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I very much enjoyed this book. I'm not normally a historical non-fiction fan, but it was a very interesting look into our second president's life. The only downside is that the narrator often has very long pauses in between sentences/sections. I found myself looking to see if it had stopped running a number of times.

The sound quality for this download is horrible I often listen to Audible books in type 2 or type 3 quality but at type 4 (highest quality) "John Adams (unabridged)" is very hard to listen to. I was very close to asking for my money back but type 4 is tolerable and I really wanted to listen to this great book.

The reader does a admirable job. He is bright and cheery and matches the tone of the book well. My problem is it sounds like a very cheap microphone of the lowest quality.

The book itself is wonderfully American and describes the times well.

I couldn't finish this book because you can hear the saliva of the narrator every time he opened his mouth. Was way too distracting.

Well written, well researched and fascinating.

The HBO Sieries was far more interesting. I could not get through the secnond part of the recording

Not too long ago I've read about Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham and that was an excellent biography. I was looking forward to reading "John Adams" because David McCullough has to be the best archivist in American History. The HBO miniseries about the second president of the United States is something to watch. Purchasing this book was an natural instinct for any history buff.

Here is my recommendation if you are thinking about getting this book, but recently read about Jefferson by the other author. Please do yourself a favor and wait to read about Adams. It is not because the story is not good and it is everything that you expect from McCullough, but the two biography mingles into one story, where you keep asking yourself that you already heard Jefferson's story before.

Don't read about John Adams if Thomas Jefferson is still fresh in your mind because it becomes a very long rerun on facts that you already knew from Jefferson's biography.

You should read one and then wait before starting the other.

I just gave this one 4 stars just because I kept asking myself, "Where I heard this information before?"

I am absolutely aghast at the edit of this audiobook. There are long pauses, two three seconds long, where we hear the narrator breathe through his nose or smack his lips. And this happens at least ONCE A MINUTE.
How did Audible let this sloppy sloppy edit get through?
THe narrator is fine, slow, but fine, but to hear him taking pauses and breathing makes this unlistenable with headphones.
Audible--Wake UP!!

After slogging through the first half of this book over the last 2 months, I gave up and moved along to something else. No fault of the narrator. I should have know better from McCullough's previous works. One primary source after another. Detail upon detail, minutia upon minutia. How is it possible to take such a profound story and reduce it to extended quotes about his son's penmanship? A story can reach a point (and this one did) where the detail simply overwelms the plotline. I found myself 15 hours into the story saying "OK, I understand what he thought. But why did he think this? What was his worldview? What motivated this philosophy? Who is this guy?". But all I had was an icon; another "empty suit" of a founding father. My fatal mistake was that I had previously read Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton"; the antithesis of McCullough's style (and one of my Top 5 all-time reads). The first half of John Adams left me so bored I could not go on. So my 1-star rating can only apply to the first half of the book. I can only recall one previous time in my life when I found myself unable to complete a book. But I did feel a profound sense of relief when I finally "pulled the trigger" and walked away from this pointless and time-consuming pile of detail-flooded drivel. Sorry.

I would give five stars for the excellence of the research. Letters written by our founding fathers provide details perhaps not generally known today. For myself, I needed to fast foward through far too many parts, although this may speak for my own dislike of detail about the politics of the time. I wished for more personal details about the characters and more information about life during this exiting period of our history. I just got bored after the third section. I do recommend this book for those who like historical detail about "what happened when".