Great Story, Great narrator, bad audio quality

The story is great, Todd McLarens performance is perfect, but the Audio quality is really bad. Muffled and crackling.

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too fast?

well I don't say this very often, but I actually liked the TV series better than the book. somehow the book is just a little bit too fast it doesn't develop the characters as nicely.

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Bad production

Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?

One star removed for replacing the (very good) reader from the first two books. This is very annoying in a trilogy.
One star removed for the editor due to the wrong pronunciation of the main characters last name (especially considering that this has been a point made repeatedly in Altered Carbon).
Two stars removed for bad audio design. The publishers try to use effects to spice up this production was a huge misfire for me. The introduction almost hurt to listen to.

Very good story but bad execution. Probably will not even finish this.
Shame, the first two audio books were very good.

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Very well written. Like Shadowrun or Cyberpunk but different.

A real science fiction book. Not fantasy like Star Trek.
Everything is based in a believable reality.
The characters are deep, intense and flawed.
The story is complex and confusing in a good way.

I'm going to listen to it again.

Not worth the listen - The TV Series is far better

Mediocre story telling that reeks of testosterone-laden grunt-fantasies.
The narrator does as well as he can do with the text he's given - credit to him - but he can't save the content from turning a potentially grand premise into a primitive, two-dimensional blurb.

Sadly. Because the premise of the story is fascinating.

I am now hoping that someone who is better at storytelling will work on the basic idea of the book.

the best of the altered carbon series

this book is a classic noir crime story with a grumpy lone wolf as her protagonist with a lot of cool cyberpunk ideas

Truly amazing

This must definitely be one of the best books I have read in the past five years. Richard Morgan managed to create a world which is so dense and so fascinating that one can’t help but be dazzled and terrified at the same time by his dystopian future. It is interesting to speculate where he got his inspiration from. No doubt from modern day political, economic, military, social and philosophical problems. Easy to read/to listen to. An absolute page turner! It is good that he has written to more books. Also to be recommended.

Story good, performance good, production meh

There should have been longer pauses of silence between scenes. These just are way too short. Sometimes it takes you half a sentence to realize, that you are now in a completely different scene.

Love the book/schow

I wanted to read/hear the books after watching the netflix show. I love it as much as I enjoyed the show but the story sometimes jumps to a side story (a dream, flashback, etc.) so abruptly that you don’t actually realize it for a couple of seconds and it really throws you off the story cause you sit there wondering „wait whats happening?!“. Overall still recommend!

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Best Narrator, but worst audio quality I have ever heard

The narrator is the best you could wish for which for. Especially for this dark and deep story. He managed to give every character its own facette by modulating his voice in a real artistic way.
The audio quality however is profoundly bad. It was not mixed professionally. Especially the lack of treble and the bass boost make the narrator very hard to understand. I can also constantly hear cars passing by the recording studio. Why is the sound engineering of such a popular audio book left to semi professionals? There must have been enough budget! Quite disappointing...