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The thick Greek accent of the narrator sacrifices clarity for an attempt at authenticity.

The book makes valid points, but the content could be condensed SIGNIFICANTLY into:

-Sleep is important for excellent performance in all life’s endeavors (Work, politics, athletics, sex, etc.)
-Sleep has been acknowledged throughput history to be important.
-Dreams are fascinating.
-Relying on medications to get sleep can be dangerous.
-Sleep deprivation is hazardous to your health.
-Technology exists to support sleep improvement.

If one has an interest in any of these areas, time would be better spent seeking out a publication which dives more deeply into that topic.

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Good content poorly delivered

Would you try another book from Arianna Huffington and/or Agapi Stassinopoulos?

Arianna Huffington probably but Agapi Stassinoplolous no.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

Hard to tell based upon the delivery

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Completely! It may be a combination of the writer or editor but is more than like a poor reader and/or conductor. The second language provides an out of sync/not a smooth flowing story and it's difficult to follow the performance in what is a quote at the beginning of a chapter and what is the authors work. Do all the chapters start with a quote? Hard to tell from the performance. Is the correct emphasis placed in the sentence? Not really. It's almost like listening to a child recite their first books.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No.

Any additional comments?

Would like to have it read by a different performer and a free update.Will see if I can return it.

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Hard to understand

The heavy accent made it quite difficult for me to understand the material. I think for the sake of all listeners (who arent native english speakers like myself) out there the books should be read by the most common and easily understandable diction.

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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE NARRATION!

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE NARRATION OF THIS BOOK! If you can speak and understand English then you will have no issues with the book. Overall I thought it was an excellent book and I’ve already started seeing the changes in my productivity after committing to prioritize 8 hours of sleep per night.

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Common sense with data to back it up

Useful information and an interesting perspective, but at times it was hard to listen to the narrator.

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Great info

It took several chapters for me to understand the narrator. The content was great though.

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Life changing

I was curious about this topic. When I saw the book (I think it was the first day available) I didn't hesitate to buy it. I always read the reviews first, before I purchase - but there weren't any at that time . So I just bought it.

The book was so informative and interesting. Very well read too. It has definitely made me more aware of my sleep habits and approach to sleep. I think my whole family will benefit from my having read this book.

Hopefully we will all get the sleep our bodies and mind need and then we will all be much nicer to each other. Imagine that world! Sleep = peace and love. Thanks Ariana, for writing this book.

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Horrible narration

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Someone who can understand English spoken with a thick Greek accent

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Agapi Stassinopoulos?

Anyone who can speak decent English with a normal accent and clear pronunciation

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

disappointment and stress from trying to understand the words spoken with un-intelligible pronunciation.

Any additional comments?

An absolute waste of time. It takes so much energy to try to understand the words that are pronounced so badly that it is almost impossible to follow the message

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Horrible Reading Voice

What disappointed you about The Sleep Revolution?

Arianna is a very impressive and credible person, but the content just went on and on, I was looking for the meat, this is mostly bread. I was happy that she choose someone else to read the book for us. I got confused, I thoughe Arianna was only reading the intro, then I kept waiting for the 'Other Person' to start reading chapter 1... but then it went on and on in that hard to understand grating voice, I realized she hired someone who sounds just like her to read the whole thing, omg so disappointing. What a huge self-ego-serving mistake. Arianna, you are cool, but your voice is really hard for Americans to understand and it can get very annoying. Even my wife and kids commented on how horrible the voice was. I may want to get my money back, I will give it 30 more minutes and really look for content, one last time.

What was most disappointing about Arianna Huffington’s story?

the voice is really annoying.

How could the performance have been better?

get a different voice please.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Sleep Revolution?

put more MEAT at the front of the book.

Any additional comments?

change the voice, do an ABRIDGED version.

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Listening to this book would put me to sleep...

... if it weren't for the reader.
Before downloading this book, I read the reviews about the reader's distracting Greek accent and how the content was essentially a compilation of online searches.
I thought, "surely, it can't be THAT bad!"
I was wrong. It is.
At first, I found the reader's voice charming. It did occur to me that having a heavily-accented Greek woman reading the book was unnecessary. I mean, I get it. Huffington is Greek and she sounds like this. But she's not reading the book. Her accent is unnecessary to the narration and, after a while, extremely distracting. Especially when she mispronounces words. This is not a biography. A native Greek reader is not necessary for the delivery. If the author really wanted her voice in the book, she should have read it herself.
As for the content, it really is badly organized and just a series of references to study after study.
For instance, I don't have kids, so knowing about how kids sleep, at whatever age, is not useful or interesting to me. But it's peppered throughout. And it drones on and on.
A whole chapter on dreams? WHO CARES?!
Like I said, this book WOULD put me to sleep if the reader's voice wasn't so grating.
A huge disappointment.

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