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Slow start but worth staying with it / fantastic performance

Revisado: 03-01-24

A really cleverly written take on the Arthurian legend. I got it on sale but would've been a good buy even if full price. And Mr Keeble could read a Chinese food takeout menu and make it seem like a rich & compelling narrative... awesome performance.

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Solidly entertaining.

Revisado: 05-23-23

Garviel Loken is a badass.
Jonathan Keeble could read a Chinese food menu and make it sound like high drama.
That is all.

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Very enjoyable story, competent narration, BUT...

Revisado: 03-16-23

whoever was responsible for the table of contents dorked it up big-time. If it was a human entering the chapter titles - that human has no earthly idea about WH40K or its lore. if it was a speech recognition engine - then the engine blows & whoever QA'd the output was totally asleep at the switch. chapter titles included such classics as "For Home and the Thrown" (sic). I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that wasn't the kind of "throne" ADB was getting at.... BUT...
then again, at least there WAS a table of contents, even if only the short bus version. Too many other 40K books have nothing but chapter #'s listed out in the ToC, especially the short story compilations. C'mon GW, cool it with the JV product support. I'm giving you $65 for an Abaddon miniature made from $3 worth of materials... I KNOW you can afford a Table of Contents... yeesh... (this is all said with much love btw)

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Classic story & performance

Revisado: 10-09-22

Kenneth Branagh is the best narrator who is NOT named Morgan Freeman... and he's a close second anyhow.

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Believe the hype. The best audiobook in years.

Revisado: 08-22-22

Warhammer 40K books are good fun and some (the best ones) even have complex plots with well developed characters... and then there's this, which is one of those random creative diamonds the universe spits out from time to time. Who would have known? A truly wonderful and funny and memorable plot with 2 of the best characters ever written in the 40K mythos. Only topped by the narration, which I think is the gold standard for audiobooks. Period. All of 'em. Reed is fantastic - and he can roll R's better than any human being I've ever heard.

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Translated too strictly

Revisado: 02-06-22

Great overall. Every word was translated, even those traditionally said in German. Slightly distracting.

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Solid narration w. some clunky German translations

Revisado: 12-07-21

Every German word was translated into English, even words usually pronounced in German (universally).

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Classic Quantum intro/now w. Jude Law!(not really)

Revisado: 09-25-21

I read this freshman year of college, around when I knew I wa going to major in physics. I loved it then just as I love it now. In the 20 yrs since, I've seen it referenced many times by profs, working research physicists, and mass media. The complex concepts are explained effectively and with care towards not diluting the essential core physical principles down to nothing in the name of simplification and accessibility. the text in 2021 is definitely showing its age, more than 35 years I believe since it's initial publishing - it's particularly obvious when talking about the fantastic new technology -- Lasers!! (I think a new / updated edition would be very successful. Looking at you publisher.)

An obvious (and amusing) thing about the narration performance is that the reader sounds exactly, and I mean exactly, like Jude Law... after extended listening periods, I would lapse into delusions where I was suddenly listening to The Talented Mr. Ripley... Great novel/pretty good movie - and 100% irrelevant to quantum mechanics though...
Overall the narrator does quite a good job - but there are several famous physicist's names that get mispronounced. Leonard Euler is one name repeatedly flubbed. Otherwise a very solid audio set.

Bottom line: If anyone you know &/or care for is interested in physics - this book is worth the time. I haven't met anyone who has not benefited from at least some part of it.

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Best narration of the Pacific War trilogy.

Revisado: 09-22-21

Grover Gardner is the coolest. Very engaging narrative which is, overall, worth your time and attention.

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