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Originally Posted by Love.Forever.
I can't stand audio books, I remember back in high school hearing the audio book for Romeo and Juliet or even Hamlet... it just wasn't the same as me actually reading it. At least for me I get lost when reading a book, so hearing someone speak aloud would just ruin the experience of the book.
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Originally Posted by ApK
You do realize those are plays, intended to be read to you by players on a stage, right?  |
I think it depends on the person/persons doing the reading. When an audiobooks is performed by a good reader, I can lose myself in the story just as I can with a good book.
A related issue is anime dubbing. Good dubbing can enhance your enjoyment of the story, while a bad dubbing can ruin a good anime.
On the subject of recordings of plays, I have a recording of the 1956 performance of "Waiting For Godot" starring Bert Lahr (done soon after the play made its debut). While the performance is great, there is at least one scene (the hat-cycle bit) that is missing because is doesn't work as audio only.