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  • Woken Furies

  • Altered Carbon, Book 3
  • By: Richard Morgan
  • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
  • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (592 ratings)
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Woken Furies

By: Richard Morgan
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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Summary

This is high-action, ideas-driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. 

Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try to get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. 

And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything.

Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. 

Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage.

©2005 Richard Morgan (P)2006 Tantor Media

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Poor quality recording

I've enjoyed Morgan's books (and own them in a number of formats - digital and analogue) and was looking forward to listening to the further adventures of Kovacs but didn't make it more than 5 minutes into this talking book. It sounded as though it had been recorded on a Walkman in my garage. In addition the narrator pronounced "Kovacs" with a hard "c" - something that the books themselves decry as incorrect!

I own 30-40 Audible titles and this is the worst quality recording I've come across. It is very disappointing and shows little respect for an enjoyable story.

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Don't listen to this if you liked the first two!

why would they change the narrator for the third in a series? then add in vocal shifting for some elements and not tell the narrator how to pronounce the name of the lead character?! if you can get past these frustrating points it's good but it annoyed me every step of the way :(

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Pronounced Kovacs wrong the whole time

I can't believe they got his name wrong, they make a big thing of it on the first two books, then this narrator gets it wrong. Bad show.
Great book though.
Narrator also needs to lay off the effects.

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The Weakest in this Trilogy

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, if anything to finish the trilogy.

Would you be willing to try another book from Richard Morgan? Why or why not?

Yep. Although this third installment was a bit ropy, it was still enjoyable. The first two were superb.

Would you be willing to try another one of William Dufris’s performances?

Absolutely, but no thanks to this audio book. He was brilliant in Cryptonomicon, so I know he can do (a lot) better. I can only assume that this was poor direction by the producers.

Any additional comments?

What were the producers thinking? Did they even listen to the first book? KovaCH, not KovaKS! Takeshi even makes a point about it in the beginning of the first book.

I was binge listening to the trilogy, so having a different narrator in the third book was a bit off-putting. Not because Dufris is bad (see above), but because it was so different from the first two. It's like changing the main actor in a TV series between seasons.

And what's with the cheap audio effects they put on the "dream sequences"? At first I thought they botched the recording. It completely irritated me and, in my opinion, has no place in an audio book.

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The narrator has been fixed!!

This new version has the same narrator as the previous two books now, which makes is so much better. Todd McLaren does a fantastic job just as he did with Altered Carbon and Broken Angels.

Storywise this is again an excellent Takeshi Kovacs story, based this time on his home planet or Harlan's World. If you liked the first two, you'll like this one.

So time to pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again!

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Absolutely awful narrator!!!!

The first two books are brilliant and I enjoyed them so much I've listened to them more than once.

Much of the enjoyment is owed to Todd Maclaren's performance and portrayal of the tough and grizzled protaginist Takeshi Kovacs.

William Dufris' interpretation is so disconnected from the first two books, so irritating in his speech patterns and incorrect pronunciation of the lead's surname, that after an hour I had to scrap it.

I'll buy the paperback and read it instead.

What on earth were they thinking changing the narrator for the final book?
Really, really disappointed.

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Terrible echo sound effects

Completely unlistenable. I loved the first two books but I couldn't get past the the first couple 9f paragraphs of this as the narrator was drenched in awful reverb.

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Different Narrator

Eventually came around but the change in performer was very jarring with already established pronounciations.

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Terrible production

I don't want to criticise the performance, it always takes me a while to adjust to a new narrator but as another reviewer said, changing the voice actor for book 3 is like changing the lead actor on a tv show between seasons. Personally I found it jarring but would no doubt have got used to the performance.

What I can't get on with however, and I'm returning this book after chapter 1, are the terrible voice effects others have mentioned already. The echo effect for the whole of the prologue literally had me thinking my headphones had developed a fault. As it sounds like it's going to be a recurring effect for the rest of the book, along with totally unnecessary muffled phone voice, I'm getting off here and will stick to the ebook.

Have rated the story 5 stars after only 1 chapter as I don't want to criticise the author until I've read the book!

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So Glad that Todd is back!

So glad that they re did this with Todd, the old narrator was god awful.

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