One of my favourite books, awful narration

If you're buying this book, you've probably read it in the past and love it like me.
The narrator almost ruined it for me. He has managed to make all of your favourite characters sound very, very irritating. Tania sounds like a Tory MP. Bupu is a redneck. He's also seen fit to choose very irritating pronunciations of key names mostly by inserting hyphens. Dray-conians really chafes. "Kitchara," grates a lot. Maybe you pronounce these things the same as the narrator, I don't know, but when you've heard them in your head for the best part of 30 years one way and they come out another..... it's not fun.
Should've gotten the guy who is doing Gemmel's work.

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Thoroughly Enjoyable

I first read this story as a 7 year old boy, a family member had found the books in her attic and everyone knew I was heavily into reading back in the 90's
To re read/hear this story really was just as enjoyable and exciting as the very first time.

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Not bad but slightly dated

Been some time since I read it for the first time. The story is slightly dated very 80s

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Dreadful Performance

Stuttering, monotone and slow. There was no rhythm or performance. Unlistenable. The story itself is a childhood favourite and is fantastic.

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Fantastic story but unemotional narrative

Where does Dragons of Autumn Twilight rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Pretty high because I just love this classic story, iti s everything that Dungeons and Dragons ought to be, put into story form and brought to life through an exciting storyline and colourful characters that have a depth and life of their own.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Raistlin, always the underdog, always hated and mistrusted yet the only one throughout the entire series with the greatest amount of power... and that underlying sense of moral guidance that redeems his character just at the last moment.

What didn’t you like about Paul Boehmer’s performance?

Terrible, too mechanical and totally unemotional. Every word is enunciated to the last syllable and the timing is well off. This narrator does not have a feel for the story, and it seems he is just narrating a bunch of meaningless words from a page which has been put in front of him for no other purpose than to read it out loud. Ax Norman would have been a MUCH better choice in my humble opinion...

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

There were many not just one, but to mention a few, the moment when Tasslehof dies trying to open a door for Tika when they are under the spell of Lorac... the moment when Raistlin finally gets the dragon orb under control and the sense of pure ecstasy that he felt once it's knowledge was his... the final battle with the queen of darkness... need I say more?

Any additional comments?

I love the Dragonlance books, they are very well written and there is so much depth and history to the world which is brought to life by the characters under the guidance of the authors. I cannot praise these books highly enough.

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It's old school D&D

I really got caught up in it. It's not at the level of 2021 but I enjoyed the memories it brought back.

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Great book, delivery could have been better.

The story is typical swords and sorcery, the stuff of Dungeons and Dragons and is fun from the get go. The narrator though at times seems bored and doesn't convey with any convincing, the peril or drama of certain situations. This did spoil the telling of this tale for me but shouldn't put you off such a high fantasy ride.

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a great book

I love the dragonlance books, I have read them again and again, I highly recommend them 😊

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Narrative could be better

Great story. Narrator provides good portral of characters but the remaining narration comes over stilted/fragmented, which I found irritating.

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Great Story. Mechanical Performance

I loved the Dragonlance saga since my teenagers years and these tales started a love affair with genre that lasts to this day. Unfortunately the performer chosen to lend his voice to these stories does not do justice to the them, the characters or this beautiful world in general: he manages to sound robotic as if he was a software reading rather than a human with odd pauses, sing-along tone and unnatural and unnecessary accents.
Truly a shame for this magnificent story and world.

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