John Butler

Perfect

Revisado: 05-25-24

Unassailable novel, flawless performance. Juliet Stephenson is queen of audiobooks. The fastest thirteen hours I've ever listened.

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Unsatisfying take on otherwise fascinating subject

Revisado: 09-29-21

The narration audio quality is loud and clear. That’s the best thing I can say about this audiobook. After about twenty to thirty minutes the narrator’s delivery becomes jarringly predictable within a narrow range of badly acted enthusiasm. This resonates with the content of the book itself with its irrelevant, very current and soon to age late 2010s/2021 cultural references and most irritating of all, the author’s anecdotes from being the CEO of a failed startup and being unsatisfied despite living well. This is a superficial treatment of René Girard’s life work peppered with incessant techbro startup culture interruptions. Look elsewhere for a better treatment of Girard. I’d rate it lower still if it had not introduced me to something important, but I don’t feel any smarter or wiser after investing nine hours listening to it. Perhaps I suffer from mimetametic desire to understand mimetic desire as others do. The author is smart and does seem to still have a better book on the subject trapped inside somewhere. I hope he writes it eventually. In the meantime start with Girard’s own books first.

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A stately performance marred by mispronunciations

Revisado: 08-29-21

Voegelin's text itself is unassailable, and Mays' English narration likewise, a thick regal basso that sounds like stout tastes. His German and French pronunciation is jarring, however. Still this is that one out of twenty Audible books I look forward to hearing again.

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impeccable performance, missing introduction

Revisado: 07-18-21

This audiobook lacks any place, introduction or other discussion found in the print book. But the choice of narrator is unassailable, and the translation flows like honeyed wine.

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