A good beginning

Nice apart from a little grammatical errors. Expecting more audible books on Philosophy. Hope to listen more

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Brilliant Introduction, the reader however...

This is one of the best intros to Indian Philosophy out there. The book skips the nitty-gritty stuff, so the authors won’t leave you scratching your head. It's like a bird’s-eye view – you can’t see the expressions on the citizens' faces, just the tiny dots. But most importantly, it shows you the city map. Don't buy this if you want deep details. For that, you should grab Radhakrishnan's two-volume paperback "Indian Philosophy" by Oxford University Press, available on Amazon and in most bookstores. You might also want the five-volume "History of Indian Philosophy" by DasGupta. These two books dig into the finer points. Radhakrishna will make sure you feel the philosophical position in your bones (like, you can buy awesome stuff in the city streets). DasGupta will take you through the detailed history of argument-building and debates on existential issues in Indian Philosophy – the alleyway brawls, so to speak.

But this book? It's just the city map. Got it? It's not low quality at all. People say it’s basic and bad, but I know better. This book is a brilliant intro. Trust me, you’ll love it. Just remember, this book isn’t the end-all-be-all. There’s more out there, finer stuff. This book is like tertiary literature. Radhakrishnan and DasGupta are secondary literature. The original Bhagavad Gita commentaries, Brahma Sutra commentaries, Dhammapada, Nyaya-Vartika, and tons of other texts are primary literature. If you dive into the primaries, you'll go deep. Keep that in mind.

About the audiobook version, the narrator messed up big time. He didn’t follow the rules for spelling Sanskrit terms romanized in English. Vijanana, for example, is written in this way but is spelled as Vigyana. Narrator doesn't know this rule. Blunder. He clearly didn’t do his homework. If I were him, I’d never make that mistake. When you're reading a book full of Sanskrit terms, you need to research before recording. This recording will be around forever, man. The narrator should have been more careful. All the Sanskrit and Pali words are misspelled. Anyone who knows Sanskrit, Hindi, or Marathi will spot this mistake repeatedly. Every non-Devanagari speaker will mispronounce these terms. A major blunder by the narrator. He didn’t do the necessary homework. Alas! An avoidable error has been committed. And it is here to stay. But ofcourse he is a good man. Sounds jolly and lovely, overall.

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Very poor narration.

Book content is very good but very poor modulation and narration. I wish Audible offers the text version (Kindle ebook would do) along with the Audio book so that we can follow better especially if the narration is not that good like this specific book.

Horrible pronunciation of Sanskrit words. Very often they were pronounced wrong and some case possibly changing the meaning of the word.

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Boring

I found it not informative and interesting at all, rather quite scholarly. Maybe more apt for philosophy students..

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the speaker doesn't know how to pronounce

the person who is reading the book is just spoiling the fun out of this marvelous book. he doesn't know how to pronounce properly the indian names and words and even mispronounces the basic easy words and sometime he pronounces so wrong that the meaning itself gets changed.

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