the thing about audio books
Sep. 8th, 2012 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaI like audio books for when I'm driving or knitting. I particularly love the ones for the Bloody Jack series. The voice actress is brilliant--she does the different voices and accents, she captures Jacky's way of speaking perfectly, and she even sings the songs. But...I'm listening to the audio book for My Bonny Light Horseman and problems have ensued. When you're reading a book, if you get to something you don't like it's fairly easy to skip over. When you're listening to an audio book, it's something else altogether. Hearing disturbing scenes read out loud is a lot different than seeing the words on a page. I would say this is the darkest of all the books in the series so far: we have the French prison, Jacky's multiple captures, and the battle scenes. On the plus side, this is the book where Randall Trevelyne grows up a bit. Even though I've had opportunities, I haven't listened to the book in several days because I've just gotten to the part where Jacky's being removed from the French prison, and she thinks she's going to the guillotine, and then she's stuck in a coffin after the faked execution (SERIOUSLY, HOLY SHIT), which I know will be followed by her meltdown in the British Intelligence office. And this is in addition to the PTSD Jacky already has.
I just don't want to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to power through or skip ahead several tracks on the CDs. I also encountered this problem when I was listening to White Cat by Holly Black, only in that case I hadn't read the book yet so I couldn't bring myself to skip ahead on the audio book. First it was the scene where Cassel cuts open his own leg to stick the memory charms in and then his brothers hold him down and cut open the infected area to dig them out without anasthetic or anything!!! The scene was well-written but it really squicked me out.
So yeah, I like audio books as a general rule, and I love the ones for Bloody Jack (and The Dark is Rising Sequence because holy shit, those are awesome) but I'm still frozen on listening to any more at this time.
I just don't want to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to power through or skip ahead several tracks on the CDs. I also encountered this problem when I was listening to White Cat by Holly Black, only in that case I hadn't read the book yet so I couldn't bring myself to skip ahead on the audio book. First it was the scene where Cassel cuts open his own leg to stick the memory charms in and then his brothers hold him down and cut open the infected area to dig them out without anasthetic or anything!!! The scene was well-written but it really squicked me out.
So yeah, I like audio books as a general rule, and I love the ones for Bloody Jack (and The Dark is Rising Sequence because holy shit, those are awesome) but I'm still frozen on listening to any more at this time.
