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Not a good audiobook

Revisado: 03-28-24

while the book itself is very good, describing interesting phenomena of black holes in easy to understand way, the descriptions rely too much to assumption that one can look the accompanying pictures. There is zero effort to make the book really an audiobook. Buy paper or pdf or similar, don't try to listen.

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unreliable

Revisado: 06-16-19

I am Finnish. 2 out of 4 examples of Finnish language were wrong, and one questionable. I wonder if the examples from other languages hit the mark better.

don't use your time or money with this piece work.

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Black holes a quite heavy

Revisado: 01-07-18

A book about black holes by a scientist working with black holes, narrated by the said scientist. I was expecting interesting and inspired book. Instead .. everything felt lukewarm.

Narration sounded bit like the narrator was somewhat fed of the subject. Also, I don't know if the problem was in the recording or somewhere else, but I had hard times keeping focused on the book.

Subject itself was interesting, and I think I learned something new. But it all felt a bit drag. Might work better as paper book, but if you find the subject interesting then this may be worth of the try.

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Not the meaning of cosmos I expected

Revisado: 12-10-17

When buying a book with title "Cosmos" by an astronomer, I expect to read (hear) about the cosmos in astronomical sense. Instead, most of this book is more about 'inner cosmologies', with random story about cavemen and this and that.

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Awful reader, fun book

Revisado: 12-28-15

I had to really fight to stand the reader's intonation. It was like listening to somebody read a phone catalog. But the book itself was fun to listen. I enjoyed the writers take on fantasy literature stereotypes, and somewhat surprising twists in plot. I hope there is a sequel, will listen to that too... even if the reader is the same.

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Fourteen billion yours speed reading contest

Revisado: 08-26-15

This might be a good book, if not the reader. At least the performance sounds like he was in speed reading contest, consisting of words he does not understand. Avoid this version of this book.

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Great stuff - but not good audio book.

Revisado: 08-19-14

I had some difficulties with this book, as the lecturer probably uses lots of pictures and illustrations. "As you see here..", "In the picture...", "Here we have clock A..." Fortunately the lecturer has so clear style in presentation, that it is possible to follow through examples without the illustrations.

AND where are the illustrations? As I have bought a book that uses illustrations, I would expect them to be visible. Can't at least find them in the Audible pages.

I would guess this would be good video lecture to follow. As audiobook .. leaves lots of room for improvement. As general book about theory of Relativity and Quantum physics, quite nice.

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Not what the title promises

Revisado: 07-04-14

The first 10 chapters seem to be more about physiology than anything else. This may be better suited to people with interests to workings of human body and cognitive systems, but this is not what the title promises.

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Excellent introduction for a non-physicists

Revisado: 04-10-14

I would recommend this to anybody who is interested in fundamental parts of our universe. Very clear presentation, easy to follow, and seems at least to me to cover the subject very well.

I have no interest to dwell into the mathematics of particle physics, and the aim of the series of lectures is indeed to deliver as comprehensive overview of particle physics to a listener just like me.

Very clear presentation, and I would like to listen to more material of this subject produced with such clarity and attention to delivery. Excellent!

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Bad reader, bad audiobook

Revisado: 02-26-14

What did you like best about Why Does E=MC2 and Why Should We Care? What did you like least?

Very interesting book, well written about hard-to-grasp subject.

What didn’t you like about Jeff Forshaw’s performance?

I am afraid this might be an accent thing, but the reader has tendency to Emphasis every Other word WithOut any Relation To Context. Also, he avoids vowels, for example word "unimaginable" becomes "'nmginble". This makes listening to at least this book tiresome experience.

Any additional comments?

There probably are many explaining illustrations in this book - which are not available when you are listening in a car.

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