Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951‪)‬ LibriVox

I appreciate the narrator's time and effort at recording this book, but unfortunately his speaking style makes it nearly unbearable to listen to. The concepts of tone and musicality come to mind. The author's speaking style pays no head to them and suffers in a terrible monotonousness. Does this reflect the tone-deafness which seems to be a common trait of analytic type thinkers? Perhaps. My advice to the narrator is to try it again but follow the rules 'vary the tonal emphasis of each line' and 'speak from the depth of the diaphragm instead of from high in the throat'.

I agree with previous reviewers that this reader's delivery is very sing-songy and monotonous, without appearing to maintain any awareness of, or ability to express the logical rhetoric of Wittgenstein's language. Though enthusiastic, he seems almost to read Wittgenstein in the form of a tape-looped repeating chant. I appreciate what Librivox is doing here, but these inexperienced readers are seriously undermining what might otherwise be valuable additions to the audio library of philosophical texts. Wittgenstein's reliance on syntactical and mathematic analysis also makes the legibility of his already obtuse arguments very difficult to follow in the audio form.

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Wittgenstein is a philosopher like other distinguished philospher (Kant for instance) who is very hard to critque.