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  • Stone of Tears

  • Sword of Truth, Book 2
  • By: Terry Goodkind
  • Narrated by: Jim Bond
  • Length: 38 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (232 ratings)

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Stone of Tears

By: Terry Goodkind
Narrated by: Jim Bond
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An epic of awesome power from Terry Goodkind, the second installment of the bestselling series A Sword of Truth

Kahlan has at last gained the one goal she had always thought was beyond her grasp...love. Against all odds, the ancient bonds of secret oaths, and the dark talents of men long dead, Richard has won her heart.

Amid sudden and disastrous events, Richard's life is called due to satisfy those treacherous oaths. To save his life, Kahlan must forsake Richard's love and cast him into the chains of slavery, knowing there could be no sin worse than such a betrayal.

Richard is determined to unlock the secrets bound in the magic of ancient oaths and to again be free. Kahlan, alone with the terrible truth of what she has done, must set about altering the course of a world thrown into war. But even that may be easier than ever winning back the heart of the only man she will ever love.

War, suffering, torture, and deceit lie in their paths, and nothing will save them from a destiny of violent death, unless their courage and faith are joined with luck and they find the elusive...Stone of Tears.

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©1995 by Terry Goodkind. (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Good story, poor performance

Though it picked up a little later on, this was a generally dreadful performance of the book. The reader had a range of three tones, and never used more than two in the same paragraph.

That aside, Goodkind's stories are good enough and one can ignore some of the more excruciating prose.

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Can't listen to this. Horrible, horrible narration

Jim Bond has the voice of a robot. Who authorised this? They should without a doubt be fired and burnt at a stake. Terrible.

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Great Story with a poor narrative

Where does Stone of Tears rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The story was great, but the narration of Jim Bond was the worst I have ever heard for a long time... After awhile I was able to tune hine out and focus on the story...

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Great story, disappointing narration

Although I read these books years ago, they left such a good impression on me that I decided to re-visit them with the audible versions. The story so far (part 1 and 2) is as good as I remembered it to be. The world crafted lovingly and the characters behaving realistically, albeit annoyingly at times (said with a smile on my face). However, it is most unfortunate that the narrator was changed from the first book (I seem to recall his surname was something like Tsoutsuvas - apologies if I've misremembered his name) as this one, Jim Bond, is so patronizing. He reads this as if he is reading to a group of 5 year olds and his inflection denoting emotions is completely off. It's as if he does not think highly of the book itself, so is trying to belittle it and is therefore simply narrating for the income.

I will most likely continue with subsequent books in this series, even if Jim Bond continues to be the narrator because I like the story so much, but I will avoid any future books (another series or stand-alone) if he is the narrator.

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Great Book

Great book but performance sounded a little electronic / robotic at times. Not the easiest to listen to.

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Love the series

Love this series, but as others have said the narration starts out robotic with a strange cadence. I find it improved greatly as the book progressed though, and turned out to be quite good, with good character voices and emotion pit into the reading.

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Why change the narrator?

Sounded like AI or a robot reading it. In chapter 2 and about to skip to the next one. Read these years ago, great stories but this robotic narration is absence any characters, any drama, any suspense. Do not recommend. Better to learn another language and then listen to that version.

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Don’t like the narrator

Sam toutovis was much better at narrating. This guy had the emphasis in the wrong place and over did the mos mundane parts of the story. Was a bit disappointed with this reading.

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DOS of Tears

I was estatic when I rediscovered Terry Goodkind's work again. Story was as fun as I remembered reading the original print. The narrator Jim Bond, however, sounds like the book was shoved through a DOS computer. One of the most robotic voices that I have ever heard with no soul or enthusiasm.
It was such a jarring experience after listening to Sam Tsoutsouvas's amazing enthusiasm in Wizard's First Rule. Still bearable enough to listen but would much rather pick up the book version if I had a choice.

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Monotone

I've read the entire series and adore them all.
I've just finished listening to Wizards First Rule on the Kobo app and the narrator was great, he was expressive and imaginative in his telling of the story. This narrator has ruined it to be completely honest, monotone and not engaging at all. Hopefully I can get another version with a different narrator. Sorry for my negative comments but I was truly unimpressed.

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