"Torchwood" [Audio CD]

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405678216
• ISBN-13: 978-1405678216
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Dan Abnett is a novelsit and award-winnig comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hello, my name is .....and I like Torchwood, May 11, 2010

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This review is from: Torchwood: Everyone Says Hello: A Torchwood Audio Original Narrated by Burn Gorman (Audio CD)

This is one of the better audio books in the Torchwood series.Burn Gorman does an excellent job. Well worth the purchase price for a good listen...

2.0 out of 5 stars Jhaeman's Reviews, February 1, 2010

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Jeremy (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Torchwood: Everyone Says Hello: A Torchwood Audio Original Narrated by Burn Gorman (Audio CD)

Everyone Says Hello was one of the first Torchwood audio books. Read by Burn Gorman (Owen), it's the story of a strange phenomenon: all over Cardiff, people stop living their lives and begin introducing themselves to each other and telling each other their life's stories, usually leading with the most mundane details. Things escalate from there, until Cardiff reaches an almost apocalyptic state, overrun with zombie-like people who insist on either converting or killing everyone else.

This is a long story (2 and 1/2 hours) compared to the 45-minute audio plays the BBC recently released, and frankly I think it would have come across better in the shorter format. The central idea behind this story (people acting creepily friendly) very quickly grows tiresome and repetitive. Way too much time is spent on forgettable side characters. The story picks up a little bit near the very end, when there's some action, excitement, and general running-around. I've liked some of what Dan Abnett has done on Torchwood, but this story just lacked real drama, humor, or enough of a hook to keep the story going for such a long time.