
Consider Phlebas: Booktrack Edition
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Narrated by:
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Peter Kenny
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By:
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Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
The first audiobook in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces listeners to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
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Narration is extremely fast, found I was missing bits until I kicked it down to 80% speed, which seemed to be just right.
Great start, then peters out
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Peter Kenny brings the masterpiece to life
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Booktrack adds immersion with headphones
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Great action, a bit soft on science
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good story though
Too fast
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Culture Series is Amazing!
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also was wary of the whole "booktrack" thing fearing that it would be gimmicky and distracting but I'm glad I rolled the dice on it. all the effects and music was tastefully done and only added to the experience without taking anything away.
kenny did a great job in narration and all the character voices but I ding him a star because when things get exciting and the prose gets terse, the tempo of his reading increases as well to emphasize the energy of the moment no doubt. but especially when there is a lot happening it ended up making me confused rather than excited and I wished he would just use tone of voice rather than pace of reading to convey tension or action and just let the short sentences and terse action of the text carry the energy.
but in any case, a great trip down memory lane and am glad to be able to put consider phlebas into my favorites rotation.
now if audible would only get excession added to their library!
mindblowing
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Almost perfect Sci/fi Opera!
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may edit this review when I finish that
amazing performance! story was good but had issues
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Reconsider Phlebas
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