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  • The Television

  • By: Edward Lee
  • Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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The Television

By: Edward Lee
Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
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Burnstow is an ordinary little town populated by ordinary people. Farthing is an ordinary guy that has just inherited an ordinary mobile home in an ordinary trailer park. Farthing looks forward to a nice, quiet, ordinary life.

But in the back room of that ordinary mobile home, there’s an ancient television that’s anything but ordinary. It doesn’t broadcast sitcoms, sports games, news shows, or movies. No. It broadcasts only the very worst atrocities in human history.

Follow Farthing down deeper and deeper as he struggles to reveal the appalling secrets of...The Television!

*Trigger Warning: All of them. This is an audiobook of extreme horror, not for the faint of heart or stomach.*

©2022 John Baltisberger (P)2023 John Baltisberger
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“Lee has managed to string together the most gruesome atrocities of our history into a cohesive story. And he describes them in cold graphic detail. I had to go intellectual to stay sane. It's the most ... I don't know ... horrifying thing. It's true evil. Factual evil.” (Lisa Tone, editor in chief, Madness Heart Press)

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Very intense and dark.

I love Edward lee and I cannot say that I didn't enjoy the book because I did. The ending however was more graphic then I am used to using children in the graphic depictions and it was hard to finish once it got to that point. I get the reason for it but it was hard to stomach at the end. This is coming from a die hard Eward lee fan!

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Loved it!!

Another great horror book from Lee.. The narrator was awesome as well...I hope there is a second book. The stories from the t.v. were insanely good.

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Wow.

What I like about Ed Lee is that I never know what I'm gonna get into. Except sex. We'll, obviously, have copious amounts in Lee's work, but his imaginings are always so unique and downright mean.
Television was bad ass. And I saw Leonard!!! Edward Lee is truly unique and quickly becoming my new favorite author. ...after Barker. ;)

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Fascinating mystery buried under gratuitous perversion

I’m no stranger to extreme horror, and I found the core mystery in this novel to be really creative, but the author seems distracted by his own female characters, never hesitating to waste hundreds of words describing the shape of their breasts at every opportunity. I understand that the main character of this story is supposed to be an unlikable deviant, but it doesn’t sound like the character’s voice getting bogged down in the descriptions. If there is a sequel, more television and less wifu creation would really improve the pacing. Overall a great and interesting concept, just in execution it falls short due to excessive asides about the shapes and sizes of the women written in. The reader is fantastic, however, never flinching through the gore and violence and giving convincing voices to the characters.

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Just don't.

When it comes to Extreme Horror the bar is very low. Very, very low. I wouldn't rate an Edward Lee novel on the same scale as a Chuck Palahniuk novel. That just wouldn't be fair. Even with that consideration in mind I would give this novel a half star if it would let me. It fails on every level.

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