I have always avoided fantasy books. They tend to be long-winded, and for some reason they often consist of absurdly long series. I’ve always liked fantasy films though.
In the last year, however, I have read 27 very very long fantasy books:
The entire Harry Potter series (7 books)
The entire Sword of Truth series (11 books)
The Farseer trilogy (3 books – who would’ve thought.)
And I’m currently chewing through the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. So far I’ve read the first 6 books.
The secret to getting through all those book is that I don’t read them at all – I listen to them as audiobooks. The experience is pretty much as immersive as movies.
Great, right?
Well, yeah, except these movies are often about 30-40 hours long.
I have listened to these books during transport (makes me seem effective), during household chores (also good), during trying to sleep (not a good way to fall asleep), while trying to carry on conversations (not possible, and not very polite), while reading (also pretty much impossible), while writing this blog post (in all likelyhood making this post retarded and incoherent). Simply put. I CANNOT STOP listening to these things.
Audiobooks are great – but they’ll take over your life.
Month: April 2009
That’s a pretty wonderful business card. Even a little actual good advice there.
via Your Monkey Called.