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13106424 No.13106424 [Reply] [Original]

>put on an audiobook
>go on a run
>absorbed into the narrative and love the exercise
is there anything better than this?
I've been doing it for the better part of a month and it has honestly transformed my life
audiobooks take forever, and i can read faster without it, obviously. also, music is trash for exercise, i end up ignoring it completely and focusing on the workout
fwiw I usually use ABB to get audiobooks, and then carry my phone or put them on my Apple Watch

>> No.13106429

how many podcasts til gf

>> No.13106449

Only some audiobooks are good. It really depends on the narrator.

>> No.13106469

>>13106424
Add on getting paid to do it and then you pretty much have my life.

I clean the floors of a large building 5 nights a week and I do it with a mop, so it is pretty much 8 hours of cardio and audio books/music. I could double my pay anytime easy, but I have come to really enjoy this life style. It pays the bills, paid vacation and sick leave, medical and retirement plan, not sure what else I need.

>> No.13106493
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What are some good audiobooks /lit/?

>> No.13106497

>>13106449
this so much
a bad narrator can ruin the best book

>> No.13106516

>>13106493
I like George Guidall, his reading of Gravity's Rainbow is great. He has recorded it twice now and says it was his most difficult work.

>> No.13106520

>>13106469
This sounds like a dream desu. Did you just find the job on indeed or some shit?

>> No.13106533

>>13106520
Nah, knew the fella that had it before me, got it as a second job and it slowly become the main job and then the only job. I get my ass completely worn out in the winter, fairly often go 10 hours with barely a break working as hard as I can, but it feels good and I have no need to use my free time for exercise or the like and the work is not hard on the body like most physical jobs.

>> No.13106920

>>13106533
sounds better than my job rn. I work half warehouse half retail but I get no hours and I want something conistent

>> No.13106925

>reading and running
the two worst things in the world

>> No.13106931

>>13106925
>listening* and running
Fixed. Reading is the patrician choice, you massive faggot.

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>>13106424
>I've been doing this for the better part of a month
>it has honestly transformed my life
jesus fucking christ

>> No.13106935

>>13106931
anything inviting reflection is best kept to a minimum

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>>13106935
I seriously have a hard time to think this is not bait.

>> No.13106953

>>13106937
Ack! Got me! I declare, you've really sunk my battleship this time. Nothing gets past you, eh? X-ray vision over here.

This guy. Whew.

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>>13106953
>incel tier reply
Here we go again...

>> No.13107814

>>13106493
Currently listening to Tom Stechschulte's reading of No Country For Old Men
I finished a pirated Audible version of Frankenstein, the narrator was Nico Evers-Swindell, and he was amazing, honestly captivating

>> No.13107823

>is there anything better than this.
Running bearfoot
along the streambed and up the hills, feeling the earth move beneath your feet while emersed in the living soundscape.