At 11:03 PM 3/7/2007, DMB wrote: >dmb says: >That sounds delicious too. Its a great little book. Just curious. Who does >the voice work on that and how do you like that aspect of it? And if I'm not >prying into anything too personal, where do you generally do listen your >listening?
Hi David, I've listened to 4 books by the Dalai Lama on my ipod. Usually I listen before 7am, or sometimes driving in my car. It's like being read an interesting story. But in each case, I had to buy and read the book too. Listening is smooth and consistent, but these books have chapters, paragraphs and sometimes simply sentences that I want to spend time with so I want to read them too. And with a book, there is the ability to make notes on the margins for later reference. While I may read in bed, I don't listen in bed because I think the voice would put me to sleep. (When my husband was alive, we would sometimes read our favorite books to each other before falling asleep. It's a great way to stay connected, and from hearing his selections, I learned the beauty of the sound of words.) I bought Wilber's book longer than a year ago, but I found the first few chapters really boring. Listening via my ipod, the first few chapters were still boring, or something, but I could listened through them to the better stuff. Listening is just a good introduction. Many moons ago I spent a great deal of time researching Faust in preparation for reading Mann's 'Dr. Faustus'. In the process of research, I fell in love with Goethe's Faust (English). I had to read it out loud to myself to stay focused. I eventually discovered it's rhythm (Part 1 anyway) and fell in love with the tale. If anyone can recommend a good 'spoken' English translation of Goethe's Faust, please let me know. A German version would probably ... Marsha moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
