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The Plot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"I think Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is one of the best novels I’ve ever read about writers and writing. It’s also insanely readable and terrifying. The suspense quotient is through the roof...It’s remarkable." (Stephen King)
Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful", Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive audiobook about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then...he hears the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: But it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.
In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised, and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an email arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.
As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books
"Narrator Kirby Heyborne maintains the brisk pace and firm tension of what promises to be one of the summer's most talked about suspense novels." (AudioFile Magazine)
What the critics say
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- Marc Toews
- 2021-11-19
Keeps you wanting to listen
Really nice story with a good twist. The characters were interesting and it was nice to want to see how this all ended up.
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- Tal
- 2021-08-29
Good book, difficult narration
I did enjoy listening to this story, and found myself wanting to confirm my suspicions in the plot line. The narrator however, was challenging to listen to as his Stephen Hawking-like débit took away from the emotion of the characters.
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- Mississauga Kelly
- 2023-01-31
Great Plot
Slow start but worth the listen. Unique story, winding plot and great ending. Prefer Latecomer but a new favourite author.
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- M. Black
- 2023-11-13
Don’t listen to negative reviews
This one is a winner. You should definitely listen to this before the tv series launches. Compelling story. Give it 4-5 chapters of plot building and then boom it starts getting very interesting. The mystery was not so much the denouement but the journey to get there. Very good narrator. Male voice as that’s the primary POV but he did fairly well with female voices. After a while you don’t even notice.
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- Jordan
- 2021-07-25
Probably would have been great...
...were it not for the terrible narrator. I couldnt get past it. Will read this one instead.
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- E. A. Curran
- 2023-12-19
Incredibly Boring
This started out okay, but it wasn't long before any mystery was so obvious that it became only mildly diverting. Unfortunately it got worse. Tremendously overwritten, mainly in the form of dialogues where the protagonist usually seemed to be hopelessly confused, necessitating far more explication than was bearable, it became an exercise in futility to continue listening.
The ending in particular seemed interminable.
The entire premise is absurd. The initial plot point, revealed in the Amazon intro, of a fading writer stealing one of his student’s ideas for a novel, would only have created suspense if the student had actually produced a finished book. You can't copyright an idea. The protagonist wrote the entire best-selling book himself and therefore had no reason to fear blackmail or exposure.
I don’t fault the narrator as much as others do because I feel he had to cope with grandiose and melodramatic writing, impossible to present convincingly.
The book might have been salvaged by cutting about a third of it, dumping several of the unnecessary, unbearably boring subplots, and tightening up the dialogue. Ultimately though, it still wouldn't be worth it.
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- Ashleigh
- 2022-03-17
Most boring book I’ve ever listened to
I believe the narration of this book by Kirby combined by a lack lustre plot was one of the most boring experiences of my life. I was on a road trip while listening and it was so boring I kept zoning out. Gave up after chapter 2.
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