The Mark

Left Behind, Volume 8

By: Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Those who were left behind after the Rapture must now make a crucial decision. Each person must choose whether to receive the mark of the beast, or die. Never has faith in God been more important for the group of believers called the Tribulation Force, who now face danger on all sides. Valiantly, they continue to urge new followers to accept Christ's love. Noted scriptural authority Tim LaHaye provides outlines for the vivid biblical prophecies in The Mark and the other books in the series. Best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins creates the dramatic stories for each fast-paced apocalyptic thriller. With Audie Award-winning narrator Frank Muller's powerful performance, The Mark takes on additional dramatic force.

The Left Behind series has topped best seller lists across the country, been the subject of special features in national media, and captured the attention of Hollywood producers. With sales in the tens of millions, the Left Behind books are the biggest selling inspirational series of all time.

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Good story, distracting narration

The narration was distracting after listening to the first seven books. The speed of narration was often too quick and nearly every sentence trailed off where the last word was almost a whisper. It was like Humphrey Bogart was telling the story in one of his old Private Eye character roles. The character accents didn't line up with previous books either; in the first couple books it was said Nikolai could speak many languages with hardly any hint of an accent and he sounded like Count Dracula in this narration. Same for Leon, he was a weasel and sounded like it in the previous books but in this one he sounded like John Gotti with a strong NY accent.

New narrator hard on the ears

Love following the story of the Trib Force, but switching to a new narrator that speaks way too fast to understand at times and uses totally different dialects and tones for characters than what you've gotten use to from previous books, it's very disappointing.

Wonderful!

This was wonderful! I thought I wouldn't like the narrator however, he performed the voices quite well. The voice of Carpathia was much more fine tuned by the end of the book.
I was enthralled in the story to the point of disappointment at the books conclusion.
This series drives me to the Word. It drives me to the feet of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. It drives me to Jesus.

Narrator issues

Almost ever sentence ends in a sort of breathy sigh. Makes for a less engaging experience.

Cold water

The abrupt change in narration jarred the reader out of the story. I didn't realize that the name Zion could possibly be mispronounced so badly...or that I would care so much about its pronunciation. The story is still amazing...but I didn't much care for the whispery hiss at the end of LITERALLY every sentence. I loved his Steve Plank accent and his borderline offensive Mr. Wong. The rest....meh.

still a good series

I enjoyed this even though there were some politely unpleasant references about different ethnic groups. though the context was playful, I do not think it was appropriate. also it never really addresses the Islamic presence especially in Jerusalem. perhaps listening to the series years after a first read has made me more culturally aware so see it differently. that said I still look forward to the next book. even with the simple mindness of some of the characters.

Narrator was ok.

Hard to understand sometimes. I became confused by the “players”, could not always distinguish who was who.

Loved it

The Narrator was quite different from the person who narrated the pervious books, but he grew on me. I actually think I like him better. He was a little fast at times, and I’d have to rewind, but I did like him.

Only disappointing because of the change in narrator.

I really like the story, but the narrator change did bother me a lot, especially the mispronunciation of Zion. I can’t imagine that anyone reading this text wouldn’t familiarize themselves with important titles and names.

I am thankful for this great literary work.

New narrator

They changed narrators on this book. I did not like the new narrator's portrayal fo accents. Carpathia sounded like Dracula. Most other accents sounded Hispanic even if they were supposed to be middle eastern Greek or African. All of the previous books pronounced the name of the Biblical scholar as ZI-on emphasis on the first sylabal. In this book the name was pronounced ZE-ON emphasis on the second sylabal. I'm not sure what the author intended.