• Water Sleeps

  • Chronicles of the Black Company, Book 8
  • By: Glen Cook
  • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
  • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (997 ratings)

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Water Sleeps

By: Glen Cook
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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Publisher's summary

For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight in the trenches of vast sorceress wars, this epic has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now Cook brings the latest cycle of the Black Company saga to a major climax, as the survivors of the disaster at the end of She is Darkness regroup in Taglios. Determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, they journey there under terrible conditions, arriving just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new worlds gained and lost...all at a major price. Wry, tough-minded, brilliantly imagined, and told with enormous flair, Water Sleeps is Glen Cook at the top of his game.

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Extraneous Mouth Noises

Would you try another book from Glen Cook and/or MacLeod Andrews?

Glen Cook is fantastic. MacLeod Andrews has been great with other books, but this one, the recording distracted from his voice acting and the story.

What did you like best about this story?

This far into the series, pulled away from the protagonist that started the story, there was a challenge to make the reader care about these people. Glen Cook managed to keep me going, which is saying something.

How could the performance have been better?

Lick the roof of your mouth while opening your mouth. Here that popping, clicking sound? The subtle, moist smacking? At almost every pause in the narration, and several times in the middle of sentences, I could hear that sound.

Imagine 18 hours of that sound, and that's what the experience was like listening to this book.

My guess is that the microphone was too close to MacLeod's mouth, or something along those lines. Whatever the reason, it made listening to this book extremely difficult, because it was a constant distraction from the story being told.

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Fantastically Narrated

It had been a while since I had read the Black Company series, and this audible re-introduction was a pure delight. McLeod Andrews is one of the best narrators I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. The sheer dexterity of his voice allowed the diverse characters to fully come to life in this tale.

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entertaining

little drawn out but i still love the characters. was interesting to see how the group stays the same even when there is only one original member from the first story.

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religious nonsense

religious nonsense was getting boring coming from sleepy all the time, i personally could careless about his god, maybe the worst book of the series.

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Great

Story was amazing per usual.

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While he might not be my favorite Narrator in this series, there is no doubt he is the most talented. His voices for one eye and the new character Suverin(sp?) are amazing works of art.

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Best so far.

I think this was my favorite Black Company book so far. Very enjoyable - and the narrator was excellent. I love the layers these books have - and this one was no exception.

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good book

i really enjoyed sleepy as the point of view a lot. However. get prepared for death.

the company soldiers on . may be largely gone but not defeated. the path is to the plane.

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Had a little trouble with this one

I read most of this series as it was published, but not the final three. This is the second book in a row without Croaker and I miss him. He’s a big part of why I loved the series and I’m ready for him to come back.

Other than that, I’m glad we found out some things about the BC history, but there was a bit too much deep thought and self-examination here, too.

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good story, awful narration

The store is good. no complaints. The narration not so much. it felt like they let some intern or the talent of imitating voices to do the whole feature. The narration is absolutely soulless. awkward pauses everywhere. I couldn't bear the generation so much that started listening the book from chapter 70 with lots of skipping and increasing speed to 130%. I really don't understand how this could possibly be released in this state.

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Awesome series

I have only one slight critique on the reading- which is minor but stood out to me. The many characters would be a serious challenge for anyone..I just really struggled with the voice of Suvrin, very “mushy” and at least to me didn’t embody in my mind the character from the printed book. Otherwise a stupendous job on the narrators work.

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