Time of the Twins

Dragonlance: Legends, Book 1

By: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Narrated by: Ax Norman

Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness - to bring it under his control.

Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.

Made aware of Raistlin’s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin’s soul.

Or so he believes.

©1986 TSR, Inc., 2000 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Awful narration

Totally monotonous, almost not entertaining. Maybe this is the first time that narrator has ever read aloud.

terrible narrator

everyone reads chronicles before this. you would think the narrator would have as well.

At least to listen to pronunciations and such.

not to mention his yelling or excited voice sounds like a 12 year old boy playing with army men. For every character.

Great story awkward narration

I love audiobooks and everything that Weis and Hickman write. But this narration felt awkward. Before recording narrators should research the names of main characters before shaking them aloud. it's "Tas", like Tasslehoff, not "Toss", like "Tosslehoff."

Unbelievable Story Mutilated by Narrator

Wow. Just wow. Ax Norman should be banned from doing audible narrations. First, he mispronounces names constantly. But to make matters worse, he does it in multiple ways. One character can have as many as 3 or 4 separate pronunciations throughout the book. He was lazy in his performance. He refused to be consistent or go back and edit when he messed up. He refused to put energy into his narration. I haven't heard a more bland narrator in any book I've listened to. When the text specifically says that a character is talking in a harsh whisper, and he narrates in the same tone/volume/voice as he does for the entire novel, you know you're getting a sub-par performance. These books deserve so much better than him. It's an absolute atrocity. I highly recommend taking the time to read the books from the legends trilogy yourself and avoid this narrator like the plague.

good

you can't go wrong with a Dragon Lance story. narration was just okay and the names being pronounced differently really bugged me. Tass not Toss!

Good story, bad performance

I’m 7 books into the Dragonlance series and this narrator is so bad I only continue to listen because I can’t read while driving. If at all possible, read the book yourself. This guy sucks.

Horrible Narration

I am really upset that I went from the first three Chronicles books, with wonderful narration, to this abomination of a narrator. How was he chosen for this role? It was not only the lack of conveying emotion at the proper moments...or speaking so quickly, even during important conversations, it sounds as if he is reciting from a school text book...or even mispronounced names : Uh-tik (Otik) and Tos (Tasslehoff).......but Strum!! Really?! Strum? One of the most important characters in the history of Dragonlance and you're going to spit on STURM BRIGHTBLADES name. Come on man.

Please people....dont get turned from these beautiful stories though. The first 6 books by Weis and Hickman are wonderful. We may very well see them made into movies some day. I do recommend the Chronicles series on Audible. The narration was wonderful. Don't waste your time or money on the Legends series. Read them for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

Good story mediocre narration

Having never narrated an audio book it’s easy to be critical, but this narration is no where near Chris Sorenson or even Paul Boehmer. The name pronunciations are inconsistent and there’s no voice acting. Like if your cool big brother read the story at bedtime.

good start narrator took a minute

I enjoyed it and am going to buy the next one now. I like these authors

Narrator constantly had me shuddering

The constant mispronunciation of names really took me out of it. He would say it wrong a hundred times and then finally say it right, only to go back to saying it wrong again. These books were everything to me in my teens and was exciting to listen to but the narrator ruined for me.