Yes its 39 hours but it keeps your interest for the entire time. VERY good vocal performance and audio quality. Good story line.

Realistic Nazi Vampires

Dan Simmons writes a suspenseful horror story here with all my favorite elements mixed together in tasteful proportions. Gore and gritty violence are present without being the driving horror element. Psychological tension crescendos in action scenes by which time you've had enough character and plot development to believe what's happening and feel invested.

I always appreciate when a narrator can use inflection and accents to keep the cast of characters distinct in the listener's mind without the performance coming across as too corny. Some listeners may not like the old woman, southern sheriff, german accent, etc. but I found the characters fitting naturally into the dark tale rather than distracting me from it.

Carrion Comfort is a good title, but if I had to pick another title I might rename it "Feeders"

Dan Simmons is a personal favorite of mine, but I think he's pretty inept at writing a good sex scene. The sex scenes in Carrion Comfort are just as cringe-y as Hyperion series.

this was my first non-Hyperion Dan Simmons, I was not disappointed. great creativity and engaging characters

I've always loved this book and hearing the audible version made me love it even more.

Complex and deep story with very interesting characters. Simmons does an excellent job of weaving his story into factual history.
I loved it!

I love the supernatural and horror genre and I don't shy away from intense themes that often accompany especially horror. That being said, I stopped listening in the middle of chapter 5 when a graphic scene of the sexual abuse and exploitation of a child was glorified. The authors salacious objectification of a teenaged character turned my stomach and turned me off to the book altogether.

The story moves along without getting bogged down. 39 hours is a lot of story after all. But the plot moves fast enough and still takes the time to breathe interesting backgrounds into it's characters.

The readers gave great voices to the different characters. Melanie's southern 'hospitality' and antebellum contempt and prejudices were the real treat to listen to. Can't say how often I smiled and winced at her, and the reader made those reactions all the stronger.

It was better than I expected. There are a few points that some deus ex machina enters to provide some tools to the characters, but the author mentions as much directly in the story at one point. It made me grin. I'm a stickler for no plot holes and anti-deus ex machina, but Dan keeps it just on the fringe of believable and the plot is solid.It's an alternate history of sorts, told from the present. A very creative way of explaining historical moments in the past and their possible causes -- from a pseudo-supernatural perspective. No ghosts or aliens here. Just people who have the power to realize the darker manifestations that most of us are wont to not admit to. I'm now off to listen to another of Mr. Simmon's books. :)

yes. Really interesting book. I enjoyed the way that real historical events were woven into the storyline. Kind of an alternate history kind of a story. I agree with other reviewers that it's not really a vampire book at all; that description really sells the book short. It's like a suspenseful miniseries that you want to binge watch.

I can't really say that one was better than the other. They were completely integral to the telling of the story. Listening to their performance was a great experience. It made it really feel like a performance rather than a recitation of the book. Made it worth listening to the book vice reading it myself.

The book and performance are good, but I wouldn't have wanted to listen to the epic 40 hours in one sitting.

Great narration and performance if the characters. I struggled to stay engaged long term, but the story is good and the characters are interesting.

I have read and listen to a great number of Dan Simmons novels. I consider the Hyperion Saga one of the greatest literary works that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. But I have never quit a book halfway through because I simply felt dirty after listening to it. Many of us have listened to and read great fiction and great horror, and I do not consider myself squeamish by any means, but there are several chapters but I do not believe hold any narrative significance other than the writer expressing his most horrific fantasies and seeing if he could put it on paper. Theyy do not appear to add to the narrative in any meaningful way, they exist for a very cheap shock value alone. I really can't believe anyone would thoroughly enjoy this book unless they held sociopathic tendencies.