no.stache.nietzsche's Reviews > Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Okay the book itself is not a 2- the book by Donnelly is probably a 4 or even a 5 star rating. Its a great early overview about incorporating Atlantis into our historical perspective, which is absolutely essential. It is not sensationalist or overly reliant on speculation, and its great to see how these ideas often associated with the contemporary "new age" scene are really not so new, nor so fringe as they are frequently characterized. Donnelly starts with Plato but only uses that as a springboard into wide array of archeological and anthropological data to marshal his argument that there was persistent contact between continents throughout the Holocene and that prior global civilization seeded various cultures from Peru to Mississippi to Egypt and Ireland. This text is a crucial landmark dealing with this topic.

But now on to the actual AUDIOBOOK edition that is the only version currently available on audible. Good Lord- it is nearly unlistenable. The narrator- this Christopher Romance person, insists on doing an IMMENSE ARRAY of ACCENTS every single time there is any quotation in the text. I have never heard an audiobook as ridiculous as this. Why.. WHY must you imagine a southern drawl or a cartoonish British lilt every time there is a quotation.. every single time.. and they're always slightly different! That part was actually impressive, even though extremely annoying. This guy has a huuge array of accents he can do, and chooses a different one every time. If that wasn't bad enough though, there are myriad whacky word pronunciations throughout the text. I understand flubbing a few and some tricky nouns and such, but I have no idea how a native English speaker who can read an entire book like this doesn't understand how to normally pronounce words like "origin" and "magnificent". How.. does that even happen? Its really unfortunate that this is the only available audiobook version of this text, because it really deserves a better treatment.. perhaps we'll have to produce a superior version ourselves, as this text would be worth reading again.