I have recently been getting back into audiobooks and was discussing them with a friend when this question came up. Obviously picture/comic books, manga and the like would not work in the format, but what other kind of books would not work in an audio format?

I was thinking House of Leaves for the obvious reasons, but is there a book you can think of that narratively or otherwise would not be well translated to audiobook?

OR a book that would need to be read in a certain way in order for an audio format to work?

  • goldensunshine429@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I read a fair amount of rom-com and romance. Modern-setting romance with texting or emailing is ATROCIOUS on audiobook. Because they will read. Every. Last. Word.

    To: femalecharacter123@madeupdomain.com From: malecharacterXYZ@diffdomain.net Subject: what the fuck Content: [im dying by this point and have already lost a minute of my life]

    I straight up just stopped listening to an audio book that had 2 pages of dialogue of a Twitter exchange.