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- Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This, the author's definitive edition of the sequel to Ender's Game, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!.
Critic Reviews
- Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1987
- Nebula Award Winner, Best Novel, 1986
"The most powerful work Card has produced. Speaker not only completes Ender's Game, it transcends it." (Fantasy Review)
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- Peter
- 13-08-2014
Great story, Pathetic narration
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The use of so many narrators who come and go almost in mid sentence, totally destroyed the book for me. Throw in random bits of music without context makes a disappointing listening experience.
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- Daniel
- 05-05-2015
what is with the random music and changes?
disappointed with the performance a great story though, it just switches with no rhythm or reason
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- Bennett
- 28-02-2016
Not your average performance.
If you are humming and/or hahing, I suggest downloading this book, then likely enjoying that immensely. Now that is out of the way:
I think I understand what was attempted here, but I don't believe that the execution quite got there.
Each and every narrator has a striking voice, and quite probably have pulled off the entire narrative themselves. The point is, however, that the narrative is not of one character, nor the 'reader's' internal voice, but the 'speaker'.
An engaging story telling device, but one that ended out trapping them. Having the narrators not attempt character voices for the most part lead to confused dialogue, as well as a striking contrast when, probably due to long and unclear dialogue sections in the text, the narrator did bring in some affliction to distinguish characters.
The trap set and sprung wasn't too much of a distraction from brilliant performances from a strong text with good direction.
What was a complete distraction, however, was the odd, interfering, and downright annoying music cues. Just idiotic.
A literary (or aurally) device attempted, stuck with until the bitter end is not necessarily a bad thing. This particular performance brought real emotion as I was listening. The music at the "important" sections of the plot broke the experiment nearly beyond repair.
Were the combination of performance, text, and direction not so strong, I would have asked for a refund.
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- Ian
- 21-05-2015
<br />great but not what you're expecting.
very different to ender game but a great look at what the future might be like
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- Hobie
- 09-01-2023
Remarkably inventive
And the plot plays so well. Politics, a bit of religion and some philosophy in a wonder Sci Fi Opera
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- Terry
- 11-01-2022
Disappointing compared with Enders Game
It took a long time for the story to hook me in. For most of the story, the characters were not particularly relatable or even remotely likeable... Which was an integral part of the story line itself, but made it hard for me to care about what happened to the characters.
The narration was just horrible. Truly horrific. Different voices for the same characters, random snippets of oddly placed music, unconvincing voice actors, a unnecessarily forlong and whiny Valantine narration. I've listened to many hundreds of hours of audio books; this one was the worst with regard to breaking the fourth wall.
The last quarter of the book was more engaging as the mystery slowly revealed itself. But it was a hard slog getting to that point. If the character of Ender hadn't resonated with me in Enders Game, it is unlikely that I would have been invested enough to finish this book.
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- Koala11
- 03-05-2021
Mostly harmless...ahmm...boring
After the strong start of the first novel in the series, this one feels parochial, low stakes, and quite removed from science fiction. The religious and philosophical musings are tedious, and that's really the bulk of the novel The accents adopted by the narrators are a nice touch in theory, in practice it made for an even more unenjoyable experience for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-05-2020
fabulous
Such a fantastic book. Couldn't stop listening. Amazing characters, amazing concept. utterly enthralling.... pure genius
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- Peter W
- 27-12-2018
fantastic story slightly let down by the narration
brilliant story and each narrator was great but the issue I had was the myriad of narrators which seemed to chop and change in a disruptive way and the volume levels of each narrator was different making it a pain to listen to while going to sleep. minor complaint in the big scheme of things. brilliant in every other way.
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- James
- 02-07-2017
Such a great piece of literary fiction
It is an intense story, especially in the beginning with lots of bad things happening to the characters, but it shows how love can overcome circumstances and bring resolution.
The book also has an interesting plot of what would happen if we tried to integrate completely different cultures.
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