[MD] I love my ipod.

[MarshaV]

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