Comments on: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer https://booksforears.com/2008/01/04/into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster-by-jon-krakauer/ The best audio books to put into your ears - friendly, honest audiobook reviews. Mon, 27 Apr 2015 03:38:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Rachel Z https://booksforears.com/2008/01/04/into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster-by-jon-krakauer/#comment-6 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:18:37 +0000 http://booksforears.com/2008/01/04/into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster-by-jon-krakauer/#comment-6 I agree with you that sometimes a work is so much like a conversation that hearing the author read it in their own voice really adds to the experience. For me that realization came with Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I seriously felt like I was listening to a friend tell me about her adventures over the last year. Her writing voice and her actual voice were so consistent that it was the perfect decision.

I think one of the hardest parts about audiobooks for me, and I don’t know if other people struggle with this, is that sometimes there is just something about a reader’s voice that I just don’t like. It either doesn’t ring true for the tone of the book or it doesn’t fade into the background enough. Or maybe they sound smug, bored, or too much like my second grade teacher who seemed to really not like me very much.

At amy rate, so glad you guys started this site. Looking forward to more reviews.

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