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writerystuff · 1 year ago

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A SAD REALIZATION

A local bookstore in my area sponsors a monthly science-fiction/fantasy book club. It's not a real “club”; there is no list of members, there are no dues, and one doesn’t have to formally join. They post on their website a list of the books to be read in the coming months, and anyone who is interested can come and discuss that month's book.

Last month, the book to be discussed was The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, so of course I had to attend.

To my great surprise, one of the first people who spoke announced, “I couldn't really understand this one at all--I mean, what was going on in this book? What was it about?”

Another participant announced, “I couldn't understand anything the Feegles were saying, so I just skipped those parts.”

There was also, believe it or not, a lot of confusion about the actual names of some of the characters.

One participant spoke very movingly about how much she loved Granny Aching, who took care of not just the sheep and the chalk and the people but also the ship. Say what?

Then I realized that she was mistaking the way the Feegles pronounce “sheep” for an actual ship.

And that's when it dawned on me that most of them had not read the book—they had listened to the audiobook.

Science tells us that multitasking is a myth: you really can't do two things at once. If you’re focused and concentrating on your audiobook, that's when you put your keys in the refrigerator and pour orange juice into your coffee mug. I'm sure many of the people who came to the discussion had listened to the book while driving, or doing something else equally demanding of concentration.

Since that gathering, I can’t stop thinking about how much they missed.

Did any of them pause the book to look up "carlin" or "brose"? (There's a glossary in several of the books in this series.)

Did any of them think to look up the origin of the word “gonnagle”?

Did any of them catch the Gonnagle's sly reference, when he gives the name of the tune he's going to play, to James II?

Did any of them realize that Rob Anybody was quoting directly from The Fairies by William Allingham?

And did any of them catch the reference to Hamlet, Act II, scene 2, when Roland breaks open the walnut?

I don't think so. And Sir Terry really, really deserves better.

Please READ.

#readers #reading #paper books #ebooks #audiobooks #Terry Pratchett #The Wee Free Men #multitasking #please read the book or the ebook #audiobooks are not the same

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sabh0 · 3 months ago

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shitpost bc apparently doing the requests isn't working against artblock, sorry chuuya is currently searching for his hat

#sab posting #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #skk #soukoku #im soooo funny #im currently sick n barely functioning but i really wanted to finally draw something anYTHING #just imagine sab listening to a 2WW related audiobook and at the same time being on a call with her mom like #'yes im dying i cant get outta bed'#while drawing this sht #my life is a joke

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lazylittledragon · 4 months ago

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ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

#ramble #my first thought was like: how is this even a debate what about blind people. not every book comes in braille but MOST have an audiobook #or dyslexic people #you still enjoyed the book!! you still absorbed it!!! you got EXACTLY the same thing as people who read the words!!!#how does it not count????#i guess you miss out on the 'learning new vocab' you get through seeing the words but also #i don't really do audiobooks but i do a lot of podcasts esp fiction podcasts #and i have ABSOLUTELY picked up new stuff from there that helps with my writing #someone please explain how this is even an argument of COURSE it counts????#idk in my opinion finishing a book means 'i put the words in my brain and i thought about them and i enjoyed a story'#not 'i held a stack of paper in my hands for a bit'#i'm v lucky that i do have time to sit and read. and whenever i commute anywhere it's public transport so i CAN bring a book with me #but if i didn't have the free time or had to drive for hours everywhere i would be STOKED to still get to enjoy books #it's been REALLY bothering me lmao idk why i feel so strongly #for some reason it's giving the same energy as like. being told you can't take a comic or manga from the library bc it's not a 'real' book #of course it's a real book it's a story somebody wrote down #i can see this spiralling into 'if you have a kindle you aren't reading'. you have to sniff the paper. feel the papercuts

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corpseroadking · 2 years ago

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HIS DOG!!!!!!!!

#the raven cycle #trc #richard gansey iii #gansey #ronsey #my art #was listening to the audiobook on my road trip and i HAD TO draw this gansey oh my god #this is the same chapter as ‘dream me the world’#fucking insane #he makes me feel unwell

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macaulaytwins · 2 years ago

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girl help I’ve become too emotionally invested in this sad gay book series about bastard lacrosse™️ and the yakuza

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alivehouse · 1 year ago

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you arent too stupid to get back into reading. i dont know i feel like i see this sort of weird self depreciating sentiment a lot thats like 'oh social media ruined my attention span too badly for me to read books anymore' or 'i cant read anything other than fanfiction' and i promise thats not true. yes it can be hard to get back into it if you havent read anything in a while but it not impossible and you *can* work your way back up to it if its something you want to do. just pick up something pick up anything and chip away at it. if you cant finish it its fine to put it down and pick up something else. but just try at least give it an honest effort. like not to sound an ad for a public library but its not impossible for you to start reading

edit: t.erfs are not welcome on my blog. try reading something other than uselessly reactionary 2nd wave theory from the 70s?

#also if you havent tried audiobooks i highly recommend giving them a try #sometimes thats the only way i can force my brain to absorb information. and thats ok! its the same book!

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lizarddealer · 9 months ago

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Nothing quite like listening to the Nona the Ninth audiobook while working in a public ceramics studio, and getting to the Paul chapter. And then you have to just sit there like you’re not listening to the most heart wrenching story ever so you don’t just start sobbing in a room full of strangers

#the same thing happened with harrow #why did I think listening to these audiobooks while working in the studio was a GOOD idea #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tlt

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atomicradiogirl · 3 months ago

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what IS IT with them i swear

#the pacific #robert leckie #chuckler juergens #the pacific writers you have to elaborate #i’m also so mad they cut out leckie’s entire poem #but you can get the same experience listening to the helmet for my pillow audiobook #fyi #the script saga

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bookowo · 7 months ago

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Alright gang! Now on 3, 2, 1, aaand..... pjõl! 😁👊

#disco elysium #sacred and terrible air #püha ja õudne lõhn #pjõl #jesper de la guardie #tereesz machejek #inayat khan #my art #artists on tumblr #I was listening to an audiobook of pjõl and drawing at the same time and didn’t notice how four hours had passed.#and there are still five chapters left or maybe more #anyway have this

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frmulcahy · 14 days ago

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Finished listening to the audiobook of Conclave.

No fucking turtles 😡

#aside from turtle erasure I liked it #because its text rather than visuals we get a more thorough look at Lomeli/Laurence’s internal struggles #the scene before the final ballot #when tedesco fully goes mask off even to his followers and benitez speaks up #it’s way more impactful in the book imo #that post comparing the scenes is why I finally listened to the audiobook #I think it’s way more impactful in the book #and it’s shitty that they omitted calling out american imperialism causing the death and suffering of so many people #especially because a lot of the dialogue in the film is directly pulled from the book!#like damn it’s a pretty damn faithful adaptation #but yeah if you like the movie check out the book because it’s p much the same but more thorough #because we get the thoughts of Lomeli/Laurence rather than just follow him as an observer #it’s more clear to the audience that from his pov all the stuff that happens and how it ends is because it’s god’s will #like I have to remind my agnostic brain that to them and by extension the narrative of the story is because god and the late pope #were like this is how it’s gonna go down #it’s not playing by the same rules of a political thriller or whatever even though it seems like that on the surface because duh #conclave #conclave 2024 #robert harris

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raviniaraven · 14 days ago

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L from Death Note and Mr. Teatime from The Hogfather are the exact same person with opposite moral compasses. Watching them have a conversation would be wild

#doing my annual listen of my fave audiobook #best christmas story is actually about hogswatch #death note #the hogfather #discworld #like. Mr. Teatime has all those little behavioral quirks that L has. But also massive bloodlust #in the same way that the police look at L like 'huh hes kinda unnerving but damn hes good' the assassins look at Mr Teatime

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aroaessidhe · 5 months ago

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2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

#outdrawn #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #sapphic books #I thought this was decent! I liked the concept (even if I got distracted by some art related things…)#and the dynamic between the characters was good. I enjoyed their relationship development broadly speaking #and the emphasis on communication; though it was a quick flip into being together all of a sudden.#The sketchbook doodle flirting was cute. Some interesting exploration of their complicated family situations too.#There’s a lot of exploration of burnout and carpal tunnel and the dangers of artists overworking which I think are important conversations #and are done with some nuance. But it’s pretty much all discussed in the context of the personal pressure they put on themselves #rather than the industry corporate greed and artificial competition created by the comic platform - which are significant in this story!#It felt odd that that connection wasn’t really ever made?#I know that this is a romance and nitpicking the background plot is beside the point and also that I am not a big romance reader #but the premise that the comic hosting site archives everything; wipes the leaderboard; and out of nowhere has a comic competition for #new weekly chapters…I’m sorry but the art world would riot. Even if people enter because they’re desperate for the cash they’d be pissed #People live off the income from their webcomics! if they were erased (temporarily) with no notice…..there would be crimes committed istg #I simply don’t believe that it would be doable to create a new weekly webcomic with no notice while you also have a full-time comic job #(especially as the only stylistic choices mentioned are full-colour) - not to mention what happened to their 8-years-running webcomics #that were archived? they don’t think about them at all after the beginning? surely they’d care about that?#And then with their new comics they make for this competition (after work I guess) we get vague snippets about them but barely anything #- if they’re consuming that much of your time I would expect to feel like they’re thinking about them all the time #rather than the vaguest discussion about genre and cast numbers only.#I guess I just think the whole comic site stunt felt unnecessary for the plot anyway -#it would have worked exactly the same if they were just competing on the normal leaderboard with their normal comics???#anyway - I’m not judging TOO hard about all that because again I know it’s not the point and maybe the industry is like that in some place #Unfortunately it was distracting enough to affect my feelings on the book tho lol.#Lastly: the audiobook………oof. The narrators talk at different speeds; for one.#And Sage’s VA does this deeply weird raspy-anime-teen-boy voice for Noah which is such an odd choice #and doesn’t match her character at all.#unforch my library only had the audiobook (what I usually prefer) so I just had to sort of….translate the narration into a normal voice lol #anyway the romance is good tho

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webgottism · 4 months ago

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reading the gen kill book and its interesting to see what lines they pulled straight from the text into the show but the fact they were like we need line for line bar for bar brad telling nate sir not to get homoerotic about this but i could kiss ya

#like oh!#if we need to preserve one thing in this adaption its that homoeroticism #had to rewind the audiobook when i heard that i was like what are you doing in my house???#local woman shocked that the show the book is based on involves those same people #bradnate

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strmpt · 1 month ago

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only consuming the audiobook version of project hail mary is wild when trying to imagine what the hail mary is actually doing in centrifuge form like “wait what? it’s… separating and rotating? then spinning?? surely it’s not as ridiculous as it sounds? i can’t even picture what it’s doing”

and then you get a copy of the actual book and see the diagram at the beginning and being like “oh. yeah. it’s really doing that. it really is that ridiculous”

i love this book sm

#i do still highly recommend the audiobook format for this book because it makes rocky’s dialogue so fun #i remember listening the first time and when he went to speak the first time it just ACTUALLY PLAYED NOTES #and i was like 👁️👄👁️#also the narrator is pretty good with grace’s narration and the male voices/accents #the women all having the same accent (minus ilyukhina) is kinda funny tho ngl #project hail mary #phm

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c00kietin · 7 months ago

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the epithet erased brainrot is kicking in.. .. ..

#I want to make an ee oc but at the same time I DON'T KNOW-#AGH #I really want to get the audiobook ;v;#I'm just watching what's available on youtube-#talking

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losver07draws · 7 hours ago

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doodles i did while re-reading tsoa (i need a hug so bad)

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