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The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]

Corum, Book 1

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The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]

By: Michael Moorcock
Narrated by: full cast, Nanette Savard, Chris Genebach, Tracy Olivera, Nick DePinto, Evan Casey, Todd Scofield, Scott McCormick, Andy Clemence, Thomas Keegan, Ken Jackson, Bob Payne
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About this listen

The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear.

Prince Corum is the last remaining Vadhagh. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina....

Performed by Nanette Savard, Chris Genebach, Tracy Olivera, Nick DePinto, Evan Casey, Todd Scofield, Scott McCormick, Andy Clemence, Thomas Keegan, Ken Jackson, Bob Payne, Eva Wilhelm, Matthew Keenan, Richard Rohan, Patrick Bussink, Terence Aselford.

©1971 Michael and Linda Moorcock (P)2016 Graphic Audio, LLC Epic Fantasy

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Took a while to get used to the accents and somewhat dated sounding narration, but go with it, and listen to one of the greatest, epic stories to not, as yet hit the big screen. Great sound effects and interesting use of reverb for thought narrative.

Close your eyes, and enjoy a rich fantasy performance.

I would love to see someone make the film.

Now make the film

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If you can stomach the posh narrator Corum’s ‘Oirish’ accent, the sudden dark turn the story takes not far into the narrative and a graphic torture scene that he endures near to the start of the story, and don’t mind a rather spontaneous love story, then you will absolutely enjoy this story of Prince Corum and his multiversal adventures to avenge his people and protect his great love from the trickery of chaos gods and barbarian hordes.

Highly enjoyable once I got more and more into Corum’s journey and very well voice acted with a high quality production value to it. Much better than I expected and will definitely get the next title in the series, of which to my surprise are about 5/6 in total!

Intriguing and brilliantly acted

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The narrator speaks as if trying to pass an elocution lesson which is very wearing to begin with. the actors are better. but this isn't Moorcock's best book. probably need to be a Moorcock fan before you start.

not Moorcock's best nor well executed

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Story is good.

Main narrator doing an awful attempt at an English accent. It's brutal.

Terrible maybe main narrator.

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The narrator is the distractingly "posh". Really annoying. She chews up the pronunciation of some words so much, that you are left baffled as to how anybody could create a spoken word so far removed from its spelling.

It's like someone doing an act... badly. It sounds like the detestably fat-tongued Toyah Wilcox putting on a very bad "upper-crust" voice.

Great story. Horrible narration.

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