Audiobooks are the best thing that happened to fiction.
Reminder that reading is a high level abstraction of actual language and we’re not necessarily designed to absorb large quantities of information that way.
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 Yeah it's just such a gigantic pain in the ass. The book becomes a lot more tense and dramatic as time goes on. Certain passages in the last third always make me weep. But it still feels like having a vampire energy drain you somehow.
I got a lot more out of it after reading it this time though since reading more medieval literature and learning more about theology and the history of literature makes it much more clear what Tolkien was doing and responding to. Lord of the Rings somehow feels like the most overrated and underrated book ever written because it's so poorly understood.
Discussion
nostr:npub1wkwhx86vqdp2zel4uepr0uhs8rzm9mmn4jhdsnw4vnn5gy8zdedsh2y9sj nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 That's why reading is good. It stretches you in a way that frictionless forms of consumption don't. I prefer reading out loud to audiobooks anyway since I prefer my own delivery usually.