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Without Warning
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Series: Disappearance Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Mrs Woman
- 12-02-2021
Great story, tragically bad narrator
I gave it my best shot.
I really tried to ignore the narrator and just listen to the story, but in the end I just couldn't make it through.
Worth it, though, for the dinner party where I played to everybody one scene involving a posh Brit, an American chick, and an Australian. They sounded like a dowager duchess giving elocution lessons to Queen Victoria, a drag queen, and Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins with a mouth full of marbles respectively - the whole table was in pleats.
I loved those free John Birmingham downloads (which had a great narrator btw), and I was really into this story too, but there's no way I could finish it. Oh, and it's been sped it up by 10% as well, which adds to the general weirdness of it all.
A lot of these reviews have negative comments about the narrator; ignore them at your peril, unless you need a good laugh.
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- Nic Cope
- 15-06-2021
this narrator really murders the accents
I just finished the end of days trilogy and the narration was utterly flawless. This book has been narrated by someone who clearly struggles with accents other than American. shame really. it spoils the story because I find myself listening to the accents instead of the story.
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- Glen Harry
- 01-02-2021
Great story
I enjoyed the storyline and the different characters. The narrator was good but struggled with accents. His English accent was poor and I cringed everytime an Australian character spoke, but otherwise it was very enjoyable.
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- Grobb
- 08-11-2019
Could not finish it
The narrator destroyed the struggling story
Lots of description ... lots and lots and ...
Maybe if the narration was better, the story line may have seemed better
Very rare for me to ask for a refund, but this time I will
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- Anonymous User
- 04-12-2021
Good, but spoilt by narration.
The story was exciting and full of well thought out, interesting characters, however the narration almost destroyed any pleasure gained. I think Mr Weiner should seriously consider going to accent school.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-11-2021
Narrator really struggles
Others have commented on the poor accents (worst Aussie accent EVER), but simple pronunciations were also in error, eg SYSOPS pronounced "sigh-sops" and "tumult" as "tummult" ... very distracting!!
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- grahame bond
- 08-10-2021
Narrator from Hell
Worst Australian accent imaginable,with his British attempts almost as pathetic.How can British born Aussie Birmingham live with such mediocrity?
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- Anonymous User
- 17-08-2021
Voice quality
The narrators voice sounds crackly. It’s as if there was a fault with the microphone. Might just be his voice? I can’t listen to any more sadly as it’s a good story.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-07-2021
AWSome read can’t wait for the next instalment
A Great interesting listen
Can’t wait to continue
The next instalment
It’ captures the mind
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-2020
Brilliant Birmingham again
yet another great story by the master story teller! can't wait to start reading the second book, After America
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- John
- 22-04-2012
Great Story, mixed performence
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Love this book and all 3 in the series. Great thought provoking storyline.
Did Tom Weiner do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
appalling Australian accents and pronunciation of Australian names...most disappointing.
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- John
- 08-12-2011
What a read - Awsome :)
What did you love best about Without Warning?
All aspects of the story was a total draw in. The main people you could love and care about and the the baddies were very nasty and you love it when they get justice served on them.All of John's books are as enjoyable as this one i.e. Axis of Time Trilogy, After America and the list goes on Very Happy with this book :D
What did you like best about this story?
The Action and what was going to be the outcome of this disaster that has hit the world.
Which character – as performed by Tom Weiner – was your favorite?
Rhino and Julie also Kate pretty much all the heroes.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Where did everybody go? Just joking I have no idea, Without Warning seems good.:)
Any additional comments?
Just a great read if you like Sci Fi, War Disaster and suspense and want to care about Characters you are reading about this is the book.
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- gareth
- 20-02-2014
Great book
Where does Without Warning rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the best, a real 'page turners'
What did you like best about this story?
In the sty;y of a Clancy book but less predictable (and I loved the Clancy books RIP
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- Mr Marcus J Reynolds
- 23-08-2012
Great story and structure
Would you listen to Without Warning again? Why?
Great engaging story, very hard to stop listening to.
A strange narrator this, easy listening until he tries to do some accent, then it all falls apart and you end up feeling like your listening to some cheesy 80's BBC radio drama story with am dram voice over crews, all the time he is talking without an accent really easy to listen to him.
Any additional comments?
Well worth a listen, be a terrible shame to miss this just because the narrator has his odd moments. Please drop the accents Tom, your great to listen to up until that point ?
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- C. Armitage
- 07-05-2014
Good book let down by spoken accents
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Cor blimey guvnor, luv a duck, up the apples and pears, what a palarva, it's all gone Pete Tong, would you Adam and Eve it? Knees up motha Braan, Knees up mutha Braan. By George I think she's got it.
Water U tokkin about mon ami? Thee woerds were veeery veeery better than I thott. Eiffel tower, French fries, baguette, et cetera.
I would recommend the paper/e-book to a Sci Fi fan, but not the audio book.
I'm an English native speaker, with fluent French (having lived over here for several years).
The French and British (Australian!) accents were presumably based on a ten minute review of Dick van Dijk. They first made me laugh out loud (ten minutes into the story), then groan (3 or 4 hours) then turn off (several times) and delete the e-book before finishing it (only once).
The Cuban/American/Australian/Arabic accents (and others) may be as bad, but I can't comment.
Read the book, leave the audio book alone.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Any English or French character - due to the silver spoon/golf balls in mouth accent for the French and wavering between Austrailian, British upper and lower class, and random regional pronunciations for the English.
Oh and any dead/silent characters, because they don't speak.
Would you be willing to try another one of Tom Weiner’s performances?
For an all American performance, yes, why not.
Did Without Warning inspire you to do anything?
1 - I've already bought a John Birmingham (physical) book.
2 - I've already deleted the audio book from my device.
Any additional comments?
What a load of pony and trap.
Sacre bleu, ooh la la! Quelle horreur
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- Suetpud
- 19-06-2020
Vintage Birmingham
I am a big fan of John Birmingham and this book did not disappoint. A great, what if? story it pulls no punches. It is overly violent and obsessed with weaponry, as usual, but despite that the strength of the story and main characters keep you riveted. One terrible flaw though that really detracted from the flow... dreadful accents and truly diabolical women's voices for the dialogue, with an upper class Julianne coming out somewhere between 18th century pirate (arrrrse) and Oscar Wilde, spoiling the otherwise excellent narration. Excited to read the next one though!
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- Peter Odukwe
- 22-05-2017
Great start to the Trilogy
After reading negative reviews, I personally really enjoyed it. UK listeners need to stop being hung up on narrators from North America doing "bad" UK accents. No one is perfect- deal with it!
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