Obtenez votre premier livre audio gratuitement
-
Sleep Over
- An Oral History of the Apocalypse
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre, Saskia Maarleveld, Tim Campbell, Alana Kerr Collins, P. J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo
- Durée: 9 h et 29 min
- Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Thrillers et romans à suspense
Les clients qui ont acheté ceci ont aussi acheté...
-
The Doll-Master
- And Other Tales of Terror
- Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass, Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 8 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.
-
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
- Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrateur(s): Tim Campbell, Xe Sands
- Durée: 9 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door.
-
The Haunting of Rookward House
- Auteur(s): Darcy Coates
- Narrateur(s): Joe Hempel
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
She's always watching.... When Guy finds the deeds to a house in his mother's attic, it seems like an incredible stroke of luck. Sure, the building hasn't been inhabited in 40 years and vines strangle the age-stained walls, but Guy is convinced he can clean it up and sell it. He'd be crazy to turn down free money. Right? The house is hours from any other habitation, and Guy can't get phone reception in the old building. He decides to camp there while he does repairs. Surely nothing too bad can happen in the space of a week. But there's a reason no one lives in Rookward House, and the dilapidated rooms aren't as empty as they seem....
-
-
fantastic
- Écrit par Dwayne le 2017-11-19
-
The Nightmare Chronicles
- Auteur(s): Douglas Clegg
- Narrateur(s): Mia Chiaromonte
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For, as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites - and soon, they become real.
-
The Penultimate Truth
- Auteur(s): Philip K. Dick
- Narrateur(s): Nick Podehl
- Durée: 7 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return above ground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine.
-
Meat
- Auteur(s): Joseph D'Lacey
- Narrateur(s): Chris Coxon
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In Abyrne, a strange town surrounded by a wasteland, the eating of meat is a sacred obligation. The town’s strict laws are brutally enforced by a ruthless Baron and a merciless Bishop. Adored by the townsfolk is Richard Shanti, Abyrne’s famous bolt-gunner – the most efficient slaughterhouse worker in living memory. In private, however, Shanti is a gentle man; a husband, and father to twin girls. The growing guilt about his murderous job weighs him down. Beguiled by a rebellious heretic, Shanti uncovers the harrowing truth behind Abyrne’s history.
-
The Doll-Master
- And Other Tales of Terror
- Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass, Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 8 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.
-
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
- Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrateur(s): Tim Campbell, Xe Sands
- Durée: 9 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door.
-
The Haunting of Rookward House
- Auteur(s): Darcy Coates
- Narrateur(s): Joe Hempel
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
She's always watching.... When Guy finds the deeds to a house in his mother's attic, it seems like an incredible stroke of luck. Sure, the building hasn't been inhabited in 40 years and vines strangle the age-stained walls, but Guy is convinced he can clean it up and sell it. He'd be crazy to turn down free money. Right? The house is hours from any other habitation, and Guy can't get phone reception in the old building. He decides to camp there while he does repairs. Surely nothing too bad can happen in the space of a week. But there's a reason no one lives in Rookward House, and the dilapidated rooms aren't as empty as they seem....
-
-
fantastic
- Écrit par Dwayne le 2017-11-19
-
The Nightmare Chronicles
- Auteur(s): Douglas Clegg
- Narrateur(s): Mia Chiaromonte
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For, as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites - and soon, they become real.
-
The Penultimate Truth
- Auteur(s): Philip K. Dick
- Narrateur(s): Nick Podehl
- Durée: 7 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return above ground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine.
-
Meat
- Auteur(s): Joseph D'Lacey
- Narrateur(s): Chris Coxon
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In Abyrne, a strange town surrounded by a wasteland, the eating of meat is a sacred obligation. The town’s strict laws are brutally enforced by a ruthless Baron and a merciless Bishop. Adored by the townsfolk is Richard Shanti, Abyrne’s famous bolt-gunner – the most efficient slaughterhouse worker in living memory. In private, however, Shanti is a gentle man; a husband, and father to twin girls. The growing guilt about his murderous job weighs him down. Beguiled by a rebellious heretic, Shanti uncovers the harrowing truth behind Abyrne’s history.
-
FantasticLand
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Mike Bockoven
- Narrateur(s): Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.
-
-
An amazing listen, could not put it down.
- Écrit par Christopher Armero le 2020-11-08
-
3001
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 6 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly - daringly - leaps 1,000 years into the future to reveal a truth we are only now capable of comprehending. An epic masterpiece at once dazzlingly imaginative and grounded in scientific actuality, 3001 is a story that only Arthur C. Clarke could tell.
-
Song of Kali
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Mark Boyett
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Blood will curdle in Calcutta. In the most crime-ridden city, nightmares become real and evil is defined by frightening occurrences. When an American family finds themselves encircled by the terrors of this land, lurid events befall them and life takes on a new meaning - death. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Song of Kali will chill the blood and frighten even the most jaded of horror fans.
-
-
Not Simmons' best.
- Écrit par Candace le 2019-12-19
-
Tuesday's Child
- Auteur(s): Anya Mora
- Narrateur(s): Mandy Kaplan
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
My daughter is dead. My husband and I cling to what’s left of our family, desperate to make sense of the tragedy. But when the sheriff knocks, he delivers news no mother should ever have to hear. Our daughter was murdered. And my son is the prime suspect. When we adopted 11-year-old Holden, we weren’t wearing rose-colored glasses. But we never could have imagined this. They say you can’t pick your family. But I picked mine. Did I choose my daughter’s murderer?
-
The Grand Hotel: A Novel
- Auteur(s): Scott Kenemore
- Narrateur(s): Christian Rummel
- Durée: 10 h et 40 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore ( Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving.
-
The 12 Terrors of Christmas: A Christmas Horror Anthology
- Auteur(s): Claudette Melanson, Lynn Lamb
- Narrateur(s): Pamela Hershey
- Durée: 13 h
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Award-winning author Claudette Melanson offers 11 new and original stories to make your skin crawl at any time of the year. This horror anthology also includes an original short by Amazon international best-selling author Lynn Lamb, titled "Bring Me Flesh and Bring Me Wine". A special bonus story is also included by Melanson, "Mislead", previously published only on the Halloweenpalooza blog. Grab a cup of cocoa and make sure the windows and doors are locked tight as you settle in by the fire to enjoy these tales of terror.
-
Will Haunt You
- Fiction Without Frontiers
- Auteur(s): Brian Kirk
- Narrateur(s): Joseph Balderama
- Durée: 9 h et 48 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Rumors of a deadly book have been floating around the dark corners of the deep web. It is a disturbing tale about a mysterious figure who preys on those who read the book and subjects them to a world of personalized terror. Jesse Wheeler - former guitarist of the heavy metal group the Rising Dead - was quick to discount the ominous folklore associated with the book. It takes more than some urban legend to frighten him. Hell, reality is scary enough.
-
The Einstein Prophecy
- Auteur(s): Robert Masello
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
- Durée: 11 h et 7 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
As war rages in 1944, young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb. Shipped to Princeton University for study, the box contains mysteries that only Lucas, aided by brilliant archaeologist Simone Rashid, can unlock. These mysteries may, in fact, defy - or fulfill - the dire prophecies of Albert Einstein himself.
-
A Beginning at the End
- Auteur(s): Mike Chen
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Six years after a virus wiped out most of the planet’s population, former pop star Moira is living under a new identity to escape her past. Desperate for a fresh start herself, jaded event planner Krista navigates the world for those still too traumatized to go outside, but she never reaches out on her own behalf. Rob has tried to protect his daughter, Sunny, by keeping a heartbreaking secret, but when strict government rules threaten to separate parent and child, Rob needs to prove himself worthy in the city’s eyes by connecting with people again.
-
100 Fathoms Below
- Auteur(s): Steven L. Kent, Nicholas Kaufmann
- Narrateur(s): Shawn Compton
- Durée: 8 h et 36 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn't alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent. Trapped in enemy territory and hunted by Soviet submarines, tensions escalate and crew members turn on each other. When the lights go out and horror fills the corridors, it will take everything the crew has to survive the menace.
-
Kitty Genovese
- A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences
- Auteur(s): Catherine Pelonero
- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
- Durée: 13 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens, New York in 1964. The case sparked national outrage when the New York Times revealed that dozens of witnesses had seen or heard the attacks on Kitty Genovese and her struggle to reach safety but had failed to come to her aid or even call police until after the killer had fled.
-
Twisted
- Auteur(s): Michaelbrent Collings
- Narrateur(s): Scott Thomas
- Durée: 8 h et 44 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The Douglas family just wants to live their lives and maybe find a bit of happiness. But when the ghost in their home breaks out of a centuries-long sleep, all hope for happiness will die.
-
-
Best part of this book is the author's Afterword.
- Écrit par Candace le 2018-12-07
Description
For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse.
Remember what it's like to last an entire night without sleep? That dull but constant headache. The feeling of your brain on edge. How easily irritated you were. How difficult it was to concentrate, even on seemingly menial tasks. It was just a single restless night, but everything felt just a little bit harder to do, and the only real comfort was knowing your head would finally hit the pillow at the end of the day, and when you awoke the next morning everything would return to normal.
But what if sleep didn't come the next night? Or the night after? What might happen if you, your friends and family, your coworkers, the strangers you pass on the street, all slowly began to realize that rest might not ever come again?
How slowly might the world fall apart? How long would it take for a society without sleep to descend into chaos?
Sleep Over is collection of waking nightmares, a scrapbook of the haunting and poignant stories from those trapped in a world where the pillars of society are crumbling, and madness is slowly descending on a planet without rest.
Online vigilantism turns social media into a deadly gamble.
A freelance journalist grapples with the ethics of turning in footage of mass suicide.
A kidnapped hypnotist is held hostage by those at wit's end for a cure.
In Sleep Over, these stories are just the beginning. Before the Longest Day, the world record was eleven days without sleep. It turns out most of us can go much longer.
Full cast of narrators includes Neil Shah, Susan Ericksen, Prentice Onayemi, Andrea Emmes, and Braden Wright.
D'autres livres audio du même...
narrateur:
Ce que les auditeurs disent de Sleep Over
Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
-
Au global
- Daniel
- 2018-08-08
It's alright.
While it may be an end of the world story it should not be compared so closely to World War Z in my opinion. WWZ is a powerhouse in the genre. Sleep over is alright on it's own merit but does not approach WWZ. Often times it is hard to follow what is happening and when. Mixing semi science and unreliable narrator's (due to sleep deprivation) gets murky. I also had issue with the lack of solid time frame for the event in question. After completing the story I still don't know if it was weeks or months. If months it is hard to believe.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- francois dubé
- 2020-08-12
please sir, can I havr some more
great performance, good story, the only thing is it leaves you wanting more, so much more could have been done with this. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is that at the end it left me with a void thats wants more...
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Amazon Customer
- 2019-01-05
Starts out interesting but..
Starts out interesting, but I was ready to sleep too by the end. It only affected people? That doesn't ring true, I mean we are 98% the same DNA as chimpanzees. If only us and octopuses were affected that would be quite intriguing; they have a short life span, great problem solving capacity, solitary lifestyle and unusual brain circuitry. No cause was suggested, effect was instantaneous all over the world, and poof, it just ended. A good effort at a tale, but not great. Even the suggestion of some kind of prolonged cosmic storm would have made the story more satisfying. I'd have settled for a ferret in the LHC (my preferred explanation for the current POTUS).
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Jennifer
- 2018-09-30
This book needs to be "read" by everyone. Very goo
Narrator was amazing. The book was one of the greatest books I have read!! Good
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Kathleen
- 2018-09-19
A really neat idea!
I really enjoyed the premise of this book - we all know what it's like to have a sleepless night and how much it affects us throughout the next day. But what if you couldn't sleep no matter how hard you tried even if you were dead tired? Some of the accounts were great with excellent narration, but others were tough to get into and a couple narrators had an irritating voice and/or pace of delivery. Overall, a good listen. #Audible1
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2018-09-03
Interesting Concept, Failure to deliver
Poorly-researched, derivative and a thoroughly unsatisfied ending. This book didn't really deliver on anything and ends up feeling like a series of loosely-connected short stories; none of which feel authentic. Each story is billed as part of a collection of Oral History, but ends up feeling very inconsistent in tone and structure. The book explores some interesting concepts, but the execution feels flimsy and hackneyed; and not in a way that feels even intentionally mysterious. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody. Borrow it from your local library if you feel compelled to give it a shot.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Aaron Bleackley
- 2018-01-19
Compelling, evocative, and thoughtful
I really enjoyed this book. It was heart wrenching and uplifting in its examination of how we face uncertainty, fear, and impending doom.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Keith
- 2019-06-06
Great Premise, Poor Book
Spoiler free review: Sleep Over boasts a great premise but the story, a series of vignettes told through various characters, never moves forward or reaches any conclusion. Themes are all over the place and the book can’t decide what to focus on. The experiences of the characters essentially amount to series of repetitive suspense scenes with no importance because we quickly learn that the author is less interested on building on previous chapters and advancing plot than simply rehashing information stated in the previous character interview. The characters all have the same snarky, hip, internet savvy, late 20’s/early 30’s voice despite the fact that they all come from different cultures. There’s only so much you can hear a character rave about video games or TV shows or internet forums before you realize that it’s the author talking and not the characters. Also, the characters’ dialogue sounds nothing like dialogue. It’s too melodramatic, too introspective. This is not to say that the book is not entertaining. Most of it is, even if mildly. Had the book’s second half built on the first and proposed answers and some type of conclusion, I could possibly recommend it. There are two very good chapters towards the early middle of the book, one focusing on a cab driver that decides to capitalize on the tragedy, and another about a night club owner that decides to... capitalize on the tragedy. Had the book used these two chapters to build an entire novel around, I think the result could be something unique and great. Another bright spot are the brief snippets between chapters. Some of these are just quotes from newspapers or graffiti, but they do a fantastic job of world building and were more interesting than the majority of the chapters. More of these would have been a great addition. Instead, we are treated to a depressing, slow, repetitive novel that leads to a shockingly bad ending. As for the performances, some were better than others, and some did as much as they could given the dialogue, which was wildly melodramatic at times and seldom felt like actual dialogue. Full Review (Spoiler warning): The book held my interest for the majority of its run time. It wasn’t until the end that the entire story fell apart. There were times at the end that I sat at my desk, my jaw hanging open, shocked at what I was hearing. The book goes from being a self serious tale of death and suffering, to a 1980’s-esque adventure romp where it’s up to teenage gamers to save the world. If this sounds silly to you, it’s even sillier in context and pushes the book in an almost so-bad-it’s-good direction. Following the Gamers-Save-the-World, chapter we get a heavy dose of preaching. I agree with some of the political views presented, but they feel wildly out of place in this novel, a clear sign that this chapter, which sounded as if it had been lifted from the author’s unused writings, should have been edited out. The focus of the book was already erratic at best. After reading American Psycho, Stephen King described the book as “A bad book written by a good writer.” I think that’s the case here. The two good chapters, the one about the cab driver selling snake oil and the club owner gassing people, are the ingredients of a terrific horror novel with a focus on both the apocalypse and moral corruption.Those chapters said something about the people involved. They had a quality where, though we detested the characters actions, it was hard to fully blame them. Conversely, a chapter about college students having an “epic adventure” and descriptions of the shows they binge watch to pass the time is not in the least bit interesting, especially as a way to close the novel. Worst of all, the ending is a cop-out. Instead of coming to some sort of resolution, or at the very least, having the characters discuss reasons that everyone was able to suddenly fall asleep, the book simply glosses over this fact. I can’t help but imagine the author struggling to come up with an ending and simply abandoning the story, deciding to just leave any explanation up in the air and reaching for a pile of unpublished stories to fill in the last three chapters.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- John
- 2019-04-24
Holy Moly! The truth is ‘out there’!
What a fantastically enjoyable and also enlightening book! I totally recommend it if you you are a fan of smart humour and know anything about sleep...or the lack of it! Thank you H. G. Bells!
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Joshua
- 2018-09-19
Great Story
This is a wonderful addition to the Apocalypse oral history genre. I enjoyed the different perspectives from people of all walks of life. The only thing I wished was that we got more character interaction. Each sub-story is a one off so you don't get attached be to any characters, but it is still very well written. A slight addition of more post sleep over rebuilding would have been nice. (Hoping for a sequel!) Overall a fantastic book that I will keep with me for a long time. Oh, and sleep well tonight
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-08-27
Different, i love it!
This is different kind of storytelling, different perspectives really just elevate the entire story so much, I loved views of different people of different ethnicities going though an apocalypse, the whole gamer shebang was kinda cringe tho.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- P
- 2020-05-28
Great premise, with unfortunate pacing and inadequate payoff
The idea of an insomnia apocalypse is an interesting one. However, the narrative didn’t do enough to set that premise apart sufficiently, and usually just veered right into standard apocalypse territory. That would have been fine, had the payoff been better. I don’t mind an open ending, but the story didn’t really go anywhere all that interesting as it pertained to the larger arc of the insomnia plague itself, and ended after a strange, and too lengthy, chapter, which was too small in scopes to justify its capping of the book. I was reasonably happy with the book until sometime after the midway mark, where I started to realize it was t planning on going anywhere, because there was nowhere built up to go to. That’s not to say I hated it, and I thought the first half was pretty good, it just ended up being a let down after bothering to pique my interest.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Jeffrey veals
- 2018-01-30
DNF!
Just a warning, I DID NOT FINISH THIS BOOK. However, I did get pretty far (about 1/3) and so I think I can make a pretty good guess on how this book will turn out. I'm bored. I do like the idea of the "Oral History..." like World War Z and my personal favorite oral history, Fantasticland, by Mike Bockoven (About the aftermath of a hurricane and the skeleton crew left inside an amusement park).
I do love the concept of this book: lack of sleep kills. It's not a tired idea, but it is something that we don't think about that is part of our daily life. So, while I won't say it's something new or revolutionary, I will say it's definitely got its uniqueness about it. The voice acting was great and I will say that SOME of the stories were very interesting, but, for the most part, the execution was horrendous. There is a teeny, tiny, minute chance that I will finish this book, but it's highly unlikely. I'm just too bored.
So, based on the storyline, this book gets a D- from me, but that's only because I don't feel right about giving it an F without finishing the entire thing. Voice acting/ narration was a B+. So, get this book if you think you can put up with some super boring stories peppered in with some really interesting ones.
**Only read the following if you want to read my rant about people thinking Arizonans are hicks:
As an added note, let me say something that has NOTHING to do with the book or the narration (for the most part). You can see that I gave the narration a very good score. There was one man in particular who was supposed to be from Phoenix, Arizona. It was a very short part and didn't affect too much. I just HAVE to say this: ARIZONA IS NOT TEXAS, ARKANSAS, or any other state from Texas going east. This guy put on the biggest East Texas (I've lived there, so I know what it sounds like), or Arkansas accent I've ever heard. Yes, in Phoenix, there are some people who have a bit of an accent. Usually they're implants from other states, but there are areas in very small towns that have, what you may call a hick accent. If you live in Phoenix, though, you WILL NOT have an accent. I'm sick of people thinking it's the wild west over here. Did you know we, in Phoenix, fight yearly with PHILADELPHIA to be the fifth and sixth largest city in the United States? We aren't some crazy hick state! We just have small hick areas, but we are not in the South (as in Georgia, South Carolina, etc. or wild west. Think of Arizona like a mixture of California (obviously with no beaches), Colorado, and maybe Utah, with a little bit of New Mexico mixed in there to account for the high Hispanic population. None of those states are hick states, are they?
3 les gens ont trouvé cela utile