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Originally Posted by CRussel
I get your point, Catlady. But I don't completely agree with it. There are certainly books my first read of it would be better as an ebook. Usually because they're long and have a lot of complex characters and structure. Or, in the case of much of Dickens, just too many to keep track of as an audio book. Unless, of course, I'd read it first.
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I've found Dickens a lot easier to digest in audiobook form, even the titles I'd never read before. Generally I've found long books with many characters easier to follow in audiobook form--I recently listened to 41 hours of
Forever Amber (read long ago and mostly forgotten). But in any case,
The Man in the Brown Suit wasn't long or complex--just confusing. Which I see as a fault in the writing and not the delivery system.
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The other part of that is that they really live in different parts of my brain. Reading a book and listening to a book are very different experiences. And while I enjoy them both, I find myself leaning more towards audiobooks in the current state of life.
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Not true for me. When I think back on an specific title, I couldn't tell you if I read the e-book or listened to the audiobook (though the default for me is the audiobook).
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are times when an audiobook doesn't work, but reading the book does work. If you come across a narrator you don't care for, then the audiobook may not work. One book we read for the book club didn't work as an eBook, but did work better as an audiobook.
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Yes, but I don't think Emilia Fox's narration was the problem. I think the defect was in the writing. I think the characters were mostly enjoyable and the book had a lot of humor, but the plot was a bit too unwieldy.