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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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My most recent experience having to set aside an audiobook and go back and re-read was
Use of Weapons by Ian M. Banks. The most obvious timeshifts in this book are that forward-moving chapters in the 'present' alternate with backward-counting sub-chapters, relating earlier and earlier episodes in the life of a certain character. Additionally, there are flashbacks within the sub-chapters, jumping around a bit but more or less advancing forward while the sub-chapters proceed backward. And it wasn't helping that all of the characters have multi-syllabic, quite made up names.