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Entirely academic and not what I expected

I really struggled to finish this Audiobook. Even though it's only four or five hours long, it took me about as many months to get to the end. The piece is on par with everything else I've read in an academic framework. That is, it sacrifices comprehensibility for the sake of generalization. The authors are concerned with the effects of sells tracking and the social issues that come along with the data that is created thereby. I was hoping that the book would focus more on best practices and practical tips. There is a brief section that touches on this theme, but it's not the main focus of the text.

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Very Hard To Listen To This Book

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The narrator sounds like the women from my car GPS. She reads this book in a monotone fashion that makes listening to the content difficult. This book sounds like one long paragraph. I think the narration could have been done better.

Would you ever listen to anything by Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus again?

This book is not what I was expecting.

Would you be willing to try another one of Karen Saltus’s performances?

Possibly.