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Patriot Games
- Jack Ryan
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack. Instinctively, Jack dives forward to intervene. By his impulsive act, he gains both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men who will not sit on their hate. In an explosive wave of violence, Jack's new enemies will seek to make him pay for his act of salvation...with his life.
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- Jo
- 08-04-15
Great storyline terrible narration
The storyline is great and kept me immersed all the way through. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
My only issue is the narrator. Not sure who this guy is but his delivery style is absolutely terrible. I had bought another Clancy before I realised it was the same narrator. Won't make the same mistake again. Might just be my ear but his voice and delivery are just appalling.
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- Euan
- 10-02-15
Narration renders this a failure
How could the performance have been better?
A zombie computer in slow motion would have created more excitement
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I managed to get 8 minutes into this 20 hour long audiobook before giving up. Thoroughly dissapointed as I have heard many good things about the author and this series in particular. But the narrator is so monotonous, there is no character in his voice whatsoever. Very early on there is a action packed high octane moment with a car crash and explosions and guns being fired and he is reading it like he's reading out the ingredients on a box of corn flakes. Also having read other comments apparantly he gets no better and his poor pronunciation means perhaps he even gets worse.
Incase you couldn't tell... Not a happy customer, wouldn NOT recommend.
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- Simon
- 10-06-19
Maybe I’ve missed something...
...but this is deeply tedious and slow. The representations of doctors, English people and Irish people are laughable as well. Maybe his later work improved. Wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
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- Mr. K. Leyland
- 07-04-14
Terrible narration
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Great novel, however the narration was monotone.
Do you think Patriot Games needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
It was my intention to listen to all the Jack Ryan books having purchased the first two, however the narration is so poor I don't think I'll bother!!
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- Nick
- 05-04-15
Great story just an old recording
Poor quality muffled recording initially spoils the book but you get used to it as it is an excellent story
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-03-14
Shame about the narration
What was one of the most memorable moments of Patriot Games?
The fact that Dartmoor Prison has apparently moved to Cornwall!
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narration was awful. For a book set mainly in England and Ireland the narrator did very little to pronounce names or places correctly.
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- Simon
- 24-08-15
Great Story - not so great narration
Tom Clancy puts so much into his stories. he faithfully develops his characters good and bad, goes into excellent detail with becoming boring and delivers compelling stories. Oddly a narrator was selected who didn't do the story full justice. I'm not sure he's quite so bad as some of the other reviewers make out but he is monotone and unlike the author made no attempt at researching the UK as part of his brief.
I thought it was well listening to but I do understand why others had problems.
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- Travis C
- 01-06-20
Cringingly cheesy
As pointed out the sound quality of this recording isn't at the normal standard you would expect from Audible. It's not unlistenable but slightly grating and off putting.
The storyline however is however dire, the author can't help living out his fantasies. Meeting the dashing and brave Prince Charles; who we learn is much in love with Diana. Saving royal lives, being given a knighthood as a reward, in friendly terms with the Queen and Prince of Edinburgh, the works. Good luck not vomiting through this drivel and the rest of this all American good guy's heroics.
The narrator is generally good, until he tries to pronounce any place names, and fails nearly everytime.
Overall the book is bearable if you just accept it as low brow easy listening, but there are so many much better books you would be better not wasting your time and money on this one.
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- MR B.
- 08-07-19
Slow
Very strange narration...sounded like the guy had been sedated. Unfortunately the story tends to have the same effect on the listener. There are also a range of comically bad stereotypes of English and Irish people. There is a lot of excruciating prose thrown in as well. This wasn’t for me.
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- June Kay
- 24-01-15
An enjoyable book
Whilst I agree the reader gets some pronunciation wrong, this is mainly due to the difference in UK English & American English.
This does not defer from the story and the plain tones used is suitable for this type of story
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