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One thing about audio books verse regular books (i.e. ebooks or paper) is that they tend to bring out the slower sections of a book. I'm listening to The Naming, by Alison Croggon, the first of a series of four books that I bought as ebooks, then bought the audiobook at the special prices of $3 per book since I already had the ebook. The ebooks are pretty good. They are youth books that seem to borrow some scenes/locations from LOTR (Lothlorien? check, Minas Tirth? check, Old Forest? check, Barrowdowns? check. You get the idea).
But with that, there is a totally different flavor and writing style to the books than LOTR and follows the classic young adult script (teenager saves the world with minimum amount of training, skills just naturally pop up when needed). I didn't really notices any sections like that when I read them as ebooks, however listening to the first book, I've found myself wanting to skip forward in various sections. I'll probably move the other three down my to be listened to list a bit. It isn't bad and I haven't skipped to the next book yet (The King's Justice by Katherine Kurtz), but I'm ready to get to the end.
For what it's worth, I've run across a number of books that I feel that way about (audio book has scenes I want to skip through). The best known of these is the second Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Some of the early scenes with Dobie and later with Lockhart just seem to get on my nerves.
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