Audio Books

[Chronic]

I do read, but it's not for the sake of practicing my brain, it's because I enjoy a good read. I read for the info.

It's like comparing Lord of the Rings in bookform with the movie. Both tell a story but they have different things to offer. The whole point of reading a book is the different experience. You don't have to like it but it's a lot more than reading skills and practising your brain. In movies you are shown the story, in a book you show yourself the story. You create the images, the way everyone and everything looks. You can read the book in one go or you can read it in parts and let the information simmer, you think about everything that was said, described and occurred. Every word you read further creates the story. And the information really isn't the same. You get a different kind of insight on the characters. You don't know what they're thinking. With a movie everything is decided, in a book it's more "alive", if that makes sense.
I fucking loved the visuals in Lord of the Rings, just about everything (fucking Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom) was at the very least a good transition and even perfect at times but the whole visual part side, the information I received from the book made the movie look like a piece of shit.

 

[Lil KaMiKaZe]

It's like comparing Lord of the Rings in bookform with the movie. Both tell a story but they have different things to offer. The whole point of reading a book is the different experience. You don't have to like it but it's a lot more than reading skills and practising your brain. In movies you are shown the story, in a book you show yourself the story. You create the images, the way everyone and everything looks. You can read the book in one go or you can read it in parts and let the information simmer, you think about everything that was said, described and occurred. Every word you read further creates the story. And the information really isn't the same. You get a different kind of insight on the characters. You don't know what they're thinking. With a movie everything is decided, in a book it's more "alive", if that makes sense.
I fucking loved the visuals in Lord of the Rings, just about everything (fucking Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom) was at the very least a good transition and even perfect at times but the whole visual part side, the information I received from the book made the movie look like a piece of shit.

from audio too....he's not comparing with the book form,he's comparing with the audio...

 

[Chronic]

from audio too....he's not comparing with the book form,he's comparing with the audio...

Yeah obviously. I was making a comparison. The point is, it's called the "reading experience". You don't get it from audio tapes or anything else. Being read the book is not the same as reading it. The information in audio tapes may be exactly the same but how can you compare the experience of reading something and envisioning its world on your own with someone telling you a story. I can't even imagine an audio tape being good. Either you'd have to tell it without being enthusiastic and sounding like you're reading the grocery list or you'd have to tell it in an "interesting" way and sound corny as fuck.

Doesn't mean you can't like audio tapes though... people like lots of stupid stuff.

 

[Lil KaMiKaZe]

Yeah obviously. I was making a comparison. The point is, it's called the "reading experience". You don't get it from audio tapes or anything else. Being read the book is not the same as reading it. The information in audio tapes may be exactly the same but how can you compare the experience of reading something and envisioning its world on your own with someone telling you a story. I can't even imagine an audio tape being good. Either you'd have to tell it without being enthusiastic and sounding like you're reading the grocery list or you'd have to tell it in an "interesting" way and sound corny as fuck.

Doesn't mean you can't like audio tapes though... people like lots of stupid stuff.

ok,personnaly i don't read books,i get bored and think about something else while reading and for audiobooks,i also picture that boring...