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Couldn't stand the slow pacing in Anna Karenina, so I swapped to the audiobook at 1.5x speed and it felt like a completely different story.
After three chapters of describing Levin mowing a field I nearly quit, but hearing it read aloud with a slight skip made me realize Tolstoy was just building atmosphere, not dragging things out; has anyone else had a book totally change for them by switching formats?
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harperp2416d ago
Wait, did you just unlock a secret level in Russian literature?
I get it though. I tried reading War and Peace once. Got lost in all the French phrases and random tangents. Switched to an audiobook version with a good narrator and suddenly it clicked. The voices made all those long names easy to follow. Felt like cheating but honestly I'll take it over falling asleep three pages in.
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the_brian16d ago
Bet my lawnmower I'd still find a way to nod off even with the fancy sound effects.
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