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The Antipope
- The First Part of the Brentford Trilogy
- Narrated by: Andy Greenhalgh, David Gooderson, Robert Rankin
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten. Or when Archroy's wife swapped his trusty Morris Minor for five magic beans while he was out at the rubber factory.
On the other hand, you could say it all started a lot earlier. Like 450 years ago, when Borgias walked the earth.
Pooley and Ornally, stars of the Brentford Labour Exchange and the Flying Swan, want nothing to do with it, especially if there's a Yankee and a pint of Large in the offing. Pope Alexander VI, last of the Borgias, has other ideas.
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- John
- 12-07-09
The Anti-pope
The book is in the vein of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett but in the occult rather than sci-fi or fantasy. A friend recommended this book a long time ago and I never got around to getting a copy. Browsing audible I saw it and thought I would give it a try. It was an excellent choice on my part, which shows I do make some occasionally. It is well written and superbly read, with wry, dry humour and characters that don't just live but are likeable, and I really wanted to see how it would pan out. I subsequently got 'Hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse' which I also enjoyed. In a publishing world where clones of success swarm, Rankin and his work stand apart. You get the idea that he is a genuine story teller who wants about all to entertain, which certainly does. The only negative comment is that none of the rest of the series are available on audible. If they do become available I will be the first to buy.
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- MattWPBS
- 14-08-18
For the love of God, no more backing music
No audiobook needs to have a backing soundtrack. Enjoyed the story, the acting, but the backing music is just distracting.
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- David
- 06-12-13
Best Dressed Shaggy Dog in Show
I tried reading this several years ago, and got nowhere.
But this audio version was a joy. Unusually for an Audiobook - it benefitted from being read by the author. He has a great use of language and I don't know that anyone else would do it justice.
What's really special about this audiobook is that although it's a full and unabridged transcription, every bit of dialogue is acted out, by actors who sound fully engaged in what they are doing.
It was a real pleasure.
OK, some of the story is showing its age now, and some of the sound effects were a bit jarring, but it's well worth a credit to get such a well polished production.
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- Stuart
- 06-05-15
Puzzlingly unenjoyable
While the sorry, on the face of it is interesting, the writing witty in places, and the narration adequate, it combines into something that just seems laboured. The narration isn't that bad, but it's too forced, as if the narrator is trying to make sentences seem more dramatic than they are. The dangers of an author doing a narrator's job I suppose.
I cranked this one up to 1.5x speed, and it still dragged. Somehow the whole is less than the sum of the parts.
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- J
- 11-10-18
Love the story but narration is painful
I love Rankin - he's whimsical stories and eccentric wondderful characters. This is a great little tale. The performances on the whole were pretty good but - i hate to say it - Rankin's narration is hard to get through... maybe because we have been treated since he did this to professional voice artists across the board... but the intonation is really grating and all over the place.
Read this one. ideally REMAKE this one please!
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- EJP1170
- 07-10-20
Horrendous production.
Unable to listen to more than 20 mins due to the irritating sound effects, lamentable narration which was somehow a mixture of wooden and overly dramatic acting. Story may well be good but just couldn't get past the performance.
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- Anne R.
- 23-06-15
Awful
Gave up after three hours. Inaudible dialogue, unnecessary and irrelevant sound effects, could not warm to any of the characters and found the story incredibly dull.
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- Jonathan
- 13-04-13
Brilliance
I have missed reading Roberts books, to be honest id forgotten how enjoyable and funny they are and to have the legendary Pooley and O'Mally actually talking to me was great. I am dyslexic and Roberts books were some of the only books I have read, kept me interested and wanting to keep reading no mater how hard. The antipope was the first I read 10 years ago and was overjoyed that I found it on audible and look forward to reading more, found the brentonicon so thats next .
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- Nick Cliffe
- 07-05-19
Part 1 of the Brentford Trilogy
What a load of old toot! Still, there’s many a slip between pint of Large and lip.
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- Jon Freeman
- 08-06-18
Not funny. laboured narration. cardboard chars
felt like an amateur production. No pace no wit no timing. can' bear to continue
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