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Womb Rovers
- An A.R.C. Short Story
- Narrated by: Theo Holland
- Length: 33 mins
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Summary
At 10-feet, four inches tall, Gowanus was the runt of the litter. Working the mines of No’ad took strength and height, unless you had the smarts to be able to help the dwarves invent and build new mining tools. He didn’t have smarts and didn’t have height, and yet his curiosity got the better of him: Where had Sakima gone?
In an attempt to find the rogue giant Sakima, Gowanus learns the secret to how the giants have spread so far, so fast and comes face-to-face with the worst betrayal of giant-kind.
“Schaubert’s words have an immediacy, a potency, an intimacy that grab the listener by the collar and say: Listen, this is important! Probing the bones and gristle of humanity, his subjects challenge, but also offer insights into redemption if only we will stop and pay attention.” (Erika Robuck, national best-selling author of Hemingway’s Girl)
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- MasterReader
- 13-03-20
"What does Kentucky mean?"
Story:
We listen to Gowanus, who is a giant and is forced to work as a miner, (as are all giants), by dwarfs, the wemahtekenis.
Gowanus is worried, because he hasn't seen his best friend Sakima in weeks, and that's not like him at all.
He tries to find out what happened to him and to do so, he has to speak to his Uma, who is at the same time his grandmother and also obviously an elder amonst the giants.
The Uma takes him to the council of elders and there he is told, Sakima has gone "womb roving", which is a rather crazy form of reincarnation and to find him, Gowanus has to turn into a Womb Rover himself.
But is this the right way to find his friend and what happens if the two meet again?
Narration:
Narrator Theo Holland was actually the reason, I came across the short story, because I love to listen to him. As always, he does a fabulous job, especially considering he has to pronounce continually all the strange names for characters and places.
Overall:
There is some interesting idea behind the story. I mean, all this mighty giants are controlled by wee dwarfs, that's pretty crazy and also quite clever, because it's not the mass of your muscles which turns you into a powerful leader and it's also not the size of your heart, if we are honest.
But the main problem we encounter are all the bizarre names for characters and places. No'ad, wemahtekenis, Pokhilus, Uma, Nuxwiti, scillian, neggisli, to name but a few.
It's confusing, and you have to give the story your full attention to follow the tale. As you will imagine, it doesn't get better, if you listen to the audiobook.
Add to it an ending, which I didn't really like and which also didn't make much sense (why has A to die and B to live, when there is just one chance to "travel", it could easily have been the other way around, which would actually have been an interesting development.) And if you can't grow, once you are a dwarf, then why would Sakima continue to grow?
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