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Interesting concept

Revisado: 12-22-15

The book has an interesting concept, and the narration is good. The characters aren't exactly bad either, although I did not really care about them. The problem was that they, and everyone else is unbelievably over-emotional. I was especially annoyed when a soldier apparently went into shock after seeing something that, yea, wouldn't have been pleasant, but far from the worst thing a soldier could expect to see, and far from the worst any kid sees every day on TV.

So I didn't really connect with the characters emotional responses; they all seemed out of proportion, even the guilt for not feeling enough guilt.

Still, it was an interesting story and I liked that things were left mysterious.

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Great academic literature

Revisado: 08-11-15

I was very happy to find this a properly academic text, and not just a work of popular science. Having listened to The Great Courses on similar subjects this was the perfect deeper level I was looking for. I am going to get this book in print as well, and might even use it in my PhD dissertation.

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Not worth even the discount price

Revisado: 08-05-15

Would you try another book from Edward W. Robertson and/or Tim Gerard Reynolds?

No. Imagine how horrible the result would be if you yourself had tried your to write your own version of Robert Jordan-esqe fantasy when you were 14 years old. That's what this feels like. The narrator was OK, but the character portraits in this book was so shallow and cliché that I almost thought it a parody. After a few chapters when I realised that simply throwing the main character into the adventure without any clue as to his motivations, his personality or indeed any of his inner workings except immediate fear of getting killed and an inexplicable drive to learn magic - I turned it of in bewildered disgust.

Has The Cycle of Arawn turned you off from other books in this genre?

I have listened to a hundred books via audible and this is the first time I have written a full review. I just felt that I had to try and warn people.

There is good fantasy, and nowadays with people like GRRM and Sanderson there is no excuse for lack of character

Did Tim Gerard Reynolds do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

The narrator was fine, its just that the characters were so two dimensional that he didn't have much to work with

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Very irritating reader

Revisado: 07-09-13

What made the experience of listening to Elantris the most enjoyable?

This is an excellent book as such, but sadly enough it takes quite some time to get over – not get used to – the readers ridiculous over-dramatization and unnecessarily long pauses. After a while I could successfully ignore this though, and focus on the story. It, fortunately is quite entertaining.

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Enjoyable

Revisado: 07-09-13

What made the experience of listening to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell the most enjoyable?

While I could say that this book was too slow at times, it wouldn’t really be fair to do so since it is quite conscious, and one of the great charms about it. This is very far from the fantasy or alternate-history that you might be used to, and I believe it will go down well with those that read those kinds of books less for the action, and more for the thought-provokingness that such milieus can provide. The reading was also quite excellent.

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