What are You Reading Now?

[Sam Gamgee]

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I need to listen to a “new to me” audiobook sometime soon. Every year or so I try listening to an audiobook but I always choose a book I love and know. The result has been that I am totally unsatisfied because I already have the authors voice in my head. I expect a certain cadence and it bothers me when words and names are pronounced differently than I expect. I’m sure I would enjoy an audiobook if I came to it without preconceptions or if it were read by the original author. Unfortunately I have a hard time finding contemporary literature that I can really get into.

I know what you mean and have experienced all of that. Sometimes I’ll try an old favorite audiobook with a new reader and it rarely works. I also hardly every find contemporary fiction to enjoy. Most is just written in a style I cannot engage with, and if an author is too young I find that they rarely have the wisdom that I seek out in literature. I go to books to be taught by people further along than I am.

 

[warren99]

Toni Morrison, Beloved.

 

[carlomarx]

"The Mothman Prophesies" John Keel

 

[ssjones]

I had to take two swipes at this one. It was billed as like Station Eleven. Its not, the author couldn't bring the story to a satisfying conclusion.

 

[warren99]

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint.

 

[Tbaggins]

The complete short stories of Earnest Hemingway. An African story and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber are favorites so far.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[warren99]

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day.

 

[ssjones]

I haven't read a "great" book all summer. This one is looking reading like a winner:

 

[warren99]

Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[ChonkyTonks]

 

[autumnfog]

"The Mothman Prophesies" John Keel

I liked the movie, might read the book too.

 

[El Capitán]

Now working on the Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe.

 

[vosBghos]

 

[keith929]

 

[huntertrw]

Yankee Lawyer - The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt by Arthur Train.

 

[carlomarx]

I liked the movie, might read the book too.

I haven't finished the book but it is looking like the book is the exception to the usual "book is better than the movie rule."

 

[Rossi320]

23 and a half lies by James patterson

 

[brian64]

I haven't finished the book but it is looking like the book is the exception to the usual "book is better than the movie rule."

I read it many years ago...it was intriguing. Keel was sort of a modern Charles Fort. The movie differed quite a bit, but I agree it was really well done...have watched it a few times over the years. Well written and directed, and great performances...especially Will Patton.