For the past year or two I’ve been reading almost exclusively audiobooks, which have been great, but I’d like to start reading physical books again (novels or non-fiction with a strong story component). The last book I “read” was Breakfast of Champions, which I chose not to listen to because of Vonnegut’s illustrations.
So, I’d like to start with books that for one reason or another don’t lend themselves to audiobooks.
Any suggestions where the work lends itself to the physical book medium, rather than an audiobook for any reason? Whether it’s illustration like Breakfast of Champions, footnotes like Infinite Jest, or textual (or ergodic) style like House of Leaves or Raw Shark Texts? I’m pretty open to different genres.
by TootsMcAnus
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I enjoy reading Irvine welsh because deciding the Scot’s dialect is fun
I’m currently reading The Twyford Code. I started listening to the audiobook and realized, “Yeah, I don’t think this is gonna work.” It might not be as obvious as a heavy graphic book, but the whole conceit of the book is that audio files recorded as someone’s diary have been transcribed to text by a transcription program, and you have to read the text to really get the point of the book, otherwise I’m not sure it really works.