Audiobooks vs. Reading

[Miriel]

I drive a lot so I've listened to a ton of audiobooks. And there are certain books where I've read both the print version and listened to the audiobook and the audiobook is superior. There are some narrators who are just SO good, and their performance can knock you sideways. I will say that non-fiction audiobooks tend to be better than fiction for audiobooks. And some books, you just HAVE to listen to it rather than read it. Anything by comedians you should listen to. David Sedaris reading his work is so magnificent, I can't imagine ever choosing to read his stuff rather than listen to it. Craig Ferguson's book also needs to be heard.

If you listen to the Unbroken audiobook, the narrator is fantastic and he had me weeping by the end. Lauren Hillenbrand also writes in a way that's extremely well suited to be read out loud. And then you have audiobooks which are full productions like Dune, where there's music and voice actors for the different characters.

Bel Canto I've read and listened to and I thought that the narrator made the works come alive like poetry in a way that I couldn't in my own head as I was reading it.

I'm a big fan of audiobooks.