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The Last Wish

Von: Andrzej Sapkowski
Gesprochen von: Peter Kenny
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Geralt of Rivea roams a world of wretched monsters and ruthless royalty. His combat abilities, combined with his wit and magic abilities, make him a much sought-after assassin. But when faced with moral quandaries and romantic endeavours, Geralt is challenged in a way that cannot be solved by his skill with a sword. 

The Witcher Saga has served as the source material for a wealth of adaptations, including a much adored video game franchise and a Netflix series. Whether you’re already a fan or are looking for your next fantasy obsession, The Last Wish is a perfect place to start. Rich with details and vivid world-building, the audio edition is made even more exciting by the rich, deep tones of narrator Peter Kenny. 

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Introducing Geralt the Witcher - revered and hated - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the best-selling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.

Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.

Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.

But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good...and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Andrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series. The Last Wish is the perfect introduction to this one-of-a-kind fantasy world.  

©1993 Andrzej Sapkowski (P)2014 Orion Publishing Group

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  • 20.04.2018

Great stories - horrible narrator

The short stories are well constructed and rich in detail - also, the translation to English seems excellent.
However, the narrator P. Kenny comes close to completely ruining this.
It's my mistake that I didn't recognize him before buying the audio-book - I encountered his horrible narration in another audio-book several years ago and had since forgotten is name.

- staccato-style narration of sentences with (long) pauses in-between.
-> Kenny seems to always pause to read ahead and then PRESSES OUT partial or whole sentences in an incredibly fast staccato style.
-> This staccato style also seems the only explanation to me how he can so completely mispronounce the name Dandelion - his speaks it as "dan-dilllion" which allows him to speak it very fast ("dillion" spoken twice as fast as "dan") - while the correct "dan-de-li-on" would have to be spoken much slower,

- major variations in volume.
-> Kenny speaks some parts very softly while other parts are pronounced very strongly and loudly.
-> This makes for hard to understand listening any any but the most quiet environments - listening while traveling (car, train, etc.) is close to impossible.

It has to be said that Kenny is a skilled narrator - there are no mistakes and he is quite skilled in imitating different persons
-> But this can be said about most narrators of professionally recorded audio-books - his general skills of narration DO NOT negate the above deficits!

I'm actively noting down Peter Kenny as narrator to avoid!

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Liked the story

But the narrator gets many pronunciations wrong, it's really confusing. For example Dandelion... I even checked the pronunciation in a dictionary and he is either using some dialect or pronounces it wrong.

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Strange Performance, Decent Book

I truly enjoyed this collection of short stories, my main gripe is about the narration. The performance was uttered so rapidly throughout the book that I had to listen to the entire story at 0.75x playback speed. The different voices and accents were decent, and the characters were well portrayed. However, I cannot forgive the pronunciation of “Dandelion”, a common English word, as “Dan-dillion”.

This won’t stop me from listening to more of Kinney’s performances, because despite those errors it was enjoyable. However, for those more sensitive to these issues, perhaps reading the book would be preferable.

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Good but lacking connecting plot

This a number of short stories about Geralt roughly in chronological order except for a few flash backs. The stories are not really connected though, and form no greater plot. Some of the stories are very good, but most are a bit bland.

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Great story, average performance

Great story. Some hickups in the story telling performance, definitely still well worth listening to!

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Very badly narrated

I love the Witcher series books, but the narrator is horrible, and I find this title virutally impossible to listen to, and therefore not an audiobook I could recommend. I'm ESL but have a high proficiency and experience in reading and listening in English in a wide range of genres I listened to English audiobooks already. This is the first time that I'm really struggling with understanding, due to the speech pattern and pronunciation of the narrator, and his very odd pronunciation particularly of names and book-specific items - and I've read the book before so I'm already familiar with these. I've given up three chapters in and am switching to the German version of the audiobooks.

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What a ride

Nice narration, pulls you into the story but nothing to listen doing anything else of course. Accent of the Witcher very unusual but consistent

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Pronunciation is hard, apparently

Skellige. Dandelion. Wyzim. Axji. All hard, apparently. If you can overlook the general mispronunciation - and especially the jarring 'Dandillion' every other sentence - you'll enjoy the stories. But dear me, the narrator really should've taken a lesson or two in how to pronounce Witcher universe specific names. Or flowers. Dandillion indeed.

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Good but confusing order

Very well written aside from the fact yen is mentioned by Gerald before he’s ever met her in story order. Still love the stories.

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The best narrator I've heard

The short-story format and the fantastic narrator make this an entertaining a captivating listen.

Good books don't always have good audio books, but the narrator of this one make it more of a one-man audio drama than a simple read-through of the text. He seamlessly switches between accents and personalities, which adds so much to the experience.

The format of the book itself is very episodic, so although the short stories do link together, there is concise beginning, middle and end to each arc, which makes the content both digestible and compact. This way of storytelling really helps to build the world around The Witcher in a way that traditional one-story novels don't. Because the stories are short, there aren't entire chapters of lore and backstory, rather the world and characters are presented within the context of the individual chapters.

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