Car Rides: A Audiobook Analysis

Listening to books on long car rides influenced my literacy. I had never been really an avid reader. Audiobooks helped me to visualize the story because I was able to understand other people’s accents and their emotion in their voice. Audiobooks also have background noises which helped me insert myself in the story as if I was a character in it also.
Before every trip, my mom would bring my older brother and me to the library to pick out what books we would want to listen to on the car ride. There was often constant fighting going on between us to finalize our choices or declining each other's choices. The book that I chose every single time was this Titanic audiobook. It was about theses two sibling’s journey on the Titanic and the challenges they face while the doomed ship. While listening to …show more content…
The book was thirteen hours long, almost the same amount of time our car ride was from St. Louis to Washington D.C. No one in my family had ever read or seen any of the movies, so we did not even know what to expect from this book. We thought that Twilight was going to be just like the Harry Potter books, little did we know how off we actually were.
Just a mere hour into the drive my family had no clue what was going on. Bella in Twilight soon became my family’s least favorite character of all time. Her constant complaining and annoying way of speaking turned us all off greatly. We had become sick of her continuous talk of love between Edward and Jacob. We could not even decide if we are team Jacob or Edward because was such a cry baby.
When arrived at a gas station about halfway through our drive from Washington D.C., my family made a definite vow of never to pick up and read/ listen to any book in the Twilight series every in our lives. We got our snacks and headphones to prepare ourselves for the next six hours of hell of listening to Bella’s voice and her difficulties of finding the right guy for