The Book of Mormon

De: Joseph Smith Jr. - translator

Narrado por: Sean Crisden

Here is an audio edition of the sacred text of the Latter-Day Saint movement that followers believe contains the writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 B.C. to A.D. 421. A fascinating listen for religious scholars and denominational adherents alike.

Public Domain (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Best book I have ever read

Studying and pondering great literature is my favorite pastime. The Book of Mormon was especially profound in its witness and testament of the Lord Jesus Christ. I loved it and leaned powerful principles that have helped me to be a better wife, mother and person. I highly recommend it. FYI: The Book was not written by Joseph Smith, it was translated by him.

This recording has been vastly improved!

Just downloaded this and found that Audible has removed the chapter and verse citings from the recording. It is now so much more enjoyable to listen to. So curious why they don't note this in the description or mark it as another edition. Yes, the narrator could have done a better job (compare this to Max McLean's narration in the Listener's Bible for instance) but it's so much improved from before that I am not going to complain.Thank you, Audible!
Edit 12/14/2019: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has now added their own edition to Audible and it is a much better recording than this one.

Hard to listen to--broken up with verse numbers

Would you try another book from Joseph Smith and Church of the Latter-day Saints and/or Sean Criden?

Yes, but not scripture because of the naming of every verse. Chapter headings would be enough

Book was read entirely wrong.

If you could sum up The Book of Mormon in three words, what would they be?

The Book is flawless the reader was ridiculous. Maybe he should have checked before he repeated every chapter title and verse number.

What did you like best about this story?

This is a religious book that has important doctrine about Jesus Christ.

What didn’t you like about Sean Crisden’s performance?

Tell Mr Crisden he should have talked to someone LDS (Mormon) on how we read this book. He had no clue and made listening to it impossible. Every single verse number. IE he read I Nephi 1:1 then I Nephi 1:2 :2. It would be like reading a regular book and going Chapter 1 paragraph one one. Then the next paragraph Chapter 1 Paragraph 2 two. I would recommend you have him redo this. I Nephi (read as First Nephi not one Nephi) is one entire book. He would read I Nephi Chapter 1, then read the entire chapter without all the verse numbers being added. Then when you get to chapter 2 You read Chapter 2. Then start reading through the entire chapter and so on. Then when you get to the second Book that would be read Second Nephi the next book is Jacob. Each book has so many chapters. And the chapter headings were left out. They are usually read before starting the verses each chapter. (not critical just usually)

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The way it was read made it to annoying to get very far.

Any additional comments?

I guess I should download the bible and see if someone read it Matthew 1:1 Mathew 1:2.

Terrible narration

Loved the content, but horrible rendition. The narrator states the book and chapter and verse number, and then repeats the verse number, for EVERY VERSE. (Eg "First Nephi Chapter One, One, One... I Nephi.... First Nephi Chapter One, Two, Two...) drove me bonkers and I couldn't listen past the first chapter.

lived it, inspired scripture. life changing.

This book testifies if Jesus Christ. It shows how God does miracles among his children here on earth. it also shows how blessed are those who follow Jesus.

A good alternative to the standard recording

It is nice to be able to control the playback speed and to skip the chapter headings, sometimes.

Great for repeated listening

Narrator has the right amount of theatrics. Very clear speech. Easily listen faster speed. I am using this as a review source as I've read the Book of Mormon many times.

Hard to Judge such workmanship

No matter how many times I read this book I’m taken from the image of someone who is writing parallel storylines, then the pages and pages of or or or or just to make sure he covers all the bases he stole it or he gave it or he received it or or or then to the pages of acting like a compass is a new magical gift or serpents killing everything and eating raw flesh and then the pages of exact duplicates of the 1611 & 1625 versions when he had to get back to preaching parts. The whole time I try to be open to possibilities but just feel like I cannot barely stand the lies. One of my favorite imagines is what is done with “LukeWarm” but I kept reading...

Anyway of course like always I recommend reading and more reading.

A person can never read enough, though do keep in mind GIGO -garbage in garbage out, so try not to offend the followers with questions they cannot answer, because they obviously will not be able to answer them.

If you would like to discuss parts feel free to write me and we will look at the text together and not focus on the writers life choices because to start a religion without a huge govt like we have now was very easy imagine going with a band across the landscape and all of the sudden you don’t want to believe anymore... where will you get your food.

Just too funny, like now the network of a church non profit business model is immense and to get out well... see how easily it is to discuss factors of control, so we will just talk text how about that. So this time I will give 3 stars for years of mind manipulating effort.

Meanwhile read and read more. I think I will top this off with another reading of the Koran.

Good book but...

What did you like best about The Book of Mormon? What did you like least?

Love the book but the presentation was terrible. Sean Crisden was great however the book was hard to navigate and heaven help if you lost your place. Also, the chapter and verse were repeated (the verse twice) before every verse which was quite annoying.