last weekend aaron gave me a copy of the 'stardust' audio book. i knew it was going to be a tough drive home for me, having not gotten enough sleep the night before, so i figured a book on cd would help keep me awake. well, it worked!i finally finished it earlier this week, and totally loved it! i was already quite familiar with the story. i had read the book a couple summers ago, and saw the movie in the theater with jeffry lee a couple months ago. but what really got me about this audio book was the power of the spoken word. it is read by neil gaiman himself (hes the author, if you werent aware), which was quite a delight. it always seems cooler when the original author is able to read his own stuff aloud.
the book is more different from the book than i remembered (i know, very poor sentence structure, get over it). when i saw the movie i remembered bits and pieces from the book, and thought they came pretty close to what was written. now, looking back, there were many big changes. but, fortunately, all the changes made sense and would have been really hard to do the book stuff on film. and the movie did do a good job of keeping the spirit of the book.
listening to the book on cd was a lot of fun! i havent listened to a book on cd in a long time, so it was fun to have that experience again. granted, some times its hard to focus on the story and the road, but it was great to hear little clips of the story through out the week as i drove in little ten to fifteen minute bursts. all week ive been looking forward to driving around a bit.
now that ive got the audio book bite, i went out and got my next listen: 'measure of a man' by sidney poitier. ive wanted to read this one for a while, but once i saw that the audio book is read by poitier himself, i figured its a no-lose deal.
