Audio books

Audio books share the same advantage and disadvantage over reading: the narrative rate slows down considerably. This is an advantage in poetic, dramatic and complex material but otherwise can be frustrating. A book you can read in 3 hours takes over a dozen hours to listen to.

Dave Cullen's monumental study Columbine is a book I'm listening to rather than reading -- and I'm glad. Cullen pulls no punches here, looking at the tragedy from many perspectives, and I'll have more to say about it later. But as an audio book, this is hard to put down. Gripping, complex, tragic, helpful. More later.