Woken Furies

I totally loved the first 2 audibooks and the author but then this!

I cant stand the new narrator - the singsong voice does nothing for this brutish hardened hero story and does not work for the genre. He is a significant change from the narrator of the first 2 books and cant pronounce the lead characters name.

What on earth happens in the story? Total mess. New characters keep on appearing all the way to the end. Eventually the poor plot just become annoying and I just couldnt care if the hero lived or died. If I hadnt listened to the other 2 books and enjoyed them so much I would have deleted this hours and hours ago. Real shame.

I've enjoyed Morgan's books (and own them in a number of formats - digital and analogue) and was looking forward to listening to the further adventures of Kovacs but didn't make it more than 5 minutes into this talking book. It sounded as though it had been recorded on a Walkman in my garage. In addition the narrator pronounced "Kovacs" with a hard "c" - something that the books themselves decry as incorrect!

I own 30-40 Audible titles and this is the worst quality recording I've come across. It is very disappointing and shows little respect for an enjoyable story.

why would they change the narrator for the third in a series? then add in vocal shifting for some elements and not tell the narrator how to pronounce the name of the lead character?! if you can get past these frustrating points it's good but it annoyed me every step of the way :(

Yes, if anything to finish the trilogy.

Yep. Although this third installment was a bit ropy, it was still enjoyable. The first two were superb.

Absolutely, but no thanks to this audio book. He was brilliant in Cryptonomicon, so I know he can do (a lot) better. I can only assume that this was poor direction by the producers.

What were the producers thinking? Did they even listen to the first book? KovaCH, not KovaKS! Takeshi even makes a point about it in the beginning of the first book.<br/><br/>I was binge listening to the trilogy, so having a different narrator in the third book was a bit off-putting. Not because Dufris is bad (see above), but because it was so different from the first two. It's like changing the main actor in a TV series between seasons.<br/><br/>And what's with the cheap audio effects they put on the "dream sequences"? At first I thought they botched the recording. It completely irritated me and, in my opinion, has no place in an audio book.

Eventually came around but the change in performer was very jarring with already established pronounciations.

I can't believe they got his name wrong, they make a big thing of it on the first two books, then this narrator gets it wrong. Bad show.
Great book though.
Narrator also needs to lay off the effects.

The story is better than book 2 but the new narrator mispronounces the main character's name throughout.

If you've made it through book 2 then this is definitely worth your time. Otherwise just stop at the end of Altered Carbon.

Good book and well narrated. A great close to the trilogy. Looking forward to me from this author.

The first two books are brilliant and I enjoyed them so much I've listened to them more than once.

Much of the enjoyment is owed to Todd Maclaren's performance and portrayal of the tough and grizzled protaginist Takeshi Kovacs.

William Dufris' interpretation is so disconnected from the first two books, so irritating in his speech patterns and incorrect pronunciation of the lead's surname, that after an hour I had to scrap it.

I'll buy the paperback and read it instead.

What on earth were they thinking changing the narrator for the final book?
Really, really disappointed.

This final instalment is far below its previous two episodes. Not sure what happened to the author but it's a slow book to get through compared to the others. It's also a shame the narrator changed.