I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks the past few years, mostly Stephen King and James Lee Burke, and a few others thrown in to mix things up. I prefer the medium over books because I can plug in my earphones and go about chores and feel productive.
Another advantage of audiobooks over a movie or show, is that it allows my mind to create the visuals of the landscape, the people, the situation. Books can also take you into the characters' minds to understand their motives and emotions, which is difficult to recreate on screen without some narration or inner dialogue.
The latest Stephen King short story I listened to was Summer Thunder. Basically 2 guys and a dog living their last few days after a nuclear holocaust. The older of the 2 chose to shoot himself before dying of radiation poisoning. While his younger neighbor who lived 2 miles away was putting down the dog with a hypodermic syringe filled with an opioid, he heard the gun shot. "The sound was faint at this distance. But with the lake so still, there was no mistaking it for anything else. It rolled across the hot summer air, diminished. Tried to echo. Failed."
I replayed the quoted part at least 5 times. So lucid. So beautiful. So sad. Stephen King is a master of words.