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Inside Job

By: Connie Willis
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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Publisher's summary

Rob, a professional debunker, is watching yet another performance by a supposed psychic. But as she calls forth the spirit entity known as Isus, another voice suddenly interrupts. And this one is so unexpected and so real, even the hardened skeptic finds he can't help but believe.

This engaging, humorous tale of the beyond won a Hugo Award for Best Novella.

©2005 Connie Willis (P)2008 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

  • Hugo Award, Best Novella, 2006

"Highly enjoyable, somewhat educational and will leave readers happy at the end." (Publishers Weekly)
"Irresistible entertainment." (Booklist)

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Well performed, funny and insightful story

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I really enjoyed the story. As a skeptic who desperately wants to be believe in the spirit world is spoke to all my hopes and fears. Its really well written, fast paced, great character development. Its great way to spend 2 hours.

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Worth $1 I spent on it. It's a complete story.

This was cute and short.

The writing was so good and totally worth the $1 I spent on it. I got this for a good deal and glad I did, if it wasn't so cheap I probably wouldn't have picked it up as I'm not a fan of novellas but the sale I got it on helped me try something new.

This really managed to tell a full story in its short amount of time and I totally see this being a light comedy twilight zone type episode.

It's not laugh out loud funny by any means, i dont think it even made me chuckle but the tone was humorous which I appreciated.

The plot was fantastic, intriguing and totally sold me to want to see this through as to what happens.

Even with the time constraints it even did an amazing job with character building. I totally felt like the characters presented were well written and easily recognizable.

Wish it was longer though, and maybe a sliver more exciting. It's good writing but just not something I'm going to remember very long as nothing particularly stood out.

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disappointed, flat, good idea lacks complexity , I

disappointed, flat one dimensional characters. the idea was great though but poorly executed, lacks complexity

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Killed by its own internal contradictions

The hero debunks channeling with channeling, in the name of skeptical rationality. It is or it ain't. Connie Willis wants it both ways, and she dumps her ending, as if she pushed her novel out a window. Way stupid, for a smart writer. Narrator good.

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