July 7Jul 7 I have given up on reading the past few years - I can read fiction but tend towards non-fiction so go through a lot of audio books. Send me all and any. A few that I have really enjoyed. https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Kings-Companies-Ruled-1600-1900/dp/0312616112 https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/1101970359 https://www.amazon.com/Frontiersmen-Narrative-Allan-W-Eckert/dp/0945084919 https://www.amazon.com/Middle-Kingdoms-History-Central-Europe/dp/1541619781 https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/1541672798 https://www.amazon.com/American-Midnight-Violent-Democracys-Forgotten/dp/0358455464 https://www.amazon.com/Poland-Thousand-Patrice-M-Dabrowski/dp/0875807569 https://www.amazon.com/Templars-Rise-Spectacular-Fall-Warriors/dp/0525428305 https://www.amazon.com/Danubia-Personal-History-Habsburg-Europe/dp/0374175292
July 7Jul 7 I'm about 99% on audibooks, especially due to my weekly commute to Dallas from Austin. I have trouble focusing when it's non-fiction, though occassionaly one has kept my attention. I've posted most of what I've listened to in the Scifi/Fantasy thread, but I'll post some of them here later.
July 8Jul 8 Interesting - I have a much easier time following non-fiction than fiction on audiobooks. I think when I lose the train of which character is which it's a bit more unwieldy to go back and figure it out. I'm doing audio mostly because I have some age-related vision problems. I'm generally curious about the "cognitive" differences in digesting audio vs. visual reading.
July 11Jul 11 I'm curious about that as well. I can listen to an audiobook while I'm doing something else, like driving or folding laundry, and I feel like I retain it pretty well, but if I try to just sit down and listen to one, my mind will wander and I'll barely pay attention, much less retain anything. For non-fiction books, if it's something I have a really strong interest in, I can listen and retain. Like for instance, I listed to a book about Narcissim while going through a divorce. That held my attention really well as it got me thinking about a lot of things. However, I've tried some self-help or professinal development books, and I just can't pay attention or retain it. I will say on the fiction, if it's a really complex book with a ton of characters (and those characters disappear for large portions at a time), I sometimes have difficulty. I just finished the Stormlight series and in the later books I was constantly confusing which character was which.
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