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| View Poll Results: Do you like pure narrated audiobooks? | | Yes they are fun |     | 10 | 62.50% | | Sometimes, if... |    | 6 | 37.50% | | Audiobooks are boring |    | 0 | 0% |
 | |  | Pure Audiobooks, Yay or Nay? |  |  03-18-2010 | #1 | | Audio Newbie Chukkzter is offline Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 20 |  Pure Audiobooks, Yay or Nay?
As the noob around here I am not sure if this was already asked or if this maybe is a dead horse to beat, but I am curious...
What do you think of pure audiobooks (so no cast, no effects, just narration)? They have gotten very popular in the last years and seem to sell very good. |  |  | | 03-19-2010 | #2 | | Audio explorer fthrll is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Currently in Oxford, UK Posts: 247 |
I love audio books - it's lovely to have a book read to you! Although if you're asking for a choice between audio drama and audio books because you're thinking of producing one or the other, then I'd go for audio drama.
The interaction of the different voices with effects is great and can build a special audio picture, plus when professional it gives more work to more actors, sound engineers and so on, which is v important!
But both have their upsides. | | | | | 03-19-2010 | #3 | | Captain Basil captain basil is offline Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Massachusetts USA Posts: 607 |
I enjoy both. Like my regular books, I can't stand a book if it's abridged. Heck, in the winter time my wife and I will pick a book we both want to read and take turns reading it aloud while we're doing stuff around the house. I always have a book I'm physically reading. I started a J. A. Jance novel this morning. | | | | | 03-19-2010 | #4 | | 1-Woman Butt-Kicking Army JulieH is offline Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3,484 |
It depends a LOT on the reader. Some readers are terrific (Barbara Rosenblatt, John LeCarre) and some shouldn't be allowed near a mic.
[teasingly] Getting popular recently? I've been listening to audiobooks for over 20 years... __________________ --Julie Hoverson 19 Nocturne Boulevard ...and the Deadeye Kid ......and Fatal Girl .........and Tone Didactic ............and Bingo the Birthday Clown | | | | | 03-19-2010 | #5 | | Audiofile forgetmenot is offline Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 101 |
Podiobooks are great! I started out with books on tape and at the library,(I can't just sit and work, it drives me crazy! I need at least two things going on or I get distracted! So, 8 hours a night of listening at work for about 15 ish years ) and just graduated to the new fangled thing of stuff from the internet several years ago or so when Julie of 19 Nocturne Boulevard started dragging my daughter off to record with her radio group, and told me about it. I haven't been back to the library since. Podiobooks or audio drama, It matters not, as long as it can entertain me enough to keep me from getting distracted and slowing down work output. Each time a new boss comes through they are amazed at the amount of work I get done, and I do owe that to the entertainment! so Julie both introduced me to the Media, she encouraged and showed me how to make it for myself!  | | | | | 03-19-2010 | #6 | | Barbarian in need of Ale Bill Hollweg is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 10,994 |
Most AB's bore me to be honest- with a few exceptions but that has to do with the reader. Much prefer the AD realms. | | | | | 03-19-2010 | #7 | | Audio Newbie Chukkzter is offline Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 20 |
I thought I wait a bit until I tell my own opinion. I feel that Audiobooks are pushing away classical radiodrama a little, could be because of the costs (one reader surely is cheaper then a full cast plus original music plus...). Which is a bit saddening really. On the other hand I have heard live readings which could be quite fun, so I go for the middle. But my heart is with the classical radio production still. | Quote: | |  | | | [teasingly] Getting popular recently? I've been listening to audiobooks for over 20 years... | | | | | Hehe well I meant huuuugely mainstreamlike popular, at least here in germany audiobooks were kinda a niche market until the ninties or so, then bookstores started to rack up. | | | | | 03-20-2010 | #8 | | Audio Fan FNHPodcast is offline Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 63 |
I love audiobooks. I have over an hour commute each way, a sit down job, and don't watch a lot of TV. I fill most of that time with audio books, podcasts ( including drama, of course) and old time radio.
I deliberately mix my listening. I rarely listen to an entire audio book in one sitting, I mix OTR, drama, podcasts, and two or three books all at once into my queue...
I like the change of pace that switching between book and drama gives | | | | | 03-20-2010 | #9 | | Audiofile bohemianroxie is offline Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 248 |
I love audiobooks..and love discovering new writers on Podiobooks.
Audio drama and audiobooks are different, sure,..but with the right narrator and a great story to tell (these are both essential) than a audiobook has a similar effect: you get completely lulled into the story.
Audio drama are like a movie of the mind and will capture you more quickly .
Audio-books often take a little more time to get into and a bad narrator will kill the best of stories.. | | | | | 03-22-2010 | #10 | | That Man and Mystery THE DANOSAUR is offline Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 21 |
I've been struggling with simple audiobooks, I seem to be getting more ADD as I age.
If I can't have that full cast to bring the story to life, I start to tune out...
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