Audible Island Books

[Perry Noid]

that's a good way to put it. that being said, i listened to the audio
version of AtD and the unique character voices certainly helped keep me
engaged and made it a blast to experience.

Also, not exactly an audiobook, but the BBC radio adaptations of holmes
with Clive Merrison are quite fun too. I looked on amazon and it's 400
bucks for the box set. Gah! They are on itunes though

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.'
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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