I had been planning to write about my impressions and such from listening to Four Thousand Weeks but I’m going to buy the book so that I can go through and make notes. While there was no one thing that stood out as deeply profound1, it was full of thought provoking points that made me want to go away and think about them. Listening to a book like this is fine, but it does make it tricky when you want to stop and note something down.
Additionally, I was in the middle of listening my way through Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything when my reserved copy of Four Thousand Weeks became available, so I’ve immediately picked up where I left off with the former. It’s a pretty dense book, in a good way, so all my attention is on that now, and I want to finish that before I return to Burkeman.
- This originally said ‘there was nothing that stood out as deeply profound’. When I read it again later I realised that was not quite what I meant, so I’ve changed it.[↩]
@strandlines I listened to 4000 Weeks and I know what you are talking about. When I find myself pausing an audiobook that frequently, I also buy the book, digital or hard copy. I remember making pages of notes from the audiobook on the ten tools for embracing your finitude.
@jean it’s tricky making notes with an audiobook, and impossible when driving.