What did you love best about The Idea Factory? Singularly one of the best books I have read/heard My software allows me to change the narration speed, and I highly recommend "2x" or 2 times normal speed, so you don't fall asleep, or punch the dashboard in frustration. He reads so deliberately, as if he's recounting some incredibly exciting event like a political assassination, as he recounts the researcher pushing a probe into a device to measure a current. The narrator of this book is painfully slow. I wonder how the author holds other people's attention for the whole book, when an electrical engineer like me can't maintain interest. I never finished the book, because I'm afraid there are other works I'm more interested in, and are really more interesting to read. Although this is a natural vantage point, I kept feeling like I was missing the basic intensity and passion of the individual inventor and discoverer, which is what most interests me. This book covers all the great breakthroughs at Bell Labs, through the eyes of the executives of the labs and the Nobel Prize winners who did most of the discovering.
I'm an engineer, so reading about Bell Labs and some of the most exciting discoveries and technological breakthroughs of the 20th century is of natural interest to me. If you have the faintest interest in the subject and can get past the reader constantly pausing (and probably doubling the length of the audio) then you'll enjoy this book. I don't really have much to add about the content of the book, it's exactly what it says it is and that's a great thing. With that out of the way the book itself is excellent, with the exception of the authors comments at the end of the book - he should stick with telling other peoples story.
Either he reader got better or I got used to it since by the end of the book I didn't notice it much, but that was 10+ hours before I felt that way. It's extremely annoying since the guy can read well and has a pleasant voice but the pacing with all the pauses is frustrating. As you can tell I'm really annoyed by this reader and his constant pausing, particularly in the first half of the book. If I was going to (pause) (pause) (pause) write my review (pause) (pause) in the fashion that the reader (pause) (pause) (pause) read this book (pause) (pause) it would probably read something like this sentence.
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