Listening to Books on Tape?

[greggypetty]

Does anyone here like listening to books on tape? When I was in middle school and junior high I absolutely hated it. Sometimes you'd get a lazy English teacher who would just put the tape in and stop teaching and make you listen to it. They go so slow and usually the voice people don't put enough emotion into it. At least, those were my old opinions. Now when I go running or drive somewhere, I listen to audiobooks on my iPod. I have so little time to read now I actually enjoy it lol. Anyone else have thoughts on it?

 

[::Snow_White::]

I perfer to read them, but I don't mind audiobooks. I don't particularly like the ones we listen to in school because they have horrible audios. We had to listen to Of Mice and Men this year and the voices ruined it.

I recommend you check out Itunes U and search 2golit (I think that's what it's called). They have an audiobook for Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, and some others. The Alice in Wonderland is okay, but I haven't listened to the rest. If 2golit isn't right, go to most downloaded and it Alice in Wonderland should be on that list then you can see what the album is called, maybe go2lit. Everything is free on Itunes U!

 

[softball chick]

It depends what book we are talking about. I always love reading my books but there are some that listening is good. The Harry Potter series is my favorite to listen to. Jim Dale, the person who reads them, does a different voice for every character and is simply amazing.

Then there are others that really stink. All Shakespeare that I have ever listened to in class has really stunk. It is much better to read those than listen to the tapes. Overall though it mostly depends on what book it is/how well the recording is done for me.

 

[nickjonasobsessed]

Truthfully, I never have actually listened to audiobooks. All our English teacher did was get wayyyy off topic about her and her "stories." Sometimes, we would sit in class 45 min. talking about stories and random stuff, then we would only have 15 min. to do our work.

 

[AliceinHalloweentown]

It depends what book we are talking about. I always love reading my books but there are some that listening is good. The Harry Potter series is my favorite to listen to. Jim Dale, the person who reads them, does a different voice for every character and is simply amazing.

Then there are others that really stink. All Shakespeare that I have ever listened to in class has really stunk. It is much better to read those than listen to the tapes. Overall though it mostly depends on what book it is/how well the recording is done for me.

I've always liked the Shakespeare ones we've had. For Romie and Julie and Macbeth we had the play performed on record and it was pretty decent. The difficult part was picking up where we left off on the record!

 

[PirateSnowmen]

It depends what book we are talking about. I always love reading my books but there are some that listening is good. The Harry Potter series is my favorite to listen to. Jim Dale, the person who reads them, does a different voice for every character and is simply amazing.

Then there are others that really stink. All Shakespeare that I have ever listened to in class has really stunk. It is much better to read those than listen to the tapes. Overall though it mostly depends on what book it is/how well the recording is done for me.

Agreed. I love listening to Harry Potter on audiobook.

One year for summer reading for school we had to read a book that was easy to understand, but the author barely used punctuation or correct grammar. I decided to try listening to it on audiobook instead of having to read a book with endless run-ons. The person who read the book was HORRIBLE, and after about 20 minutes I gave up. I ended up just reading the book... goodness that book was awful.

Another book I've listened to is A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth. Kristin is the one narrating the book, so listening to it was great

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Agreed. I love listening to Harry Potter on audiobook.

One year for summer reading for school we had to read a book that was easy to understand, but the author barely used punctuation or correct grammar. I decided to try listening to it on audiobook instead of having to read a book with endless run-ons. The person who read the book was HORRIBLE, and after about 20 minutes I gave up. I ended up just reading the book... goodness that book was awful.

Another book I've listened to is A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth. Kristin is the one narrating the book, so listening to it was great

K...Kristen Chenoweth?!

*squeals* YAY!

*buys iTunes card & goes to iTunes*

 

[Sparx]

my mom listens to a lot of books on tape. she drives at least two hours every day commuting to and from work. she listens to books instead of the radio.

 

[Movie Geek]

Normally I prefer reading books myself but sometimes like on a long car trip I listen to audiobooks. The Harry Potter series is really the only books I've listened to on audio and I think they're fantastic.