Each week, the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Crazy for Books asks a different book-related question for book bloggers to answer. This week, the question isWhat is the LONGEST book you've ever read? (Not including spiritual works)
Since I write an audiobook blog, I've changed the question slightly to
What is the LONGEST book you've listened to?
I'm not going to include The Count of Monte Cristo, since I had read part of it on my smartphone and listened to other chapters. The longest book I've listened to only is A Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The audiobook is great; it's well-performed, it changes up narrators with changes in points of view, and has an exciting, easy to follow plot. Even so, I found myself having to push through parts and counting down the hours to the end. Listening to a very long book can become difficult, but it's a nice way to get a start on a large, imposing book on your to-read list.
What's your experience with long books? Do you prefer to read, listen or a bit of both?
8 comments:
If it is REALLY long, I try to trudge through it but one time I listened to the beginning and then finished reading the book.
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I'm not sure about ones I've listened to but the longest book I've recorded (this was for LibriVox) was over 22 hours when I finished. It was The Golden Bowl by Henry James. I considered it a labor of love. :)
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With long books, I just trudge along with reading it. It usually takes me quite a while but I'm also reading other things too.
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Just finished the Audio version of The Woman in White last month and enjoyed it! I agree that it bogged down a little...
I don't know what I'd do without audio books! Have a great weekend.
I have never combined reading and listening for the same book, I do one or the other.
I tried reading A Woman in White and I ended up only finishing about half of it. It wasn't my cup of tea.
The longest books I've read is are classics. Please come see which ones I'm talking about.
I first discovered audiobooks as a way to "read" all those classics I always knew I should read but never got around to. And so I've listened to War and Peace (60 hours), Les Miserables (57 hours), The Brothers Karamazov (35 hours) etc.
I tried audiobooks, but my mind drifts and then I've missed part of the book! I rather read.
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