My Opinion on Audiobooks by Karenna
Before this year I had never tried listening to an audiobook before, and with a 14 hour road trip (each way!) this spring break I decided to download a couple of audiobooks on Spotify to listen to on the drive. I downloaded a couple from 2 different genres-- Imogen, Obviously (YA), and The Great Gatsby (Classics?). I chose to start with Imogen, Obviously , and soon began to regret beginning on my audiobook journey. To start, the chapter pacing in this one is a bit slow-- it would likely be fine if you were reading it as a book, but as an audiobook it can get hard to keep track of the chapters, which are ordered by days. The person reading the book started off very slow, but I was able to speed them up. However, the balancing of description vs dialogue was off. The dialogue was too slow, and again, would have been fine if you were reading it as a hard copy, but was a little odd to listen to. Dialogue is also hard to follow, and is clunky when listening. If the book jump...