Audible Island Books

[Mark Kohut]

O No, I get it.....listening again is like listening again after you've
read it.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lot's of people don't get it but early on I learned to compensate for the
> real time overflow by listening to the complete work over and over again. A
> simple 1 hr podcast might get 7 or 8 listens. (Jesus, I'll be working 14
> hrs in one day!)  The Recognitions, I have to admit, I haven't gotten
> through a second time, but that's how it's done. -Allan in WV (what did you
> say?)
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:40 PM, 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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>>>>
>>>
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