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Apparently дождавшись (не дождавшись дня) was actually a gerund and not the past participle I had assumed from the previous chapter - which would have been дождавшися!

I've worked through Ch22 three times, and I don't think it's going to get any better - let's try Ch23...

And so he falls, by inexorable foredestined stages :-(

"The Lich King. He's not Arthas, not anymore."

Ouch, that's a jolt - one perhaps trailed by the book's title, but certainly not by anything we've seen from Arthas's own childhood perspective so far.

Probably readers are assumed to know the lore, but just as in the case of Jander Sunstar ("Vampire of the Mists") I've never played the game, and I'm relating to the protagonists as people in a story...

More like 60 hours than 20 hours, with the number of repeats I had to do- but I've finished!
And I did enjoy it; looked at a couple of Smekhov's other audio books immediately afterwards, but sadly I really need to know the plot in advance in order to be able to manage.

I was really struggling to understand the 'women's voices' Smekhov was using, especially with the dialogue between Milady and Felton and then Milady and the Abbess at Bethune; the irony is that I then had considerable difficulty in distinguishing between Milady and Rochefort in their dialogue together :( Presumably at this point she is no longer exaggeratedly feminine, but addressing him as an equal...

Amusingly, some of the parallel Russian translation appears to be closer to the original than the "Basic English" version of Gulliver: "blade for taking the hair off my face" is simply бритва, for example, and "pocket-cloth" is платок (familar to me in the form of Aramis's famous handkerchief! Z)

Ouch. All that section with Milady and Felton was painfully slow... but we are finally on Chapter 30!

So *now* we get a explanation of verbs in -нуть, after having been asked to use them in the previous chapter... wrong order, methinks.

Given that Gulliver had to swim for his life and was washed up half-drowned, how come his snuff and his written papers took no harm from the prolonged immersion? And why didn't the Lilliputians search him for dangerous weapons during the eight hours they had him drugged and unconscious? :-p