Today’s TTT is a freebie, sort of: we’re directed to revisit topics from the past. I’m going to go full freebie and highlight Books I’ve Experienced Across Mediums. But first, teases:
“But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.” (John Adams, as quoted in American Phoenix)
There are several books whose stories I’ve experienced in different ways.
(1) The Caves of Steel. I found a terrific audio drama on this while in college, completely by accident: it wasn’t a reading, but rather a performance of the text, complete with sound effects. I later read the book itself, which features a human from Earth and a robot named R. Daneel Olivaw investigating a murder. This was the beginning of Asimov’s Robots series.
(2) Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry. If I had to pick a favorite novel, I’d go with Jayber Crow: after reading this at the suggestion of The Art of Manliness, I later bought the audiobook version and frequently listen to a chapter or two of it while I’m playing a game.
(3) The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Greg Cox. I received an audio-drama based on the first book for Christmas decades ago, and later read the book series itself.
(4) Convenience Store Woman. I read this, noticed the Audible version was online for free, and gave it a listen.
(5) Ready Player One, Ernest Kline. I listened to this as an audiobook first, then read the book, then watch the movie. Wil Wheaton does a superb performance here, as always: the only problem was his reading the leaderboard stats.
(6) Mythos, Stephen Fry. I listened to this one off and on over a course of two years, sometimes reading from the print book as well. Fry’s delivery was stellar.
(7) Sense and Sensibility. After an abortive attempt at this, I watched the movie and then managed to read the book through.
(8) Dune, which I introduced myself to through graphic novels, then read the book properly and finished up with Dune, Pt 1.
(9) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick. Read the book, watched Blade Runner. There are considerable differences in the stories, though.
(10) A Christmas Carol. In addition to reading the story itself, and watching at least four different dramatizations of it (Patrick Stewart’s is the best), I’ve also seen the play performed numerous times at the Alabama Shakespeare Company — and, and, I’ve listened to the audiobook version read by Patrick Stewart, complete with him doing the sound effects!
I’ve done a lot more book & movie combinations, and sporadically critique adaptations in my “Reads to Reels” series.
Reading Freely 
I’ve heard good things about Jayber Crow.
Lydia
I’ve always been curious about Jayber Crow. I have read a few of Berry’s essays and poetry, and loved his writing, but never picked up Jayber. I clicked over to your review and it sounds like I definitely need to read it!
It’s quite the story! My introduction to him.
Such a fun topic!
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Interesting selection of books. Patrick Stewart must be amazing at reading A Christmas Carol. Someday I’ll have to listen to his audiobook narration.
This was an excellent theme! Never thought about it that way either.
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Seeing the movie of Sense and Sensibility certainly made it easier for me to read the book. And I enjoyed both the book and movie versions of Ready Player One. Thanks for commenting on my blog earlier. 😀
Good topic and great list of titles. I loved Convenience Store Woman–I listened to the audio.
the Emma Thompson/Hugh Grant version of S&S is so much better than the book lol (and I don’t often say that about an adaptation)
I’m the same with A Christmas Carol. I’ve read it and seen a bunch of different movie versions.
I love the movie of Sense & Sensibility!
This is a great idea for a post, and a fantastic list! I read Ready Player One in print, but I plan to re-read the audibook and will likely listen to the sequel as well! And I absolutely love Stephen Fry as a narrator – his voice is pleasant to listen to, and he does such a good job of reading as well!
A good looking list! I’ve not listened to an audiobook before as I don’t have the concentration levels at the moment, but I would like to give one a go at some point.
I like it when I enjoy a film then later find out that it is based on a book, although time constraints mean that I don’t often have the time to actually read the book!
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This is a great topic! There are a few books I’ve read and then listened to on audio. Two of them are The Color Purple and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I loved Ready Player One, have you read Ready Player two yet?
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I have! It was…underwhelming..
Great idea of post!
I have read all of Proust, and now I’m considering listening to it all – actors of La Comédie française did a nonstop read of it all some year ago, and all the recordings are on YouTube
Its hard to have not experienced A Christmas Carol in different formats at this point. I’ve seen a variations of movies and the book and a sort of rewriting of it. I’d like to try some of Stephen Fry’s books at some point.