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Schism
- By: Catherine Asaro
- Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Schism is how it all began, harkening back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened in the ensuing years. Now Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The p is psilent!
- By Tantric Adept on 11-29-19
- Schism
- By: Catherine Asaro
- Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub
Great Story, Terrible Narrator for Sci-Fi
Reviewed: 08-07-22
I've been enjoying this whole series, and I never write a negative review, but my goodness this was the worst narration I've ever heard for a science fiction book! I understand that names or other pronunciations will change with different narrators in the same series and that's hard to avoid, but every technical term was just butchered throughout the book!
The worst was "Piss-eye-on" for psyon... like, how did no one on the recording team not mention, hey, maybe that p is silent? I realize it's not a super common weird in every day conversation perhaps, but in science fiction it, or some derivative is all over the place! And 3/4 of the book "Quasis is "quah-sis" until it's explained to be "quantum stasis"and suddenly the rest of the book is correct. But no one went back to fix the rest??!
It really pulled me out of the story regularly. I would request my money back, but I want the author to get the money she deserves. I REALLY hope it's a different narrator for the next one though...
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The First Confessor
- The Legend of Magda Searus
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Kellie Fitzgerald
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,483
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,365
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,366
In the time before the Confessors, when the world is a dark and dangerous place, where treason and treachery are the rule of the day, comes one heroic woman, Magda Searus, who has just lost her husband and her way in life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, poorly edited audiobook?
- By Joel on 12-14-12
- The First Confessor
- The Legend of Magda Searus
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Kellie Fitzgerald
Terrible Editing, and pronounciations
Reviewed: 05-25-15
Would you listen to The First Confessor again? Why?
The production on this book is terrible. Every few chapters or so, the narrator will jump back a few lines or a paragraph and read it over again. I can imagine this was intended to be edited out, but it's happened so often, that it pulls you out of the story! And you can even hear where the narrator tries a different feeling in the reading because that's the "take" they wanted to leave in the book! It's terrible. Also, the narrator consistently mis-pronounces important names and places in the books that no other narrator (nor the TV show based on these books) has ever gotten wrong. I wish this could be re-recorded because it pulls you out of what is such a good story every few minutes...
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