Worse persevering

Odd, preacher like reading of the verses but worth a listen in this version. Not one for a traditional book review but definitely worth a read.

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Narration poor

I can't comment on the content of this sacred text, obviously, but only on the way it has been read. The narration was frustratingly stilted & monotonous, & the reader struggled (or over-pronounced) many of the Arabic words & names, which was very off-putting.

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Clearly Read

read clearly... a must read for everyone. lessons in life and how to live your life in a pious and forgiving way

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Excellent, but narration is challenging

A good, easy, and relatively inexpensive purchase for anyone that has long wanted to read the Quran but has been 'too busy' to do so.
4 stars rather than 5 because I found the narration of the Noorbox version more alive, and I preferred their translation. A little more expensive, but worth it in my opinion!

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Excellent

Definitely the best English translation of the Quran on Audible. Some of the other ones I sampled were a bit intense but this one is pretty chilled.

So the Quran is the uncorrupted Word of God - probably a good idea to give it a read to find out what God wants us to know.

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Boring

Might as well of been narrated by a Robot. Plenty of wrath and punishment to worry the unbeliever.

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Turgid.

Turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

A book that, if laws against hate speech were any stricter, would be banned for same reason "Mine Campf" would be banned. For saying very much the same things about Jews in many of it's passages. In one passage it says Jews should be spared, yes, but in may others it either calls for their death or their subjugation, and calls them untrustworthy.

We are told by our politicians that the Koran says not to harm "people of the book" and that this includes Jews and Christians. This is true, but in many places it says they should be made to "feel themselves subdued", and this is an any case little comfort to Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, Pagans, Taoists, Confucians and Shintoists, not to mention Homosexuals and anyone unfortunate enough to be born a woman in a country with sharia law

Beat your wives gently.

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Repetitive beyond all endurance

I was expecting a literary masterpiece but I was sorely disappointed.
I could not believe how this work just repeats the same thing again and again....and again..dozens if not hundreds of times in exactly the same manner.

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bad performance

just bought it and having to buy another version, terrible performance with bizarrely nuanced phrasing. narrator seems more interested in his own performance than in the text.

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