In the dining halls, through the quad and on the 1.4 mile jaunt to and from school, I walk along with the disconnected yet pleasant grin of a post-lobotomy patient. Instead of listening to the Top Gun soundtrack on repeat, as I expect Warren or a heavily medicated psychiatric patient would, I am captivated by the words of Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner or Ernest Hemingway through the headphones of my Presidian portable cassette player.
Finding a working cassette player, however, was a task for the intrepid. I spent the better half of Sunday searching through strip malls inquiring about the whereabouts of this once common technology. I almost gave up when the fine people at Walmart told me to go fish. I finally found one at a small thrift shop. Since Sunday, I have crushed The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Call of the Wild and am now working on Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Being in my own world is fun.
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library for the win. good job restless.
thanks games, i am listening to a walk in the woods right now.
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Wow I wonder what it's like to hear someone read "My mother is a fish". Faulkner on tape for the win.
As a future English teacher, I'm not sure how I feel about books on tape. There is something about the written word that doesn't translate to audio.
Joseph Conrad's books about S America are amazing. Try VS Naipul outloud. Who read the Old Man in the Sea? They usually get excellent readers with great voices for these books. Which was your favorite reader?
I remember when used t listen music in a walkman when I was child, so I buy ipod and I never use my old walkman again.
It is very good to hear a book instead of reading it, I think it give the eye some rest.
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