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Definitely depends! I, like you, tend to drift on audiobooks, especially new ones no matter the subject matter. However, if it's a book I read when I was younger I'll actively seek out the audio version. Stephen King I can pay rapt attention to. Anything else is soothing, but I ain't retaining diddly.

I mean yeah? But pulp is good.

Lunatics, all of them. But I do adore them.

I have been using Goodreads for 12 years now and while it is not a great platform as others have mentioned, I love data and stats and their charts of all the books you have read by publication year, the books over time, and the pages over time give me a lot of delight. I don't use Goodreads in any of the social aspects, merely to track my reading and challenge myself.

I also download images of all of the covers of the books I read each year, so I keep that as a reminder each year outside of Goodreads.

When I read Larsson's books again, i skipped a lot of the stuff without Salander in it. Made it feel a bit different.

The only audiobook that I listen to are autobiographies, especially when read by the author. I tried listening to a few fictions like you and could not retain anything.

It's genre pulp, like Mills & Boon, or the annual Sandford or Grisham releases.

Also, we fans have a pronounced tendency to descend rapidly to "Waaaggghhh! MAKE IT ORKY!"

Yes, short and easy, a favorite genre or rereading a book from childhood are all good ideas for starting. If SPQR had been my first audiobook I wouldn’t have made it to a second one.

1000 Autumns is fantastic in every way. Utopia Avenue might be the worst book I've attempted to read in years

I was so excited when Utopia Avenue came out. And then so disappointed immediately after starting it. It felt like a different author, the dialogue and humor was so cheesy. It felt like Mitchell was trying to tap into his inner Andy Weir or something

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy for me

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I couldn't tell you how many times I've read that book but it's more than a handful. I also loved the movie adaptation with Gene Wilder. It was very faithful, capturing the flavor of the book perfectly.

Yes. The proliferation of mass technology, especially digital media, is poisoning something at the heart of what allows people to make good art—something that has to with the way we relate to our narratives, personal and collective, own and other.

It's not just books; every creative field is suffering in this way except arguably television, which is holding on longer than the rest, to a large extent by cannibalizing resources from them (books, music, etc.) as they deteriorate.

The Infinite and The Divine audiobook or bust.

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Imaginative, exciting, well researched. Sci-fi, fantasy, thriller. My favorite books are Altered Carbon, Red Dwarf, The Stars Are Legion, the Paradox series, The Fifth Wave, Hunger Games, anything by Michael Crichton or Octavia Butler.

I saw that movie decades ago and I still remember scenes from it. It's a great example of atmospheric filming and Mann is at his best. Definitely make an effort to watch it. You won't be disappointed.

Can you pinpoint what things were boring about those books and what elements in “quality” books excite you?

Hah. I was wondering when Warhammer would be brought up in this sub.

I am the same way.

The Westing Game!!

I love what you said about it being a learned skill. I think this is so true. When I first started listening to audiobooks, I was very particular about which I chose. Memoirs worked well for me- or books that are short and not very dense. Agatha Christie for example. Now I can listen to most things on audio but I do pay attention to length still.

You could probably watch "Zoo" and get the same effect. >!Except the horse has a higher casualty.!<

Run by William Sleator. I was in the Newberry Book Club in grade school and we were allowed to choose whatever we wanted from the library and read for as long as we liked instead of PE and study periods. This book made me fall in love with reading. I’ve spent roughly 45 years trying to remember the title snd about six months ago it snapped into my memory. I ordered it and re-read it. It’s actually not very good.

Edit—I should clarify that even though I just found the book, I have not stopped thinking about it since I was a kid. So, it did stick with me into adulthood!

Try my book. It’s called Twinless: The ride exceeded the destination. I wrote it about me and my deceased twins life. Tomorrow is actually 10 years since he passed. It’s worth the read.