Audio Versus Text

I think that the audio version of War of the Worlds was very well done, because the quality of it sounding "live" made it much more interesting than the text version. The text fell a little flat, and often times even seemed tedious to read, as if I was reading and reading but no getting anywhere in the story. The broadcast version was useful because the sounds, music, interviews, and narrator all made the situation seem much more real. I thought in particular the interview with the famous astrologist contributed to the intrigue of the broadcast; reading the astrologist's story was just not as interesting as hearing two different voices discuss what he had seen. Audio can sometimes be much more interactive than text, and War of the Worlds definitely falls into that category.