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Spartan
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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- P. E. Haynes
- 15-06-11
Excellent - particularly the narration
(I rarely give 5 stars; a good, decent book deserves 3 as standard)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a good story, with a decent pace and no obvious gaps from being an abridged version (though I've never read the full book so I might have missed something!)
Much of the story is from the position of the helots, the servant/ slave class that supported the Spartans. But don't let that fool you - it's a great story covering the famous battle of the 300, but more interestingly, the aftermath of that battle.
The story was really brought to life by the excellent narration - I can't praise Jacobi enough. It really highlighted just how good an audiobook can be if the narrator is top class, which Derek Jacobi is.
A good, well-paced, brilliantly read story!
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- Netman
- 24-07-15
Sorry Derek
A good book, but had I the chance to go back, I would have read it personally, rather than listening to it. I like Derek Jacobi's voice normally, but in this he just irritated me a little. I won't be too criticising as it's all a matter of opinion, but his voice for the 'speech' parts was not quite right in my opinion. Sorry Derek.