it should be great if I was a child and wanted to listen to a story, but I want to listen to THE BOOK. couldn't finish it, too obnoxious.

This is pretty bad. The main narrator is fine, but the cast makes the other characters near unbearable. Most egregious this reading doesn’t follow the books (I noticed this almost immediately) and leaves a good amount of text out. Don’t waste your credit.

I don’t mind the narrator using different voices but this just hurts my head to listen to...

The story is fine. My only complaint is about Frodo and Sam's voices.