I prefer to listen to narratives than read them. I try to listen to audiobooks a couple times a week.
Generally, I dislike dramatised audiobooks with sound effects and music. I feel like they take me out of the story more than they do add to it. I find that the narrator reading the story is sufficient enough for me to imagine the scene.
For example, if the narrator says:
“She slammed the door with all her might, the sound ricocheting around the room like a panicking trapped crow.”
I don’t really feel it’s necessary for the sound of a slamming door to be added.
I suppose it would be interesting if you heard the same sentence, but instead of the obvious sound of the door, you heard the sound of the simile, a screeching, flapping crow.
Perhaps it comes down to the intention of the original media.
Would authors of past times still be writing books with the option of films?
I listened to Steven King’s The Stand last year as an audiobook and thought about how he writes in a way that is very suited to film and tv so it’s not surprising that so many of his books have been adapted.