Good stories, but hard to listen to

This book has some very good stories in it but the author used so many repetitive superlatives and hyperbole that it
became monotonous to listen to. . Those stories could have stood on their own without the continuous embellishment and overstatements of the author.

For me it was like a meal that had been over cooked and oversalted. Part of the blame I believe is due to the narration.
The narrator never developed a cadence. It was continuous full on emphasis of every adjective, adverb and superlative that the author wrote. At various times I ended up fast forwarding through the excessive descriptions. In literature as in art, the writer, or artist has to know when enough is enough.