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The Dragon and the Unicorn
- The Perilous Order of Camelot Volume 1
- Narrated by: Pippa Rathborne
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
The first volume of the Arthurian fantasy series, The Perilous Order of Camelot, The Dragon and the Unicorn answers the mythic question, "Who were King Arthur's parents?" Legend says mortal enemies: the British warlord Uther Pendragon and Ygrane queen of the Celts. Merlin brought them together. But who is Merlin? And how did his magic unite such ill-starred lovers to bring forth the world's most legendary king?
The demon Lailoken, as old as time, is tricked by angelic powers, the Fire Lords, and trapped in a human body. He becomes Merlinus, a wandering wise man expert in magic, destined to work for good among humans, opposed by the Furor, Odin. An encounter with the unicorn - a spirit similarly earthbound - brings him to Ygrane, queen of the Celts, and she sets him a task to find her king, a man seen in vision and fated to be her love-match. Merlinus-Lailoken seeks and finds him: Theodosius, a stable worker. But Ygrane has commanded the demon-wizard to bring her a king, so Merlinus sets to work making one.
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- Paul Mcelroy
- 22-07-21
Read by an angry granny
I read several A A Attanasio's books 20-30 years ago starting with the Radix Tetrad then several others. I always enjoyed the way he blended the cosmic into his stories.
With some trepidation I ventured back to the Radix audiobook a few months back. I was fearful that in the intervening period it might have turned out to be corny nonsense that would appeal to my teenage self. Thankfully that's wasn't the case, I thoroughly enjoyed it again.
With that in mind I decided to try the Arthor series as I had not read them.
I enjoyed this book, it dud well to blend the typical Attanasio cosmic, Gods, universe, light etc into the familiar Arthur story. Having said that though it was probably a bit harder to get into... It took a while for the story to settle down.
I'm not so sure about the narrator though. Her voice was very sharp... she sounded like an angry granny scolding her grandkids.
I don't know the ins and outs of audiobook recording... I imagine it is all Steven Toast this and Clem Fandango that...but I imagine they would apply some EQ to the recording... It sounds like they have stripped all bass and middle off this to leave only treble.
In fact, I wonder if this was dictated straight to the narrator's mobile phone? There was a very Audible (no pun intended) background police siren in one of the earlier chapters
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