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Gone to See the River Man
- De: Kristopher Triana
- Narrado por: Dani George
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers. Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than 20 women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it. She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
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Not for me
- De Cassie Hanson en 04-05-22
- Gone to See the River Man
- De: Kristopher Triana
- Narrado por: Dani George
Didn't stick the landing for me.
Revisado: 04-03-25
Don't get me wrong, it's a fun read, And If you are an extreme horror fan there is plenty of gore and taboos. However, the gore seems to be there to check boxes - not for necessity - and the story just didn't pull it together for me.
This will sound funny to some of you, but I found myself asking "What is the character motivation here?" a lot during this short read. So many dumb decisions, with no foreseeable payout. It was the literary equivalent to yelling "Don't go in there! why would you do that?" in a 80s B-Horror flick.
Maybe it was overhyped - I kept hearing people say "Oh, you've gotta check out 'Gone to See the River Man,' it was very disturbing." And that title is exquisite! So, I was really looking forward to it. Unfortunate for me; the character reveal of Lori was well-done and I found myself wanting to hear more flashback chapters and the backstory for other characters with run-ins with the River Man more than the adventures of Lori and Abby. The performance didn't help either. she isn't bad, but her "Abby" was grating and every male character has the same intonations and accent. And there were a number of mispronounced words (I wouldn't normally even care, but they happened enough that it pulled me out of the story). I might try one more by the Author before I write them off entirely.
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The Black Farm
- De: Elias Witherow
- Narrado por: Tom Jordan
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives. Unable to cope with the misery that fills their days, they commit one last act together and die in loving relief. But when Nick wakes up, he soon realizes that death isn't the gentle darkness he expected. Panicked and horrified, he struggles to understand the twisted abominations and hellish world he's now trapped in.
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Disturbing but I couldn’t stop listening.
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-24
- The Black Farm
- De: Elias Witherow
- Narrado por: Tom Jordan
Well, that was disturbing.
Revisado: 03-19-25
Quality story that puts a grimy sheen on a hopeless afterlife. some extreme content, though not gratuitous or unnecessary. Each new horror leading our protagonist on an unavoidable journey.
Great performance, well-written story.
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Off Season
- De: Jack Ketchum
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River - off season - awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall.
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Wow!
- De Barry S. Sharpnack en 11-22-09
- Off Season
- De: Jack Ketchum
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
Another tasty read by Ketchum.
Revisado: 11-08-24
Dark, twisted, and terrifyingly delicious. I could tell you about the obvious thematic similarities to The Hills Have Eyes, or lean into the gruesome lengths that the protagonists go to in order to survive this living nightmare... but I won't (go read another review for that - I am sure there is one).
Instead, let me tell you what Ketchum adds to horror in this, and all his other books. Realism.
His signature brand of horror is utterly doused in it. No supernatural elements. No undulating, polymorphic, subterranean monster crawling from it's watery hole. Just gritty, unabashed human horror.
These "vultures" reside in a trash-filled, dank cave... True enough. But they also find a home in the logical part of the reader's mind. Those fears that live on the periphery of the nervous system. Those chills that can surface in broad daylight; because they are human fears, with human origins.
If you are a thirty-six year old man who worries about a chance run-in with a vampire - you may cause your friends to worry. However, the concern over the neighborhood adult who spends too much time with children, or the town dreg who seeks retribution on a society that he feels has wronged him, or (in this case) the inbred family who is responsible for a number of recent disappearances... well, that is only logical.
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Incidents Around the House
- A Novel
- De: Josh Malerman
- Narrado por: Delanie Nicole Gill
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?” When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay. Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
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Child’s voice narrates the ENTIRE novel.
- De NorthernNV en 08-06-24
- Incidents Around the House
- A Novel
- De: Josh Malerman
- Narrado por: Delanie Nicole Gill
Great concept!
Revisado: 10-22-24
I really loved the concept of a horror story told from the perspective of a child. She functions as an unreliable narrator at times while still being extremely intuitive when it comes to reading those around her.
Spooky ghost story, with a bit of a twist.
my only gripe, and it is a small one, is the mother character at times is so unbelievable self-absorbed that it is just that... unbelievable.
Yes, there are bad parents out there. Yes, there are selfish people... however, Ursula puts that front and center for almost the entire book.
Great proformence as well!
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- De: Jack Ketchum
- Narrado por: John Pirhalla
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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A battle-scarred Vietnam vet has been living alone deep in the woods, but when a group of weekend campers enter the area, his fragile grasp on reality breaks, and he believes he’s back in the jungle...surrounded by an enemy he needs to kill.
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Another Fantastic Ketchum piece.
- De Amazon Customer en 03-07-24
- Cover
- De: Jack Ketchum
- Narrado por: John Pirhalla
Another Fantastic Ketchum piece.
Revisado: 03-07-24
The pacing, character depth, and narration are all on point for this gritty little thriller that pairs some wannabe outdoorsy types with a PTSD stricken Vietnam Vet. Ketchum always nails the human driven horror for me; enjoy!
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NOS4A2
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
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Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- De Leslie en 05-06-13
- NOS4A2
- A Novel
- De: Joe Hill
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
I really wanted to love it.
Revisado: 07-14-23
So, let me start by saying that I am a huge Stephen King fan (Joe Hill's father), and though I don't think that Hill should emulate his father's writing style (he is his own author) I was hoping that some of his father's style would rub off on him.
The performance was fine, not amazing, but good. However, some of the character voices were grating. Now I would prefer a few grating voices over not having individualized voices at all. So in the end I was satisfied.
Now for the bulk of the review: Many people complain that King's works (especially the longer pieces) meander and "go on and on." However, I never found that to be the case King does a lot of world building and character development - the more work the character needs to do, the more time that takes.
In NOS4A2 I found that exact criticism true of Hill's work. I read his collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, beforehand to get a taste for his writing style - and though not all the short stories were great, I enjoyed the bulk of them. So it was NOS4A2 or Heart Shaped Box for my first deep dive into his Novels.
The story starts strong and Vic (the main character) is given a good intro with her crumbling family. However, the meandering starts after her first run-in with Manx (our immortal antagonist). It is as though Hill wanted to put a space of time between her initial encounter and her ultimate showdown (I get it), but he just didn't stick the landing. It felt like inconsequential pieces of life that didn't define her struggle nor show that she was progressing - only regressing. And maybe that was what he was going for. However, I found myself bored with her lack of effort with her son and husband/ex husband, as well as her hospitalization for "hearing dead people" which we only read about in past tense. Plus her overall lack of belief in her own experiences.
So, I assume, at some point she will have a watershed moment where it all comes flooding back to her "Yes, I did have this experience, Yes, I have seen crazy things. This Horror is real!" but no. She just accepts that all these things that she did experience and remember (THE WHOLE TIME) are real once her son is kidnapped and taken to xmas land. Her lack of awareness gets old too. She has a magical bridge that takes her to wherever she NEEDs to go, and once arriving seems to forget she is tracking evil men who tried to kill her, kidnap her son, murdered her dog, beat her with a hammer... and upon passing a "God is Dead - only devils remain" sign of a burned church seems to think "Yeah, I will drop my guard and 'Sir, may I use your phone.'"
Pair that with an FBI agent who sees bizarre things that cant be explained, and weird coincidences that Vic shouldn't know about, but still doesn't believe our character not to mention essentially teleportation (that she can track). What convinces her? well the 5th time Vic says the same thing to her, of course.
I finished it, and loved the nods to Stephen King's work within the story, Manx is a cool villain... but boy, oh boy did I have to force myself to get through the last 9 hours. Which is just not how I want to feel when trying to enjoy a book.
I saw another review that said "Everytime I took a break from this, I had to give myself a pep talk to turn it back on again." - I felt this in my bones.
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Under the Dome
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Raul Esparza
- Duración: 34 h y 24 m
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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
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Glad I Listened to 11-22-63 First
- De Russell en 02-09-12
- Under the Dome
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Raul Esparza
Great story, many characters.
Revisado: 12-20-21
If you are like me, you love the characters that King breathes life into. This book has got them, and boy are there some quality villains... the REAL kind. I like this story to if King wrote Lord of the Flies.
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End of Watch
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
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The best of a great Trilogy
- De Don Gilbert en 06-09-16
- End of Watch
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
The final entry in the BH's Trilogy
Revisado: 09-08-21
As always Will Patton's performance is amazing. He knocks this final instalment right out of the proverbial park.
With this final entry, King lets the old Det- Ret. try to track his nemesis Brady, the suicide prince, as a slew of suicides begin to emerge in the Midwest town. Holly once again steals the show with her brilliance and Bill deals with a stomach issue that may be far more serious than he is letting on.
End of Watch is a wonderful final chapter to a series I adore. But don't worry avid readers (listeners), Holly will be back in the Outsider and If It Bleeds for those that need that amazing detective goodness!
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Finders Keepers
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far - a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes. "Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades.
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King is Masterful
- De David Shear en 06-03-15
- Finders Keepers
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Will Patton
Another great by the greats!
Revisado: 06-22-21
Will Patton once again brings the words of King to life in a way that only he can. Before the final chapter finished, I had already purchased the last of the Bill Hodges series, End of Watch!
This creeping spine-chiller is a slow burn that takes the story of an obsessed fan to different (from Misery) levels. Once again I feel the need to tell readers that King brings characters to life in a way that makes there unshakeable presence known... and remembered.
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The Green Mile
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the convicted killers on E Block await their turn to walk the Green Mile and keep a date with the electric chair. Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working as a guard on the Mile, but he's never met anyone like John Coffey.
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An excellent narrator and an excellent story.
- De Bryan J. Peterson en 03-21-10
- The Green Mile
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
Deep waves of emotion.
Revisado: 06-22-20
Absolutely incredible! This was my 14 King book, and he does it again. When I started reading King it was to experience horror that has been sensationalized by popular culture. What I found in his writing was the most human of experiences bracketed between mystery and characters, so real that you would swear you knew the same people.
This story is nothing short of heart wrenching. The performance by Fuller was impeccable. I highly recommend this book to anyone in need of a deeply loving and troubling story. Whatever should I read next!
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