Abridged Audiobook
This book, in its original form, is magnificent. I read it years ago and bought the audiobook to listen to during my commute. I was well into the audiobook before I realized it was abridged (and I can't find an unabridged version anywhere). The book is a 5-star read, but the process of abridging it, gutted much of the life out of it. I'm very open-minded about narrators - especially new-to-me narrators, but this guy seemed to sleep through the narration. Making it even worse were some unbelievable pronunciation errors that were so distracting it was hard to get beyond it - for example: he read "Kim Jong Il" as "Kim Jong the second". How does that even get through editing? This audiobook was a real disappointment.
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