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WORST narrator & editing of any Audible book

Revisado: 01-28-25

The narrator is terrible—perhaps the most amateurish I have ever heard in an Audible book..

His repetitive, sing-songy tone (exaggerated fluctuations between highs and lows in his tones), sloppy pronunciation (imprecise pronunciation and running words together to the point sounding like an intoxicated person slurring) and lack of understanding of how to read when there are commas (thereby emphasizing the wrong words in a sentence, or pausing with one word left in a sentence and then pronouncing the word as though it’s a separate sentence) is so distracting that it takes away from the otherwise good content.

The narrator sounds like a high-school kid reading a speech in public for the first time.

As for editing, the sheer number of errors that got through the editing process makes this the most unprofessionally produced audiobook I have ever encountered on Audible. I have narrated an audiobook so i know the process that is supposed to be followed.

As for content, it becomes evident later in the book that the author is sympathetic to gender ideology (using “they” instead of him or her in anecdotal examples in Part 2), climate change and other leftist causes.

This book was a HUGE disappointment.

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Incredible content. Unbearably bad narrator. 

Revisado: 01-15-24

The definitive Christian perspective on communism. I’ve heard some pretty bad audiobook narrators, but Kevin O’Brien is BY FAR the hardest for me to listen to, due to the flamboyant, over-the-top “voice” (style) he employs!

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Thought provoking story. UTTERLY HORRIBLE narrator.

Revisado: 10-28-23

If it were not for the engaging content, I would’ve turned this audiobook off in the first 10 minutes. The narrator is so over-the-top effeminate that it grated against my masculine sensibilities like fingernails on a chalkboard to tolerate the annoyingly flamboyant presentation. The word “prissy“ perhaps best captures the narrator’s style.

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Review by a Catholic priest

Revisado: 08-01-23

This is a fantastic book that I will definitely recommend to parishioners and others. But I will only recommend the printed book, because the narrators are so awful that it was truly a penance to listen to the audio version.

The woman sounds like a grade school girl in a Catholic school poorly trained to read the readings at Mass. She has a repetitive sing-songy voice that becomes aggravatingly monotonous in a very short time.

The man actually sounds like one of those computer generated monotone drone voices that reads articles on websites.

As a Catholic priest, one of my biggest frustrations is how so few Catholic artistic productions are done with any quality. This production is but one more example of that. I just wish they could hire well trained professionals to narrate the audio for this book.

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Narrator's "NPR voice" made it almost unbearable

Revisado: 07-11-22

I find the subject matter fascinating, and very applicable, but the narrator's tedious "NPR voice", coupled with the author's heavy-handed leftist bent made it increasingly challenging to take the good and set aside the nonsense. If you can endure the narration, and ignore the lib-nutty bias, there's some value to be taken from this work. I'm halfway through the book as I write this review. We'll see if I can endure the narrator and finish it.

Update: Glad I finished the book for the sake of the insights, but it took every ounce of my introvert patience to endure the annoying narrator and the constant showcasing of lib-nut luminaries (e.g. Obama, Clinton, Warren Buffett, Al Gore et. al.) and ideology (e.g. climate change <-- eye roll).

It would be so nice to find a social science book that was not tainted by Marxism! #WishfulThinking

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Narrator needs remedial training.

Revisado: 09-16-18

It was frustrating to listen to a narrator who does not know the distinction between pronunciations of the word “the“. When the word “the” appears before another word that begins with a vowel the pronunciation is “THEE”. The narrator would pronounce it that way in front of words that begin with consonants. You can imagine how frustrating it is to hear “the car“ pronounced “thee car“.

Get this man some training!

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