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Musicology-based horror, my new favourite subgenre

Revisado: 04-22-23

This was recommended as a brilliant companion piece to the second novella in John Horner Jacobs' A Lush & Seething Hell, and I'm so glad I found it.

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Chuck returns to forn

Revisado: 05-29-21

As much as I loved Chuck's earliest offerings - Choke, Fight Club, Survivor, Diary, Haunted, etc, I haven't gotten anything out of his output in the past 10 years. Fans of older Palahniuk will love this.

Great narration as well.

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Thinly Veiled Anti-vax Trash

Revisado: 12-26-18

WARNING: This is all the stupid, vacuous things anti-vaxers think, packaged as a slick thriller.

I've never written a review before, but feel the need to prevent you from being catfished, as I so rudely was, into listening to this absolute garbage. For four hours, I had sneaking suspicions of where this was going, but kept thinking it couldn't actually be anti-vax propaganda at the center.

But here we are.

Quick synopsis:

Big Bad Pharma makes a dangerous "vaccine" that causes seizures and suspiciously autism-like behaviors in woman's child. She does some facebook reasearch and learns the truth about the dangers of this drug.

One brave doctor dares to question why they're giving out this shot, only to be told to keep his mouth shut and give out his quota of doses so the clinic gets its bonus.

Please let me enjoy my audiobooks without tricking me into listening to this garbage reasoning and dangerously stupid line of thinking again. My god.

HARD PASS.

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A struggle to get through

Revisado: 12-03-15

The only redeeming feature was that it was generously short. Nothing that happened was very interesting and the characters were totally flat.

It's the first book in what is supposed to be a fantastic series, so I hope it was worth the struggle, but then again, I wish I had just read the summary on Wikipedia rather than wasting a credit on this book.

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Amazing story, superb narration.

Revisado: 11-30-15

Didn't expect a newer Stephen King Novel to be so absolutely perfect. It's certainly not a horror story, but it is most definitely one of the best of his I have yet come across.

The voice actor does a great job of portraying the voices and accents of the differenr characters. There were many moments that I aware of just how much the actor was actually adding to the entire experience with his inflections in the dialouge.

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Good Story, Despite writing Style

Revisado: 07-29-15

Narrators were great, and it's a great story, but the oral history writing style gets irritating after a while, as each time someone speaks, they first introduce themselves, breaking the momentum of the story.

Otherwise, this is a great Dystopian Fiction piece. It is a departure from the style of Chuck Palahniuk's other, more well-known pieces such as Fight Club and Choke. The oral history format, while irritating to listen to after a while, is an interesting approach to creating a tale of fiction.

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Amazing Narrator, Phenomenal Story

Revisado: 07-26-15

A joy to listen to. Stephen Webber brings life to each character and truly embodies them in a way I haven't heard before. You feel their emotions in his voice, and you cannot mistake one character for another.

The story goes so in depth about the town of Derry, Maine that you can easily believe it to be a real place with a troubled history. The children, by the end of the book, feel like ones own childhood friends.

Recommended highly for anyone who enjoyed the movie and would like to get the full story that the film scraped the surface of.

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