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The Redemption of Althalus

By: David Eddings,Leigh Eddings
Narrated by: Dennis Holland
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Summary

Mythmakers and world builders of the first order, the Eddingses spin tales that make imaginations soar. Listeners have thrilled to The Belgariad and The Malloreon, magic-filled masterworks chronicling the timeless conflict between good and evil. But with those sagas brought to their triumphant conclusions, fans were left hungry for more. Now at last the wait is over. With The Redemption of Althalus, the Eddingses have created their first-ever stand-alone epic fantasy....

It would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff of legend. He is, as all men know, a thief, a liar, an occasional murderer, an outrageous braggart, and a man devoid of even the slightest hint of honor.

Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus, unrepentant rogue and scoundrel, who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness. On his way to steal The Book from the House at the End of the World, Althalus is confronted by a cat - a cat with eyes like emeralds, the voice of a woman, and the powers of a goddess. She is Dweia, sister to The Gods and a greater thief even than Althalus. She must be: for in no time at all, she has stolen his heart. And more. She has stolen time itself. For when Althalus leaves the House at the End of the World, much wiser but not a day older than when he'd first entered it, thousands of years have gone by.

But Dweia is not the only one able to manipulate time. Her evil brother shares the power, and while Dweia has been teaching Althalus the secrets of The Book, the ancient God has been using the dark magic of his own Book to rewrite history. Yet all is not lost. But only if Althalus, still a thief at heart, can bring together a ragtag group of men, women, and children with no reason to trust him or each other. Boldly written and brilliantly imagined, The Redemption of Althalus is an epic fantasy to be savored in the listening and returned to again and again for the wisdom, excitement, and humor that only the Eddingses can provide.

©2000 David Eddings and Leigh Eddings (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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a hackneyed and pedestrian tale.

I am a great fan of Devid Eddings and was looking forward to re- entering his world but something has happened to his writing in the last 10 years . The writing is good and easy to read as you would expect, but where are the characters, where are the plots and sub plots- I managed 6 hours of this tale before giving up - the first audio book I have not been able to finish. I have 3 reasons for this. I. The tale is simple and linear with no surprises and progresses at a very slow snails pace. The main character is locked in a house for thousands of years and it really felt like it! You have to care about the main character fo engage in the tale of his life but he is a hackneyed stereotype cobbled together from previous stories. Finally the narator is to scottish accents what dick van dyke is to cockeys!!.. I cannot recommend this book and am disappointed I contributed to its No 1 bestseller strap line.

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awful accents

Narrator does the most awful cringeworthy accents. Half the characters sound like characters in a terribly cliched RomCom where they're men pretending to be Italian women but not actually knowing what Italians or women sound like and going for the most stereotypical example. The others are 'not quite right' Scottish or Italian Dracula. The snobby English accents are bearable but nasal. Very glad i have this book in hardcopy as I'm not sure i can listen to the end.

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Truly dreadful narration

I remembered the book and bought it when it was on special offer. Like all Eddings’ books it’s enjoyable but Dennis Holland really needs to give up trying to do accents. Cringeworthy across the board, but topped by the worst Scottish accent I’ve ever heard.

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loved the story.. narration is weird

I read the reviews about the iffy scotch accent and I thought it would be "nay bother".. But it's really weird. like Costner or Crowe in robin hood. had to stop listening after a while as it really grated on my ears. better a standard Midwest.. It's more like someone putting on an accent when reading at night than an actor.
At least it's not the narrator from belgariad

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A series in itself

What made the experience of listening to The Redemption of Althalus the most enjoyable?

Eddings is one of my favourite authors, but Althalus is by far the most fun of all the works. It's effectively a series within a single book, and has the freshness present in the Belgariad, but combined with the depth of the Younger Gods. Lots of fun, full of interesting characters.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Redemption of Althalus?

The biblical-style passages are fun.

What does Dennis Holland bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Audio books in general allow you to work whilst reading. Awesome!

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Creative, Magical, A must read

Would you listen to The Redemption of Althalus again? Why?

Yes I love the story line although in parts the narrator is a little boring, and seem to lose interest

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Redemption of Althalus?

The bit when he find the house at the edge of the world and starts to learn the truth

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

not completely it took me two days in parts the narrator seem to make me feel he was not interested in reading this book but having read it myself and loving Eddings others I wanted to hear it through

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Worth a listen

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meh

absolutely loved the book (read it so many times), it was ruined by the bloke reading it on this occasion

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Rubbish. Avoid. No redemption here.

Started well, then the authors forgot exactly what they set out to do. I have a suspicion that the novel started out with the title, and then they tried to work the plots to fit the title. There was no redemption for Althalus or the authors even , to be found here. Took me more than four weeks to finish listening to the book. I kept hoping that surely there will be some sort of way for the authors to redeem themselves. Nah. They were past redemption.
The characters were paper thin in depth and there was no connection other than the fact that they all seemed to have the hots for each other.
At times you wanted the authors to open one of those doors and go back into the past and prevent this travesty from happening. The bad god Dawos did not even get screen time in the book. He just allowed his underlings to get pounded. Not sure why Gent would be interested in gold. He could conjure up anything he wanted.
It is a shame we get swindled by reviews.
Take my advice dear reader and move along. Avoid seriously.

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I really tried, it was awful.

I really tried but it was one of the worst books ever I feel ripped off.

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Avoid !

Any fan of Eddings work will be sorely disappointed, unfortunately no where near as good as his early work.

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