Perspective: Do some audiobooks leave you cold? Perhaps they were not meant to be.
published last year, has an intricate plot — facts become dubious, complications arise, characters develop in unexpected ways, a dead body shows up — that begs for a lot of backtracking, not an easy matter with an audiobook. Further, the story unfolds entirely in emails, texts, sticky notes and the like. These visual enhancements go invisible in audio, making it difficult at times to figure out whose words are whose.
Hallett’s work is clever and inventive in ways that rely on, and play off, the page. The same is true of Laurence Sterne’s classicthe print version of which includes all sorts of visual mischief: blank pages, blacked-out pages, scribbles, dots and typographical chaos, to say nothing of great gobbets of Latin and French.
Dealing with footnotes and endnotes is a pesky business for audiobooks. In the case of citations — all that “op. cit.,” “cf.” and “passim” business — dispensing with them is a mercy. But some audiobooks omit footnotes entirely, which is often a real loss.strikes the right balance, cutting fiddled citations but including the informative and entertaining.
So what about cookbooks? The best cookbooks for audio are those that are also memoirs or that tell stories as they go along. But if you want to use the recipes, guided by your ear, you are setting yourself an onerous task., has, along with tales of Toklas’s life in France with Gertrude Stein, any number of recipes for dishes prepared for the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso. Happily, this audio version comes with a PDF of the recipes.
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