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After getting caught up and talking to some friends about the books they convinced me to try the audio books. Just for fun i listened to about the first 1/3 of the first book and boy, I hated it. It's significantly better to just read them. It takes far less time, the story flows better, the character voices are of your own choosing and the storyline seems more urgent.

I'm not against audio books for the record. I listened to 4 Harry Potter books on a long road trip and I'm almost done with a complete listen through of the malazan series. This one just wasn't good.
 
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Guurn said:
After getting caught up and talking to some friends about the books they convinced me to try the audio books. Just for fun i listened to about the first 1/3 of the first book and boy, I hated it. It's significantly better to just read them. It takes far less time, the story flows better, the character voices are of your own choosing and the storyline seems more urgent.

I'm not against audio books for the record. I listened to 4 Harry Potter books on a long road trip and I'm almost done with a complete listen through of the malazan series. This one just wasn't good.
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I do nonfiction audio fiction read.

My brain has a hard time reading non fiction and retaining it but if i listen to it i feel like i have a good grasp of the subject.

fiction is the opposite and i can only truly visualize the world/actions/characters and bring them alive for me if im reading it
 
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Kiroy said:
I do nonfiction audio fiction read.

My brain has a hard time reading non fiction and retaining it but if i listen to it i feel like i have a good grasp of the subject.

fiction is the opposite and i can only truly visualize the world/actions/characters and bring them alive for me if im reading it
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That's funny, I'm the opposite.

When i read text I'm scanning the info looking for relevant information. Like reading a build guide for a game trying to figure out the way they are synergizing for critical hits or reading a stack over flow post about how they are getting the damn thing to compile.

I find when i read fiction it's hard to slow down and enjoy the story while visualizing everything, whereas the pace is coerced while listening to an audio book.
 
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Anything that's full of weird names I need to read because I will constantly be backtracking to see if that's the same person from before. Even with the weird names it has, DCC is doing a good job of not making me have to do that. But I am getting to where I have trouble keeping the characters straight because there are so many.

I did have to go back and look up the goddess nekhebit the second time she was mentioned. It was niggling at the back of my brain and I finally had to look in a previous book to see that we'd heard of her before.
 
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I retain shit much better when I read it, but I enjoy audiobooks for long drives and shit like mowing. Also, gotta listen on 1.2x speed. 1x is painfully slow.
 
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Just used my 2 free amazon audible credits on this. Something to entertain me on my way to and from work. I was sold as soon as I read all the blue haired LGTBlack fat weirdos bitching about it.
 
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Tuco said:
That's funny, I'm the opposite.

When i read text I'm scanning the info looking for relevant information. Like reading a build guide for a game trying to figure out the way they are synergizing for critical hits or reading a stack over flow post about how they are getting the damn thing to compile.

I find when i read fiction it's hard to slow down and enjoy the story while visualizing everything, whereas the pace is coerced while listening to an audio book.
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when i read real good fiction i go into a sort of zen mode where it feels more like lucid dreaming than reading.
 
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Kiroy said:
when i read real good fiction i go into a sort of zen mode where it feels more like lucid dreaming than reading.
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When I read it is like watching a movie in my head. When I start seeing words on a page that means I am tired and need to go to sleep.
 
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I prefer audio books now, especially when they are well voiced like this one. Driving, working out, even falling asleep. Things you couldn't do turning pages.
 
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Guurn said:
After getting caught up and talking to some friends about the books they convinced me to try the audio books. Just for fun i listened to about the first 1/3 of the first book and boy, I hated it. It's significantly better to just read them. It takes far less time, the story flows better, the character voices are of your own choosing and the storyline seems more urgent.

I'm not against audio books for the record. I listened to 4 Harry Potter books on a long road trip and I'm almost done with a complete listen through of the malazan series. This one just wasn't good.
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I haven't read these, but got the audio based on this thread

I found the first book a difficult listen. I'm not English major, but this came off as childish. Not the RPG part, but how the story was told. They dialog was overly informative? Like the writer didn't know how to the the story. By the end of the book, I really wanted to know what classes they got. I'm on book 5 now and this is the first audio book in a long time I listen to while sitting around the house, where I might be playing a phone game or watching YouTube. The chaos and strategy Carl is forced though is riveting. I get excited at each box opening. I'm looking forward to his revenge vs enemies. And I find myself literally lol many times.

Had I know though that the writer still has books left to write, I might have waited. Hopefully this doesn't turn into GOT
 
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I haven't read these, but got the audio based on this thread

I found the first book a difficult listen. I'm not English major, but this came off as childish. Not the RPG part, but how the story was told. They dialog was overly informative? Like the writer didn't know how to the the story. By the end of the book, I really wanted to know what classes they got. I'm on book 5 now and this is the first audio book in a long time I listen to while sitting around the house, where I might be playing a phone game or watching YouTube. The chaos and strategy Carl is forced though is riveting. I get excited at each box opening. I'm looking forward to his revenge vs enemies. And I find myself literally lol many times.

Had I know though that the writer still has books left to write, I might have waited. Hopefully this doesn't turn into GOT
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Google didn't tell me his age, but he is rocking a gray beard and a beer belly, so that is a possibility.
 
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fris said:
I found the first book a difficult listen. I'm not English major, but this came off as childish. Not the RPG part, but how the story was told. They dialog was overly informative? Like the writer didn't know how to the the story.
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Its rule 1 of the innernet. If your bitching about someones' writing, proof read you're shit. yes that was all on porpoise.
 
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man thinking about joining paetron to get them early chapters

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I joined looking for the pineapple story (It's not there BTW) and accidentally read some stuff way before I should have. I think I was on book 2 or 3 at the time. I'm pretty sure once I'm caught up I'm going to be doing the same thing.
 
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