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Reading at 2X speed just to make the narrator sound human... And it's still so weird.
— Aug 14, 2026 09:59AM
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Keeping this edition due to the cover, but I am listening to the audiobook version.
And is Kent Klineman, the narrator, a real person? Or just AI reading? The words do not flow together and seem to be all "added" words, with, big, pauses... between each... word. The inflection does not work. As if the narrator decided to say each word alphabetically, and then edited together based on Gibbon's script. Maddening
— Aug 14, 2026 09:57AM
And is Kent Klineman, the narrator, a real person? Or just AI reading? The words do not flow together and seem to be all "added" words, with, big, pauses... between each... word. The inflection does not work. As if the narrator decided to say each word alphabetically, and then edited together based on Gibbon's script. Maddening