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Crystal Singer

By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
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Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal is found. Mining this strange form of crystal is a dangerous occupation but to Killa, the risks are acceptable. Remarkably, her adaptation to crystal mining is unusually rapid and easy and Killashandra advances quickly. The problem is—few people who land on Ballybran ever leave.

©2002 Anne McCaffrey (P)2022 Phoenix Books
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I Love this Story

I have read this Story so many times. I was sad it was Abridged but my Brain added the extra parts. The rewrite for this version was done well. The narrator was very good, the audio quality was iffy. But Still a wonderful Listen.

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first few minutes the audio needs adjustment...

It dus clear up but was obviously recorded from cassette tapes, but I have heard worse recordings.

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Bad transfer!

I had this audiobook on tape from when it was originally released, but as far as I can tell, there no mastering done on the tape trance and it was not handled by experts or from a master tape.). Skip this. Good story and Barbeau is a good reader but the mastering (or lack or it) destroys this.

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Well read but dissapointing

I would Love to have The whole trylogy, I have read it times and times again . This version is really dissapointing, however well read. I will not buy The next one

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Good for abridged version

After having read the original book years ago, it was nice to hear a fair reading. It would have been better if it had not been abridged.

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Wish it wasn't unabridged

Just say no to unabridged! So much information missed... so sad to miss so much character background.

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Anne McCaffrey any time

Don't care for abridgef, only bought because I could not find unabridged and wanted Anne McCaffrey.

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love this book and serries

wish it was as long as the book but it is still a great version!

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Anne McCaffrey is a great author

CRYSTAL SINGER iis the best of the trilogy of crystal singers. Just great

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bad quality recording

Sadly the sound quality was horrible. Very muffled. I even removed it from device and downloaded it again. no change. I owned this recording on Tape so know it sounds good on that medium. Shame on Audible for putting out such a poor quality product.

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