tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8023719840989902480.post4770354396530652984..comments2023-12-23T10:24:40.038-05:00Comments on Fly To Fiction: Talk About It Thursday (#4): AudiobooksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909672993980184169noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8023719840989902480.post-84888178654617149992014-03-14T23:21:57.343-04:002014-03-14T23:21:57.343-04:00Ahhh, I totally understand. I'm American so it...Ahhh, I totally understand. I'm American so it's not the accent that bothers me, but I can see how it might. <br /><br />Eughh. That sounds terrible! I can see why you hate audiobooks so much now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10909672993980184169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8023719840989902480.post-85316369591337578202014-03-13T13:10:55.613-04:002014-03-13T13:10:55.613-04:00Audiobooks are the equivalent of hell for me. I de...Audiobooks are the equivalent of hell for me. I deep, deep hatred of them. I first listened to them when I was younger and loved listening to Jane Eyre and Artemis Fowl, but when I listened to books when I was older I found they were often read by American voices and while I have no problem with the accents in TV Shows (in fact I don't even notice it) with audiobooks they seem to be very pronounced accents and I can't concentrate on anything else.<br /><br />However that doesn't explain why I hate them so much so I'll get onto to that. I met my partner online and to cut a long story short he now lives in Yorkshire with me but his mother lives in Somerset - about 6 hour car ride away. She likes us to go down and visit and then will drive us back up and stay for a few days. However, she likes audiobooks. Not just that, she likes to put her audiobooks on so loud, that people in the next lane with their windows shut could probably hear it so I have no way of blocking out the sound with music. I absolutely hate the audiobooks she forces us to listen to, especially when I can hear nothing else. The last one we listened to was Nine Inches (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12229315-nine-inches?ac=1) which was just horrendously written. So yes... I think audiobooks have traumatised me...<br /><br /><a href="http://under-mountain.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">★ Under The Mountain ★</a>Vee_Bookishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00652899477091461541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8023719840989902480.post-64374668248129120502014-02-27T19:43:45.955-05:002014-02-27T19:43:45.955-05:00Yeah, they don't work for me on long car trips...Yeah, they don't work for me on long car trips because I get car sick and thus resort to sleeping in the car. :P That's a good idea though--listening to books I've already read rather than new ones.<br /><br />That's fun! I sometimes listen to audio recordings when reading Shakespeare in class, and that helps a lot. <br /><br />Maybe I'll have to give it a go sometime in the future.<br /><br />I will definitely continue to try them out sporadically. :D<br /><br />Thanks for the lovely comment! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10909672993980184169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8023719840989902480.post-45704241188142073062014-02-27T19:30:17.134-05:002014-02-27T19:30:17.134-05:00I love listening to audiobooks. They're GREAT ...I love listening to audiobooks. They're GREAT for long car trips! That way I'm not constantly changing the songs on my ipod, etc. I also love listening to audiobooks while I'm at work..though when I'm at work I only listen to audio of books I've already read because if I get distracted and a miss a part..I already know what happened hahah.. It just helps me focus on what I'm doing at work and not get distracted by the people that come and go around me at work. ;)<br /><br />I've only bought one audiobook where I wanted to strangle someone cuz the narrator is bad. It made me wish I had listened to the sample audible had on their site. The person who narrates the audio for The Proposition series by Katie Ashley sounds exactly like a robot. I MEAN it's like listening to Siri read you a book and it got annoying really fast.. <br />But for the most part all the narrators for the audiobooks I've listened to have been pretty good. I love it because usually they'll act out the characters with different voices and what not..<br /><br />The one book series I've listened to in it's entirety on audiobook is the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich.. Those books are hilarious in their own right..but if you listen to the narrator (there were a couple of different ones, seeing as there's been 20 books in that series so far..) She does an amazing job with the voices, characters and what not..and it just makes them more funny. <br /><br />I wouldn't give up on audiobooks just yet! haha ;DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14587456156758501271noreply@blogger.com