And I thought I was not into love stories, but how wrong I was! The authors carry it off and I found myself incredibly moved and believing the story of ideal love by the last half of the book. Remarkable imagination that makes me think it is a precursor of the accounts of Mordor by Tolkien, although actually more horrifying. This version of the book will go down as one of my all-time favorites. Bummer because the story was fascinating! Please get a new reader pronto, because in its current state, this audiobook can’t be endured. The dreadfully negligent production made this a total waste of a credit. Read this.” It doesn’t help that it all sounds muffled, like it was recorded on a tape recorder lost under blankets in the 90s. They just picked a dentist off the street and said, “Here. It’s not even that I mind the thick accent what I mind is the utter lack of dramatic emphasis - it’s as if he had no director and no experience as an actor or reader of any kind. Number one rule of any audiobook reader is to be understood, enunciate, use diction and inflection, DON’T drop off sentences or speak so fast that you’re unintelligible.
How did this happen? I mean, the book is interesting and all but I won’t finish it because for the first time I detest this reader’s performance so much that I can’t get past it. The monsters surround the pyramid in a perpetual siege lasting for eons, waiting for the moment when its defenses will fail.īut one man, born out of his time, must leave the pyramid to seek his long-lost love though all the perils of the Night Land.Ī truly infuriating performance… Can’t get past it. Over the ages, monsters and evil forces have descended to the Earth, compelling the surviving humans to take refuge in a great pyramid of imperishable metal built in a miles-deep chasm. The story opens in the 19th century but quickly moves to the far future, where the sun has gone out, leaving the world in a darkness broken only by strange lights and mysterious fires. As a labor of love, James Stoddard has rewritten Hodgson's book to bring it to a wider audience. Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult, archaic style that listeners often find impenetrable. An adventure of both science-fiction and fantasy - one of the great love stories - this is William Hope Hodgson's masterpiece, rewritten for the modern listener.
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