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  1. You'd think the business leaders of America would have something to say about government statistics disappearing
  2. One positive about listening to books over reading them is that you can listen to Morning Glory Milking Farm while out and about and no one can call you a pervert
  3. I was an English major at one time and ended up with a degree in linguistics (not that I ever did anything with it lmao). I find the enjoyment of reading Nabokov myself versus listening to Jeremy Irons read Nabokov to me to both be beautiful and fulfilling ways to consume Nabokov's work. They are just different, and ultimately they enhance each other. Maybe my internal narrator just sucks. 😕
  4. I guess my question (and probably the source of my apparent insecurity about the concept) is this then: what actually makes it different? What am I losing or missing out on by listening to a novel instead of reading it? I've done both. I've been incredibly touched by both. What is the point of it being a "hill to die on" to quote our conversation stater, if not to striate media consumption? (Yes I know he's not being entirely serious there)
  5. The BBC series of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is also quite good, but not up to the novel's standards imo Fair enough. $4 on Amazon
  6. I don't believe I implied that, but there's for sure a tint of smugness around the argument. Barely was released in the States. The ending, as I'm sure you remember it from the book, is not one that American movie audiences usually tend to flock to. Ben Whishaw is Grenouille. Dustin Hoffman is Baldini (probably the weakest performance of the movie but it's not bad or anything). Alan Rickman and Rachel Hurd-Wood round out the principal cast as the father/daughter duo. Tom Tykwer directed it and it's hypnotic to watch.
  7. Actually, the movie of Perfume is fucking great and really underrated/under seen.
  8. Absolutely agree about either one being better than neither! And I definitely won't argue that you can get different things out of the same book by reading versus listening. I just don't think one is inherently better than the other. It's all contextual.
  9. Books that you should listen to that will leave you a huddled sobbing wreck on the floor (complimentary), and that once you finish one you will understand why it's silly to say listening to books can't count as reading them, and frankly in some ways can be superior: Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry Circe, by Madeline Miller Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro (fuckin' dare you to listen to the sections about civil rights and not start weeping now) James, by Percival Everett Perfume - the Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind Grant, by Ron Chernow Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison Matrix, by Lauren Groff Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
  10. I've never been more emotionally wrecked by and connected to a piece of literature than when I listened to Lonesome Dove. And yes, I have read-read it entirely through before as well.
  11. Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo. I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be.
  12. Dag, I can't believe I didn't look at the dictionary definition🙄
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