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Originally Posted by taosaur
There are books that I can't follow on audio: most science fiction, anything that jumps around in time much, or any non-straightforward prose style, for instance. Some books I've started on audio and had to pick up the ebook and at least get a couple chapters under my belt before I could start switching back and forth.
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It may depend on the performers. It seems that many of the suspense/thriller-type books I've been reading these days are fond of the technique of jumping around from past to present and/or offering multiple first-person accounts. One that I listened to recently did both, and because of the several different performers with distinct voices, I always knew very clearly where I was in the story and which character was speaking. I suspect that if I had been reading the text, I would have been checking the chapter names to verify the who and where.