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Little Heaven
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
- Narrateur(s): Corey Brill
- Durée: 15 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 45
From electrifying horror author Nick Cutter comes a haunting new novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Stephen King's It, in which a trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven. Shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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unreal
- Écrit par Alex Harper le 2021-04-18
Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
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The Deep
- Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
- Narrateur(s): Corey Brill
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 69
A strange plague called the "Gets" is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget - small things at first, like where they left their keys... then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily - and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered - a universal healer, from initial reports.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Forgetable but hes a great descriptive wtiter
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-07
Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
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Brother
- Auteur(s): Ania Ahlborn
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 9 h et 40 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 38
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 39
Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But 19-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- Écrit par Natasha le 2023-09-27
Auteur(s): Ania Ahlborn
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The Ruins
- Auteur(s): Scott Smith
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Wilson
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 79
The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group, the young German who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A worthy matured successor to Lord of the Flies
- Écrit par Daniela le 2021-03-06
Auteur(s): Scott Smith
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Gone to See the River Man
- Auteur(s): Kristopher Triana
- Narrateur(s): Dani George
- Durée: 5 h et 43 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 34
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers. Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than 20 women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it. She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kept me hooked until the end
- Écrit par Melissa C le 2023-01-29
Auteur(s): Kristopher Triana
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The Summer I Died
- Auteur(s): Ryan C. Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Gary Dikeos
- Durée: 7 h et 2 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 4
So much screaming. Roger Huntington is home from college for the summer, and he and his best friend, Tooth, can't wait to start having fun. It's going to be a summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, parties and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures, two friends - So much blood. - suddenly thrust in the middle of a nightmare.
Auteur(s): Ryan C. Thomas
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Little Heaven
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
- Narrateur(s): Corey Brill
- Durée: 15 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 45
From electrifying horror author Nick Cutter comes a haunting new novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Stephen King's It, in which a trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven. Shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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unreal
- Écrit par Alex Harper le 2021-04-18
Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
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The Deep
- Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
- Narrateur(s): Corey Brill
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 69
A strange plague called the "Gets" is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget - small things at first, like where they left their keys... then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily - and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered - a universal healer, from initial reports.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Forgetable but hes a great descriptive wtiter
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-07
Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
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Brother
- Auteur(s): Ania Ahlborn
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 9 h et 40 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 38
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 39
Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But 19-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- Écrit par Natasha le 2023-09-27
Auteur(s): Ania Ahlborn
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The Ruins
- Auteur(s): Scott Smith
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Wilson
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 79
The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group, the young German who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A worthy matured successor to Lord of the Flies
- Écrit par Daniela le 2021-03-06
Auteur(s): Scott Smith
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Gone to See the River Man
- Auteur(s): Kristopher Triana
- Narrateur(s): Dani George
- Durée: 5 h et 43 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 34
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers. Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than 20 women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it. She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kept me hooked until the end
- Écrit par Melissa C le 2023-01-29
Auteur(s): Kristopher Triana
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The Summer I Died
- Auteur(s): Ryan C. Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Gary Dikeos
- Durée: 7 h et 2 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 4
So much screaming. Roger Huntington is home from college for the summer, and he and his best friend, Tooth, can't wait to start having fun. It's going to be a summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, parties and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures, two friends - So much blood. - suddenly thrust in the middle of a nightmare.
Auteur(s): Ryan C. Thomas
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare
- Auteur(s): Simone St. James
- Narrateur(s): Billie Fulford-Brown
- Durée: 9 h et 45 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 1
1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.
Auteur(s): Simone St. James
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Tampa
- Auteur(s): Alissa Nutting
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen McInerney
- Durée: 8 h et 21 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 19
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession: 14-year-old boys. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very Disturbing
- Écrit par Bubba Jr. le 2023-07-21
Auteur(s): Alissa Nutting
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Delicate Condition
- Auteur(s): Danielle Valentine
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 11 h et 32 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 4
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she's gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perfect for American Horror Story
- Écrit par Mr. Yum le 2023-09-04
Auteur(s): Danielle Valentine
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The Only Good Indians
- Auteur(s): Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrateur(s): Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Durée: 8 h et 37 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 200
From New York Times best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American-Indian experience. Fans of Jordan Peele and Tommy Orange will love this story as it follows the lives of four American-Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a vengeful way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like it, good story
- Écrit par Kevin Chelsea le 2020-08-18
Auteur(s): Stephen Graham Jones
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Off Season
- Auteur(s): Jack Ketchum
- Narrateur(s): Richard Davidson
- Durée: 7 h et 50 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 32
September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River - off season - awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and narration
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-06-13
Auteur(s): Jack Ketchum
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Carrion Comfort
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Mel Foster, Laural Merlington
- Durée: 39 h et 27 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves. Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A marvelous revisit to a classic story.
- Écrit par Candace le 2018-09-29
Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
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The Watchers
- Auteur(s): A.M. Shine
- Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Milne
- Durée: 9 h et 27 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovveeedd
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-08-23
Auteur(s): A.M. Shine
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The Breach
- Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 6 h et 45 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 28
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 28
John Hawkins is counting down his last days as chief of police on the Lone Crow Reservation in the lonely, frigid woods of the Yukon. But when a faceless body with mysterious wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River, he’s pulled deeper in than ever before. Hawkins and coroner Jacob Littlecorn suspect the disfigured body is that of theoretical physicist Graham Raphelson, also known as the “molecular madman of Trinity College”, who recently disappeared.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh, Nick... what happened?
- Écrit par Candace le 2020-10-26
Auteur(s): Nick Cutter
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The Laws of the Skies
- Auteur(s): Gregoire Courtois, Rhonda Mullins - translator
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Matmor
- Durée: 4 h et 31 min
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Histoire3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness and accidents, and of a murderous child.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A letdown.
- Écrit par Jenn le 2023-01-11
Auteur(s): Gregoire Courtois, Autres
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Devolution
- A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
- Auteur(s): Max Brooks
- Narrateur(s): Judy Greer, Max Brooks, Jeff Daniels, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 50 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 349
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined...until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing - and too earth-shattering in its implications - to be forgotten. In this audiobook, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Brutal
- Écrit par Luxmaechristus le 2020-07-02
Auteur(s): Max Brooks
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Tender Is the Flesh
- Auteur(s): Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrateur(s): Joseph Balderrama
- Durée: 6 h et 44 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 129
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition". Now, eating human meat - "special meat" - is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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storyline was lacking
- Écrit par Haley MacGillivary le 2022-03-31
Auteur(s): Agustina Bazterrica
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Near the Bone
- Auteur(s): Christina Henry
- Narrateur(s): Lisa Flanagan
- Durée: 8 h et 39 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 29
Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all. There’s something in the woods that wasn’t there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wow that was dark
- Écrit par LadyK le 2022-07-17
Auteur(s): Christina Henry
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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfre. The boys are a tight-knit crew. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school; Ephraim and Max, also well-liked and easygoing; then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there - which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier. But for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year. Something waiting in the darkness. Something wicked...
It comes to them in the night. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry - a man in unspeakable torment who exposes Tim and the boys to something far more frightening than any ghost story. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine.
And so it begins. An agonizing weekend in the wilderness. A harrowing struggle for survival. No possible escape from the elements, the infected...or one another.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Histoire1 out of 5 stars
- Emilie
- 2020-07-28
If you're into detailed animal abuse
Didn't even finish listening... Lots of detailed animal abuse that I couldnt listen to.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Histoire2 out of 5 stars
- Tony
- 2020-07-30
This is a mess
This book started strong enough. It started on PEI. So, for once I actually knew the landmarks and setting locations quite well. It went downhill from about there.
THE STORY:
Tonally and thematically, I don't think this book knows what it wants to be. It is technically written fine, but it tries to be a mixture of so many different pieces of media that it loses itself and becomes this homogenized mess of mediocrity. This is mystery, mixed with science fiction, mixed with drama, mixed with children of the corn, mixed with boring. It all felt so forced and awkward. That's why I don't want to say the book is well written. I don't think it is. But the book is at least competently written. The proper things are used in the proper places. They just aren't good.
The words and grammar are good, but nothing special. The writer uses a set up and pay off, but blink and you'll miss it. The characters, all of them, are unlikable. Things just happen, because. Everything that happens in the book is just too absurd to take seriously. Near the end of the book there is a literal super villain monologue about how the worms will inherit the earth. Like, nobody in the book is real, and the really don't feel real.
THE GORE:
There were two reason I bought this book. I really wanted something really intense and this book had both great reviews, and terrified comments. Most of the good comments were saying how gross the book was, how graphic. And the negative reviews were saying the same thing, but that it was too much. Well, I am pretty sure all the reviews were written by the children in this book, and have no life experience.
By the end of part one, I was still waiting for this horrific, scary, skin crawling book to start. All I had at that point was a group of semi dysfunctional boys, and the plot of Futurama where Fry eats the truck stop sandwich. And it was a slog to get that far. Near the end of part two, and the end of the book, I came to a realization. This book wasn't going to get good.
The book tries to go into excruciating detail about the things that happen in the book, but that is the only excruciating part. It drags scenes out for pages and pages, thinking it is making us squirm. One such instance is when they kill an animal for food, and the process of killing the animal is "so horrific", and "nothing like the movies". In the movies it is quick, but in real life there is blood and stuff, and things suffer if they aren't killed quickly, etc etc.
Well, yea. What did you think? I can understand the characters sort of not getting that, but the reader should live in reality and know "stabbing an animal and watching it slowly suffer to death" is a bad thing. So, it seems stupid for it to be a character moment, and we should already know so it comes off as just really terribly slowly paced pages upon pages of us finding out it was a bad thing. It would be like reading "and we watching my grandmother burn in her rocking chair for five minutes", while graphically explaining how her skin sloughs off. And on the final page of the scene they come to the realization that "Fire is indeed hot".
The other "graphic" stuff is mostly medical stuff (and explained as such, which doesn't make it overly gross or anything), or about worms. And yup, worms are gross, but that is about it. They aren't scary, and there really isn't any crazy body horror or slasher moments. Honestly, I think if you've ever lived on a farm (or owned a pet, or walked in the woods, or watched a medical documentary, or had kids, or...) then you've seen far worse than what most of this book has to offer.
THE KIDS:
I will keep this short. The kids are dreadful. But honestly, so is every character in the book. They start out as a group of young boys who are more or less friends. But they aren't friends, because these people know nothing about each other. These people aren't good people, but nobody in the group seems to know. Like one kid is comparable to Ted Bundy, with detailed scenes of him rubbing his dong because he is so hard from the violence, but nobody knows. Everyone is made of rubber. Being one character type in this scene, but another in another scene. "I am cowardly, I am brave now, but now abused, and now...". And when we get to witness the story from their point of view, it never feels right. It feels like an adult wrote some dialogue, then went and watched some kids be boys for a while (insults, gross out, stupid stuff). They then incorporated that into the story and said "there, characters".
But the characters all being unlikable, on top of being just completely off the walls, combined with the story that does the same (one story now, but now I'm this story...) makes this book feel bloated with bad things.
This book has worms.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Nicole
- 2020-08-15
Gory with lots of animal cruelty
I didn't finish this. I was so tired of readying gross stories about awful things happening to innocent animals. I looked up the ending and I'm glad I didn't listen to the last 3 hours. What a depressing book.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Histoire2 out of 5 stars
- Maggie Reid
- 2020-07-03
I wanted to like it
From all the reviews I really thought I would like it. Just terrible. No real story, just gross scene after gross scene.
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- Lucy
- 2019-08-26
Kept me listening!
I really enjoyed this story. I found myself making extra time during my day, and before going to bed, so that I could listen to it more. I was prepared for the gross/gore factor from reading the reviews. It didn't bother me - I read and watch a lot of horror. But be aware that it certainly is very prevalent throughout the entire story, both to do with animals and humans.
The narrator was pretty good, although I found there wasn't a lot of variation between the different characters' voices. It didn't keep me from enjoying the book though.
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- D. Katay
- 2020-08-19
Too much animal cruelty
The book was ok, very interesting story and mostly ok characters. There was far too much attention drawn to animal cruelty though, and it was often needlessly lengthy. I don’t know if the intention was to make it extra gory and “scary” but it seems excessive. I love horror, I even like gore in my books and movies but I had to skip ahead several times. It’s basically torture porn for your ears.
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- JayEC0
- 2020-04-13
Horror at its best
This book hit me right where the snakes in my spine live and squirm. Very disturbing.
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- J. faubert
- 2020-01-11
Great horror novel
Some people thought it was to graphic, but I think it was just right for a horror novel. Keeps your attention, nothing to traumatizing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-11-05
was amazing
From start to finish kept me engaged and liked the ending, kinda of tragic story of growing up.
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- Michael
- 2023-08-31
Go Eat Worms
Unbelievably effective. I’m going to make a docs appointment and get checked for worms now. And listen to the next nick cutter
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- Kim Venatries
- 2014-03-13
Seriously Messed Up Gruesome Horror
Lord of the Flies meets Hannibal Lector. I’ve been reading horror stories since junior high and it takes a lot to ‘disturb’ me. There were points in this story that made me nauseous. There are parts I wish I could un-hear. But there were also parts that made me ache for the characters. Some of the characters that is. Hell is not hot enough for a couple of the characters. Overall I’m not sure how to judge this book. But I can warn you that there are scenes of animal torture that are ugly and graphic.
The plot is interesting. A group of boy scouts on a remote island encounter a seriously ill man. It turns out the man is carrying a contagious “disease” that infects their scout leader leaving the boys on their own. One of the boys is a secret sociopath that would make Dalmer and Bundy turn away in disgust. And then there’s the disease… well that’s another very dark road. The writing and narration were good but imho the horror is too grisly, too nasty and too real. Listen at your own risk.
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- Jess B
- 2018-02-15
Mild spoilers
I am going to post some mild spoilers, but nothing super major that would ruin the story.
The narrator was perfect for this type of story. He had a voice that really captured a story being told by a campfire.
The story has some gross moments. I am going to leave some words here, just in case you may not be able to handle it: Animal cruelty, anal prolapse, parasites. If you cannot handle stories involving those words, do not buy this book. Being honest, I had to skip over some of the "animal" moments. What happened to the humans didn't bother me as much as the description of those scenes.
At points, the descriptions of what was happening did turn my stomach, but I kept reading because I needed to know what happened. Overall, it wasn't that bad of a horror story, even with stereotypical characters and tropes. I will have to see what other Nick Cutter stories are out there.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 2015-03-21
JOSEPF MENGELE 2.0
ISLAND WOMEN WERE LIKE CHRISTMAS TREES, NOBODY WANTED THEM AFTER THE 25TH.
This is a gruesome story, not the grossest I have ever read, but it was up there. I like mad scientist and I like biology gone wild, so this was a great book for me. It was a great look at the kind of kids who are in scouts these days and most kids were good, but!!. The story about the tape worms was not gory enough Cutter brought in a few evil characters.
The only complaint I would have is I believe it dragged on a little long. The children or people that are killed are killed one at a time, which takes a long time and we get a background on all the kids. Edit out about two hours and this would have been much better. It is still a five star listen.
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- kmv
- 2018-05-13
Read if you like gross books
Fixation on worms with unnecessarily gross and detailed, drawn out description of injury, violence, decay, etc. stomach turning....
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- Lesley
- 2014-03-27
Horror that's really horrifying
Horror fiction is in kind of a weird place right now. There's the old classic stuff, where the horror is all in the mind, and then there's the plain gross-out stuff. A lot of the first type hasn't aged well--the things that scare us now are so different than they were back then. And the gross-out kind, while fun, can get boring after a while: another eyeball falls out, another arm gets torn off, but does anything actually happen?
Not too many people are hitting the midline these days: psychological exploration of fear mixed with just enough yuck to keep things interesting. But this guy, Nick Cutter--he's right on top of that balance beam in The Troop.
Scoutmaster Tim and his troop of five boys set off for a remote location off the coast of Prince Edward Island (which itself qualifies as remote!). Everything's going great--for a little while. And then, almost immediately, things begin to unravel when a stranger arrives. A really strange stranger. Suddenly, everything is falling off the edge of normal, especially the scouts themselves.
Fans of earlier Stephen King novels may recognize the structure: everything's fine and then the Bad Thing shows up, making everyone show their true, ugly colors. But this book reads like a later King actually wrote it, especially in the characterization. The boys start off as templates: bully, nerd, weirdo, kid with issues at home, normal (if confused) kid. And then stereotypes vanish as personalities evolve and blur under the stress of the situation.
Other reviewers have mentioned that parts of this book are just plain disgusting. I actually yelled out "Oh, gross!" on the bus at one point, causing my fellow passengers to look around cautiously. But even the gross stuff wasn't just there for effect--it was disgusting, squishy, and smelly, yes, but it was also truly horrifying. Suddenly I remembered what "spine-tingling" actually means. Yikes!
The only issue I had with this edition, and it was a little issue, was the production value. The narrator was fine, but I heard a few page-turns and there were parts where the sound level dropped for a few seconds. But like I said, it was a pretty small issue.
I can't remember the last time I read a book with virtually no boring parts. This book didn't have any that I noticed. I wandered around with my earbuds on for an entire day, completely glued to the story. I kept listening for "tells" that might point to Stephen King actually writing this book--apparently it's a first novel, but that was hard to believe because it's just so good (I don't think Stephen King wrote this...but I can't be entirely sure!). If you love horror that's really horrifying, and you don't mind some squishy parts, you will love The Troop.
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- Keith
- 2018-04-18
Slow and Devoid of Real Scares
The Troop is, at its core, the literary equivalent of torture porn. The novel is filled with wildly overlong descriptions of scenes that only exist to gross out the reader/listener. Cutter, who can be a very good writer, judging by the chapters in novel that are interviews with secondary characters, uses the most amateurish tactics to try and get under the listener's skin. Instead of creating suspense, he murders helpless animals. The animal killings are described in slow, painfully boring detail. The story to takes a screeching halt for these scenes.
Worst of all, the book feels like a patchwork quilt consisting of scenes from horror movies. Without spoiling anything, I felt like I was listening to descriptions of scenes from Alien, the Thing, Cabin Fever and Resident Evil. Even the main characters were stock children from a million different movies. Big jock, fat nerd, creepy skinny kid. There are two others, but only of those two has any dimension.
I can't recommend The Troop to anyone. It's a very slow, very dull, very forgettable read. I loved the few chapters that were interviews and I wish Cutter has written the entire book like this, but unfortunately, he decided to go for the lowest common denominator and write endless gross-out scenes that drag in to nowhere.
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- Phillip
- 2014-03-10
Solid horror from start to finish
I have always been a huge fan of the horror genre--be it book, film, or tv--but good horror, especially good horror literature, can be hard to find. When it comes to film, there are horror movies that are so bad they're good. This does not hold true for horror novels. Bad horror novels are just bad, they cannot be redeemed.
Luckily, The Troop is one of those rare finds, a horror novel that entertains and terrifies from beginning to end. Cutter's description of the adolescent state of mind, their hopes, fears, insecurities, etc., is perhaps the best I've read since "It" or "The Body." And Corey Brill does a great job narrating the story and giving each boy his own voice.
I recommend this novel to any horror fan. It's a gory mess from the first to last...and I mean that in the best way.
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- M. Gross
- 2018-03-21
Pretty thin
I wasn’t put off by all of the gore which I expected after reading the reviews however the story itself was pretty thin (no pun intended). I heard it described elsewhere as a cross between Stephen King and Hannibal Lecter which I guess is a pretty apt description however I did find some of the narratives gratuitous. Held my attention mostly because I wanted to find out how it ended but I really couldn’t give it more than 3 stars.
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- J-Grizzle Jordan
- 2018-05-10
Holy M#$_F-++-&g Head Trip
So I'm not one to normally use profanity on an Amazon review, but I hope I have your attention now. This book is NOT for the week stomached, or week minded.
It's horror all right and when Stephen King said it scared the piss out of him oh he wasn't kidding. Not because of Monsters or Boogie Men and not because of Serial Killers or Mad Men but because of things you don't think of, at least not daily. All the same they are there, everyday, with us, within us, not just the proverbial "us" but actually within YOU! NO matter how many times you shower, how clean you think you keep your system, how healthy you eat, much you wash your hands. This truth is WHY this book terrified even Stephen King, and made Clive Barker tell nyt bsl i couldn't finish, and this is what my nightmare dream about. if your like me and thought you could never find an intellectual, engaging, captivating, book that also took you so far over the edges of horror, science, gore, that you're mind snaps line a twin into the ground from which same said twig once grew. This is your read.
But BE WARNED: when I say gore I'm not talking zombies chewing on intestines. I'm so far past the intensity and mental darkness of that concept it almost seems "rainbow bright" ish, and when I say mental twists and breaking you down into darkness beyond typical "dark" books *breath* *shallow laugh* I'm not talking incest, child molestation, rape, prostitution, enslavement, serial killing by genocidal governments. go. deep. er.
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- Kelly
- 2017-10-18
Lord of the Flies + Battle Royale + The Ruins =...
First and foremost, I didn't hate this book even though I gave the story 2 stars. I love Nick Cutter's writing - some people claim that he goes off on too many "tangents," but for me those flashbacks helped create three-dimensional characters whose memories and experiences influence their every decision, making them that much more believable. That being said, the plot definitely borrowed from a lot of existing works and I was pretty bummed about it. I'm a huge horror fan and have devoured a ton of movies/books and the plot of The Troop ended up seeming like a mash-up of a few existing motifs (***SPOILER*** early psychopathic behavior = killing small animals, cutting flesh to get parasites out, psychopath given free reign to kill peers in isolated location without repercussions, boys left to fend for themselves on a deserted island, etc) ***END SPOILER***
I listened to Little Heaven first (which I enjoyed immensely) and this book had been recommended to me for a few weeks, so I dove in. Two important trigger warnings that I wish I'd known before purchasing this book:
1. Animal cruelty. There are 2 scenes that are so graphic and heartbreaking that I had to skip them - even though I skipped most of them I so badly wish I could un-hear what I heard. I'm a huge animal lover, and there was some animal cruelty in Little Heaven as well, so I'm a bit wary of listening to this author's other works even though I do enjoy his writing style.
2. Parasitic worms. I had a phobia of tapeworms when I was younger, and some of the scenes in this book made me nauseous.
All that said, I did finish this book in just two days. I quite liked the characters, ending, and how the main narrative was interspersed with interviews and news articles pertaining to the events of the story. The narration by Corey Brill was fantastic, (though not as good as his work in Little Heaven in my opinion). The two trigger warnings I mentioned & the somewhat trite/expected/been-done-before motifs earned this book's story 2 stars, but I don't regret listening to it - though I probably won't listen to it again.
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