I cant fully appreciate prose or poetry when it's just in my head, I have to hear it aloud, ideally from someone else reading aloud. For example the first time I read the silmarillion, while I liked the epic stories the prose was more like a hurdle to overcome rather than adding to the experience, but when I listened to the audiobook a few years later it completely changed that. Now the beauty of the language is one of the first things I gush about regarding that book. Although I am ADHD and in my case it makes reading very difficult.
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I cant fully appreciate prose or poetry when it's just in my head, I have to hear it aloud, ideally from someone else reading aloud. For example the first time I read the silmarillion, while I liked the epic stories the prose was more like a hurdle to overcome rather than adding to the experience, but when I listened to the audiobook a few years later it completely changed that. Now the beauty of the language is one of the first things I gush about regarding that book. Although I am ADHD and in my case it makes reading very difficult.