David Ecklund

This reader does an incredible job

Revisado: 06-21-21

The book is excellent. But I must say, the reader is singularly impressive. It is to be understood if anyone has doubts about the usefulness of audiobooks for such a subject, and I certainly wouldn't recommend relying on this audiobook alone (I also have the paperback), but the reader does an outstanding job making things clear and not getting in the way. Bravo!

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Too clownish.

Revisado: 09-03-19

Way too much speculation. He makes the old testament patriarchs seem like sentimental children. Many useful insights peppered in there, but I realized that I was losing reverence for the scriptures listening to this.

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Another great book marred by impersonal reading

Revisado: 08-30-19

Dinesh D'Souza is one of the few essential thought leaders of the Republican vision.

The reader, like so many, it would seem, oh-so-misguided audiobook voice talents, is apparently under the impression that he ought to stand mere inches away from the edge of the great nothing of soulless entities, rather than be a normal, warm-blooded human being reading a book. It truly seems like these people are doing their level best to *not* have the book come alive. The most obvious and natural interpretive choices regarding where to place the stress in a sentence are bulldozed into a forced monotony. I assume they are trying to provide a "neutral" reading. "Dead" is not neutral for us humans.

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Unfortunate choice of reader for a good book

Revisado: 08-30-19

The reader does not have any tangible sense of reverence in her reading. She would, perhaps, do a great job in other genres, but it was very distracting when speaking of holy things.

Four stars for the book. For the audiobook -- two or three.

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Masterful reading. (Abysmal music)

Revisado: 08-08-19

Glyn is truly a master of his craft. He brings the text alive with a keen sense for the authors' style, without taking too many interpretive liberties.

But... who...?!? Who on God's green Earth thought that adding that saccharine, sappy, sentimental trash they stole from a third rate children's cartoon and added as "music" to some of the New Testament was a good idea? Imagine Jesus overturning tables to Barney singing "we're a happy family" and you'll get the idea. In moments I had to burst out laughing just to keep from breaking things at the sacrilege.

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Mitchell sounds like a hippy, but I loved it

Revisado: 08-08-19

New to the Tao te ching. Really enjoyed listening to this at the end of my 16 hour day. Mitchell seems like he is floating in the fog over San Francisco, but in a good way. Beautiful work on the whole. Of course, I wouldn't dare "rate" or "review" Lao Tzu's classic itself.

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Surprisingly affecting; Low/high vol needs work

Revisado: 08-08-19

Beautiful piece. Worth listening--definitely paid off giving this a go. One gripe: sometimes I'd have to turn the volume all the way up (on my earbuds) to try and make out what an interviewee was saying, only to have the narrator blast my eardrums to hell in the next bit.

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Stunning and compelling

Revisado: 02-27-19

Beautiful and highly practical. One shortcoming : the other male reader. Sheldrake himself is edifying to listen to.

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