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Narrated by:
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James Patrick Cronin
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Elizabeth Moon
Paksenarrion was the finest paladin her world would ever see. But Paksenarrion could never have become a fighter at all had it not been for he who had come before: Gird, the liberator, who taught his people that they could fight - and win - against their Mage-born rulers.
And after Gird came one more: Luap, Gird's sworn follower and the king's half-breed bastard. Riven by internal conflict, Luap dare not lie and cannot tell the truth, nor face the future.
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The Story of a Man Turned Saint
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wow!
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Gird's story
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An adventure and story of becoming!
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4.5 star story, very interesting, 5 star listen
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What is made very clear is the day-to-day reality of oppression of the serfs and peasants and the sometimes cruel abuse, sometimes relatively decent noblesse oblige of their foreign overlords in a feudal system. I am not sure I have ever read a fantasy that so clearly and movingly describes the grinding poverty, oppressive petty taxation, chronic undernourishment, and occasional violence faced by serfs of a bad lord, as well as their personal and cultural coping mechanisms and their silent resistence.
The story is not fast-moving, which was fine. What gave it 4.5, not 5, for me, was that some of the history seemed a bit didactic to me and a few of Gird's successes were a bit too easy -- although one could see that as the will of the Goddess helping him behind the scenes! Also, some of the characters (not most major ones -- there is a large cast) had too few moving parts, although none were simple modern stereotypes.
At the end, though, Elizabeth Moon ties up everything in a moving epilogue which was more literally and ethically satisfying than a simple happy ending, and which had me choked up.
Moving and Real: 4.5
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How can you not love Gird?!
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Great thoughts inspiring
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Awesome writer
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One of the best of its kind.
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