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.

Another great story ruined.

The story is a great read unfortunately the narrator mispronounces the names of characters and location throughout the entire trilogy.

Love it, To Bad I Can't Do -5 Stars For Narration.

This book series has always been one of my favorites. Fat Caramon long before fat Thor.

I won't be finishing the first book as the narrator is emotionless and has already butchered two main character names and every time I hear him pronounce Tas as "Toss" or Kitiara as "Kittytara" I grind my teeth. Having powered through the Dragonlance Chronicals where Paul Boehmer gave each character a different voice and attitude, coming here is just awful.

Ax Norman should stick to reading technical manuals.

I hope that enough complaints about the narration will give us a new narrator like what happened when enough of us complained about the narrator of Brent Week's "The Lightbringer Saga". The first recording has some surfer dude narrating and it was awful. "Kip, i'm like totally not your father little dude." He was replaced quickly.

May as well get a refund. I'll just buy the books again.

This narrator is killing my desire to finish the series.

I loved this series to this point. Ax Norman has made this unbearable. Audible needs to find another version with someone that will put the time and effort that this series deserves. I can't be the only one putting down the entire series because this guy ruins the middle.

Great Story, not a great reader

What did you like best about Time of the Twins? What did you like least?

Best - the story is classic Weis/Hickman, the continuing story of Raistlin and Caramon is engaging and entertaining.Worst - narrator! He mispronounces characters names so often I get annoyed (btw the name is Sturm not Strum, he's not a guitar!). He's completely without passion or even interest in the subject it seems, and I have no interest in listening to him read when the closest analogy is Ben Stein's teacher from Ferris Bueller (Tanis?... Tanis?)

What was one of the most memorable moments of Time of the Twins?

The complexity of Raistlin's plan

How did the narrator detract from the book?

See Best/Worst

Was Time of the Twins worth the listening time?

No, but only because the narrator made it so.

Good book, Bad Narrating

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The Narrator... He's awefull.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Time of the Twins?

Raist and Crys doin the dirty

How did the narrator detract from the book?

So bad... Pronounced words very weird, so much that it was distracting. His tone and inflection rarely matched the mood of the story. He would seemingly finish a sentence, (awkward pause), only to read the rest of it..... Just really amature stuff.

As always, exceptional work from Weiss & Hickman​.

I read this book many many years ago, and it is just as memorable and enjoyable as the first time.

If you're going to do it, do it right.

The narrator couldn't pronounce the names of the characters correctly. There's nothing more frustrating and distracting than knowing a character is named Sturm and repeatedly having him called Strom or Tas being pronounced Tahs.

Horrible Narration!

Great story! However, the narrators inconsistent pronunciation and awkward inflections were extremely distracting. I own close to 200 audiobooks and this is the first one I had trouble finishing due to such poor narration. I have a previous version that was wonderful, unfortunately, it was abridged. Maybe, in the future, they can redo this with that narrator.

Ax Norman is trash

Dragonlance is my favorite setting, but Ax Norman is the absolute worst when it comes to narrating anything. Why is Crysania praying to a paladin and not to Paladine? Where did Tas go? Why is there a Kender named Tozz in his place?

Narration is a torture

The pronouncian of names is wrong and super annoying ..

Toz. Taz tahz tohz... I would love to slap this guy. Tasslehoff. So it's TAs!
When someone says. Bkah blah with a gasp. Why are you reading.it in a joyful way. When someone is shouting why do your u whisper shout like a little girl. This is so dissapointing and ruins the experience. How does this guy pass the audition ?

Shame