The Redemption of Althalus

Meh...

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Cut out most of it. Lots of pointless, boring scenes.

What was most disappointing about David Eddings and Leigh Eddings ’s story?

They seemed to have a format for all their stories, and they followed the same format which makes all the stories sound alike with only names changed. They needed to break out of their self-imposed box.

What didn’t you like about Dennis Holland’s performance?

Althalus is supposed to be an illiterate, yet good natured thief but his voice is that of an aristocrat, bad Scottish accent for another set of people, and a third group who sound as though they came from Transylvania.

Was The Redemption of Althalus worth the listening time?

No

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Too Easy for Althalus

What disappointed you about The Redemption of Althalus?

There seems to be no real problems for the heroes of the story. They just go along, and everything is either provided, or just works out fine. Nobody causes them any real trouble and anything they need they just get. It's all too easy and becomes boring. I unfortunately got so bored that I stopped partway through the book. Maybe it became more interesting later?

What could David Eddings and Leigh Eddings have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I've really enjoyed other Eddings' novels - I read through the Belgariad and the Ruby Knight series, and what I really enjoyed was how there was difficulty and then how that difficulty was overcome.
Give Althalus some problems. At least make him hunt food and cook it, or go hungy instead of just saying, "beef" and having cooked beef appear.

What does Dennis Holland bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I enjoyed the vocal variety for the different charactars.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Redemption of Althalus?

I didn't actually get all the way through.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

The story is amazing

Althalus is a thief, but in the end he is a hero. how does this happen, easy when the gods use you as the champion.

Althalus has the greatest luck being a theif, that is until he decides to look at civilization and his luck sours, we all have off days after all. but when he comes home his luck stays bad. after visiting his friends and relaxing a stranger comes in and offers him a easy job. or so we though.

the Eddings team does it again but this time writing it all in one book. the growth, challenges and dilemmas come together

I did not like the performance of Dennis Holland, he does not have the range of vocal talent needed. all you can do to tell the difference between the ladies is the horrible accent and the cadence of there speech. the men where not much better. It made it hard to enjoy a great piece of work

3 of 5 people found this review helpful

Worst written book I have ever seen

Would you try another book from David Eddings and Leigh Eddings and/or Dennis Holland?

The level of writing and the story are awful. I enjoyed previous books but this was a poor effort

What was most disappointing about David Eddings and Leigh Eddings ’s story?

Bad story, poorly developed characters, no conflict, bad dialogue, repetitive to the point it was distracting and pointless

What aspect of Dennis Holland’s performance would you have changed?

He didn't stand a chance with such poor material. The story was painful to listen to and some of the accents and character depictions were very bad

4 of 7 people found this review helpful

Brilliant Narration Brilliant Book

Superb.
At first I was iffy with the Narrator but I loved Dennis Holland.
His accents and Character voices were perfect and brought another dimension to the book.
As usual (I'm a huge David Eddings fan) the story line is fun and adventurous.
This book requires a bit more thinking than the others as some ideas are more complex especially when they go into talking about time and future etc but it's such a great read and I've read it several times. Each time is more magical as I pick up on concepts and ideas I may have missed before.
The. Aeration makes it that much more interesting.

Bad Narrator

I grew up reading David Eddings and Leigh Eddings books.
So when I saw that I listen to them, having a voice saying the words and comparing what I had read those words in my head. How the voice would sound, make you feel, etc. I have downloaded both the belgariad and the elenium. Both have great narrators.

My main issue is that this book redemption of althalus, was always my favorite. And I feel that the narrators different voices are basically all the same. You can hear his voice in it, and not the characters.

Granted I could never come close to do what he does for a living, I just felt the voice for these characters don’t match this narrator.

wonderful

epic story of magic, love and loss, the characters are well balanced with a wonderful world in which they play. great stuff.

Better turn your volume up!

What didn’t you like about Dennis Holland’s performance?

The narration is deplorable. The voices for the individual characters is are annoying, it almost ruined one of my favorite books. It was also so quiet you have to listen in a sound proof booth or you might miss parts of the story.

Great book

David Eddings is one of my favorite authors! This narration really brought the story to life. The voices were much different than I had originally imagined but, it really made the story fun.

The narrator is awful!!

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I love this book i have read it many times. I was looking to listen to something on my way to work. The narrator didn't do the characters any justice they all sound like awful eastern European voices and it is hard to tell which character is talking.