A review by seak
Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt Anthology: The Collected Stories, by R.A. Salvatore
4.0
Wizards of the Coast outdid themselves on this one and brought in a cast that's actually hard to believe unless you start listening. It's a free download at the moment, so go at it while it's FREE.
Besides Ice-T, "[o]ther audiobook readers include Felicia Day (The Guild), Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings), David Duchovny (The X-Files), Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Greg Grunberg (Heroes) and Dan Harmon and Danny Pudi (both of Community)." (source)
I thought the stories were excellent and for the most part the readings were well done. Ice-T was decent, but extremely slow and kept pronouncing the "w" in "sword" and that word is used a ton in his story. It drove me nuts.
Weird Al did a good job, especially with the voices, but his voice is a little too ... bubbly ... silly ... there's got to be a better word ... for this type of serious story.
Usually Wil Wheaton does a good job, but I don't rate him super high as a narrator because he never does different voices for the characters, at least not well. This one he did an excellent job with the voices. He's another, however, that might have too much sarcasm in his voice for this type of story. Which is why he is the perfect narrator for anything from John Scalzi.
Last one and I'm done talking, biggest surprise was Michael Chiklis, who did an insanely good job with EVERYTHING. I hope he does tons more audiobooks and quits acting for the real money ... in audiobook narration! We all know Scott Brick is rollin' in it, amiright?
Overall, it's more than worth the price I paid and then some and pretty cool to have these celebrities reading names like Drizzt and Zaknafein and Menzoberranzan and I'm not even touching the dwarf names of the top of my head that us geeks love oh so much.
4 out of 5 stars (highly recommended)
Besides Ice-T, "[o]ther audiobook readers include Felicia Day (The Guild), Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings), David Duchovny (The X-Files), Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Greg Grunberg (Heroes) and Dan Harmon and Danny Pudi (both of Community)." (source)
I thought the stories were excellent and for the most part the readings were well done. Ice-T was decent, but extremely slow and kept pronouncing the "w" in "sword" and that word is used a ton in his story. It drove me nuts.
Weird Al did a good job, especially with the voices, but his voice is a little too ... bubbly ... silly ... there's got to be a better word ... for this type of serious story.
Usually Wil Wheaton does a good job, but I don't rate him super high as a narrator because he never does different voices for the characters, at least not well. This one he did an excellent job with the voices. He's another, however, that might have too much sarcasm in his voice for this type of story. Which is why he is the perfect narrator for anything from John Scalzi.
Last one and I'm done talking, biggest surprise was Michael Chiklis, who did an insanely good job with EVERYTHING. I hope he does tons more audiobooks and quits acting for the real money ... in audiobook narration! We all know Scott Brick is rollin' in it, amiright?
Overall, it's more than worth the price I paid and then some and pretty cool to have these celebrities reading names like Drizzt and Zaknafein and Menzoberranzan and I'm not even touching the dwarf names of the top of my head that us geeks love oh so much.
4 out of 5 stars (highly recommended)