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The Sopaths

By: Piers Anthony
Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
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The most controversial work by New York Times best-selling author Piers Anthony.

Killing children is an ugly business, but the alternative is so much uglier. Abner Slate just watched his five-year-old daughter Olive kill his wife and son. Olive is a sopath. Born without souls, sopaths are children who will lie, cheat, rape, and murder to get what they want. There's one in every family these days, destroying America's heartland from within. After murdering his daughter in self-defense, Abner is taken in by a secret network of sopath victims called Pariah. Through Pariah, he meets other sopath victims who band together to form a temporary nuclear family. But the sopath threat is getting worse, and soon their quaint little neighborhood is overrun by murderous, drug-running children. Now, on a mission for Pariah, Abner and his makeshift family must travel across the country to a mysterious town that contains a secret powerful enough to stop the sopath crisis. Instead, they find the most seductive and ruthless sopath of all. Her name is Autopsy, and she would like to add Abner to her slave collection. The old morality is dead. Now the sopaths will stalk the Earth.

©2011 Piers Anthony, This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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So much promise

I tried to like this, the premise was great and I love the author.
however, the dialog is awful, the characters are not well developed except the main sopath in the story and the narrator just didn't do it for me.
Everything felt rushed and nothing felt believable.
overall I am happy I finished it but this could have been so much better.

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nope

I really couldn't get into it and didn't care for it at all. I would not recommend it.

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Different

Not sure what to say. Definitely a different type of read. Has a few things that I found hard to listen to. The young age of the Sopaths made me want to stop a few times. I did finish it though. Quite disturbing.

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The production

It’s a decent book, a little predictable at some points but overall I enjoyed the story. My major problem with this is with the production it’s self. The reader sounds more like an AI reading the book. Hard to get fully invested in it because it’s so monotoned and boring for the way it’s read. I would’ve much rather read the book my self. Given the characters their own voices and actually show emotion which the reader fails to do.

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not believable

the story line feels so rushed and some parts feel perverted. it's not believable and the characters actions don't make sense.

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Dissapointed

The idea for the story line is good , could be really interesting but this was poorly written. Also, it seemed to be a thinly veiled attempt to write about young girls obsessively attempting to seduce grown men. This portion of the book seemed less important to the story but was given a great deal of attention...

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Interestef

I loved this book! I found it very entertaining and suspenseful. so reader may find some of the content disturbing.. however it is science fiction.

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Great idea, poor execution

The general story line is good. The language and content needed to be refined more.

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not his best

way way to much child porn in this story. not his usual quality work.

reader did assn awesome job.

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New Concept

The horror genre is my favorite. Piers Anthony's The Sopaths was a new idea that I have not read about before.His take on murderous children makes you really think about the nature vs nurture debate. You could feel the pain that these parents and siblings were going through and the solution was not one that I saw coming.

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