Excellent wisdom

Although the narration sometimes feels more like a comic novel, it actually suits the content of this book very well. The author uses a gently teasing tone as he delivers some rather serious and challenging advice on how to make better use of one's time. I loved it, and will certainly listen to it again!

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Too short and yet complete

Would you listen to How to Live on 24 Hours a Day again? Why?

Yes I would relisten to this book and anticipate to do so often. The struggle I find in getting through the day and week. Thank you to this book for some great ideas which I am working on putting in to practice.

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The Best 1.5 hours of reading (listening) Ever!

After 105 years in print I am amazed that it took me so long to find this book. It surpasses all of the time management books ever written. Move over Covey, Franklin and Carnegie this man is a genius. I loved the old literary "Jeeves" style of writing but it may put some people off. However, I encourage you to persist and focus on the core principles that Bennett is trying to teach. If you are fed up with having too much busyness in your life and you want to enjoy "living" on 24 hours a day instead of existing then I invite you to apply these principles into your life without delay.

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Time management, self-improvement classic

Short, sharp and direct. Excellent observations and suggestions of how to utilise your time. Loved the pace and old-fashioned tone that still resonates today. 1.5hrs very well spent.

Ironically a waste of my time

I had hoped to find some wisdom, but no, he seemed to have very set ideas on what constitutes making good use of time and he took a very long time to get around to that part. It was a very, very pompous and rambling book. I think the narrator captured his tone perfectly.

Excellent

The book is a classic and still has the ability to improve one's life considerably if it's taken to heart. But the performance and it's well-judged slight pomposity makes it a perfect listen.

super

really pleased that I spent time listening to this
a very useful perspective on how to make use of all the hours in the day!

a timeless way of thinking about the time you have

the examples are so out of date that I doubt they apply to anyone at all. yet the central ideas are so acurate that somehow it still applies.

Patronising tone to narration

A great book in content. I should recommend it in printed text or kindle rather than audio even though 90% of my reading is on audible (while dog walking). Some books just don't narrate well.

One for Arnold Bennett Fans

The narrator I have to say starts pretty poorly and at first, I thought it was one of those shaky Librivox recordings. Made by those good-willed but misguided individuals who perceive themselves as great narrators. In this caseEric Brooks improves a little but that might I got used to it, which is not the same thing as being enjoyable.
The first half or so is good highlighting ways in which time is wasted. And is very mildly humourous. It seems somewhat like one of those articles found in in-flight magazines. And had Bennett lived in current times would have added to his coffers writing for them However the second half had more of an angle of 'self-improvement' and seemed to offer little insight. So basically it falls being neither funny -wise enough nor relevant to time-management in the current society. Purely one for the Arnold Bennett aficionado.