Reads like it was transcribed from audio.
593628
Reading Kennedy's writing is a lot like listening to her speak -- rapid fire one-liners crammed into way-too-long paragraphs that tend to lead to reader fatigue.  Like the title suggests, this memoir concerns only her MTV years, roughly 1992-1997, and not much else.  She does have a number of funny stories about the various pop and rock stars who were burning up the charts in the early-mid 90s, leading up to the moment she finally retired her nickname "the Virgin Kennedy."  She pulls no punches when it comes to celebs she doesn't like (Courtney Love in particular receives a strong dose of Kennedy's wrath).  Not bad, but seems like it was written in a bit of a hurry.
2867721
I listened to text-to-speech on kindle. It was difficult to understand probably because of medieval techniques and it kept citing
sources. I stopped listening and downloaded a religious book written in 2014.
3613107
The audio book was very well done.  The reader is Simon Vance, whose reading sounds like what you would expect of an English speaking Augustine.  He sounds very humble, yet intellectual.  The translation is OK, but I would like to explore other more modern translations.

The book itself is divided into two major parts.  The first part is Augustine's autobiography, up until the time of his conversion to Christianity and his mother's death.

`Confessions' is a very descriptive title for this work.  He literally confesses everything, even things many of us would find too trifling to even remember.  He is a man that had a delicate conscience.  We learn of how he was raised in Christianity, converted to Manichaeism, lost faith in that and studied philosophy, and finally became a convert to Christianity after having some spiritual experiences and resolving some philosophical issues with it in his mind.  The style is not way different from modern autobiographies (other than the constant acknowledgement of his faults).  From a doctrinal point of view, he was very Catholic in his view that Baptism was a requirement for remission of sins and therefore salvation.

The second part is his musings on Christians doctrines, mainly related to the creation and the majesty of God.  Here, Augustine gives us an idea of God's relationship to man and the world.  He firmly believes that God created everything out of nothing (creation ex nihilo); though he wasn't as extreme as I had though from reading other people's views of Augustine's beliefs.  He did admit that the Bible says that God created things out of existing material, but made it clear that God created the existing material out of nothing.  This is kind of a two-step creation process.

He also dabbles in determinism, but once again was not as extreme as I thought.  It is not the extreme of Calvin, but you can see where Calvin was influenced by him.

All in all, this is a great book to read if you want to understand Augustine and early Christianity (and the later Christianity that was influenced by him).  The audio book was a good way to get through the book.
509403
The book is great and the audiobook was fantastic to listen to on my way to and from work. I would recommend getting the unabridged version rather than the selected interviews.
1277865
It was a great audio, he didn't sound like he was reading it, he sounded like he was talking to you. I just wish I had gotten the book  cause I like to go back and review, I still might buy the book too.  And I will listen to it again.
63337
Great. The audio is slower than I would read, but I easily doze off when reading, so the audio is useful regardless.
1099735
Got this as an audio book - I am farther in listening to it than I would have ever got reading it.
312898
AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: I'm sure there are any number of more pleasurable books of which one could listen to audio versions, but sometimes it's good to buckle down and get acquainted with something that boasts more historical relevance than literary value. This text is a trial, not because of the language, which one becomes accustomed to easily enough, but because it possesses nothing of the pacing or narrative structures that characterize more modern novels. Events happen seemingly at random, people do things for no apparent reason, swords are stuck in stones (more than once!), the holy grail is so ubiquitous that it begs the question of why anyone would bother to go quest for it, and at no point does the author feel obliged to account for anyone's motivations or the inconsistencies of the plot. I doubt I would have the patience to get through this text if I were reading it on paper (although if you are interested, some nice older versions are digitized on googlebooks), but I'm somewhat enjoying the audiobook. For all the deficiencies of the narrative, Derek Jacobi's reading is nothing short of masterful, as one might expect. He gives the writing much more pungency than one might think possible, to the point where it can be almost humorous. His spirited delivery of the line "Nay, nay, my lord Arthur, it is not so; I was never your father nor of your blood, but I wot well ye are of an higher blood than I weened ye were," made me laugh so hard that I rewound and replayed it at least a half dozen times. Such interludes of levity are welcome in a text that can otherwise get quite ponderous, so I'm quite pleased with this production.
1657287
Much of the time, the audio version of this book held me it its thrall.  The reader is excellent at setting tone and creating character.  But the story is abridged far to much for the mystery and its solution to make any sense, coming entirely out of left field and leaving the listener feeling cheated.  This is one book that I would want to actually read cover to cover rather than listen to all chopped up.  The audiobook promises more than it can deliver.
4634936
The audio is very good. It keeps your interest because reader has a very nice voice and style. I was very pleased with the product and recommend it to others.
3722592
Lovely language rich with characters, but a bit naive, rolling in an expected pace and road, but stretched too much to lengths that read tediously at times.
Audiobook is well done, gave me nice walking companion as we strolled along the book. Excellent audio read.
697196
I really like the different way this was written. Sometimes using quotes sometimes not. The narrator knowing shes telling a story. Describing everything in rich detail like sounds and smells.
4644976
Now I will have admit that I listened to it on Audio Book, but I have never heard a book that was written so poorly.  It felt like a book by formula that was constructed from a string of cliches.
4307108
Should have had an audio for proper pronunciations he did with one previously.
669421
My thought on the audio portion first: This was my first audio book with a male reader. I was hoping or expecting with the male voice, I would hear more in the sense of different sounds and pitches. I actually heard the complete opposite. The male reader read in the same pattern throughout the full book. it felt a bit uniformed for me. His voice actually reminded me of a old psychology professor I had in college. Now the fact that its felt uniform might just be because most of the story is the main character's thoughts. I will say if you were going to get this book, I would probably go with the audio version. Its does help with the main character's dialogue.

Now my review for the actual book and its story: I was nervous going in to this book without having read the first book. I thought I might be missing out critical information. SO I asked a few some notes about the first and got a outline which prepared me for this book. Just like I felt listening to the book, I felt about the book itself. The story line was OK, I didn't hate it or love it. What threw me off a bit was all the internal dialogue from the main character. Its a great portion of the book. At times I didn't know if he was talking to himself or someone. It just felt the same. The main character for being a male was a bit weak for me, I like my male POV to be strong and in charge. The story did have a few interesting surprises that kept me in the game. I think the young YA audience would enjoy the story more since its not so complexed. A character I did enjoy was Dot. She is a robot that helps Locke (the main character) out. So overall this story or series will be read by those that read the first book and loved it and need to know what happen to Jenna.
3196191
If students or any reader would like to read the book, but struggling with the high level of reading, listening to this audio is a wise choice as you follow the story.
2221200
Checking out audio versions of Sherlock Holmes stories from the library is as close as you can get to a sure thing, since Arthur Conan Doyle's writing is generally superb even in the lesser tales, and the interplay between Watson and Holmes tends to be more entertaining in audio format. I therefore pounced on this unabridged recording of Hound of the Baskervilles read by David Case when I saw it at the local library.
Readers familiar with the Holmes canon are probably familiar with the story, as Holmes is hired to investigate the recent death of his client's uncle at Baskerville Hall, a gloomy old manor on the edge of the moor allegedly haunted by a vicious beast. The very first chapter sets a wonderful tone for the rest of the lengthy story, as Holmes and Watson use logic and a handful of clues to guess the age and employment of a visitor solely by examining the visitor's walking cane, left by accident at Holmes' flat on Baker Street while our hero was away.
The mystery at Baskerville Hall is an effective one, putting Holmes and Watson in the path of sneaky butlers, dangerous fugitives and con artists, while being watched and pursued themselves.
Although the story is very well-written, I was somewhat taken aback by the strange reading by David Case. His British accents for the characters seemed almost intentionally overblown, as if this whole reading was a Monty Python sketch about haughty British windbags. To his credit he does make each character's voice sound different. For some of the characters, Case resorts to a voice so bizarre it sounded as if he was speaking while inhaling. There is certainly some comic relief to this presentation, and after awhile you forget about the narrative foibles and get wrapped up in the story. I give the recording a lukewarm three stars.