This reader is pretty good — he can be a bit smug, especially when he reads the required lines for Librivox — I don’t know why but his attitude kind of bothers me. Otherwise, it is a good reading for which I am very grateful for this is another classic of political theory that one never seems to read beyond the fourth book or so. If you’re interested in the eighteenth century, or in the history of democratic republics, this is one to read for it was extremely influential in the founding of various modern states, including the USA in the late eighteenth century. The reader does ok at reading, though he can get monotonous, which is why I recommend the brief sessions approach. Truly, I think another reader could do better, but until then, this is preferable to the $27 audiobook version. I have a hard copy of the text and marl the passages of interest based on what I listen to in this podcast. It is by no means a short book, and here, presumably, is only the first volume. Despite my misgivings about the reader’s overall delivery, I am invested in this and hope he does complete the project, and not take my criticism too negatively, but, rather, as constructive feedback to hopefully animate this otherwise turgid work by a great and profound mind.