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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I'm an audiobook fan. I will frequently listen to a book after I've read it (not immediately, of course, but later) - a good narrator can make a mediocre book good, just as a bad narrator can ruin an excellent book.
Audiobooks play a different role than paper/ebooks do, but they're an equally valid way of ingesting a book.
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Amen to all points. As an example, I didn't think Under the Dome was a particularly good Stephen King novel, but the narrator of the audiobook version was fantastic. He
made those characters. I always listen to the samples prior to buying an audiobook, some of the narrators are indeed awful.
For many years I didn't care for audiobooks, either. However, I've found in the past few years that audiobooks are excellent for non-fiction books, which I've always had a hard time reading, but listening to them is sort of like listening to talk radio, and is great for driving. I've started listening to a lot of fiction as well, and I am getting through a lot more books by turning them on when doing housework, getting dressed in the morning, suffering from middle of the night insomnia, etc.