More audiobooks

[asterroc]

I think I have well and buried my fear that I was indiscriminating in my audiobook tastes. I'm currently listening to "Flight" by Vanna Bonta, and I find it to be insipid New Age drivel, splattered with generous helpings of anti-intellectualism and misinformation about modern psychotherapy. I do think I am *more* accepting in audiobooks than in print - if it were a print book I'd probably be putting it down about now (~2/3 of the way through it), but I'm not doing so b/c it's easy to listen to while driving so I don't feel I'm wasting time I could be spending doing something else. The flaws are entirely in the content of the book, not editorial decisions (it's unabridged) or anything else that Audible might have control over, so it's not worth a complaint, just worth noting for my own interest. I will admit that when I selected it I had minor doubts, but it also sounded very intriguing (the "hook" is that the book is about a sci-fi author whose story comes to life), but in the end it ended up more contrived than innovative. Oh well.

My next questionable download: "Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. However, I'm planning to listen to all of Handel's Messiah on my drive down to NYC first, so I may not even have to listen to "Flight" again before I get there, let alone starting on this new one.

Comments

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

"My next questionable download: "Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins."

Questionable don't even BEGIN to cover it!

*shivers*

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It just seems like a very important work - even if important in a bad way. Seems worth $15 to see what it's like. I mean, even if I don't like the ideas in it, I could still enjoy the writing, as I did with Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series (which was a blatant ripoff of Ayn Rand's ideas, I'm told).

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Check out Slacktivist's MST3King of Left Behind when you stat listening to it.

Also, you enjoyed Goodkind's writing??! :P

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I listened to the entire Sword of Truth series on audiobook. It's possible I wouldnt've enjoyed it as much in print.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

The...entire thing?

(whispers) I don't know you anymore...





I tease, I tease. :P

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Did you not read my blog at all in the past year? I bitched about my addiction for a while.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

I just bought Left Behind II: Tribulation Force and I think we're going to watch it over Jewmas.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Oh no! OH NO!

...I'm totally phoning in and seeing how this goes.

[meig.livejournal.com]

Reading Left Behind is like reading the script for a bad sitcom. It's really awful, IMO. I read every single book except the very last one, though, because you just can't stop reading. It's a serious train wreck.