The Doom Brigade

Dragonlance: Kang's Regiment, Book 1

By: Margaret Weis, Don Perrin

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's Summary

War can get a fellow killed.

The fearless draconians of the War of the Lance have retired from the field of battle to a pleasant valley in the Kharolis Mountains. Well, it would be pleasant, if it weren't for some dwarves, whose irritating feuding prevents the draconians from realizing their greatest hope - the ability to continue their doomed race. When the dwarves discover a map leading to a fortune buried in the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, the draconians are swept up in a feverish race for treasure.

Little do both sides realize that they are part of the strange and terrible destiny descending upon Krynn during the Summer of Flame. A desinty that includes the children of Chaos...the fire dragons!

The Doom Brigade is the first installment in The Chaos War series, stories set during the war of the Dragons of Summer Flame, the New York Times best-selling novel co-authored by Margaret Weis.

©1996 TSR, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Great story and great narrator!

This has been one of my favorite books since it came out and so at first I was apprehensive about getting the audiobook, due to Audible's poor selection of narrators. I'm glad I was pleasantly surprised and want to thank Nick Sullivan, for his amazing performance! He was on point with character voices and his ability to bring life into the story! The next Dragonlance books I look at will be the ones narrated by him.
As for the story, it's great and very entertaining. It's got parts that will have you laughing and other parts that completely pull you in.

Fantastic Fun

What did you love best about The Doom Brigade?

The characters are inanimately enjoyable. Kang and Selquist are both interesting well rounded and wonderful. Slyth is also great as is Ogger and Mortar and Pestle. Wonderful cast and Nick Sullivan is an exquisite voice actor

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Doom Brigade?

There are many memorable moments and in truth, i've no desire to spoil them by writing them here. You get attached to the characters and their circumstances, when things start to happen you get swept up in action just as they do.

Which scene was your favorite?

Last few chapters of the book were somehow even more fantastic than the chapters leading up to them and the payoff at the end is awesome.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Sometimes survival isn't enough.

Any additional comments?

Man I wish that there was more to this series then just 2 books! I'm guessing that it just didn't attract the appropriate attention when it came out in 1996, but man, it should have. This is a very fun read. I'm off to go buy the next book in the series. Much love to Perin and Weis.

So much fun.

I laughed till I damn near cried listening to this book. The midnight bloodless raids for booze was funny. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously. If you are an old fan or a new one, get this book.

Great Story will a great Narrated Performance!

What did you love best about The Doom Brigade?

The different Prospective on Draconians.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Doom Brigade?

Moonlite Raids for Ale!

Which scene was your favorite?

I'll smash a Keg if you come any closer!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The Hatchlings

Great new look at things from the other side

Would you consider the audio edition of The Doom Brigade to be better than the print version?

n/a

What other book might you compare The Doom Brigade to and why?

n/a

Which character – as performed by Nick Sullivan – was your favorite?

Kang of course

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I'm not real sure about how caring the draconian leader is.

Any additional comments?

Great book overall and would highly recommend it.

Throwback from my childhood

This is an amazing story where you see that the "evil" side perhaps isn't so evil after all. Great pace with an awesome narrator who voiced the different characters well.

I fell in love with Dracos

Never expected draconians to pull me into a story and be characters I came to love and wanted more of but this book sure did. Love the narrator. Enough flair and presentation without being over the top and nailed a believable voice for the main characters.

Amazing story

Great plot, and story that keeps you listening. never boring. a current kind of fantasy.

Great story, with a great telling

I have always loved this story, and the narration was great. Highly recommend this one.

A story of Hope!

If you could sum up The Doom Brigade in three words, what would they be?

Well paced, World building and hopeful.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Hard to tell, its a tie between Kang and Selquest.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

I think so, the voice acting made the charakters distinctive and easy to tell apart.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Kangs momentary loss of courage before the .... ......(no spoilers) before he regains his faith and resolve.

Any additional comments?

If you like Dragonlance and its world this book will provide some good world building of a otherwise bland badguy race made to foil the heroes and make them seem like real living creatures.

Nostalgia

I havent read the whole dragonlance book series but my sister introduced me to kang's regiment when I was bit3 a wee lad. The good part is that you don't have to know the whole story to get immersed with this series, and I enjoy it as much today as I did when I was little. I know some people do not like that this isn't 100% canonical but most of the things in the dragonlance that happened to kang and his group was mostly just hearsay.
I truly enjoy this series and this was truly a patch on the wound, since I have been looking for physical copies for years now. Apparently they weren't that popular in my country.

Can for certain be recommended both to veterans of the dragonlance series as well as newcomers.

The Doom Brigade

The best book about the co!lussion wi the dowty dwarve' s and non other
than . The dark queen Takhisisi's draconian's formidable shock troop .?