan in WV
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