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I completely agree, and I'm glad someone wrote so eloquently about this. I listen to a lot of audiobooks (often for book clubs), i.e. which don't require handl
by hilux 3y ago
I completely agree, and I'm glad someone wrote so eloquently about this.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks (often for book clubs), i.e. which don't require handling a physically printed cover, and I've really enjoyed the experience of figuring out "what is this book about, and who even are the main characters??", that would have been completely robbed by even a quick perusal of the book jacket.
Oh, you want to know what I'm reading now? Everything by Irvin Yalom. Lying on the Couch is a good place to start.
- nicbou 3y agoThis has been my approach to most media. I don't watch movie trailers. I just trust recommendations and go in blind. With books I'll only get the roughest idea of what they're about and start reading. This has worked really well for fiction, but not so well with non-fiction. There is a lot of really tedious non-fiction out there. I'm currently enjoying The Overstory. In the non-fiction category I'll recommend anything by Bill Bryson.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> In the non-fiction category I'll recommend anything by Bill Bryson. Please no. Bryson’s The Mother Tongue is one of the worst pop-sci books on linguistics ever published, with a factual error or urban myth on nearly every page. Because, after all, Bryson is a journalist and a humorist and not any actual expert in that field. As entertaining as some of his other books may be, I suspect that he plays fast and loose with facts there as well.
- hilux 3y agoThanks. I detest that guy's stuff, but didn't know how to say so as nicely as you did.