A doctoral thesis read by a robot

This is easily the worst book I have ever bought from Audible. The title is promising but this "book" sounds like someone's learned doctoral thesis, never intended for a wider audience and lamentably replete with typos.
The author obviously assumes a significant prior knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader/listener. Anyone coming fresh to the subject will find the contents impenetrable.
As if this were not bad enough, the narrator, seems to have very little if any knowledge of the subject matter. His narration is robotic as one might get from a SatNav, full of errors of pronounciation, and it is clear at times he has no real understanding of what he is reading, although that does not deter him and he ploughs on regardless. This is particularly obvious when he reads faithfully and without pause or hesitation obvious typos, even though by doing so he is reading something which makes no sense at all and comes out as pure gibberish.
Far from having to pay to listen to this I was left after about 3 hours (I gave it a good shot but gave up in the end) feeling that I should have been paid for having to listen. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

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