Books on CD: Cheating?
Is listening to a book on CD versus reading the actual book cheating?
Basically, it took me 5 or 6 years to read The Fellowship of the Ring. I didn't pick up The Two Towers for about 3 years later, and I'm still reading it off and on a year and a half later.
I'm a big believer in reading the book before seeing the movie, but my roommates had other plans. (But boy are the extended editions awesome.)
I figure I can spend about $35 on the trilogy on CD and take about 13 hours listening to the books. Though I realized this is the BBC dramatic reading for the radio and not the word-for-word unabridged edition (which is 50 hours and $70). But I like this idea because what is taking me so long are the long descriptions.
But a little bit of me dies at the thought of not actually reading the books. But at this rate I won't finish The Return of the King for a decade.
Thoughts?
-CF
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