M. Morris

terrible and distracting ascents

Revisado: 03-04-22

This book is such gold. Unfortunately terribly done accents make it difficult to enjoy. Bad English accents, bad Egyptian accent, but comedic timing, bad. I know Brits I know Egyptians. This author sounds as if he hates everyone who isn't Anerican. He also sounds sarcastic all the time.

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Informative n fascinating

Revisado: 03-17-21

Narrator really captured the detached, but warm, Midwest sound for this astonishing true crime book. Author incorporated loads of scene setting details from newspaper articles, interviews, and court records to really make the town where Ed Gein lived and the people who lived there feel like next door neighbors. A great listen and a shocking story.

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Literary Fiction plus Thriller plus Supernatural

Revisado: 10-30-12

Would you listen to Lost Boys again? Why?

No, because I don't re-listen to books. But I really did love this one.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Yes!

Have you listened to any of Stefan Rudnicki’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Nope.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Not at first, but as I got deeper into the novel, yes.

Any additional comments?

This is a book about evil of all sorts -- moral evil, emotional evil, spiritual evil, social evil -- and Card intertwines them all together so masterfully that it's hard to know what's coming next. The book is also a meditation on what it means to look for evidence when your belief system is challenged.

The basics: we meet a religious family as they move into a new town so that the father can take a job as a game designer. While there, he meets some shady game design characters, but decides to stick it out until he can get himself settled financially. Meanwhile, there have been a recent spate of child kidnappings, and everyone is one edge. ALSO, the oldest son is starting to exhibit signs of what may be schizophrenia, and may be something else.

For folks who love literary fiction and thrillers. It's quite long, but it's a very emotional read, and it will keep you riveted from beginning to end, especially the end. It's very moving. The family in the story is inspired by the author's own family, and the novel is so beautiful, so heartbreaking, that after writing this novel, the author decided to never base any characters off of his family in his writing ever again. It was just too much for him, emotionally.

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