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Originally Posted by taosaur
I actually started my audiobook habit with the Shannara books years back, which also took me back into the fantasy genre, largely abandoned since high school. I hit a wall with Ilse Witch, though: the only version available (still) is an abridged recording with the single worst narrator I've ever encountered. As far as I can tell, he's never had any other work in the industry, and with good reason. It was the first of the very few occasions I've dropped a book because of the narrator. You'd think such a popular and lucrative series would get a new version done, unabridged and with a professional reader.
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I was puzzled too as to why this wasn't reissued unabridged (and with a better narrator). We can hope. Put in a request to Audible and if enough people do, they will work to seek the rights and redo it. It would be great to have John Lee do this trilogy as well, but really anybody professional - Just not Scott Brick who did a half-assed job on Shannara. I am actually a fan of Scott Brick and was rather disappointed with his narration of the book.
I'll just have to read the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy. Wasn't one of my favorites either but it's been more than 15 years since I read it the last time.