The narrator killed the experience for me. I really tried to go through the book, but the performance was excessively dry.

I do sometimes wonder what Gibbons sources were. And having an index would be great too.
With all three volumes, I am searching to refresh my memory on ..............
"I know such and such is there , I heard it, but where is it, let alone what volume?"

I'm sure the book is very good as I like ancient history, but the audio quality is pathetic. I don't use this word lightly; I can and have gotten past alot and will do so again. I don't know if I can listen to it, much less burn it to disc. As for two stars I gave. The book is much better than that but the audio quality is just that bad.

The narrator is droning, but the text is still great. It took a long time to listen to this, because I continually lost track.

One caveat: part of the beauty of the written texts are Gibbon's colorful footnotes. You miss these colorful splashes when you listen to the narration.

When I realized Audible had Decline and Fall on file I was thrilled - I have always wanted to read it. However, either Edward Gibbon or the narrator makes this history so tedious to listen to that I simply quit after the first part.

Some books are more suitable for the medium of audiobooks than others, just as some books are meant to be read while others are meant to stand on the shelf testifying the learned sophistication of the owner. In printed form, Edward Gibbon's masterpiece makes fabulous sleeping aid, in audiobook form, it has lost even that, the recording sounds like it comes from outdated dictaphone, and the content, well, it's "decline and fall of the roman empire..."

I really wanted to like this, but some books just don't translate well to audio. This is one of them.

The reader is monotoned and the text has many vague descriptions of culture and etiquette that lack of events and characters to anchor the descriptions against. Your sense of wonder turns into boredom, malaise and then confusion as you try and remember what it was that Gibbon was talking about.

I just want to give a star rating. If you force me to say more, I will give you this tripe.

I just want to give a star rating. If you force me to say more, I will give you this tripe.

I just want to give a star rating. If you force me to say more, I will give you this tripe.

I just want to give a star rating. If you force me to say more, I will give you this tripe.

I just want to give a star rating. If you force me to say more, I will give you this tripe.