Maronites in History Book

This is a case where the format may make the difference in my ability to appreciate a book. I generally like Andrew Greeley as an author, albeit only being familiar with his fiction and not having read his nonfiction, but after getting just a short ways into this, I am abandoning it as the narrator did not work for me in the audiobook version. Dick Hill reminded me of an inexperienced preacher that endeavors to throw emphasis into every other word to the extent that that speech style began to draw and predominate in my attention, utterly distracting from content. The high accentuation of pitch rise and fall felt unnatural to the material and I began to feel irritated rather than engaged. I may try to find the paper version of this book to read, but the audiobook is a no for me.