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Against All Things Ending

The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3

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Against All Things Ending

By: Stephen R. Donaldson
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Award-winning author Stephen R. Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant books have sold more than 10 million copies. In the third volume of this trilogy, Linden Avery confronts the consequences of using magical power sufficient to wake the Worm, which is capable of destroying the Land. And although the only hope may rest with Linden’s son, the boy could also bring disaster upon everyone.

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A fantastically well-read and enchanting story

The writer does an excellent job of captivating us and blowing our minds once again while the reader did a phenomenal job with voices and making each character unique. Well done

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narrator

Disliked the new narrator. I like the old one that read the rest of the series.

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Excellent character voices

I like this book even better than the others due to the narrator’s character voices. Sometimes Scott Brick reads like he is not paying attention to the storyline.

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This is an awesome book, SO well written and very easy to listen to. Prepare for some pretty heart rending scenes though. The only thing I have to criticize is... WTF is with these giants speaking with scotting brogue? That's the ONLY thing that irritates me, the rest of the time this book is awesome.

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It took a little while to get used to it

After listening to the first 8 books in the series narrated by Scott Brick, it was hard to follow and get into this one. Nothing against Tim Gerard Reynolds, but it was like all of the characters had changed.

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The wrong narrator for this series

I love, and I mean, love all of the Thomas Covenant books. One of the most sublime pleasures I have had is listening to these books. I'm an impatient reader, but listening forces me to slow down and savor each word. Tim Gerard Reynolds, however, is not the narrator for this book. He mispronounces words. The voices he gives the characters do not fit their personalities at all. The commentator who said that he makes the Haruchai sound like robot munchkins was dead on!

I eventually gave up and just picked up my hardcopy rather than torture myself by listening to another 30 hours of Reynolds botching this job.

I don't mean any offense to Mr. Reynolds here. He does a superb job on other books. But who the heck made the decision to let Scott Brick record ALL of the rest of the Thomas Covenant books but decided to let Mr. Reynolds do just this one. Boggles the mind.

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awesome!

amazing as usual, love this series, looking forward to the last book in the series!

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Intricate and deep

Against All Things Ending is a literary masterpiece. Donaldson has outdone himself, and that is saying something.

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bring back the previous narrator

Unlike previous Covenant audio books, this narrator struggled to give effective voice to the rich characters of the story. This might be the first time that I felt a narrator detracted from an audible book.

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Narrorator change took away from immersion

Although I found Tim Reynolds narration unsatisfactory that is only because after 8 books narrorated by Scott Brick, Reynolds style is as opposite from Bricks as possible. I read the 1st and 2nd Cronicles many years ago and they quickly became one of my favorite series. Other than the sudden change in narration style I'm loving this last Cronicle.

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