If you listened to an audiobook, do you say you "read" it? (4 Viewers)

[Booker]

I’m listening to Shelby Foote’s award winning three-volume chronology of the Civil War. The narrator is very good and the prose is just outstanding for a history. I’m on the final volume and have enjoyed every bit of it.

I was never a CW buff and studied it a bit in college but my interest was not rabid like some people. But listening to this has been great - it’s so well written. The balance between formal history, anecdote, and human interest stuff is artful.

He was really good in the Ken Burns series. He had such a great southern drawl it’s too bad he couldn’t have done his own narration.

 

[UptownSaintsFan]

I’m listening to Shelby Foote’s award winning three-volume chronology of the Civil War. The narrator is very good and the prose is just outstanding for a history. I’m on the final volume and have enjoyed every bit of it.

I was never a CW buff and studied it a bit in college but my interest was not rabid like some people. But listening to this has been great - it’s so well written. The balance between formal history, anecdote, and human interest stuff is artful.

if you like that, i highly recommend Battle Cry of Freedom. Fantastic book.