This author better hope that all of our jobs don't get shipped to India, or else who is going to buy his crap.

I will give you a rundown of this book. If a job can be shipped overseas to India or China it has probably already been done. Lotty Dotty the world is not round thus it is flat.

I wish Pakistan would hurry up and nuke India then we could see a further intensification of the authors flattening effect.

This book is 27 hours worth of crap. Welcome to the flattened world Mr. Friedman.

The content of the book is very interesting, although definitely kind of old news by now. Still, it's interesting to consider all the various issues surrounding globalization.

The reader, Oliver Wyman, however, is terrible and his imitation of foreign accents is highly insulting and pejorative. And his Indian accent and Indonesian accent are exactly the same, even though they should be very different. I can't believe the production company allowed him to use such stereotyped accents.

This should really be filed under Business, not General Interest. Plus, if you consume any media whatsoever, I think this is very old news. Finally, the reader sounds as if he's addressing a kindergarten class. I couldn't take it.

It's ironic that at least twice in this book Friedman decried those bloggers and other content uploaders who click the send button before checking what they have written. This book is in desperate need of a good editor who would tell Friedman things like,"You've already made this point." or "That metaphor was clever only the first time you used it" or "I don't think we need yet another example" or, "Let's cut out this kum-ba-ya moment."

There is plenty of good insight and commentary in this book, for example when he explains his concept of Islamist-leninism. However, there is a lot of repetition. I almost screamed as he went through the creation of his personalized Dell computer describing where each and every part of the computer had been manufactured and how it was assembled. The point he was trying to make was a good one, but it had already been made clear before.

I would recommend this book in its abridged version as there is just about 10 hours of worthwhile material in it. And that good material is very good.

The audiobook is definitely worth listening to if you are in any way interested in what is going on in our world today. In especially the first half of the audiobook you are introduced to how the world is flattened in a simple and easily understandable way. The audiobook only gets 4 stars, since it never seems to end, and you need several cups of coffee to stay awake through the entire audiobook.