"Sometimes you get an audiobook, and you realize too late that it's just the wrong reader," David said. The person reading makes all the difference. Like, I wouldn't fight for my freedom, but I would fight for my iPod."īut audiobooks can vary wildly. I think that it was invented especially for me," David said. "I often believe that no one could appreciate the iPod more than me. And you knew you had a good one when nobody wanted to get out of the car at the end of the journey. They made car journeys pass faster, more interestingly. I would read to my children, and began to supplement that with cassette audiobooks.
I didn't rediscover spoken-word stories until I was a parent. I still remember being played the original 1954 Under Milk Wood in English class, and rejoicing in the words and the lilt of the voices. I would read to my sisters if they would sit still long enough.
I had a record of Beatrice Lillie reading the poems of Edward Lear that I played until it was one long scratch. Some of my earliest memories are listening to stories on the radio as a boy in England. My father and grandparents invented stories, mostly about animals, which they would tell me at bedtime. I grew up in a world where stories were read aloud. Here, he ponders the future of audiobooks: Neil Gaiman is an author and listener who loves a good tale. Author Neil Gaiman's best-known works include The Graveyard Book Coraline Stardust the Sandman series of graphic novels and Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett.
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