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Book World: Too many narrators can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play
Katherine A. Powers, The Washington Post
Feb. 16, 2021
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Are audiobooks books? Certainly listening to a book is a different experience from reading it: Backtracking to check details in an audiobook is awkward, and, in many cases, you don t retain as much as you do with the printed version. Finally, there s the difficult-to-define relationship of listener to book: Your own imagination and interpretation have more independence when reading a book yourself than when a narrator s voice controls the text. Audiobooks could be said to be a species of translation: Although true to the words, they are different in character from the original, the printed page. But they are books all the same.
It was “deja vu” all over again, as they say.
Redundancy jokes aside, last Sunday I felt as though I was repeating the past, and not in a good way.
I was getting ready to prepare something tasty for dinner. I had a fat pork chop in the freezer that I thought might work better for me if it was thinly sliced. So I spent some time getting a fine edge on my long carving knife.
The thick boneless chop was in a plastic bag in cold water to accelerate the defrosting. When I felt it was ready to be sliced–still slightly stiff with frost, I placed it on my cutting board and began to make my very thin slices. My plan was to hammer them after slicing to get them very tender.