Inappropriate choice of performer

I am a great fan of Dr Lennox and had been so much looking forward to listening to this audio book. However the choice of narrator leaves me speechless ... far from the blunt and matter of fact Northern Irish voice of Dr Lennox we have what’s best described as a metrosexual Midwest American. I cringe with every sentence and would like to identify the individual that chose this narrator to represent the the authorative voice of the writer and simply say ‘you’re fired’. Maybe this is an attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the average American evangelical but in doing so it has totally undershot and emasculated the power of the original text. Simply the worst rendition of the most powerful content and I am bitterly disappointed however probably if I came from the US Bible Belt I would think it is fabulous and totally consistent with the teachings of Jesus which clearly supported the right to bear arms (assault weapons) but dancing is of the devil.

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Fantastic Content

While I found the narator a little hard to listen to, the actual content of this book is fantastic.

John Lennox has done a fantastic job explaining and highlighting the flaws of "scientific" criticism of God.

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Great content! But narration is poor.

Outstanding book.
This is the third book I have heard from this narrator. Mispronounces a lot of common words.

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A wonderful book ruined by a horrible reading

The content of this book is excellent. John Lennox thoroughly explores the topic in a humorous, diligent, intelligent insightful way.

Unfortunately it was torturous to to listen to it being murdered by the horrible performance of "William Crocket". Leaving aside the travesty of hearing John's words in an American accent instead of his own delightful Irish brogue, the terrible pronunciation (like dropping the "g" in "something" and "nothing"), and repetitive intonation of the performance often obscured the meaning. I regularly had to quickly re-parse the sentence in my head to realise the author's actual intent, while also trying to absorb the meaning of his next attempt at mangling Dr Lennox's words.

At first I thought the horrible, angsty, whiny voice of "William Crockett" was some hired actor trying way too hard to put expression into the reading, in a way that would have been funny, if it hadn't totally ruined the book. At times the droning cyclic intonation was so soporific that I nearly fell asleep at the wheel while I drove. As the performance wore on, I came to the conclusion that this was actually an AI generated voice, that was nearly good enough to pass as human - if you didn't have to put up with it for too long. Eleven and a half hours was *definitely* too long.

One of the give aways that Crocket is a robot, is the clipped, lower, robotic utterances of "quote" and "unquote", whenever Dr Lennox quotes someone else, which he does throughout the book. Other mis-pronunciations would never have been made by someone who grew up speaking English, even if they came across the word for the first time.

All in all one of the most frustrating Audible books I have listened to, because I loved the content, but thoroughly hated the performance. This makes it hard to decide whether I should take Audible up on their offer of "Love it or swap it free". I would have loved *reading* this book, but I hated listening to it.

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a struggle

struggled with this one.. narrators voice was not engaging for me and the content was similar.

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