Horrible Reader
Reviewer schwael
August 06, 2006
I guess since this download is free, you get what you pay for. Brian Johnson reads Emerson in the way you'd probably expect a CEO to read philosophy. It is incredibly difficult to understand him, because he constantly places emphasis in the wrong place when he reads a sentence. For instance when reading the phrase "not to man, but from man..." Johnson reads it, "not to MAN, but FROM man..." instead of "not TO man, but FROM man," and it is clear he mistakenly anticipated how the sentence would read. This audio file is full of such mistakes and it is nearly impossible to derive meaning from a speaker who doesn't understand the words he is saying.
The only reason this recording gets 2 stars at all is because of the bit of Emerson's wisdom that can be grasped despite Johnson's debacle of it.