Elizabeth

great story if you like history tie-ins

Revisado: 04-02-12

What made the experience of listening to The Mask of Atreus the most enjoyable?

l loved the history tie-ins. I've been listening to Archeology of the Iliad recently, to the history overlap was lots of fun. The Archaeology of the Iliad is great, by the way.

What did you like best about this story?

The history background kept popping up.

What about Dina Pearlman’s performance did you like?

She did a great job with the different voices, both male and female. Slightly stilted, so only a 4/5, but still good to listen to and easy always to understand. Good expression for each character too.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

That would be a spoiler!!

Any additional comments?

Not quite as good as AJ Hartley's Macbeth, but very enjoyable. The Macbeth he did is a masterpiece--a must-listen. Fills in all the gaps a Shakespeare stage play had to leave with completely plausible story.

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Perfect narrator for a fantastic story.

Revisado: 05-01-11

I read the first book in the Saxon series (The Last Kingdom) on my Kindle and have enjoy Pale Horseman and Lords of the North with Tom Sellwood as narrator. The Irish is strong and clear enough that you don't miss a word. And with this book you feel that you're hearing a Klingon tale (yes, I'm a trekkie with a doctoral degree and I also read lots of classical literature and no I can't stand Klingons per se but these stories are great!) WIth this narrator's pounding great expression and the narrative which sounds like an epic tale told by a scaeld, you get into the story so much you don't even mind the gore. (I'm not into gore, and there's lots of it, but it fits the time and isnt' just there to shock.) I've followed this character through this and now the next book: I've never liked him but I've always cared about him and respected him and been eager to see what he'd choose to do or have to cope with next. You can't have a good epic without lots of deus ex machina, but it's always believable. I love the historical notes Bernard Cornwell includes at the end. The themes of the books are timeless. Lastly, the anti-Christian theme is actually not offensive to me, a deeply committed conservative Baptist Bible-believing Christian involved in ministry, because I know enough history (and life) to know that much of what has been called Christian through the years has been a travesty and perversion created by institutions and power-seeking individuals just trying to use the name of Jesus Christ to achieve their own ends as Simon Magus tried to in the book of Acts. Sadly, the "church-falsely-so-called" has had a disastrous effect on people who would have at least considered Christ if they'd really understood the Gospel message. Thus I see this author as not presenting an anti-Christian message at all--and he very fairly includes some significant characters who are good examples of believable Christians--but rather pointing a finger at the damage done by counterfeits. EM

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