Let's Be Reasonable

Focus on uninterested characters and badly written

Revisado: 03-25-25

Quit before 2nd chapter bored and fed up b b b b b b b b

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Distracting

Revisado: 06-16-22

Please no music or sound effects! When you are driving sudden noises are quite alarming at worst, annoying at best.

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One Serious Flaw

Revisado: 05-09-18

Good book. Good reader, but he has a fatal flaw. Every 15th word or so he throws the word away. You can't understand the word (he pronounces only the first part of the word and, worse, drops the volume level way too much). Wish Audible included a compressor dsp in the app--so things like this would be fixable as an option by the user. This isn't the first Audible book that was periodically inaudible--particularly on the freeway. But it's the worst. The only current solution is to turn the volume up to really uncomfortable levels. Sad.

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Fatal Reader Flaw

Revisado: 05-09-14

What made the experience of listening to Why Does the World Exist? the most enjoyable?

Interesting topic and coverage

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

None

Would you be willing to try another one of Steven Menasche’s performances?

No. This reader is fine with one fatal exception: Every few sentences he will suddenly lower his voice to near silence and consequently you miss a word or phrase during this "quiet period" in his dynamics. You can turn up the volume, but then most of the text is unpleasantly loud. And even with the volume up high, if you're driving or there's other ambient noise--you just cannot hear some words. It's extremely annoying. Sometimes, to hear a crucial word, I've rewound 30 seconds and really blasted the volume! This guy reads well otherwise, but these "dramatic" whispers are terrible. Audible needs to run his reading through a compressor or something to even out the dynamics.

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Just Fine--Narration & Text

Revisado: 02-27-12

This book brings you up-to-date on the latest in cosmology theory. The author is clear enough for the non-scientist to follow most of what he's saying, without watering down the
complexities. Also, unless you have some kind of prejudice against people who accentuate the letter "s," you'll have no problem enjoying the author's narration of this book. I think most people will enjoy his reading.

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Really Bad Abridgement Job (slash job)

Revisado: 12-04-08

I always go for unabridged if available because I prefer to decide for myself which passages (if any) to skim. But the abridgements I've read in the past have at least provided decent transitions and for the most part not chopped out essential passages. Not so with this butcher job. Suddenly John leaps from one school to another without transition. The formation of his first band is left out, so you are dumped immediately in the middle of his Quarrymen period. At that point, I gave up on the audiobook and bought the real book. I was, and remain, totally puzzled how this abridgement was permitted to be sold to us. It's really, really, awful. Insensitive, thoughtless, bizarre.

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Great stories, tedious

Revisado: 11-25-05

Marred by some producer or director who thought that adding jungle sound effects and music improves the book. They don't.

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