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The Diamond Throne

The Elenium, Book 1

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The Diamond Throne

By: David Eddings
Narrated by: Greg Abby
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 Sparhawk, the Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion, returns from a long spell of exile to find his native land overrun with evil and intrigue, and his young queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year.

But as Sparhawk and his allies - who include Sephrenia, the ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful girl-child - seek to save Ehlana and the land, they discover that the evil is even greater and more pervasive than they had feared.

©1989 David Eddings (P)2008 Audible, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Royalty

Critic Reviews

"[A] graceful, fluid style of storytelling." ( Publishers Weekly)
"[Eddings] draws once more on his particular strengths, combining heroic yet humorous characters with exotic settings and tangled politics to create a fast-moving fantasy that will appeal to his large readership." ( Library Journal)
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this is a great story but the narrator pronounces every "ing" on the end of a word as "een".might not bother many but personally i hate it and as a person who is paid to read aloud its disappointing that this was not addressed.

narrator needs to work on english skills

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Knights, intrigue, battles... what more do you want in a book?
The narrator was good, ensuring that this book remained faithful to the author and how the book is supposed to be.

Classic... One for the ages

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My friend, you should have asked as female to read the voices. Your female voice io is the male youths circa Shakespeare

Great but….

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Great story, I had read it when I was young and enjoyed re visiting it.

Good book

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One of my favourite books since I was young but very nearly unlistenable with this narrator.

Great book, terrible narration

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I've read most of Eddings work and this reading of it really does it justice

got me hooked

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it's a great book and the narrator made the story more engaging highly recommended

great book

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I found the narrator disappointing. It felt very overacted, similar to a badly dubbed movie.

Great but

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As the title states, this is a favourite from a long time ago, but I'm struggling with the way it's being read. all the voices sound the same and they've not been read at the pace that someone speaks naturally. I'll continue and complete the series as I'm hoping he advances his talents as he gets going.
On Ch5 as I wrote this.

I've always lived this one...but.

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David Eddings was one of my watch list authors, bought all their books as they came out and enjoyed them. Nice revisiting them, the story mostly holds up (except the child beating as punishment!) and I have forgotten just enough to keep the story interesting. The only drawback is the narrator's persistent mispronunciation of words such as sacristan and impudent/impudently. At one point he even pronounces worship as warship. It stops you listening and going what did he say?? Aren't there editors for this? However he gets the three stars as he does well with a very wide range of characters.

Enjoying listening to a book from the past

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