Ender's Shadow

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Michael Gross

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist and his friend, the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Card tells Bean's whole story, while expanding and complementing the earlier tale.

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©1999 by Orson Scott Card (P)1999 NewStar Media Inc.

abridged and barely listenable

the audio is abysmal. I thought my device was broken I will attempt a refund.

Excellent book, poor production

I won't rehash what's been said about the book itself already; if you liked Ender's Game, you MUST read Ender's Shadow. And I do mean read, not listen. This was the first audiobook I ever stopped listening to halfway through because it was so aggravating.

First off, the narrator seems to be whispering most of the time, and turning up the volume might cause your speakers to blow or eardrums to bleed when he does speak loudly. Also featured in the production is a fellow with such a deep voice he puts James Earl Jones to shame. I believe he narrated Ender's Game as well, and I didn't like him then either.

Secondly, having read the actual book before, I can say without any doubt that this abridged version is a real hatchet job. Authors normally abridge their own works, so I can't imagine why Card would cut out so many key scenes of his story. Without giving anything away, gone is Bean living with Sister Carlotta, gone is Bean's first meeting with Petra, gone is the whole initial exploration of the air vent along with the explanation as to why Bean is doing unusual excercises...

It was at this point that I gave up out of sheer frustration. Read the book!

Do not listen to this version.

Just used my final credit on this one. The sound quality is POOR. I’m listening to a different one now. @Audible should take this version down.

audio is awful.

I love this book. I have read it many times and was looking forward to hearing my old friend. I couldn't listen to it for more than five minutes before I pulled my earbuds. The recording quality was horrible. It sounded as if it were a cassette player was recording an 8 track player in the bottom of a trash can. Do not buy.

parts of story cut

the narrator voice is fun but still bad quality. many parts of the original story are cut out

Audio performance is poor

the book is a repeat from previous told by a different narrator and audio style which impaired the quality of the story

version is extremely poor.

I love this story, but not this book. the audio quality is piss poor. i do recommend getting this book, but not this one. just listen to the sample and you will understand what I mean.

Poor audio quality

I love this book and all of Cards books for the most part, but this one sounds like a tape of a tape of a tape or worse. I’ve purchased most of his books and around 15 audio books by Card and his amazing cast of narrators and enjoy them all, this one makes it hard to really enjoy it due to the poor audio quality. Great story though :)
Please redo it or fix it up somehow.
Thanks :)

Couldn't listen for more than the first ten minute

The audio quality was so bad that I stopped listening after ten minutes. I gave the story 4 stars because I am very familiar with the series and it is very good.

Quality is terrible

This is very difficult to get through because the quality of the audio is terrible. Some of it is so bad it is hard to understand.