
Evil Eye
Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
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Donna Postel
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Luci Christian
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Chris Patton
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Tamara Marston
About this listen
Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here.
In the title story, "Evil Eye," a young woman has recently become the fourth wife of a highly demanding man. When his first wife comes to stay with them, she warns the new bride that her husband is insane, and that she must find a way to protect herself. In "So Near Anytime Always," a fateful meeting in a library leads to a boy's obsessive interest in a teenage girl. In "The Execution," spoiled college student Bart Hansen has forgotten to factor in one person in his plan to commit the perfect, brutal crime: his mother. And in "The Flatbed," a beautiful young woman struggles with frigidity until a shocking act releases her.
All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.
.©2013 The Ontario Review, Inc. Recorded by arrangement with John Hawkins and Associates, Inc. (P)2013 HighBridge CompanyListeners also enjoyed...
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- Matthew S. Hill
- 03-29-17
Some of the stories are excellent!
I'm getting used to Joyce Carol Oates way of writing. Especially shorter stories. She seems to leave her stories open ended for the most part, rather then wrap it up and deliver it to you perfectly finished. I don't dislike this way of doing things, I'm just not used to it.
The four novellas in this collection are very good. My preference is for the last two, that matter of fact are less open ended.
My only issue with this book is the slow reading, over annunciation and pregnant pauses of some of the narrators. I found it distracting or sometimes plotting on. My solution was to speed up the audibles to 1.25 and then I was just fine.
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- escoocoo
- 03-26-24
Worthwhile
A pretty good, worthwhile listen of dark and somewhat creepy stories. As I recall, I would say the first one, “Evil Eye”, was most definitely the best in the bunch. Give it a try! 🫣
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- Thomas Richards
- 02-10-23
Mostly really good stories
Liked most of the stories! I might look into more of this author’s books soon
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- Aoede Pando
- 08-09-24
Disappointing collection of stories
I was really underwhelmed by the psychological understanding in these stories. It seemed shallow, and the plot took supremacy at all times, feeling predestined from the start of each tale to be another trek through a heteronormative relationship where the woman is a victim-like prey animal and the man a one dimensional monster that exists only to torment. The last story was the only one that felt like it had any true depth to it at any point, dealing with childhood sexual abuse, but it wasn’t a perfectly told tale either. The narration was okay, though way too slow on all of them - I listened at 1.6x to make it more reasonable.
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- ricketsj
- 05-11-14
Interesting stories, but morbidly fixated.
The story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates is one of my favorite short stories of all time. I have also loved many other short stories of hers. As a result I keep trying to enjoy her longer works as much as her short fiction; yet it has so far been without notable success. It seems that with JCO (for me at least), the shorter and simpler the story, the better it works. It's not that I didn't enjoy the stories in Evil Eye at all, but what happens when you read multiple JCO tales back to back is that you start to notice how similar her characters and themes are. Her protagonists are usually fragile women who end up being victimized, often in a horrible fashion, by cruel men. You can see this as either feminist or anti-feminist (or neither) depending on how you look at the story. I do my best not to think much about 'isms' when I read a story and rather to focus on how the story is working. What doesn't always work for me in these four novellas is that many of the women characters seem weak and mildly contemptible for their naivety. Fine in each individual story, but a bit overwhelming when taken together. Also, it feels at times that JCO dwells in the violence she depicts in a somewhat prurient way.
In spite of this, many things in Evil Eyes worked. I liked the use of unreliable narrators, used in at least two of the stories, making the reader wonder if you could trust the story being told. It's not her best work but the stories are worth the listen, especially if you already are a fan of Joyce Carol Oates and know what to expect.
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- K
- 11-22-19
Didn't hold my attention
I couldn't finish this book. I ended requesting my credit back. Only listened to the first two stories and I was just bored.
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- Bernadet Rodakowski
- 04-10-24
Would not recommend- whole thing seems AI generated
The fake voice is very annoying with the same cadence & tone sentence after sentence. Repeated mispronunciations like LATTE spoken as [LAW-day] & Marriott Marquis as Marriott [MAR-kwis]. Ugh- 😒 Also, were the stories AI generated? Gratuitous, rambling & sophomoric descriptions- overall poor writing & story structure. Don’t waste your time.
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