If I have stuff to do, my attention gets focused on what I am doing and somehow I stop listening. I have to back track a lot.
If I have nothing to do, I would rather just read the book.
Lately though, I have been listening to audio books to kill the boredom of being stuck in traffic during my daily commute to and from work.
What I have learned:
1. The reader makes all the difference; voice actors can really bring the characters to life.
2. Boring detail is much more bearable when read with an accent.
3. Repetition is relative depending on whether it is visual or auditory.
Recommendations:
Outlander Read by Davina Porter who does a mean Scottish accent. I was thinking in Scottish by the time I was done. I tried to read this book once but the minute detail of daily life, while interesting, makes for a slow start. Also this is a LONG book I would still be reading the physical version.
We Were Liars performed by Ariadne Myers. She made this book. YA Contemporary is not really my thing ( and I am not it's target audience either). Her acting made all of the characters come to like, put me inside Caddie's confused head, and I was totally taken in all the way up to the shocking conclusion. I saw some complaints in the book reviews about the repetition in this story. There is a lot of repetition and I think I would get tired of it in written form. But the way this story is performed shows that the repetition has purpose and makes sense.
The third book I want to mention is a July read. I just finished And the Mountains Echoed read by the author Khaled Hosseini, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Navid Negahban. The readers brought authenticity and flavor to the story that would not have been there with my voice in my head. Also having the Afghani person/place names pronounced correctly was a huge help. I stumble over the unpronounceable and that distracts me from the story line. I gave this one 5 stars.
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