I've never listened to an audio book, but after some of the recent comments here, I will have to consider that (especially Star Wars, apparently).
Someone mentioned Ready Player One. I saw the trailer for the movie, did not appeal to me. Before that, reading about the concept of the book, I found that too also did not appeal to me. For some reason I thought the book was more of a Pixels-type thing, or maybe just a story that took place during the arcade era of the 1980s (maybe even one about time-travelling to that period).
Someone else mentioned October reading and Bradbury. I myself am reading The Halloween Tree. And for the first time. Love Bradbury's crazy metaphors. (Do people here, when reading, actually try to imagine the metaphors? Like when Bradbury writes something like -- and I'm making this up, it will probably fail as a Bradbury-esque metaphor -- "Moundshroud's eyes started winking, black holes in space eating stars, haunted-house window shades dipping and scaling, while his arms elongated spider-thin, a nascent arachnid species, and his fingers swirled and lolled like undersea tube-worm creatures deep in the depths while speaking in a gibberish tongue that was all blackboard--scraping and vicious ichor vitriol" -- do you actually stop in your mind trying to imagine it, or is it just the wordplay, no images in the mind, that is the value of enjoying a poetic passage from Bradbury? I've been thinking about what I think when I read a lot lately. If a writer describes a character's eyes as dim silver dollars -- King must have written that at some point -- I'm not sure I actually see that.) I am considering reading Farewell Summer at some point. Was that a good Bradbury work?
Someone mentioned Ready Player One. I saw the trailer for the movie, did not appeal to me. Before that, reading about the concept of the book, I found that too also did not appeal to me. For some reason I thought the book was more of a Pixels-type thing, or maybe just a story that took place during the arcade era of the 1980s (maybe even one about time-travelling to that period).
Someone else mentioned October reading and Bradbury. I myself am reading The Halloween Tree. And for the first time. Love Bradbury's crazy metaphors. (Do people here, when reading, actually try to imagine the metaphors? Like when Bradbury writes something like -- and I'm making this up, it will probably fail as a Bradbury-esque metaphor -- "Moundshroud's eyes started winking, black holes in space eating stars, haunted-house window shades dipping and scaling, while his arms elongated spider-thin, a nascent arachnid species, and his fingers swirled and lolled like undersea tube-worm creatures deep in the depths while speaking in a gibberish tongue that was all blackboard--scraping and vicious ichor vitriol" -- do you actually stop in your mind trying to imagine it, or is it just the wordplay, no images in the mind, that is the value of enjoying a poetic passage from Bradbury? I've been thinking about what I think when I read a lot lately. If a writer describes a character's eyes as dim silver dollars -- King must have written that at some point -- I'm not sure I actually see that.) I am considering reading Farewell Summer at some point. Was that a good Bradbury work?
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