Some thoughts about reading

I want to say James Joyce who?? but then his works are really special..
you can't feel the worth unless you read them aloud,
and this is hard enough for the natives..

why are there no / very few audiobooks in Chinese??
of course it is still not popular enough,
but the main thing is, it is hard to produce ear-pleasing sentences in Chinese..
well, unless you sing it.. or they are some poems..

somehow, being too smart places Chinese at disadvantage..
one sound, one word.. things get tougher..
(looking too much one world one dream these days.. hehe..)

and the more tones you have, the tougher it gets..
I mean, Cantonese is a difficult language,
that I doubt, if I would ever master..

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James Joyce is probably more a playwright than a novelist,
although he published only one play..

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Lord of rings uses so many clumsy and lengthy words,
but that only proves he had a good vocabulary,
or that he didn't really know how to use the vocabulary,
instead of his being a good writer.. I can tell why I don't like it..

But it is hard to tell what draws me to a good writer over another..
what do I consider good??
It is a strange thing when you don't know why you like something,
and why you only know why you hate something..

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How to be well-read these days??
This is a question posed in the book "How to read a novel", that I borrowed today..

And how to choose a novel?? A novel from a new or unknown writer??
You can't expect to use your sixth sense every time and wind up really meeting a good writer..