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Robertson Dean
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From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse.
"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."
This passage is from the first entry of a journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel. It is the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany - a house that thwarts the expectations of the narrator's recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. He is eager to finish a screenplay for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him - and within him.
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Listen to Your Sister
- A Novel
- By: Neena Viel
- Narrated by: Eric Lockley, Kristolyn Lloyd, Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. When Jamie’s actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their lives–and reality–hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.
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Great story and excellent performances
- By S K on 02-24-25
By: Neena Viel
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We Need to Do Something
- By: Max Booth III
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sierra Mccormick, Vinessa Shaw, and Pat Healy! A family on the verge of self-destruction finds themselves isolated in their bathroom during a tornado warning.
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Unsure how I feel
- By J. Nickey on 01-30-21
By: Max Booth III
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The Gone World
- By: Tom Sweterlitsch
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship USS Libra - a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows firsthand the mental trauma of time travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
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What an amazing find!
- By Veronica on 03-07-18
By: Tom Sweterlitsch
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Before and After
- By: Andrew Shanahan
- Narrated by: Chris Devon
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Ben Stone is terrified. He's terrified because he weighs 601 pounds and needs his right leg amputating. He's terrified because a crane will shortly lift him from his fourth-floor flat and lower him 44 feet to an ambulance waiting below. He's terrified because he hasn't been outside in nine years, and he doesn't know who will look after his beautiful dog. He needn't worry, though, because the world is about to end.
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did we read the same book?
- By Crabby Cat Guy on 01-15-23
By: Andrew Shanahan
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The Haar
- By: David Sodergren
- Narrated by: Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there. But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost . . . until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland.
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The protagonist
- By Alyssa Scholler on 08-25-24
By: David Sodergren
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Monstrilio
- By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal, Johnny Rey Diaz
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family's communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.
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Not exactly what I expected….
- By kisa on 10-06-23
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The Employees
- A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- By: Olga Ravn
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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I think this was a story?
- By Jordan on 07-02-23
By: Olga Ravn
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The Salt Grows Heavy
- By: Cassandra Khaw
- Narrated by: Susan Dalian
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
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Unnecessarily Purple Prose
- By Shavay Hatter on 03-12-25
By: Cassandra Khaw
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Dark Matter
- By: Michelle Paver
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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January 1937. Jack Miller has just about run out of options. His shoes have worn through, he can't afford to heat his rented room in Tooting, and he longs to use his training as an specialist wireless operator instead of working in his dead-end job. When he is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates, he brushes off his apprehensions and convinces himself to join them.
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Incredible!
- By Madeleine on 02-12-11
By: Michelle Paver
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- Candy
- 06-17-20
confused...is there going to be more???
Felt like it had a good start at the beginning, but at the end I felt confused and like there should be more to the story or a second part.
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- matt
- 10-10-23
Solid Listen
A Good build, and a Solid ending. Gives a Very “The Shinning” vibe when reading.
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- RICK
- 07-11-18
Like a good episode of the original Twilight Zone
An intriguing little confection. It’s going to be made into a movie which will be quite some trick given how little actually happens in the story. Much of it is so internalized but really spooky. It will stay with you long after you’ve read it (or listened) in this case.
Well performed but at times the translation from the original German becomes somewhat apparent.
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- M. Pennell
- 06-11-18
Great book.
This is the first book I've listened to that was narrated by Robertson Dean. He did a great job. The story was a little hard to get a hold of at the beginning but within 15-20 minutes I got the hang of the writer's style. I look forward to watching the movie with Kevin Bacon in the future.
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- Christy
- 06-01-24
Listening in an empty dark house wasn't my best idea.
The way the author writes adds to the creepiness of this story, and that last chapter definitely had me avoiding looking down the hallway or out the window. If you enjoy an occasional case of the heebies and/ or jeebies... this'll do it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-18-20
Perfect for those who like atmospheric horror
The first 30 minutes are a little slow, but once you get past that this story gets extremely creepy. It kept me up for days afterwards.
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- Clay McIntyre
- 06-07-24
Good shit
Actually got chills when the dude turns around and sees.... *spoilers*
Now time for book club
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- dreyesopen
- 08-01-17
Great idea, but poorly executed or incomplete.
I really enjoyed the concept of Mr Kehlmann's story, but it was underdeveloped. It's closest analog might be Stephen King's "The Shining," but with less detail. He did a good job of not copying that story, but his story left me feeling unfulfilled. The characters were interesting, and I wanted to learn more about them, but got too little history to develop much sympathy for them. That the principal character was a writer attempting to complete a screen play seemed poetic in a way, since the dialogue between the characters was the most detailed and skillfully done part of the story. Still, I was left feeling like the story itself was skeletal, like an outline of something that should've been bigger. I wish I could read (understand) the German language, as I suspect some story details and dramatic impact may have been lost in the translation. But, with all due respect to Mr Dean the translator, I'll admit this is mere speculation.
I enjoyed the reading of the story. The actor's performance was entertaining. His vocal range was very interesting, with a mellifuous baritone that was quite distinctive. He reminded me a little of Orson Welles.
No doubt I'll have to read more of Mr Kehlmann's work...
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- Katrina
- 01-02-24
I had no clue where this was going
This book kept me on my toes for just enough time. I loved it and will be looking for other works.
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- Daniel
- 04-15-24
Very nerve racking
It felt like listening to a short film. There was so much that didn’t make sense but it felt like it was written like that intentionally to keep you guessing of what comes next.
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