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Interview: Listen in as Josh Malerman talks about the evolution of his intense 2014 debut novel, 'Bird Box,' what it's like to have his work adapted -- first for audio and then for the screen, and watching it hit the zeitgeist more than a decade after he first wrote it.
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It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.
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Shadow Show
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- By: Sam Weller - editor, Mort Castle - editor
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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-27-17
By: Sam Weller - editor, and others
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In the After
- By: Demitria Lunetta
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Amy is watching TV when the world is attacked by Them. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to survive - and even rescue "Baby" a toddler she finds in an abandoned supermarket. Then, after years of hiding, they are miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope, a colony of survivors living in a former government research compound. While at first the colony seems like a dream, with plenty of food, safety, and shelter, New Hope slowly reveals that it is far from ideal. And Amy soon realizes that unless things change, she'll lose Baby - and much more.
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Riveting New Series
- By Kim Venatries on 01-10-14
By: Demitria Lunetta
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Here After
- By: Sean Costello
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
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Following the death of his 10-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason.
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This one will really stick with you
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By: Sean Costello
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- By: Louise Erdrich
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
- By Mel on 11-27-17
By: Louise Erdrich
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
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That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
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Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- By Max Trivial on 12-24-18
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Dead Set
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After her father's funeral, Zoe moved to the big city with her mother to start over. But change always brings trials, and life in the city is not so easy. Money is tight, and Zoe's only escape, as has always been the case, is in her dreams - a world apart from her troubled real life where she can spend time with her closest companion: her lost brother, Valentine.
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Cool idea that wanders around.
- By Caseym on 04-03-16
By: Richard Kadrey
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Stories
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
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The Stars Did Wander Darkling
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All of a sudden, the most ordinary things have taken on a sinister edge: a penny on a doormat. An odd man in a brown suit under a streetlamp. The persistent sound of an ax chopping in the middle of the night. He keeps telling himself that this is Seaham, a sleepy seaside town where nothing ever happens. Or at least nothing did, until his dad’s construction company opened up the cliff beneath the old—some say cursed—Langdon place.
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fun, dark read
- By Heather in Boston on 02-12-23
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
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Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- By Amazon Customer on 12-12-18
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Halcyon
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- By: Rio Youers
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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
- By Andrea on 09-25-18
By: Rio Youers
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- Lesley
- 05-22-14
Don't look!
Malorie and her sister have moved into a house together when reports start to come in from all over the world: normal people are glimpsing something that instantly turns them into crazed killers. While the Internet boils with theories, people gradually stop driving, stop shopping, and finally they just barricade themselves in their homes with the doors and windows blocked. Society eventually falls apart, yet Malorie finds hope and musters the strength to go on. But she can't live like a prisoner forever, so she begins a terrifying blindfolded journey to what she desperately hopes will be enduring safety.
I have to say it took me a good half-hour to get into this one. The narrator didn't really do it for me, with uneven reading volume and more angst than seemed necessary. It didn't help that Malorie imbues even the most boring object with intense dramatic feelings.
But I'm really glad I spent the time, because Bird Box turned out to be one of the best books I've listened to for a while. After the first chapter or two, we meet the real Malorie (not just the dramatic one) and hear her story--which is compelling, to say the least. By midway through, I completely understood the feelings those objects brought up, and the angst, too.
The real star of this book is the author's handling of his themes: fear, bravery, putting faith and trust in others and yourself. All those things can be scary, but sometimes you just have to face them anyway, even when you're blindfolded. Malorie and her friends give it their best, with varying results, in an evocative illustration of what it's like to be part of a group of survivors.
Throughout the book, Malorie's memories of the past alternate with her frightening present, creating suspense that made it really hard to stop listening. I did the last three hours in one go, putting off bedtime again and again.
There isn't a lot of how-and-why here, and logic nitpickers ("That couldn't possibly happen! It'd be more like..." etc) will probably be driven insane. But if you're looking for real horror, Bird Box is a sustained scare that will keep you thinking long after the book is over.
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- Audio Gra Gra
- 01-02-16
Don't fall for the hype
I'm calling bullsh*t on this book. Interesting premise to begin with but ultimately its just one long slow burning tease with no reveal at the end. I kept reading through a fairly implausible narrative for one reason - to find out what had caused society to break down. A few minutes from the end I began to realise the author wasn't going to tell us and while I'm all for mystery and interpretation, the lame ending to Bird Box is just a cop out. The human race literally just closes its eyes to the thing that threatens its survival. And don't get me started on how plausible it is for people to navigate their way through towns, forests and rivers on foot, driving a car! and paddling a rowboat without the use of sight - in real life a blindfolded person can't walk for 50 metres without beginning to walk in circles. I pick up each book expecting to have to suspend belief to give the story permission to take its course, but the author needs to do his bit and earn that trust.
I'll grant that there a few genuine moments of suspense built up during the story, and I'll accept that what's unseen can be scarier than what's seen, but the reader is after all just an observer and the author of a story that asks for so much blind (pun intended) acceptance of the premise needed to throw us a few bones. Frankly, I think the author deliberately chose not to reveal what the "creatures" are because he knew no one would have accepted it. The "mystery" is just a lazy device to cover over a premise not fully thought through to a satisfying conclusion.
So I find myself confused - this book has so many gushing 4 and 5 star reviews - what did I miss?
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- clifford
- 06-18-15
Holy damn WOW!
I can't say enough good things about this story. Its so good.
What to expect:
This is a quiet slow book. Its told both in present tense and via flash backs.
A sense of terror surrounds every word. I haven't read anything so dreadful since Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
Not much in the action department. But you will be on the edge of your seat due to Malerman's excellent delivery.
I'd completely recommend this story. I was expecting less. Thought it could have fallen apart at any time. But it works all the way to the end. Out of the many hundreds of audible books I have listened to, this is up there with the best of them.
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- Tanya
- 01-31-18
*siighhhh*
So, maybe I’m just picky but if I’m going to read/listen to a book, for the love of God, do not start the book with one ginormous plot hole followed by many more plot holes, flat characters, a drab story line, and literally nothing to keep the story moving. Other than flopping back and forth between past and present, this book could be one long, agonizing, chapter. Like the Lamb Chop song. It never ends.
1. The only thing that ties the victims together is that they ‘see something’... Yea? And how is that even plausible to assume? Could’ve smelled something. Could’ve heard something. Regardless, no one would have a single way of knowing as if you observe this you would also presumably die. Watch some Forensic Files. Or befriend an intelligent human who can explain why that would be impossible to prove.
2.Driving with your eyes shut. Has anyone ever tried that? Can’t imagine you’d be here to tell us of your experience.
3.An open water well in Detroit. (Name something that does not belong.)
4.They have water but are using buckets to go to the bathroom. There is something wrong with our generation if this group of ‘survivors’ have no idea how a toilet works.
5. PS- BOIL THE DAMN WATER IF YOU’RE WORRIED IT’S NOT SAFE.
6. They live in Detroit and they’re all white. (As a gal from Michigan I can point out an inconsistency or two.)
7. This author has never ever kayaked. 20 miles blindfolded. That’s hilarious. 20 MILES ROWING DOWN A RIVER IN A BOAT... I mean, that’s grueling enough.
8. I don’t believe people say things like ‘What was that you were wearing when I arrived?’ In a post-apocalyptic world, you would have to imagine that people would speak a little more passionately.
8.a. I had to go back and add this. Have you ever walked across your yard blindfolded? How about the entire neighborhood? You’re biggest concern would be finding your way back. You’re blindfolded and not from the area. C’mon guy!
9. I could keep going. Really, I could. Let me finish this by saying, the reviews were more savory to read than this book.
The gal who read it was fine.
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- Trisha Clark
- 05-23-16
No idea what the hype is about.
What disappointed you about Bird Box?
This book was on a couple of lists of "great short audio books", and even had a glowing review from Stephen King, so I thought it would be a great first audiobook to see if I could get a friend interested in Audible. We listened on a road trip, and both of us were annoyed all the way through. I had to keep promising that usually audio books are better.
This story is painfully slow and none of the characters are well-developed, not even the story's two most important roles. The plot takes from The Happening, but isn't even as plausible as that. What about seeing the creatures makes people crazy? How did people manage to travel with no experience living as blind? How did society collapse so completely if all you have to do is not open your eyes out of doors? You never find out.
A lot of other reviews remark on how great the suspense was, but I ended up feeling like Malerman has never heard of Chekov's Gun. He'd stage a dramatic scene, let the suspense build around it, and then--nothing. This happened repeatedly in the first seven or so hours of listening, with no action really unfolding until the very end. I only kept listening to figure out what happens to everyone, and when that FINALLY happened, it was a disappointing mess.
I don't think I'm that hard to please, but a lot of other people really liked this. Maybe it isn't meant to be listened to in one sitting.
What do you think your next listen will be?
Currently listening to Breakfast of Champions.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Nothing specific--just a "meh" performance.
What character would you cut from Bird Box?
Olympia. Why not just have Mallory have twins if you need two children? The coincidence of two women being exactly as far along as one another, and going into labor on the same day is ridiculous. And for goodness' sake, name the children, or at least explain why you didn't.
As for the rest, it's not that I would cut them, but I'd flesh them out. Tom is supposedly really important to the story, but I never cared about his character one bit. With most of the supporting characters, they ended up being only as interesting as the darn dog.
Any additional comments?
I felt like this was a short story that Malerman decided to make into a novel, but the execution didn't work. If you need to flesh out a story, develop your plot and characters, don't just add in situations that go nowhere.
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- Sam
- 01-06-19
Very, very, meh.
I first heard of this book years ago, while I was hunting for fresh authors producing novel horror and thriller books, and then later downloaded it this summer. About 1/4 of the way through, I was disappointed, and by the time I was 3/4 of the way there I stopped listening. With the hype surrounding the (possibly even worse) Netflix remake, I wanted to leave a review to hopefully save another Audible member’s monthly credit.
While an interesting concept (despite one that is rapidly losing originality), the loss of a sight and near isolation from the outdoors that plagued the characters in this novel was not pushed to its fullest potential. There are plenty of build up scenes-one in particular involving a well-that seems to lead something incredible, but quickly deflates. Repeat ad nauseam, and you have a book with only flat characters featuring frustrating quirks/motivations, many poorly or completely unexplained plot holes, and a lackluster rehash of themes and concepts we’ve seen before.
The narration was fine and only became grating later on, which is completely a result of the characters she was required to portray.
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- Mel
- 05-25-14
Macaroni Guts vis-à-vis Fear, Itself
A 3* novel that entertains like a 5*novel.
Bird Box captures Audrey Hepburn's helpless groping in Wait Until Dark, the gripping uncertainty of Algernon Blackwood's, The Willows, and the gruesome self-mutilation of M. Night Shyamalan's, The Happening; three stories with the shared conceit of the fear from what we can not see. Remember being blindfolded and led through a haunted house -- a bowl of peeled grapes becomes eyeballs, dried apricots are withered ears, and a tub of cold spaghetti in oil passes for guts? The limited senses, the power of suggestion, and Fear, itself at work.
Malerman uses the ancient fight-or-flight response as a tool as much as he does the language, creating a novel that might challenge those two instincts that are the embodiment of fear. With no visual accounts, other than a few before the you-don't-know-what hits the fans and a few seconds of blind folds off in the house, the book is lights-out experiential, dependent on the narrator, Malorie. She tell us what is happening without the What, Why, Where, or How details and processing -- kind of gut reaction narration .There is also little revealed about the characters Malorie lives with for 4 years, so we don't get much about the Who's either. But Malerman keeps the tension relentlessly taut and in the moment, necessitating the remaining senses that feed your *mind's eye* operate in hyper mode.
In 1938, Orson Welles gave one of the best demonstrations of this whole conceit when on the eve of Halloween he presented, via Mercury Theater on the Air, a radio drama, The War of the Worlds. The resulting mass hysteria sent hundreds of national guardsmen reporting for duty at local armories, and possibly as many as a million people fleeing into the night, believing that invaders from Mars had laid waste to New Jersey and were headed west. While this is a great pulse-raising gimmick for a short story, the sensory deprivation of this delivery become evident in the hours it takes for a novel to play out. We never know the origin of the entity, there are no witnesses, there is never a description of a malevolent creature; we can't even build an entity (it's a little like getting hit in the head in the dark). If an author is going to rely on me and my imagination to fill in the big blanks, he also has to work with me and my ruminations -- and mine were thinking increasingly outside Malerman's claustrophobic little box until it burst open. His story trickled down to -- it can't hurt you if you can't see it -- and that kind of squashed the drama. But, just in time, the story comes to an abrupt end, blindfolds off, pulse normalized, imaginations on cruise.
I have to give this a high recommendation. It's Twilight Zone, Outer Limits fun; if that's your genre, don't miss this. Whether you come away with praise or disappointment, you are almost certain to enjoy getting there. Bird Box is a "you just have to be there" kind of read, and it is especially effective listening to the story. (The narration is good, nothing stands out as annoying or noteworthy.) One of those that will keep you ear-bud bound from start to finish.
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- S. Yates
- 10-09-17
Masterful book paired with outstanding narration
Excellent blend of SF and horror. The author's ability to bring alive this story without revealing the unseen horror (or, more accurately, the creature that must be left unseen lest the viewer plunges into madness marked by homicide and then suicide). Malerman carefully construct the narrative, bouncing from events 4.5 years earlier with the present-day effort of Mallory to find some measure of safety for the two, unnamed children in her care. The opening chapter plunges the reader into an altered world, where windows are anathema, blindfolds are protection, and answers are out of reach. Society seems crippled and mostly dead, and unknown creatures walk the world - but these creatures do not seem to physically assault or stalk humans, but simply by existing and being seen inflict madness. The author then expertly jogs back in time to the early days when scattered and unsubstantiated reports trickle in of people going mad and killing others then themselves. We know immediately from the present-day chapters that Mallory is now alone with two children, but we don't know how she came to be sole parent in these dreadful times. We know she believes she must brave a 20 mile river passage blindfolded to try to find safety. In flashback, we find Mallory and her sister living unremarkable lives. Mallory finds she is pregnant as the news stories come faster and inexplicable events creep ever closer to their Detroit home. The flashback chapters depict a world falling apart, first slowly and then with extreme rapidity. We follow Mallory as she tries to find refuge with others, life in a new house, pregnancy waxing as we know that time in a this cooperative house with support and help are waning. As we move ever closer to the unknown catastrophe that leaves her alone. The story is well-balanced and beautifully crafted, melancholy and frightening, suspenseful and heart-breaking. Well worth the time, though you may find it difficult to gaze out a window while doing so.
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- David Shear
- 05-16-14
Masterfully written, creepy perfection!
I loved, loved this book. I literally found myself standing still, holding my breath, several different times to listen to what happened next. The creepiness level is awesome, the writing is beautiful, and interesting, and perfectly paced. Malerman jumps between the past and present keeping me on the edge of my seat throughout the book. The story unfolds in such an interesting way, like nothing I've ever listened to before. The suspense was almost painful. Wow this book was good.
The character development is great, but it's really the situational development that makes you care what happens to the characters. I kept putting myself in their shoes..."what would I do?" That made me care about every minute of this story.
I also loved the ending.
The narrator was good most of the time. She only got four stars because her "in distress" voice was really annoying and a little tiresome and too "one note." She had the same voice for scared, annoyed, mad, etc.
Josh Malerman, I'm a fan. Keep them coming. Super well done for a first book.
I highly recommend this book.
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- Jay
- 02-21-19
Completely disappointed
I expected so much out of this book. It didn’t get good until about 80% of the book was finished. I can’t believe it. It got so hyped up and I was beyond disappointed.
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