Junk

De: Les Bohem

Narrado por: John Waters

In present day Los Angeles, the alien takeover has begun—but there’s no spaceship and no little green men. Rather, an epic conspiracy is slowly coming to fruition. Thousands of years ago, beings infiltrated our society, bred with humans, then died—leaving an untraceable, inexplicable anomaly in our DNA. Now that genetic code has activated, and chaos has erupted.

But private investigator Tom Lombard has his own chaos to face. His personal life is falling apart, and he just found his latest “missing person” dead in a dumpster. Suddenly he’s being chased by a woman with silver hair and two black-eyed goons with unnatural abilities. And what’s with all these people in masks—and the crazy girl ranting on the internet about the end of the world? Is humanity’s only hope a weird band of eccentrics and one down-on-his-luck, disgraced ex-cop badly in need of a win?

In this wild, souped-up apocalyptic vision of Les Bohem—the acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning writer of the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Taken—the reckoning begins, culminating in something truly unexpected. And who better to give voice to the wickedly weird world of Junk than transgressive art icon John Waters, whose simultaneously relaxed and dynamic delivery gives this Audible Original a cool, cinematic feel.

This title contains explicit language and depictions of physical and sexual violence that may be upsetting to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

©2018 Leslie Bohem (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.

Great for SiFi lovers.

I thought this book was really fun. I liked the story. I have seen the basic idea before but I thought all the plots were well developed. I was entertained. I think the reader lacked proper intonation at some points. The character would say something bleak or sarcastic but it was hard to tell by how it was read.

Aptly named.

Glad it was free. Characters are one dimensional caricatures at best. Difficult to listen to, as narrator put zero effort into character voices and ever character sounded exactly the same. Overall story was disappointing and hard to follow at first.

Not Worth Your Time

This is just a poorly-written story.

The performance was fine, I guess, but there was nothing worth performing FOR. It was more of a loosely-connected series of weird action scenes.

I honestly couldn’t finish it, which almost never happens.

Fun story. bad narrator.

Story gets kind of crazy, but it's a fun outlandish listen. With so many characters I wish the narrator would have paused more, it's hard to tell when one character's line stops and another begins.

Takes Lord Of The Flies to another dimension.

Well read, well performed. I like that the narrator didn't try to make a different voice for every character. He read it like acting; well done. This book is not for squeamish folks. Characters are well developed story complex without being convoluted.