On the Duties of the Clergy is the first audiobook that I’ve had to abort halfway through. It’s not the speaker (who sounds a bit like a European Sheng-Ji Yang), but the subject matter that is stopping me.
I suppose that I expected something more like a procedual manual of clerical rituals, or an in-depth discussion of a clergyman’s duty to his people, but the book opens with an in-depth defence of Christian virtue. Unfortunately the defence of these virtues is based solely upon biblical citations. These grew tedious and I chose not to continue.
This is a weakness of audiobooks, I guess. They are incredibly difficult to skim. Speeding up the sound files is an option, but makes momentary lapses in attention even harder to recover from.