David A. Fournier

Lousy Narration

Revisado: 05-04-25

I have waited until Vol. 7, to rate this series because I was hoping there would be a change in narrator. This is a great story, but the guy doing the narration has no skill at all other than reading the story. In scenes where a woman or a young female child is speaking; he uses a voice that is deeper and huskier that a full-grown man at least 40 or more years old. It really detracts from the listening experience.

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Bad Virtual Voice

Revisado: 06-24-24

Using AI (Virtual Voice) as a narrator ruined the telling of this story. Firstly, where the author has a character stuttering, the AI is saying the individual letters in the stutter until it gets to an actual word. Second, when the author is indicating a pause by using an ellipse, the AI is skipping over the ellipse without pausing. Lastly, the AI's reading of the story is without the emotional input that a human narrator would include (good or bad).

Also, the plot for this story isn't all that interesting.

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Bad Virtual Voice

Revisado: 06-24-24

Using AI (Virtual Voice) as a narrator ruined the telling of this story. Firstly, where the author has a character stuttering, the AI is saying the individual letters in the stutter until it gets to an actual word. Second, when the author is indicating a pause by using an ellipse, the AI is skipping over the ellipse without pausing. Lastly, the AI's reading of the story is without the emotional input that a human narrator would include (good or bad).

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Bad Virtual Voice

Revisado: 06-24-24

Using AI (Virtual Voice) as a narrator ruined the telling of this story. Firstly, where the author has a character stuttering, the AI is saying the individual letters in the stutter until it gets to an actual word. Second, when the author is indicating a pause by using an ellipse, the AI is skipping over the ellipse without pausing. Lastly, the AI's reading of the story is without the emotional input that a human narrator would include (good or bad).

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Virtual Voice DESTROYED this book.

Revisado: 06-24-24

Using AI (Virtual Voice) as a narrator ruined the telling of this story. Firstly, where the author has a character stuttering, the AI is saying the individual letters in the stutter until it gets to an actual word. Second, when the author is indicating a pause by using an ellipse, the AI is skipping over the ellipse without pausing. Lastly, the AI's reading of the story is without the emotional input that a human narrator would include (good or bad).

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Worst dialog ever

Revisado: 01-14-23

The character dialog in this book is cliché and atrocious. I wish I had never bought this book. The narration of the female voices is so irritating that I had to stop listening to it less than halfway through. On a scale of 1 to 100, I can't see how anyone can rate it over one.

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Bad sound effects

Revisado: 12-22-21

The narrator does a lousy job with the sound effects he tried to make. Also, he miss said many word in the book. As an example the narrator said FIRE when the author had written FIBER. This is just one example of the many occurrences.

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Narrator changes

Revisado: 10-22-21

The narration changed parts of the story, changing what the author intended to say or meant. Sometimes indicating the wrong characters involved in a scene or speaking.

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Lousy narration

Revisado: 08-17-21

The narrator read this story like a computer or a five year old reciting their first play. With frequent pauses at inappropriate time.

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Lecturer Should stop teaching

Revisado: 01-13-17

Would you try another book from The Great Courses and Brian M. Fagan and/or Professor Brian M. Fagan?

No

Has Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The tone of the narrator throughout the lectures sounded to me as though he would rather be doing anything other than giving the lectures. Also, some of the comments he made during the series gave me the impression that he thought his audience was too stupid to understand what he was saying.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No

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