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The Tournament at Gorlan: Ranger’s Apprentice - The Early Years, Book 1
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: Piers Wehner
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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The Ranger's Apprentice origin story fans have been waiting for. Before they became the most famous Ranger in the land and the hard-working Ranger Commandant, Halt and Crowley were young friends determined to change the world. The scheming Baron Morgarath is drawing other power-hungry knights and barons to his banner. King Oswald is wasting away, and, if gossip can be believed, Prince Duncan is causing havoc in the north.
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The best of all.
- By mrsvee on 28-10-2019
The best of all.
Reviewed: 28-10-2019
Thank you John Flanagan for this amazing prequel to the Rangers’ Apprentice series. And your reader, Piers Wehner, is a gem. He did not detract from your exciting story one iota. Wish you had him read your Brotherband Books ... head and shoulders over that boring inept John Keating.
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The Ghostfaces
- Brotherband
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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When the Herons are caught in a massive storm at sea, they're blown far off course - so far that they wash up on the shores of a land to the west that Hal can't recognise from his maps. They sense they're being watched but don't encounter the locals until they have to rescue two children from a marauding bear. This action earns them the gratitude of the Mawagansett tribe, and the two groups finally meet. But the peace is short lived.
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Whay more can I say.
- By mrsvee on 23-10-2019
- The Ghostfaces
- Brotherband
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
Whay more can I say.
Reviewed: 23-10-2019
To inflict John Keating on my eardrums is almost too much to bear, PAR TIC U LAR LEE as he continues to mish mash his way through the book. It is his way of over stretching some wods and then completely crusshing others till it is hardly recognisable. Has he been asked to pronounce “buoyancy” yet.?
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Scorpion Mountain: Brotherband, Book 5
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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When the worlds of Ranger's Apprentice and Brotherband cross over, action and adventure are guaranteed!King Duncan of Araluen has an urgent mission for Hal and the Heron brotherband. One assassination attempt on his daughter Cassandra was foiled – but the would-be killers are from the deadly Scorpion cult, and they won't be satisfied until they have completed their task. The Herons team up with Ranger Gilan to track the killers across the deserts of Arrida and infiltrate their mountain lair.
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John Keating is NOT a good reader.
- By mrsvee on 22-10-2019
- Scorpion Mountain: Brotherband, Book 5
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
John Keating is NOT a good reader.
Reviewed: 22-10-2019
If I hear him say PAR TIC U LAR LEE and Booie one more time I will just scream. My husband heard him a short while a d said, “ how can you put up with THAT?” If I didn’t like John Flanagan’s writing so much I wouldn’t put up with him.
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The Slaves of Socorro
- Brotherband, Book 4
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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When the Heron brotherband become the Skandian duty ship to the Kingdom of Araluen, they're excited at the challenges ahead. Hal, Stig, Thorn, and the Herons eagerly set off for the trip - with an unexpected new crew member aboard. But an enemy from their past returns, causing the Herons to be thrown into a dangerous quest to free captured Araluens from the slave market in Socorro. Even with the help of an Araluen Ranger, the task may be too much.
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Very Good
- By Dimitri on 22-03-2017
- The Slaves of Socorro
- Brotherband, Book 4
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
This reader is hard to bear
Reviewed: 20-10-2019
What I dislike about Jon Keating’s reading ... par tic u lar lee .. because he talks down to the listener. But that’s not all. He pauses in the wrong places in sentences .. he mispronounces many words .. at times he tends to become sing songey .. he seems to gallop at times .. and did I say his pronunciations leave a lot to be desired. It jars when he says ‘booie’ for the word “ buoy”(boy). I wonder how he would pronounce ‘buoyancy’? Come to think of it, I would not like to hear it!
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The Hunters
- Brotherband, Book 3
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Hal and his brotherband crew are hot on the trail of the pirate Zavac and they have one thing only on their minds: stopping the bloodthirsty thief before he can do more damage. Of course, they also know Zavac has the Andomal, the priceless Skandian artefact stolen when the brotherband let down their guard. The chase leads down mighty rivers, terrifying rapids, to the lawless fortress of Ragusa. If Hal is to succeed, he will need to go beyond his brotherband training. He will need to challenge the pirate one-on-one, knowing only one of them will survive.
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Mr Keating does not improve over time.
- By mrsvee on 20-10-2019
- The Hunters
- Brotherband, Book 3
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
Mr Keating does not improve over time.
Reviewed: 20-10-2019
Dear Mr Flanagan: Have you listened to this man trying to read your story in a believable manner. His many misplaced pauses, his many incorrect and drawn out pronunciations are just not pleasant to hear ... PAR TIC U LAR LEE his mispronunciations.
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The Invaders
- Brotherband, Book 2
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competition. But their celebration comes to an abrupt end when the Skandians' most sacred artifact, the Andomal, is stolen--and the Herons are to blame. To find redemption they must track down the thief Zavac and recover the Andomal. But that means traversing stormy seas, surviving a bitter winter, and battling a group of deadly pirates.
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Entertaining
- By kevinplee@hotmail.com on 23-11-2019
- The Invaders
- Brotherband, Book 2
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
Mr John Keating is NOT a narrator’s bootlace.
Reviewed: 19-10-2019
John Flanagan. I am an ardent fan of all your books, but, I AM NOT A FAN OF JOHN KEATING. His reading is of someone talking down to his listener because of his many mispronunciations. He calls the fish bream insread of ‘brim’. And PAR-TICK-U-LAR-LEE I cannot abide his many pauses where they should not be. Please please PLEASE get rid of him.
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The Outcasts
- The Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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In Skandia, there is only one way to become a warrior. Boys are chosen for teams called brotherbands and must endure three months of gruelling training in seamanship, weapons and battle tactics. It's brotherband against brotherband, fighting it out in a series of challenges. There can be only one winner. When Hal Mikkelson finds himself the unwilling leader of a brotherband made up of outcasts, he must step up to the challenge.
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How to train a dragon minus the dragon
- By Yogi on 07-08-2014
- The Outcasts
- The Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1
- By: John Flanagan
- Narrated by: John Keating
Mr keating MUST GO!
Reviewed: 18-10-2019
This Australian Author has grabbed a whole generation of youth, and their parents with his Rangers Apprentice books, and now with the Brotherband series ... BUT ... this reader, Keating, is a disaster. He reading has a Sing songey sound to it; his misplaced emphases make my jaws ache, and as for his pronunciations, which are like ——— ,(sorry, but I feel like swearing). The PARTICULAR word that has me boiling is “buoy”! Put ‘pronounce buoy’ in your google or safari or whatever and you will get “boy” as in “toy” ... not booie, as in gooie ... and that word comes up in the story many many times
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The Rosie Project
- Don Tillman, Book 1
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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The art of love is never a science.: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs The Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a 16-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Yet, Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities and. Don easily disqualifies her as a suitable candidate (even if she is "quite intelligent for a barmaid").
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Great read
- By Steven on 21-01-2015
- The Rosie Project
- Don Tillman, Book 1
- By: Graeme Simsion
- Narrated by: Dan O'Grady
What a load od Codswallop
Reviewed: 08-10-2019
This is probably someone’s thesis destined tp prove its adequacy as a legitimate project for whatever reason. I got as far as chapter 20 ( listened unwillingly to only 19) before I decided enough is enough. NO STARS !
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Breakaway House
- By: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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A standalone novel from the author of the classic Australian Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery series. Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for Breakaway House is Mt Magnet, about 580km north of Perth, deep in gold country.
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Not one of my favourite Upfield books.
- By mrsvee on 21-08-2019
- Breakaway House
- By: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Not one of my favourite Upfield books.
Reviewed: 21-08-2019
There has been a couple of Upfield books without Bony . This didn’t get to me at all. I had three attempts to finish and was glad to get there in the end. Think I will exchange it for a book I WANT to read.
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All the Weyrs of Pern
- Dragonriders of Pern
- By: Anne McCaffrey
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction.
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Good, bur ...
- By mrsvee on 10-08-2019
- All the Weyrs of Pern
- Dragonriders of Pern
- By: Anne McCaffrey
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
Good, bur ...
Reviewed: 10-08-2019
The story is brilliant ... thankyou Anne. The BUT is for the American with all of the American different pronunciations. To the Englidh esr, they hurt.