There are a lot many things in life that need a good audio background track.
Painting, ironing, going about daily chores viz, cleaning, mopping, sweeping etc.
Also added to this recently is photo editing. A task that can seem long and sometimes a bit mundane and arduous.
To this I usually add some good music or if I'm in between audiobooks I like to stick an audiobook to the scrim.
After having recently finished 'best served cold' by Joe Abercrombie, read by Steven Pacey I'm currently listening to 'Razor Girl' written by Carl Hiassen, read by Jon Rubinstein.
I'm 2 hours listening into the book and it's nice.
There are a couple things I know about myself that I've repeatedly understood time and again.
I don't seem to have too much love for too contemporary a writing (except lit, sci-fi, murder, crime, anne rice, weird shite etc)) one's that deal with the age today, lives, development etc. Especially one's that allude to contemporary pop cultural phenomena. I think I'd rather watch a TV series of the type.
I think I'd still be fine with new age writing that talks of days past. Perhaps this might have something to do with reading, knowing and learning about a life that I was never a part of no matter how fictional.
I seem to have little to no love for Americanized style of writing. You know the typically American stylized writing. prototypical American that is to say. Again, I don't mind that in tv series in fact enjoy it, but reading it is a different matter altogether.
So this book, I guess is pretty fun to read if you love that sort of writing, and it is well written no doubt. But listening to it does not elicit the same reactions that probably reading it might (for me) . It's culturally unrelatable and visually it always works in fact it's damn fine, but aurally it doesn't do it for me.
So perhaps, without going too roundabout..another good audio book recommendation please.
I mean I don't mind the wars, the medieval times, the plagues, the aristocrats, murders, love stories (if in the middle of a slaughter), lone wolf, vampiric beggars, terraforming galaxies, lightyear spawning inorganic lives etc etc.. but I little care for stories that talk of contemporary actors, recent happenings in terms of reality shows, iPhones and other pop cultures and American presidents.
Painting, ironing, going about daily chores viz, cleaning, mopping, sweeping etc.
Also added to this recently is photo editing. A task that can seem long and sometimes a bit mundane and arduous.
To this I usually add some good music or if I'm in between audiobooks I like to stick an audiobook to the scrim.
After having recently finished 'best served cold' by Joe Abercrombie, read by Steven Pacey I'm currently listening to 'Razor Girl' written by Carl Hiassen, read by Jon Rubinstein.
I'm 2 hours listening into the book and it's nice.
There are a couple things I know about myself that I've repeatedly understood time and again.
I don't seem to have too much love for too contemporary a writing (except lit, sci-fi, murder, crime, anne rice, weird shite etc)) one's that deal with the age today, lives, development etc. Especially one's that allude to contemporary pop cultural phenomena. I think I'd rather watch a TV series of the type.
I think I'd still be fine with new age writing that talks of days past. Perhaps this might have something to do with reading, knowing and learning about a life that I was never a part of no matter how fictional.
I seem to have little to no love for Americanized style of writing. You know the typically American stylized writing. prototypical American that is to say. Again, I don't mind that in tv series in fact enjoy it, but reading it is a different matter altogether.
So this book, I guess is pretty fun to read if you love that sort of writing, and it is well written no doubt. But listening to it does not elicit the same reactions that probably reading it might (for me) . It's culturally unrelatable and visually it always works in fact it's damn fine, but aurally it doesn't do it for me.
So perhaps, without going too roundabout..another good audio book recommendation please.
I mean I don't mind the wars, the medieval times, the plagues, the aristocrats, murders, love stories (if in the middle of a slaughter), lone wolf, vampiric beggars, terraforming galaxies, lightyear spawning inorganic lives etc etc.. but I little care for stories that talk of contemporary actors, recent happenings in terms of reality shows, iPhones and other pop cultures and American presidents.
No comments:
Post a Comment