They're really very suited to the audiobook format, though--I mean, I find it hard to listen to anything too complicated as an audiobook, especially if the reading is fast. For example, I tried Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", but had to stop quite soon, because it was just too dense for me. But the somewhat repetitive format of these travel accounts work really well for me to listen to ("February 15. We were now at latitude 81 degrees north..."). It just sort of flows in a comforting way, and the first person POV sounds like someone telling me a story.
Of course, I'm sure audiobooks work very differently for different people--this is just the way I experience them.
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Date: 2010-11-30 09:40 pm (UTC)They're really very suited to the audiobook format, though--I mean, I find it hard to listen to anything too complicated as an audiobook, especially if the reading is fast. For example, I tried Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", but had to stop quite soon, because it was just too dense for me. But the somewhat repetitive format of these travel accounts work really well for me to listen to ("February 15. We were now at latitude 81 degrees north..."). It just sort of flows in a comforting way, and the first person POV sounds like someone telling me a story.
Of course, I'm sure audiobooks work very differently for different people--this is just the way I experience them.