Unpopular opinion: skipping the audiobook made me actually like the book

Our club picked a dense fantasy novel last month, and everyone raved about the audiobook version during the discussion. I tried it for 3 chapters and kept zoning out, so I switched to the paperback and forced myself to read it slowly over two weeks. Turns out the narrator's pacing was doing all the work, and the prose itself was actually pretty dry. I get why people love multitasking with audio, but for me, the physical act of reading made the worldbuilding finally click. Has anyone else found that the format totally changes your take on a book, or am I just weird about this?

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sarah_hart6d ago

Heard a podcast about how audiobooks change our memory of stories, makes sense.