Rendezvous with Rama and Colour of Magic

Just finished Arthur C. Clark's Rendezvous with Rama, great book - loved it :)

Colour of Magic, not so much.

I am not sure if it is something that I have against audio books. I have never been able to give audio books the time and attention they need, maybe that is why I don't enjoy them as much as regular books.

My first problem with audio books is that I usually read twice as fast as the books are read. I also skim over sections which I don't feel are crutial to the book (usually just a paragraph here or there.

Being a bit ADD distractions are a big issue for me. When reading a book that stimulates the imagination, I regularly find that I have stopped reading and am just thinking about it. If I am not distracted by my own wandering brain, there is a pretty good chance that I will be disrupted by one of the kids running over and asking me to do/get something for me.

All that to say, being easily distractable does not make audio books easy to "read". With dead tree books all I have to do is look back at my page, it's almost impossible to skip back x number of minutes/seconds and try to figure out what was the last thing you remember hearing.

I shouldn't blame Colour of Magic on audiobooks, I did try to read the paperback a couple years ago and gave up on it as well.
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