There are some narrators whose voices or style you just don't click with. I was very lucky, early on (cassettes fed into the car radio, be sad for me) to come across Patrick Stewart reading A Christmas Carol, completely mesmerizing; and Ron Moody reading Oliver Twist. Moody played Fagin on Broadway, and performed all the voices in his full-length narration. Stunningly awesome. Of course, I approached these with lowered expectations, Dickens, you know, a yawn, dutifully making up for what I failed to read in school... And THEN, these audiobooks and subsequent ones were so good that I'd had to pull over (NYC traffic) when I couldn't concentrate on the road. Feel free to try and discard different narrators; maybe even start with a story you like and know. Look at your interface, Hoopla and Libby allow you to slow the reading speed; I had to do that for Picture of Dorian Gray.