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  • EMPEROR: The Field of Swords, Book 3 (Unabridged)

  • By: Conn Iggulden
  • Narrated by: Paul Blake
  • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (105 ratings)

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EMPEROR: The Field of Swords, Book 3 (Unabridged)

By: Conn Iggulden
Narrated by: Paul Blake
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Julius Caesar has taken his legions north into mighty battles with the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his friendship with Marcus Brutus, brother-in-arms and fellow warrior. Although the conquest of Gaul has made Caesar a hero all over again, his victories on the battlefield cause still more rivalries at home. And ultimately Caesar and Brutus will have to choose whether to cross the Rubicon - together or singly - and to take the fight to Rome itself.
©2005 Conn Iggulden (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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  • 05-11-2015

Change of Narrator Mid Series Not a Good Idea...

Is there anything you would change about this book?

We as readers, understand there there are certain historical inaccuracies in the narrative (to add to the drama) so why would they bother to attempt to make the names historically accurate given a precedence established in two prior books in the series?

Why, given as this is now the third book in the series, did they bother to change the pronunciation of names, Sevillia to Serwilia or Octavian to Octahwian and the continual use of the soft C for Cicero as Kikero not the usual pronunciation of hard C sounding Sisero. Ariowistus??

Was this a narrator choice or a production choice to make a majority of the names sound like old vaudeville jokes. I can understand trying to give some validity to the ancient Latin pronunciation of the letter V but given that the names had already been established in the previous books and current pronunciation in the world in general is to use the V as we do now not as a W, it just proved to ruin the narration

If the producers of this reading wanted to use REAL Roman names they should have used Octavianus not Octavian. If they wanted to use the real Latin pronunciation of Julius, they should have made it sound as it was.. Iulius Kaisahr (YOO-lee-us Kye-sahr).

What didn’t you like about Paul Blake’s performance?

Given the previous brilliant readings Book 1 and Book 2, I am at a loss to understand why they changed narrators for Book 3, and in doing so, why the narrator of this book (possibly under producers direction) seemed to change the past intensity of the readings to be a breathless rushing through the book/narration

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Not as good as 1 and 2

The overall story wasn't as engaging. The narrator didn't help as he pronounced many names differently and also I didn't like his the way he read with big in-takes of breath.

I'm going to continue on with the series but I'd like the narrator from books one and two back.

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Speach Impediment

Dewd, find another profession.
Serwillia and Octawian?
lmao
I cant listen without laughing and it annoys me.

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great story telling, unfortunate narration choice

great story with detailed characters and gripping scenarios. wonderful use of history and storytelling. unfortunately I was very put off with the pronunciation of names and some of the time it felt like the characters sounded like a drama student doing a script read for the first time. but i felt it started to improve by the end.

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Awful narration spoils a great story

I guess this is one that I send back. This is a pity as this series was my top of all time having read the series a number of times in hardback.
Back to reading the books instead.

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Horrible narrator

was incredibly difficult to continue listening to the book with the way names were pronounced...

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Fantastic book, poorly read

Paul Blake butchered the narration with his pronunciation and inability to use the letter V. Clearly, this man had no subject knowledge, and by ruining all the already established characters' names, I must assume he hadn't even listened to the previous books.
However, the condensed story of Ceasars life, despite some historical inaccuracies used ie his name has been a fantastic listen and very well written.

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Always loved Conn Iggulden. The narrator though...

Ridiculous pronunciation of the names just made me cringe each time... such a shame as reading this collection years ago was such a joy.

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Narration hurt one of my favourite book series:(

Why this narrator?Feel ripped off with this thespians delivery rather than a story teller.

My second favourite book series ruined by bad narration. Couldn't listen to the pronunciations, I stopped it went and read the book for the next 2 books....hopefully narrator in 5th book picks it up again.

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Annoying narrator

Mispronounced names (w for v) made it quite difficult to listen to. Should’ve stuck to the narrator of previous books.

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