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Michel Faber
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Hailed as “original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century” (Wall Street Journal), this debut novel lingers long after the last moments have been played.
A “fascinating psychological thriller” (Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who scouts the Scottish Highlands for male hitchhikers with big muscles. She herself is tiny - like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, Isserley listens to her passengers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them should they disappear - and then she strikes. What happens to her victims next is only part of a terrifying reality.
At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory: our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion. A grotesque and comical allegory and a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok, Under the Skin was internationally received as the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.
©2000 Michel Faber (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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“Faber constructs a compelling, unusual tale about species difference and the limits of compassion. Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation.” (Washington Post Book World)
“Original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century…Michel Faber is a strong, moral voice, and this first novel promises great things for the future.” (Wall Street Journal)
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The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events. Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction. The Feed's collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology?
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uhhh
- De Michelle en 03-10-20
De: Nick Clark Windo
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The Watchers
- De: A.M. Shine
- Narrado por: Jacqueline Milne
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.
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Surprising and original
- De Leia Schoeck en 10-08-22
De: A.M. Shine
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That Bear Ate My Pants!
- Life and Near Death in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge
- De: Tony James Slater
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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That Bear Ate My Pants! is the hilarious tale of one man's quest to better himself. Whether losing a machete fight with a tree, picking dead tarantulas out of a tank of live ones, or sewing the head back onto a partially decapitated crocodile, Tony's misadventures are ridiculous, unbelievable, and always entertaining.
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Laughter is the best medicine
- De C C Johnson en 05-23-23
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Into the Out Of
- De: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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Earth is being invaded by the shetani - spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak, and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
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Another Great Book by a Master Storyteller!
- De Tracy Michael Herring en 05-03-21
De: Alan Dean Foster
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Rising Darkness
- Game of Shadows, Book 1
- De: Thea Harrison
- Narrado por: Sophie Eastlake
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She's feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she's had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic, and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself.
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3.5 STARS A COMPLICATED SCI-FI THRILLER
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 04-24-13
De: Thea Harrison
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Haunted
- David Ash Series, Book 1
- De: James Herbert
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.
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Wait For It-----Wait For It
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-09-13
De: James Herbert
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Halcyon
- A Thriller
- De: Rio Youers
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Halcyon is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario - a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty and healing. And she believes the pathway there can only be found at the end of pleasure.
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Intense and mesmerizing
- De Andrea en 09-25-18
De: Rio Youers
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The Hollow Man
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run - from his mind, from his past, from himself - hoping to find peace in isolation.
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Genius writing, great book
- De David Shear en 02-28-14
De: Dan Simmons
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Dear Amy
- De: Helen Callaghan
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- De Mystery Maven en 11-18-16
De: Helen Callaghan
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Tea with the Black Dragon
- Black Dragon, Book 1
- De: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrado por: Megan Hayes
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter, Elizabeth, is in trouble; she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused, and a little bit worried. Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter.
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My favorite dragon book
- De Ellenaeddy en 08-08-15
De: R. A. MacAvoy
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Once Upon a Haunted Moor
- The Tyack & Frayne Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Harper Fox
- Narrado por: Tim Gilbert
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in the village of Dark on Bodmin Moor. His first missing-child case is eating him alive. When his own boss sends in a psychic to help with the case, he's gutted - he's a level-headed copper who doesn't believe in such things, and he can't help but think that the arrival of clairvoyant Lee Tyack is a comment on his failure to find the little girl. But Lee is hard to hate, no matter how Gideon tries. At first Lee's insights into the case make no sense, but he seems to have a window straight into Gideon's heart.
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Excellent start, terrific narration
- De Annika en 01-26-18
De: Harper Fox
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The Dead Cat Bounce
- De: Sarah Graves
- Narrado por: Lindsay Ellison
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
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too slow of a story...
- De Annette en 03-13-18
De: Sarah Graves
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Still reeling from a brutal dismemberment, detective Kline is forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside a religious cult that takes literally the New Testament idea that you should cut off your hand if it offends you. Armed only with his gun, his wits, and a gift for self-preservation, Kline must navigate a gauntlet of lies, threats, and misinformation. All too soon he discovers that the stakes are higher than he thought and that his survival depends on an act of sheer will.
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NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA starring Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant, Shirley Henderson and Mark Gatiss. 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them....' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen, and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can.
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Loved this Book!!
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It's been 30 years since the apocalypse and 15 years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI - One World Intelligence, the shared consciousness of millions of robots uploaded into one huge mainframe brain.
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This Book has Magic
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They All Died Screaming
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Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer. When the phenomenon hits Chuck's city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand.
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Hoping for horror, only P*rn and R*pe.
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From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
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Last Days
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Red Harvest for the 21st Century
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Loved this Book!!
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It's been 30 years since the apocalypse and 15 years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI - One World Intelligence, the shared consciousness of millions of robots uploaded into one huge mainframe brain.
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This Book has Magic
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They All Died Screaming
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Hoping for horror, only P*rn and R*pe.
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In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.
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A very special novel that will inspire you.
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In the North of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?
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A good read!
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Tomorrow needs a marketing rollout.
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western....
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The Cruelty To Animals is Hard to Take
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The Employees
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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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Let the Right One In
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It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.
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Disturbing, a modern Gothic Tale
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Father of Lies
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Lay provost Eldon Fochs is a happily married father of four. Based on his disturbing dreams, he may also be a sex criminal. His therapist isn’t sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Written from the perspectives of Fochs, his analyst Dr. Alexander Feshtig, and the letters exchanged between Feshtig and his superiors in the church, Father of Lies is Brian Evenson’s fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience. It offers a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves from the innocents who may be their victims.
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Needs to come with a warning label, a retch bucket and a lap to cry on.
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Let Me In
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It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.
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Hard to put down
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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In this deeply scary and intensely unnerving debut novel, Jake and a woman known only as "The Girlfriend" are on a drive to visit his parents at their secluded farm. But when Jake leaves "The Girlfriend" stranded at an abandoned high school, what follows is a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease, an exploration into psychological frailty, and an ending as suspenseful as The Usual Suspects and as haunting as Misery.
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What a ride! This is a must read!
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This Thing Between Us
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It was Vera’s idea to buy the Itza. The “world’s most advanced smart speaker!” didn’t interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house - who ordered industrial lye? Then, there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room.
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Unsure what I feel but it’s a lot
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
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Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
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struggle with keeping up with the whole book
- De Suzanne Davis en 09-19-21
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Butcher
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In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation.
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Wow! What a book!
- De Amazon Customer en 02-07-25
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- Connor M. Buffington
- 05-25-21
Good, but doesn't live up to its own potential.
I picked this up after watching the movie. I was aware that the book was VERY different ahead of time, but I was still a little disappointed. What starts out as an interesting sifi story, quickly devolves into a standard dystopia story.
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- Day
- 06-14-19
A bit confusing and rushed but enjoyable.
Some things were a bit off and I felt the end was a little rushed but overall I really enjoyed the story and wished I could learn more about her home world rather than anything else! That was the most interesting aspect.
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- MN_Molly
- 01-03-18
Very Odd Story
I felt that the store really picked up/came alive in the last 1/3 of the book. I found it pretty slow otherwise. The moral of the story isn't made clear really ever. It becomes seemingly more obvious towards the end but I was left ultimately shrugging my shoulders. I liked the hints of judgement for eating animals, otherwise I didn't really connect with the story.
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- Brenda J. Duge
- 07-13-14
Something Different!
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
After loving The Crimson Petal and the White, I was excited to read anything else by Faber. The man has a truly unique voice and an odd point of view. In this book, as in The Crimson Petal.., his prose is lovely. The story is something I've never read before, which is always great; however, for all the ugliness in The Crimson Petal, there were moments of hope and humor. In Under the Skin, there is no spot of lightness or humor; all is grey and melancholy. So, I must recommend it with reservations. It's fascinating, the plot and the main character, but it left me with a vague, lasting saddness. If your not prone to such things, read it by all means. The narrator was excellent although occasionally difficult to understand. Her Scottish accents are sometimes too true and hard for an American ear to comprehend.
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- John Braine
- 10-23-14
almost as good as the movie
If you could sum up Under the Skin in three words, what would they be?
Under the skin!
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I never read a book if I’ve already seen the movie but I didn’t even know the book existed beforehand, and I was so intrigued by the movie that I wanted to know more, even though I loved the ambiguity of the movie.
It turns out that the book is very different in detail and plot and stands on its own completely. They are almost different episodes of the same basic premise. And the book really struck me as an allegory for the carnivore/vegetarian debate. Considering it is in effect about meat, the title, perfectly works on many levels.
And while the movie has some of the most visually striking images I’ve seen in years, the audiobook contains some of the most haunting sounds I’ve heard in an audiobook.
Highly recommended
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- Bree
- 05-02-16
Very different from the film
I liked the film, and I liked the book. It is the third of Faber's novels that I have completed and it wins second place to "Crimson Petal". I like the concept and some of the descriptions are stunning yet simple and elegant. I think Faber has a great respect for women which I appreciate very much.
The voice acting was a little much. Her general reading voice was very clear and pleasant but her accents and acting of dramatic scenes, proved distracting somewhat. Just somewhat though. Good read, solid 3 stars. I wish I would have watched the movie AFTER reading the book because the concept folds out very well and the experience was slightly spoiled because I already knew some things.
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- Arthur Gousby, III
- 04-30-15
Good story that keeps me thinking deeper
The reader was great and captivating. The story shook me with its twist of what a "human" was. The farm methods further drove the dehumanizing topic home. I almost want to go vegan after this.
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- Phil Virgo
- 01-04-15
Interesting but not what I was hoping for
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I am not excited about this novel. It is an interesting story, but the writing is not especially interesting - although I did like this: ““The indiscriminate eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles” quite a lot. But I did finish it and did get involved with the story and the only character that was focused on through out. It is a story with a moral message: don’t destroy your planet and don’t be cruel or assume your species is the only one needing respect and compassion. I am moved by the message and examining my choices.
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- Marc Schwartz
- 12-19-21
Fiona did a wonderful job on the narration!
I enjoyed the story, but more importantly the author's use of words and descriptive writing ability made for an enlightening experience. Well done overall.
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- Parzival
- 03-13-23
One Of My Favorites
Can’t even count how many times I’ve listened. It’s the voice and the calm tone the book is delivered in for me.
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