Time of the Twins

Dragonlance: Legends, Book 1

De: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Narrado por: Ax Norman

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.

Great Story - Middling Narration

I have been reading Dragonlance books for about 18 years now and this is one of the stronger series. The story told about Caramon, Raistlin, Tas, and Crysania is fantastic while setting the stage for the next two books. The story is nearly flawless and holds up very well over time.

The narration is done fairly well with two exceptions. The way some names are spoken is painful and is obvious no research was done. The names are also sometimes inconsistent which compounds the problem. Paladine is not said as Paladin. There is one point in the narration where he correctly states the name Paladine but it is only a single time. When he references Sturm Brightblade he says Strum. Little things like that can very negatively affect the flow of the book. He also needs to not yell silently. If he is yelling in exclamation then just do it. H

Ax Norman....why??

If you could sum up Time of the Twins in three words, what would they be?
Great Story, Horrible Narration

What was one of the most memorable moments of Time of the Twins?
Can't pin it down to just one, the book was just great.

Would you be willing to try another one of Ax Norman’s performances?
Sadly, I listened to all three of the Twins books and Ax Norman's performance is quite literally the worst performance I've ever heard. He doesn't pronounce any of the names right, (E.G. he can't decide how to say Tass, or Toss, Paladin or Paladine, shudder...) If I EVER listen to this book again it would be by another narrator, as I will never listen to this man read a book again.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The ending of all three of this series are incredible. Loved the endings.

Ax "butcher" Norman

Ax's performance stands out as the worst I've ever heard on Audible. He mispronounces at least half of the characters names and places. Some defy logic. He pronounced Tasslehoff correctly, then Tas as Toss. Others change back and forth, Raistlin in particular. His voice is to high pitched, and raspy, making listening painful at times. His pace and cadence is both irregular, but then the same when multiple people are speaking. His character voices might be the worst however. It's readily apparent he has no idea what the characters should sound like, and he only does two or three distinct voices, making dialog impossible to follow. HOW did this abomination make it past recording?!

Great classic fantasy marred by horrific pronunciations

Only the most bizarrely chosen name pronunciations for this narrator. Still a great story. But seriously, Raistlin is not pronounced like “wrastlin’”

The narrator is terrible

I loved the story when I was younger and wanted to go through all the dragon Lance stories again with audio books. this narrator is absolutely terrible the constant mispronounced names and the terrible whisper yelling it kept taking me out of the story.