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  • Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (Light Novel)

  • By: Reki Kawahara
  • Narrated by: Bryce Papenbrook
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (109 ratings)

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Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (Light Novel)

By: Reki Kawahara
Narrated by: Bryce Papenbrook
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Summary

Check out the novel that ignited the phenomenon!

In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a logout button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all 100 floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death - both virtual and real....

©2017 Reki Kawahara (P)2021 Yen Audio

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Superb

Like many I watched SAO when the anime began to air, started to enjoy the games and read the manga.

It had never dawned on me though to read the LN. Till I saw the book had been published on Audible - highly enjoyed it and will absolutely be continuing the series.

Bryce Papenbrook reads like the pro he is!

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is a great listen

I've watched the anime and every line spoken I could envisage the correlating scenes, well narrated.

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Hurry up and complete the series

Absolutely amazing can't wait for them to make the rest of the series avaliable. Will be buying as soon as they drop

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Good Story, OK performance.

The narrator was really good but having him voice the female characters was a mistake and massively took me out of the story.

I've heard they get the female voice actor from the anime for vol.2 onwards so that should be a huge improvement!

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loved it...

Fantastic audio book and pure genius to get Bryce Papenbrook to narrate this. I hope they make more.

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good series

loved it could of used a female voice actor for the female roles but otherwise really good

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Good story even better performance

The story is overal good and nice to listen to. However there are some issues. Some of those are just the story and can mostly be for given this being the authers firs novel and all.
Some thing I like to see though is the female voices getting performed by a female actress (I would prefer cherami leigh because she voices Asuna in the English dub of the anime). Bryces female voices are funny to listen to but are not very easily take seriously.

Thes are the only complaints u have however.

If you liked the sao series or want to get in to the series(be it book or anime) i recommend picking it up.

I am very much looking forward to the next audio book in the sao series.

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enjoyed

this was a fun listen Bryce papenbrook did a great job , I'd recommend this audiobook.

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An insightful look into the world of SAO

I thought this audio book was brilliant, Kirito's voice actor did a good job reading this. Unlike other reviewers I didn't think his rendition of Asuna or other female characters was awkward or hard to listen to, I felt he did well with Asuna. The only parts I didn't like of his narration was the yelling for characters besides Kirito during the action moments, but oh well they were brief.

It was great getting a more detailed view of the world of SAO, though I was suprised to learn the light novel omitted many characters and scenes from the anime, I guess they came in side stories or something.

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Nice

Good shit, liked it after watching the anime. Hopefully they record the whole series as audiobooks

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