Paul

Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.

Revisado: 09-12-10

Ms. Gilbert reads this book with a premium on the enunciation of each word, with cohesiveness suffering badly. She's like a prancing pony; dancing all around the words and hitting the individual words with accuracy, but the sentences themselves (not to mention paragraphs) suffer from herky-jerky, over-enunciated discontinuity. Because of her untargeted verbal thrashings, she occasionally runs out of breath toward the end of the sentence! What now, young pony?

It's like listening to a 10th-grader who's asked to read an unfamiliar passage for a speech audition. I'm going to have to buy the book, because listening to this audiobook is just not working.

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robotic narration, important book

Revisado: 05-25-10

robotic narration, important book.

too bad the narration is so poor

definitive work on climate change

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Great Book, Unpracticed Narrator

Revisado: 03-29-10

This creative commons book is best read, and not listened to. The narrator is not bad overall - his voice has clarity, maturity, warmth and character - but he inserts strange-sounding pauses here and there, which is distracting. You can tell when he's reached the end of a particular line, but not the end of the sentence, which introduces discordance into the listening experience.

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Choppy narration. Worst narration of the series.

Revisado: 02-17-10

Sorry, but this narrator.... has no clue of..... when to stop and start sentences some sentences....... are run-on sentences but.... most are chopped short. It's like listening to a computer-read book. A really good computer voice, but no rhythm or feeling at all.
Obviously, this is annoying and makes for a bad listen.

Also, some of the vocabulary is a little over her head it seems - she had a couple of mispronunciations and awkward phrasings....

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An additional comment

Revisado: 01-17-10

i do concur with the other reviews, but i felt like commenting on the narration:
keen tries to dramatize every single sentence. as i was listening to chapter one, i was thinking: "hmmmm, by the tone of his voice, and the amount of melodrama, we're reaching the climax of the book already."
Then i realized having a "climax" in a non-fiction book is unusual, and i also realized that every sentence thereafter was similarly narrated.

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Comprehensive

Revisado: 05-09-08

This book is a broad overview of the many challenges facing the world population today and how those challenges relate to one another. Also, prescriptive measures for correcting problems are outlined, with reference to gathered data, along with procedures for implementation and cost assessment.
This book is extremely important, and I highly recommend it for its scope, depth, optimism, and academically rigorous claims and arguments.

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Good, but some audio problems

Revisado: 03-10-08

All the tracks except for Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" sound pretty good. These are fantastic stories made even creepier and more memorable by their poetic format.

However, and this is a big 'however,' the audio on the two Poe tracks is really bad. The speaker's voice has echo added to it, and the effect is not good, partly because of the low bitrate, even in format 4. Those two tracks are a total loss.

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Narrator is awful

Revisado: 01-24-08

I can't stand listening to Patrick Lawlor's nasal whine for more than two minutes. His voice has no depth and no character at all. It's really horrible that such a great book has been chosen to be narrated by such an awful narrator.

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