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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture.
“Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable.”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse—the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act—an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families.
As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
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A good listen
- De Darcie en 11-05-22
De: M.L. Longworth
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
- De: Karim Dimechkie
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Charley's Web
- De: Joy Fielding
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children, her boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill wants Charley to write her biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case that failed to surface during her trial.
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not the norm
- De D. Mains en 02-04-09
De: Joy Fielding
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
- A Novel
- De: Marian Keyes
- Narrado por: Caitriona Keyes
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose?
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Terrible sound quality, worse narration
- De Jan en 02-23-10
De: Marian Keyes
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
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clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Snow White Must Die
- De: Nele Neuhaus
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace.
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Snow White and the Seven Red Herrings
- De Mel en 01-17-13
De: Nele Neuhaus
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Yours Until Death
- Varg Veum
- De: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.
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Great Scandinavian Mystery!
- De Peoko en 07-12-17
De: Gunnar Staalesen
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My Lovely Wife
- De: Samantha Downing
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances with whom you keep meaning to get dinner. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
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Great narrator! Crazy story!
- De EasyBreezySunflower en 03-28-19
De: Samantha Downing
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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The Road Home
- De: Ford Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrado por: Blake Somerset
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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When a car accident leaves photographer Burke Crenshaw in need of temporary full-time care, he finds himself back in the one place no forty-year-old chooses to be--his childhood bedroom. There, in the Vermont home where he grew up, Burke begins the long process of recuperation, and watches as his widowed father finds happiness in a new relationship that's a constant reminder of everything Burke wants and lacks. Exploring local history, Burke discovers an intriguing series of letters from a Civil War soldier to his fianc.
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
- De Orlando en 08-23-13
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The Girls in the Garden
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Jewell
- Narrado por: Colleen Prendergast
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her 13-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her?
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Delightful
- De Julie en 11-03-17
De: Lisa Jewell
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The Wangs vs. the World
- De: Jade Chang
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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Spectacular
- De Barbara en 10-11-16
De: Jade Chang
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A Study in Charlotte
- Charlotte Holmes, Book 1
- De: Brittany Cavallaro
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers were one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices - and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends.
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3.5 ☆s
- De Ashley C en 01-21-18
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him - with the respectable alderman who is dedicated to the environment, no less. The man who wants to spoil the capital's skyline with wind turbines.
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Mind numbingly boring and shallow.
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Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, The Reason I Jumpis a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.
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Insightful but left me skeptical
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A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely 15-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from - a place to which she vowed she'd never return.
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Don't Hold Your Breath
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They Never Learn
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Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University - professor, student, or otherwise - and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself…but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus.
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Well...that was something
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- 06-22-17
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3.5 stars. An odd, sarcastic, brutal, and unsympathetic little book, and hard to categorize. There is a bit of the feel of slice of life, but then also a tinge of mystery/thriller, and parts that feel nearly satirical. Other reviews have likened it to Gone Girl (per an unreliable narrator) and American Psycho (for the way there is offhand violence and mocking of upper class pretension). The set piece is an upscale Dutch restaurant, the main players are four adults (two brothers and their wives), the mostly off-stage players are the children of the couples (one biological son each, plus a single adopted son). Told from the point of view of the younger, less successful brother, the novel opens and goes on for a few chapters where the reader (absent outside influences) will think this might just be a cutting commentary on the upper class and preoccupation with one's station and reputation. But slowly things begin to worm their way in - hints and remembrances, offhand statements and stolen glances. And things become increasingly sinister and discomfiting. In the end, you leave this book with no likable characters, a stomach-turning conclusion, and a good deal to think about. Unlike American Psycho, the violence is controlled and not over the top, and in that way it is more disturbing. A strange book that I can't say I liked, but did make me think.
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- Dave Tennant
- 09-05-18
keeps you engaged
Unique story telling flipping from present to past and back. Told only through one character. Loved his internal snarky coments . Excellent narrator!
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- Addicted to audible
- 04-16-16
Interesting listen
The narration was great. Creepy story but was interesting would recommend to read .. Well done
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- Sharon
- 08-08-16
so so
struggled to keep up with plot line as well as difficulties with transitioning with generarations
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- Ada U. Obua
- 04-08-14
Excellent book
If you could sum up The Dinner in three words, what would they be?
Riveting story about human choices, biases and how far people will go for their children.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Serge and Babette Loehman
Which character – as performed by Clive Mantle – was your favorite?
Serge
If you could take any character from The Dinner out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Michel
Any additional comments?
People will really do unimaginable things for their loved ones. This book presents an easy slippery slope of rationalizations othewrsie normal peple would make when pushed to the wall.
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- Joanna
- 05-27-16
Weirdly compelling
Perfect voice for the story which appears deceptively sluggish at first, but somehow did not let me go to the end, to which I listened twice.
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- Blee
- 08-18-21
The Dinner
Narration was wonderful. The story of parents, and how far they will go for their children. Worth the listen!
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- Kelly
- 04-12-14
Not what I expected!
Where does The Dinner rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I would say in the top 1/2.
Who was your favorite character and why?
My favorite character is Paul, who is the Narrator. He believes is is living an amazing happy life. However, in an instant, everything changes. He is caught between doing what he knows is right, and what is right for the family he loves.
Have you listened to any of Clive Mantle’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, it was good! A bit different, but I liked it!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
"Good Brother, Bad Brother?"
Any additional comments?
This shows that there are two sides to everyone.
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- Kaui
- 05-09-17
better than most, worst than much
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This was a good beach read with a touch of horribleness just to keep you reading. Kind of like Girl on a Train, the plot kind of sucks you in. The characters are all hideously awful - immoral, selfish, disgusting. Their concern, while real, is firmly in the area of far left field, with all the selfish loonies. But despite this, I found the writing to be above average, and attention to detail excellent. Descriptions of feelings, perceptions, and predictions were canny, clever and often funny. if you can stomach a rich person's problems written about over several hundred pages, read this because the author's skill is decent and the plot at least sucks you in....
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- Kelly
- 07-01-13
Wow! A suspenseful, mind twister
Where does The Dinner rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I enjoyed this audio book a lot compared to my other reads. It is narrated brilliantly allowing the reader to feel intimately apart of the conversations going on the main characters head. He is an unreliable narrator, at best, of this deep and often laughable tale.
What did you like best about this story?
I liked that there were no redeemable characters in the whole novel, just a few by-standers who get sucked into the family tornado that passes through the restaurant that night.
Unbelievably, the story takes place in a single location but the narrator takes you in his mind to the events leading up to The Dinner.
What about Clive Mantle’s performance did you like?
He was able to portray the book narrator in a way that I felt I was actually in the main character's mixed up flawed brain. Mr. Mantle is successful with "being" the flawed unreliable narrator of the book.
I highly recommend this book in audio format for that reason alone. From reading reviews I felt the story was "experienced" in a unique fashion that might have been lost in another format.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I believe the events leading up to the end were essential. Without ruining the experience, keeping an open mind while reading is important as the tale takes twists and turns that I never expected.
Any additional comments?
This book is definitely not for those easily offended by foul language and grotesque psychological tales in which you have more questions after reading it than before.
A great Book Club read! So much you will want to discuss!
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