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    Audiobook7 hours

    Ruins of Gorlan

    Written by John Flanagan

    Narrated by John Keating

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    About this audiobook

    Will is an orphan and a ward of the castle. He hopes to someday become a great hero. But he is a small boy and only the biggest and toughest are selected as warriors. He has other talents though, and they catch the attention of the mysterious Ranger Halt. Will soon masters stealth and accuracy with the bow. His life depends on his keen intelligence and quick reflexes because evil is lurking—the Great Enemy, Morgarath is plotting her revenge and return to power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9781436123990
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    Ruins of Gorlan
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    John Flanagan

    Trish Purnell-Webb is an Australian clinical psychologist who became the first certified Gottman therapist in Australia in 2013. She then continued her training to become the first master trainer and consultant for the Gottman Institute in Australia in 2015. She has been in private practise as a psychologist since 1997 after a twenty-year career in organisational training and development in both government and corporate organisations while also raising three children with the help of her husband, Mark. Trish has always been fascinated by the impact relationships have on our sense of well-being and satisfaction, whether they are work relationships or intimate relationships. In her work providing executive coaching to senior members of organisations throughout Australia, she came to understand that intimate relationships had a profound effect on an individual’s ability to perform in life. This led her to explore the question “How can we help people have more successful relationships?” It also led her to the research work of John and Julie Gottman, and her fate was sealed. Since 2009, Trish has focussed on working with couples both in her private practise in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia, and on training therapists throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Asia to become more effective in successfully working with couples. Along with her business partner, John, Trish also runs couple workshops across Australia and New Zealand using the evidenced-based Art and Science of Love Couples Workshop developed by John and Julie Gottman. Trish conceived of this book as a resource for couples to use as a relapse prevention tool after they complete either a workshop or couples therapy with Gottman-trained therapists. Trish still lives on the Gold Coast with her husband of forty-one years and is the proud grandmother of five beautiful grandchildren to whom she devotes much of her time. John Flanagan is a mental health accredited social worker in private practise, completing his bachelor’s of social work in 1988 and later a master’s in gestalt therapy. He was the first social worker to become a certified Gottman therapist in Australia in 2015, and he became the second master trainer and consultant in 2019. John has had an extensive history in direct service delivery with couples, families, and young people, as well as in organisational development and training. He has developed a practise that utilises a range of experiential therapies combining these approaches in his work style. John has also completed his Certificate IV in workplace training and assessment and has delivered a broad range of training, both accredited and non-accredited. John knows the incredible value in attending to relationships, as well as the importance of how they are formed, maintained and developed. In over thirty years of working within complex environments and relationships, he has developed a strong speciality in understanding and guiding complex interactions and relationships. He has provided training to many individuals and human service organisations in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the United States about creating positive work cultures, managing challenging clients, resilience, and communication. Over the last twenty years, John has provided a range of psycho-educational group programs to Australian veterans and their families in areas such as trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and resilience.

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    Reviews for Ruins of Gorlan

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book for kids and adults of all ages. Fun fantasy and action in a well crafted world.
    • 3/5
      A middleing fantasy/action novel. Nothing offensive but then not spectacular.
    • 4/5
      This was a super fun fast read. I can't wait to see what is next.
    • 4/5
      Good adventure series, with a quick pace. Would most likely appeal to boys, but does have strong female character too. 
    • 5/5
      This was a fast easy read. It would be good for most ages and is very enjoyable...not too light and not too complex. Just the right length.
    • 5/5
      Great start to a series! Can't wait for the next one. My son is already several books ahead of me and says they're all good. I see late nights in my future staying up too long reading this series.
    • 4/5
      Fifteen-year-old Will dreams of becoming an apprentice warrior at the prestigious Battleschool but when his childhood rival gets in and he is not, Will instead chooses to become an apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt and soon must save Halt from a monstrous assassin sent by the evil Lord Morgarath. This fantasy, the first in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, focuses largely on Will’s initiation into the scout-like Ranger Corps and on the growing friendship between Will and his childhood rival. Thus it offers a satisfyingly character-driven story while still leaving plenty of room for future development of the impending war with the Lord Morgarath. Echoes of Tolkien may make this fantasy feel a little too familiar to lovers of fantasy – there is nothing strikingly original about the world of Araluen or the characters that populate it. Nevertheless, this fantasy offers enough heart-pounding action to make for an enjoyable read. Boys will especially be drawn to this title. Recommended for readers age 10-14.
    • 5/5
      I thought that Rangers apprentice book 1 was suspensful and deathly it had fantasy which I love and I will definetly continue the series.
    • 4/5
      Will cannot wait to begin his apprenticeship, as he is sure despite his small stature that he will be granted his request to become a warrior. Choosing day begins, and then ends with Will not at Warrior school, but instead as the apprentice to Halt, the Ranger. Will comes to realize that being a Ranger is far more than skulking around a village and his strength, courage and cleverness are tested as he learns to protect the kingdom he loves. After hearing from so many people that I should read this book, I wonder what took me so long. I enjoyed this book in the same way I did Eragon - it was well written and a good story, though not quite my favorite genre. Boys will love the strength and cunning Will displays despite the fact he looks like he would be better off in a menial job.
    • 5/5
      Ohhhhhh there is never enough praise for this series of books!!! This book was the beginning of my spending spree and I LOVE em! Can never get over the amazing action scenes and epic description of characters and how they slowly grow up into adulthood! Really great first story to catch the attention of young adults! Will and Halt- "You are the best!!!" lol
    • 5/5
      This book takes place in some-what medevil times. A young boy named Will(no last name) is an up and coming apprentice. Little does he know that none of the masters want him. Then he sees a Ranger named only as Halt, giving a note to the king. Later that night, Will sneaks out of his bed and climed up the king's tower, into his meeting room. Right when Will was about to lock inside the note, Halt came out of nowhere and caught his arm. The king was surprised that Halt was right when he said Will had the ability to become a Ranger. After that day when Will became a Ranger's Apprentice, everything changed.....This book is a great book and a great start to the series with just a amazing. The author really does a great job showing all the characters and what their jobs are in the stories and i like it a lot and it makes it a lot better. Some of the thing that were great about this book is that it talks about Wills life in it and says how bad it was for him. When they do this it actually gets me more into the story and it makes Wills achievements look so much better or more amazing for him and his talents. Also the author does a good job keep the story going and making it interesting at some boring or no action spots by saying what the characters are thinking about or by their emotions.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this Young Adult novel. It reminded me of all the adventure tales that I reveled in when I was this age. Will is an orphan who as his 15th birthday approaches must be selected to enter an apprenticeship. His choice is to be a warrior, but nature has other ideas and places his talents in other areas. Fortunately, Halt can see these gifts in Will and aims to recruit him for the Rangers. This is a well written coming of age story about how sometimes we are too close to see where our path truly leads.. I loved the interaction between Will and his friends. Halt is a mystery that I look forward to learning more about. Set in a Medieval style world this series makes a nice change from all the magic and mayhem that is currently in print. Recommended.
    • 4/5
       The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan is the first book in the Rangers Apprentice series. Will is an average teenager that possesses the skills of a ranger. This book is action packed but makes you pay attention to little details.Will wants to be a knight just like every boy in the castle, but is turned down because of his size. He is accepted as Halt’s apprentice to become a ranger. Will learned many new skills to keep him and others alive. Will’s new skills are put to the test when he has to fight the most terrifying creatures known to man.The Ruins of Gorlan is one of my favorite books I’ve read. I enjoyed the action and the back round information the book gives. I would recommend this book to anyone.ryan
    • 5/5
      This book takes place in some-what medevil times. A young boy named Will(no last name) is an up and coming apprentice. Little does he know that none of the masters want him. Then he sees a Ranger named only as Halt, giving a note to the king. Later that night, Will sneaks out of his bed and climed up the king's tower, into his meeting room. Right when Will was about to lock inside the note, Halt came out of nowhere and caught his arm. The king was surprised that Halt was right when he said Will had the ability to become a Ranger. After that day when Will became a Ranger's Apprentice, everything changed.....I never really liked midevil books. This series caught my eye. I was instantly hooked. This started out as a boring story but that was a sike! After this book I read all the others. I have all 10 books. I would recommend it to all readers.
    • 5/5
      Orphan Will hopes to become a knight like his father, but when he's too small for Battle School, he's offered the chance to train as one of the kingdom's mysterious Rangers.Why I picked it up: George mentioned it a few months ago, and I had an Audible credit to burn.Why I finished it: Despite the series-title-spoiler (I wonder if Will ends up becoming a Ranger's apprentice?), this is a gripping tale, full of potential and was, for me, emotionally compelling. I enjoyed this book so much that I'm worried later series entries will be weak in comparison.I'd give it to: The same teenage boys that I'd normally hand
    • 5/5
      This book is a great book and a great start to the series with just a amazing. The author really does a great job showing all the characters and what their jobs are in the stories and i like it a lot and it makes it a lot better. Some of the thing that were great about this book is that it talks about Wills life in it and says how bad it was for him. When they do this it actually gets me more into the story and it makes Wills achievements look so much better or more amazing for him and his talents. Also the author does a good job keep the story going and making it interesting at some boring or no action spots by saying what the characters are thinking about or by their emotions. He also ends it really well to and makes a huge dramatic part and moment in the book and the biggest and more important choice in all of the Ranger's Apprentice books. He has to pick to fill his dream or do what he was born to do and amazing ending the start the serious. I recommend this book to people who like adventure, fantasy, action.
    • 4/5
      Ranger's Apprentice is about a boy named Will. The time period is somewhere around the time when there was still knights, kings, and castles. Will is without parents. He knows that his father was a great warrior. Will has always wanted to follow his dad's footsteps. Will is small and not the strongest, when he tried to join battle school Will was denied. The only "teacher" that would take Will was Halt, the ranger. Will was not sure about learning to be a ranger. Will soon finds out he enjoys being a ranger and becomes very heroic. I really enjoyed the Ranger's Apprentice. I think it was just a good story. The writing that the author used is very descriptive. The author, John Flanagan, makes you feel like you are in the book the way he describes things. The book was very suspensful, it really keeps you reading. I think my favorite part of this book is the beginning when Will is learning about becoming a ranger. This book would attract a teenage audience. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
    • 5/5
      I really like the book right now. The main character is Will ,and he was drafted to be the rangers apprentice. I rate this book 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      Will is a small boy who wants to be a knight in his kingdom but is too small. However he has a speical ability to be steathy. Halt the leader of a group of elite warriors who promote peace and do the dirty work has been watching Will. Will is then is picked for this speical team it is very rare to be picked. But an evil is rising the dark king Morgarath is getting an army an assainating leaders of the good forces. He leads a group of monsters and Will confronts. Will defeats the beasts and the war begins. Will is honored and this is to be contiued.This is a good book series. The first was okay but it gets better. I recommend this good book if you like action and adventure. I was doubtful at first but it was great. I want to keep reading and i am on book 3. It is a good book showing that its not about size but skill and brains. You will not regret getting this book. Give it a chance.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book in the Ranger's Apprentice series and it has left me wanting more. The book is geared towards younger, presumably middle-grade readers. There are now 10 books in the series and from what I hear, the adventures just continue to be a lot of fun.The concept of the books is a somewhat standard trope for the ~medieval-fantasy-adventure genre. Our main character is Will, a young boy orphaned after a great battle and taken in by the local Lord. Over the years, he makes plenty of friends and enemies. Not knowing for sure who his parents were, he's created his own fantasy idea of what his father did in the great war of the past and the type of soldier and martyr he was. Will's big dream is to become a great soldier in the manner of his father.As the book begins, the time has come for Will, and his friends, to be apprenticed to a trade. Even though Will hopes to become a knight but he's not a "physical presence" and so is passed over. He's unsure what, if any trade, he might be suited for and is ready to accept inevitable disappointment when he suddenly finds himself apprenticed into the shady trade of Ranger. His new master Halt seems aloof and harsh. Throughout the kingdom, there is a lot of respect for rangers, but also a huge feeling of suspicion, distrust and fear.The book serves as a good jumping off point for the series. While there are a lot of stereotypical plot points and characterizations, the book surprisingly works to present us with vivid characters who grow and evolve. The book is centered primarily on Will and his training and development, but we also see interactions with other apprentices and rangers in the kingdom that help flesh out the world. This is the first book in the series and so it serves largely as a vehicle for character development and plot setup, there is an ominous adventure brewing in the background. Towards the end of the book, these background events come to the forefront and present our characters with a tense adventure. The setup throughout the novel has given us the information that makes this adventure more suspenseful and climactic. As might be expected, the adventure leads to confrontations in which Will must stretch himself to be more than an apprentice and prove to himself and others that he has the potential to become a great apprentice.This is definitely a book geared towards a younger audience but I still found it to be a lot of fun. It's well written and well constructed. The content is adventurous enough to keep readers engaged while not being so intense as to turn off or frighten younger readers. I acknowledge that the overall adventure of this particular book is somewhat thin, but I can set that aside as I acknowledge that this book has a lot of setup for what looks to be a rather engaging series. Even with all of the setup work going on in this book, it still has a significant enough "stand alone" adventure to make this book a fun and fulfilling read. I look forward to continuing on through the series to see what else Will and his friends encounter.****3.5 out of 5 stars
    • 5/5
      A lot of fun with some seriously awesome chars. I'm looking forward to rereading the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      On Choosing Day, Will and the other orphaned wards of the Baron will become the apprentices of various Craftmasters of the fief. Will's dream is to go to Battleschool and become a great warrior like his hero father, but the head of the Battleschool deems him too small. His particular skills, however, may make him a perfect candidate to become a Ranger's apprentice.This YA fantasy series has been exceptionally popular lately with my library patrons, so I decided I should learn a little about the series. I can see how young boys, especially, would like the fast-moving plot with some details about Will in the Ranger Halt's tutelage and some information about another ward, Horace, who went to Battleschool. Personally, I was underwhelmed. While the book reads fast, I was sometimes distracted by a slightly obtrusive narrator spelling out some things that could have been explained more subtly. I felt I could only know the characters on the surface level, though I liked the chapters that focused on Horace. The big baddies of the book are rather uncreatively referred to as "damn things" about three times in maybe 20 pages; in a story with relatively few swears, it came across as lazy description instead of inducing any kind of fear. Finally, since I know there are future books in the series, it's hard to get too worked up about any peril the major players find themselves in.
    • 4/5
      This is the first book in the Ranger's Apprentice series. There are twelve books planned for this series. Book 10, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, was released April 2011. This was a solid fantasy book, it is well written and engaging but not all that creative. I listened to it on audio book and the audio book was very well done.Will is a ward of the castle and it is time for him to be apprenticed. While his ward-mates all have special talents, Will's only special talent seems to be getting into trouble. Then he is made an offer of apprenticeship by Halt, the region's ranger. Will has heard dark and scary things about rangers but he is about to learn that there is a lot more to being a ranger than he originally thought.This book is well written and well put together. The characters are all very likable and fun to read about. The plot was predictable, but again well done. The world is very medieval in tone and reminds some of Lord of the Rings, or other classic epic fantasy. The biggest difference in this book is the humor throughout, which made it a fun read and lightened the tone at points.Will is a great character, as are his mentors and wardmates. Will is smart but makes mistakes, proud but knows when to ask for help. He grows some as a character throughout the book and you can tell he has a lot more room to grow in future books. The same can be said of his wardmates.This book is very much a set-up book. Most of the book is spent setting up the characters, training them, and setting the stage for the war that is set to start in the next book in the series, The Burning Bridge. The plot is predictable, which is to say it goes very much like other epic fantasies you have read before. There really isn't anything new here. That being said it is well done, and is a good intro for the middle grade age set to epic fantasy.Overall this was an excellent book, everything about it is very solid and well done. The plot is predictable and the book doesn't really add to the epic fantasy genre, but the characters are likable and the humor throughout enjoyable; you can tell this book is setting up for great things to happen in future books. I recommend this for middle grade to young adult readers who love fantasy and coming-of-age tales. I think this book would be a bit boring for adults familiar with the fantasy genre because of the predictability of the plot; but future books will hopefully prove me wrong. I am going to continue reading this series and can't wait to start the next book in the series, The Burning Bridge.
    • 5/5
      Good story, and character development. Main character starts out as an orphan who wants to become a knight instead he becomes a ranger's apprentice- sort of like a special forces. He goes through bullying but ends up overcoming it. It is a medieval setting- good story for boys grade 4-8
    • 4/5
      The Ranger's Apprentice book one: The Ruins of Gorlan is about a boy named Will. Will's dream was to become a Battleschool student, but he was chosen to train to be a ranger. His teacher is named Halt, who seems to be incapable of emotion. After long amounts of training and working in Halt's hut, he is trained to hunt. A trail of a giant boar was found by them and they, with the help of knights and a recuit named Horace, kill it bringing Will fame and Horace infamity. Soon, Will, Halt, and a former apprentice of Halt, Gilan are called on a quest to find and kill two Kalkara, legendary beasts that can paralize a man by looking him in the eye. After a lot of searching and fighting, they kill it. I really liked this book. It took place in Medieval times and is realistic, but not too realistic. I like the story, a boy is trained, faces hardships and doesn't give up. The book is not unbeleivable and was written with feeling. You can be suprised by it. This is a good book to re-read and is interesting. It is written from two points of view, so it has two different ways of thinking, but it all ties together. This book is a good read.
    • 4/5
      The first book in the "Ranger's Apprentice" series is exactly what most middle school-to-young adult series are about; an untested young person who is entirely unaware of their extraordinary abilities begins to develop them with the help of a benevolent adult and buttresses their growth with the help of a growing circle of friends who are also experiencing the same challenges. The story for "The Ruins of Gorlan" is not much more than this but John Flanagan's writing style keeps the adventure at a steady pace without getting bogged down in the moral of the story. I'm looking forward to listening to the next book in the series, because John Keating's performance of the audiobook version is excellent and his voices are spot-on--so much so that I really began to hate the nasally whine he gave to one of the bullies in the book. Well worth a read, and even more so a listen if you're an adult interested in YA fiction or have a middle schooler who shares your interest in fantasy novels.
    • 4/5
      This is a great story for those who enjoy fantasy, but on a more realistic level. Join Will as his future begins to form and his apprenticeship is decided.
    • 5/5
      This book is really good i read it and i couldn't stop reading it. It's a great series everyone should read it
    • 4/5
      Great book, Interesting but not the first of it's kind. The series was amazing and was always an exciting page- turner.
    • 5/5
      Great series. Can't wait til my son is a little older so he can read them himself. Good message - friendship, loyalty, hard work - without being at all preachy. Great mix of action & description. Love the development of the characters' personalities over the course of the series.