12-12-2011, 09:21 PM
There are certain audiobook readers who are very talented, such as Flo Gibson, who has recorded thousands of books and who has a distinctive, appealing voice and delivery (her career started in the days of radio).
But I don't enjoy listening to books or being read to; it interferes with my imagination. When I read a book by myself, I don't "hear" a voice; if I'm attuned to the story and immersed in what I'm reading, I simply experience the story itself. Hearing a real voice narrate the story makes this harder to do, if not impossible.
I also admit that I fetishize the book itself a bit -- I love the feel and smell of "dead trees."
But I don't enjoy listening to books or being read to; it interferes with my imagination. When I read a book by myself, I don't "hear" a voice; if I'm attuned to the story and immersed in what I'm reading, I simply experience the story itself. Hearing a real voice narrate the story makes this harder to do, if not impossible.
I also admit that I fetishize the book itself a bit -- I love the feel and smell of "dead trees."