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Frank Muller, Need I Say More?

Revisado: 04-26-23

"The Regulators" is already an incredibly rich, engrossing novel. Reading the physical book, it's a chilling romp through possibly the single worst summer day that a suburban street could have - but with Frank Muller narrating, it's like you're right there in the center of everything. He brings such a human element to this story, with a delightful sardonic lilt.

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Enlightening and Infuriating

Revisado: 03-14-23

Oh, the hubris of man.

This book is delightful, horrifying, baffling, and full of random factoids to win at any trivia party.

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Immersive, Brilliant, and Hair-Raising

Revisado: 02-01-23

Matthew Lloyd Davies was the perfect choice to narrate this novel by the great Adam Nevill. He adds such a richness to this story, already deeply unsettling, and ratchets up the unease,

This was the first of Adam Nevill's books I've read, and it's so wonderful to revisit it in audio with a master narrator.

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Emotional Miscarriage of Justice

Revisado: 04-21-21

Extremely well-researched and written as well as highly infuriating and saddening. By convicting the wrong man, who confessed wrongly and under duress, the real killer of Barbara Jean Horn was able to get away and possibly harm more children.

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Fascinating, Important, and Fun

Revisado: 04-20-21

Very informative and easily understood. While brief, this history and anatomy of the "tender button" is very interesting and enlightening.

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Oh My Heck

Revisado: 04-07-21

Frank Muller's narration truly makes this book; his voice is like of your local elder who sits quietly in the corner of a dim coffee shop or bar and explains casually, unnervingly casually, a truly horrifying tale that makes you sit at the edge of your seat, tense enough to shatter, with held breath. His rich voice work makes the characters fully human (and inhuman), and his pace of speaking is amazing at building mounting anxiety and terror.

I adore this book in print (perhaps even more than "The Talisman"), but hearing it in this audio format makes me love it even more. The story begins like a quiet spring day, then slowly comes up behind you and grabs you by the throat. By the end, you're left dizzy and breathless and wholly satisfied.

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Infuriating, Heartbreaking

Revisado: 03-31-21

I have no other words apart from: devastating.

This history is important, it must be learned and remembered and never denied - though how I wish humans weren't capable of such evil.

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Infuriating, Heartbreaking

Revisado: 03-30-21

The single most tragic element of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens is how so many missed opportunities there were to save her life.

Familiar as I with with this case, listening to it still made me want to vomit. It's simply horrendous, what some people are capable of doing out of hate. It's still a cycle though, isn't it? The abuser was herself abused, and so poisoned her own children who then had no issue with being so complicit in killing another human being.

I can't call this book "excellent" or "good" as it's so disturbing and sad. But I believe that it's essential.

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A Fascinating, Well-Researched History

Revisado: 03-22-21

Being an area of history too overlooked and under-researched, Norman Ohler does not disappoint in this breakdown of both the use of drugs in Hitler's Germany; from the downfall of Hitler himself, to the strung-out neuroses of his army.

Stefan Rudnicki does a very fine job narrating.

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Milquetoast

Revisado: 03-19-21

I had high hopes for this book, as so many are raving about it - but I just wasn't taken by it. The narration makes it difficult to understand what's going on, and even if I did, it just wasn't very thrilling or enthralling. I'm willing to give this another chance, as I paid for this, but please don't believe the hype.

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