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For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost
Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don't know if they've perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. What's clear to them is that if they leave, they will end up dead.
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- Old Hippy
- 08-09-17
What a find!
Great yarn! After ten years and hundreds of stories, I was beginning to think there were no more good books to be found here on Audible. It's so good to be proven wrong.
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- Crystal
- 10-17-18
Get the print edition
I have no idea how he managed to do it, but the narrator gave everything but dialogue inflection. Pretty much all spoken dialogue was said flatly with no care to circumstance or emotional state, making every character sound drugged and boring. tense arguments where lives are on the line, moments of panic and anguish are stated the same way as talks of the weather. I'm sure the story would have come across far better with even a little animation to character voices.
6 people found this helpful
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- Dustin C. Manning
- 10-16-17
Sternbergh is 3 for 3 with me
A really cool blend of mystery, noir, thriller with some neat psychological Prisoner-esque mind “buckery”.
5 people found this helpful
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- Lauren G. Brown
- 09-06-17
Fantastic! Wonderful.
Great audiobook! Kept listening and listening. Hard to put down. Great performance and solid story.
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- Heidi Hansen
- 08-31-22
On the edge of my seat
I chose to listen to this story for my one hour walk early morning Thought it would be a good listen over a week or so Second day finished my walk but couldnt shut the story so listened all day A satisfying story with a good dose of twists and turns
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- Sabine Hentrich
- 08-04-22
one of the best books I have read in a while
great genre blend well performed. very unique and creative and original. loved this. if you enjoy weird stories you will lo e it
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-23-22
such an amazing story
twists turn some you seen coming others hit you up side the head. An amazing unique story, enjoyed it alot, worth checking out!
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- B
- 11-28-21
Could have been better…
An interesting premise, with so much potential …. But I ended up disappointed. Let me first congratulate the author on coming up with an original story. Most people reading this review are avid readers and can probably attest that nowadays many books are variations on something already done. The idea of a town full of people who are either murderers or innocent witnesses was enough to peak my interest, however the execution of the story had me losing interest midway through. First, there were a lot of people to keep track of, and second, it took much longer than necessary to tell the story.
Overall I give this a 3, but it could have been a 4.
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- Robert J
- 04-01-20
Bury your former identity
Really cool concept. it takes a little while to get into but i kept at it. Sort of like Under The Dome.
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- Rick
- 07-29-19
Messing with Minds
Residents come to the sparse and featureless town known as The Blinds in the remote Texas desert, most of them with a horrific criminal past. But with the help of a somewhat shadowy "Institute," their memories have been erased.
It’s better than the Witness Protection Program, where criminals have been known to use their newfound anonymity to commit new crimes. The Blinds “offers the ultimate alternative. Not even you know who you are, or what you’ve done. If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
Upon arrival, they choose a new name. They are given a list of famous movie stars and another of ex-vice presidents, and pick a first and last name, one from each list.
With this strange and creative premise, Sternbergh steadily reveals more, and the mystery deepens rather than being solved. There are endless surprises, layer upon layer of them, as the population of The Blinds and their tangled pasts are revealed to be a jumble of unexpected relationships and secret agendas.
The scenario gives him a copious cast of characters to work with – characters with names such as Lyndon Lancaster, Orson Calhoun, and Ginger Van Buren. It’s a wild ride, messing with the minds of the residents – and ours. Stephen Mendel provides an expressive read.
I only wish it weren’t written in the present tense. It seems awkward.
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Adisa Johnson is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown, where, a few days earlier, a white police officer shot an unarmed black teen who is now lying comatose in the hospital. Adisa is itching to jump into the fight as a special prosecutor but feels pulled to do what she considers unthinkable as a young black woman — defend the officer.
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Good book, poor reader.
- By bds on 02-28-18
By: Robert Whitlow
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Doughnut
- By: Tom Holt
- Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend, a renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit box to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions.
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A fun world for scifantasy fans
- By illgnosis on 06-19-13
By: Tom Holt
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A Bend in the Stars
- By: Rachel Barenbaum
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much?
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Story better than narration
- By Avid Listener on 05-25-19
By: Rachel Barenbaum
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The Sparsholt Affair
- A novel
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: David Dawson
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty - and secret liaisons. A friendship develops between these two young men that will have unexpected consequences as the novel unfolds.
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Beautifully written book
- By J. Roose on 04-16-18
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Into the Beautiful North
- A Novel
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men - her own "Siete Magníficos" - to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
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Needs a better reader
- By The Honest Reviewer on 01-16-19
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Greenwood
- A Novel
- By: Michael Christie
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire.
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tedious boring trite
- By Marc Buchalter on 11-19-21
By: Michael Christie
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The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
- By: Tom Holt
- Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them anymore, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take good and evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place.
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not his best but still enjoyable
- By ton on 11-19-17
By: Tom Holt
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Everything Is Just Fine
- By: Brett Paesel
- Narrated by: Brett Paesel
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Coach Randy is working mightily to keep it together, and not simply with his vaguely unhappy wife, distant child, and a new boss who's eliminating half the sales force. This season's soccer parents are a demanding bunch. Diane's wine-fueled group emails are almost unintelligible; team mom Jacqui's enthusiasm for the league verges on manic; a divorced couple can barely conceal their murderous rage at each other; and another mom is laser-focused on schooling everyone on what constitutes a healthy snack option.
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Funny, compelling, and touching
- By LP on 11-12-20
By: Brett Paesel
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Everything Here Is Beautiful
- By: Mira T. Lee
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller, Ozzie Rodriguez, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted, older man only to leave him, suddenly, to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant.
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Review
- By Sherri H Skalski on 01-30-18
By: Mira T. Lee
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The Stars Are Fire
- A Novel
- By: Anita Shreve
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast, from Bar Harbor to Kittery, and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort.
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Disaster Strikes In 1947
- By Sara on 06-02-17
By: Anita Shreve
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All the Children Are Home
- A Novel
- By: Patry Francis
- Narrated by: Kimberly Woods, Nora Hunter, Mia Barron, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl’s life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can’t say no.
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Great Potential, but the Ending Fell Flat
- By Brande Fraley on 05-03-22
By: Patry Francis
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The Summer List
- By: Amy Mason Doan
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Kate Rudd
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Laura and Casey were once inseparable: as they floated on their backs in the sunlit lake, as they dreamed about the future under starry skies, and as they teamed up for the wild scavenger hunts in their small California lakeside town. Until one summer night, when a shocking betrayal sent Laura running through the pines, down the dock, and into a new life, leaving Casey and a first love in her wake. But the past is impossible to escape, and now, after 17 years away, Laura is pulled home and into a reunion with Casey she can’t resist - one last scavenger hunt.
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A deeply touching story of two girls coming of age
- By KatrinaD on 07-21-18
By: Amy Mason Doan
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All Our Wrong Todays
- A Novel
- By: Elan Mastai
- Narrated by: Elan Mastai
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down.