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Devil House
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): John Darnielle
- Durée: 11 h et 17 min
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Description
This program will include original music from the author and his bandmate Matt Douglas from The Mountain Goats.
"Darnielle brings a lyrical, literary tone to a novel that's part crime, part horror and wholly original."—Bookpage
From John Darnielle, the New York Times best-selling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell—his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.
Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books.
Ce que les critiques en disent
2022, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022, Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, Long-listed
2022, The Philadelphia Inquirer Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- zoulie
- 2024-01-08
long and boring
nothing happens in this book
no suspense at all
took forever to finish it
narrator is very good
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- Christina Crawford
- 2022-01-26
Meandering tale of a property
Story started out interesting enough as the story of a property and its inhabitants over time. However soon lost its way in authors pointless philosophies about wayward teens and their graffiti on walls. Waiting for author to get to point seems hopeless, Can’t listen to any more drivel. Story blurb is inviting, story is boring.
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- Dilys Haner
- 2024-04-24
Ugh
Overlong and increasingly tedious as it goes -- you'll be thankful for being able to fast-forward through this one. Until you get to the ending, that is, which mainly brings disappointment
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- Genevieve Paquette
- 2022-02-04
bait and switch
This is very much a case of don't judge a book by its cover. Because the cover is fantastic. The design is just so evocative, crisp and graphic but wonderfully lurid with a 70s paperback style that is just immaculate. It's wonderful.
The book, itself, though? It was a long, slow meander where nothing really happens until the big, stupid reveal at the end. It was "literary." And "intellectual." A lot of people go bananas for that sort of thing. I don't. I'm reading, or in this case listening, for entertainment. If I wanted to learn about the ethics of true crime journalism I'd look up some articles on JSTOR. Which would have been a whole lot more efficient and probably a lot more informative. But yeah.
In fairness, it was a thoughtful meditation on the subject. True crime has always captured the popular imagination, but now, in the era of podcasts, it's like anyone can become an amateur sleuth/reporter. Which can be great- people have made a real difference. At the same time, though, you're still just getting one narrative. And it's true crime with real people, a lot of whom are still around to be retraumatized. And misrepresented. The author did a thorough and sensitive job.
But good lord, it was dry. And so, so slow. There was no sense of urgency, and like, minimal emotional investment. And then there was no real resolution, you know? The plot with the teacher who savagely (over)killed the two students who broke into her house with an oyster knife. She was demonized in the press, the true crime author took the opposite stance, the mother of one of the victims writes a heart-rending letter giving her side of the story, and honestly, if it were a reddit thread, the consensus would be ETA- everyone's an a-hole. Everyone. We never get closure, but that's not as bad as it could have been, because everyone sucked and it was hard to even care
And then the main plot with the devil house. It left me feeling a little bit bait-and-switched. I was expecting one thing, some kind of mystery, I guess, but what I got?
Honestly, I found it unrelentingly bleak and oppressive and kind of pointless. Again, there's a huge market for bleak, oppressive, meandering books, and I'm sure people are going to love this one. But I didn't.
The narration was pretty good, and the addition of music by the author was a- I want to say a interesting choice, but it really wasn't. The author is is relatively famous musician. Of course he's going to add music to his audiobook. I wish I could say that it added to the experience, but it was an "I could live with or without it" situation.
I just really was not the right reader for this one.
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