John G. Strong

Worst Performance I've Heard on Audible so far

Revisado: 04-01-25

This is an important classic and so I'm glad it's available of Audible. Pity it is only available in this horrible in performance

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Landmark scholarship, annoying, awful performance

Revisado: 09-29-24

Henrich's work will be remembered as one of the most insightful works of scholarship ever published. But I hated the reading performance. The guy sounds like Mr. Beast or some other trendy celebraty. For a serious work with lots of technical or strange vocabulary, a narrator's voice with a richer set of values is needed. This guy's voice is irritating like an overly hard piece of chalk squeaking as it scratches on a chalk board.

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Performance So Bad It Beggars Belief

Revisado: 05-13-24

I honestly don't think it would be possible to make a worse performance of this book even if you were deliberately trying to fabricate a comically awful parody. The jerkiness of the reading completely sabotaged the quality of the experience. I'm scratching my head wondering WHY they made it so jerky. Do they expect everyone to listen at 2X speed? It is so jerky that it sounds like someone inserted a half second silence every second to vandalize the recording.

I bought this book without first reviewing the performance, because I am keenly interested in the subject and Jacob Heilbrunn's take, and I thought I could rely on Audible to do an acceptable recording, but THIS PERFORMANCE IS SIMPLY NOT PUBLISHABLE. Why would Audible publish this crap? Why??? This is the last time I will ever automatically buy an Audible recording based on nothing other than my interest in the book without first checking the performance. The fact that Audible would publish this god AWFUL content makes one suspect that it was never reviewed by an editor or QA team, and that suggests that there is something deeply wrong with their publishing model.

DON'T BUY THIS AUDIOBOOK!!!!!!! Buy the Kindle instead and use some kind of Text-to-Speech service to listen. Seriously, it will be better than the "performance" you get in the Audible version, assuming it was even a "performance" by a human. I begin to doubt that it was, because I can't imagine any human reading the text that badly.

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What a Load of Crap

Revisado: 01-23-23

Christianity is just a revival of Dionysian wine religion suppressed by Roman patriarchy because iit made women crazy and hard to control. What a pile of hot streaming crap. I cannot BELIEVE I spent money on this piece of s""""'. Delivered on a mousy monotone by a dude who sounds like he's 17 years old. THIS WAS THEFT.

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more like pornography than academic psychology

Revisado: 07-08-22

loved the book sweet spot but this interview was distractingly vulgar sounded like the women interviewing Paul bloom was hitting on him I felt like telling her to get a hotel room

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Marvelous insightful but awful performance

Revisado: 07-07-22

Sounds like a teenager who thinks mumbling rapidly is a sign of good delivery.

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In noise her voice was like a whisper. Inaudible.

Revisado: 08-19-21

in the noisy environments it was completely impossible to understand this guy. I thought he was a hoarse woman at first

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Lucid, Erudite and Entertaining

Revisado: 06-10-21

Few works have influenced my thinking as much. I think its insights will have a very long half life.

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Breathing of Reader Very Distracting

Revisado: 05-15-20

The breathing of the reader is **really** distracting. It is as though the reader had training as a singer of opera and wishes to remind us of his technical prowess ever few seconds. It is the artistic performance equivalent of over-engineering, i.e. so much technique that it ends up focusing our attention on the reader's diction to the point that can't pay attention to what's being read. This material is meaty and deserves the focused attention of the listener, but honestly, I find it difficult to concentrate because the reader's breathing is "in my face". I'd prefer a tinny voice provided it draws less attention to itself.

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Does Not Try to Tarnish a Political Sports Team

Revisado: 02-29-20

Most books on political psychology are little more than advocacy, attempts to tarnish some political sports team as crazy or evil. They teach nothing about human psychology. They only serve as testimonies to the blind Manichean bigotry of the author. We all have political viewpoints and Haidt is no exception, but he makes a very rare attempt to understand people who think differently from him. I do not think he always succeeds, but he deserves a gold medal for being the *only* person who is trying. His book also has the virtues of being informative and very well written. Pity we can't award more than 5 stars.

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