Audio books

[Jester]

I've never been much of a reader. I tend to like movies, because they are shorter and deal with more senses, but I have listened to a few audio books.

I bought Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on audio cassette for $.50 at a garage sale and loved it. Jim Dale's ability to give each of the many, many characters a distinct voice totally impressed me.

Later, I gave a pal of mine a Pat "Krang" Fraley voice acting instructional tape, and he and Pat struck up a conversation. For some reason, Pat sent me an autographed note and a copy of his reading of Huck Finn. I never listened to the whole thing...I really need to. Pat does an awesome job with all the characters, as you'd expect.

As I type I'm listening to the audio book of Flowers of Algernon. I watched the movie Charly recently in my DVD collection viewing and it made me wanna read the novel (I think we read the short story in the 8th grade...not the novel) Again I'm impressed by Jeff Woodman's reading on this. He gives everyone so much character.

Does it make me lazy that I think I might "read" more if I could just listen to the books? There's just something about hearing the book aloud, I guess, that I enjoy.