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I wanted the book version of Game of Thrones, so I got the E-Book series - I read a bit and thought "**** this" and got the Audio Books lol. Not a big reader and don't have the time for it :( gonna work through the audio books while doing things in the background.
your opinions on them? better/worse than the real thing? I haven't started yet but imagine it would be like in school where the teacher would read :P
i kinda enjoy them if i need sleep but they get on my nerves mainly. they either go too slow or do the voices wrong or summat and it winds me up LMFAO.
I'd listen to any audio book if Stephen Fry was reading it. ;P
yeah i hate when you get those monotonous voices. I suppose they're okay for non-fiction but when I read fiction I want the words to be brought to life in a sense and most of the time that doesn't happen. Prefer to read irl.Quote:
Originally Posted by bethany
I haven't used them and I don't intent to. If I'm reading a book, it's easier to concentrate on what's in front of me and if I missed something, I can go back reread the page, with an audio book you've got to listen to it all and if you miss something I imagine it'll take a while to go back to the exact spot you missed a bit.
I listened to the Harry Potter ones with Stephen Fry but it was kinda distracting hearing accents and the way he pronounces things differently to how I imagined (his Voldemort avada kedavra is funny not frightening). I'm not really fond of them, I like racing through books that I can get excited by so waiting for a voice to get there doesn't appeal to me.
Audio books make me fall asleep
Absolutely love them. I have Audible on my iPhone and I've listen to hundreds of hours of books, most recently all 3 Hunger Games books. It makes me excited to go to bed because thats when I listen to them, and I listen to them over and over.
It's not I can't read well, I can read incredibly well but I just find reading words of a piece of paper totally boring and mind numbing.
I'll admit the voices are usually pathetic but after you listen to them for a while you get used to them and they actually start sounding interesting to you.
But yeah, I am not a reader but a listener, love it all the same. I have yet to listen to all the Harry Potter audiobooks but so looking forward to them!
Everyone to their own eh?
audio books bore me, i'd rather read it myself, their voices are always annoying