
Medusa's Web
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Narrated by:
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Chris Sorenson
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By:
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Tim Powers
From the award-winning author of Hide Me Among the Graves, Last Call, Declare, and Three Days to Never, a phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover occult secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his family.
In the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they once shared.
While Scott desperately wants to go back to their shabby South-of-Sunset lives, he cannot pry his sister away from this haunted "House of Usher in the Hollywood Hills" that is a conduit for the supernatural. Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino and the silent film stars.
A collection of hypnotic eight-limbed abstract images inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time - to transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are both puzzling and terrifying. Though their cousins know little about these ancient "spiders" which provoke unpredictable temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have been using for years - an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the brink of selfish destruction.
As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat's spell, Scott discovers that to protect her, he must use the perilous spiders himself. But will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family's past and finally free them...or be pulled deeper into their deadly web?
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Solid story
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Meh:( It's ok
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On one hand, I know that (like many others) I find the narration odd and distracting. Almost every sentence is delivered with what may be intended as a sardonic inflection. On the other hand, the dialog seems stilted and unreal.
I don't know if the dialog sounds bad because of the narration, or if the narration sounds bad because of the way the dialog is written. But the combination makes it hard to accept the dialog as being words actually spoken by the characters.
(I should say I'm a big Tim Powers fan and none of his other books have struck me in this way.)
Narration undermines dialog, or vice versa
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Medusa’s Web
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Engaging story hampered by indifferent narration.
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Awful narration
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Terrific Book...
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I really like Tim Powers, but the narration is so bad it is painful. It kept taking me out of the book. I am not done with it, and I may not finish the book because of it. I guess I will just have to get the e-book and read it.Would you be willing to try another one of Chris Sorenson’s performances?
NO! His performance was terrible! I am sure I could do a better job myself. That is not to say it would be good if I did it myself, it would just be better than Mr. Sorenson's.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes. I am enjoying the writing in spite of the narration.Any additional comments?
I hope Mr. Powers does not let Mr. Sorenson narrate any more of his books!Good book wrecked by reader
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Great story wrong narrator
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Great story, worst narration of any Powers book
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