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Death is a Lonely Business

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Author: Ray Bradbury –


Publisher: Recorded Books –


Genre: Fiction –


Overall rating: 5/5 –


Writing, content: 5/5 –


Duration: 9:06 h (medium) –


Narrator: Andrew Garman –


Narrator/performance: 5/5 –


Impressions: 5/5 –


Performance errors: 0/5 –


Complexity/reading level: 1/5 –


Audience: General


Commentary/review

A book that seems odd at first but turns out great. It is not a horror story, or a regular crime novel, or any kind of speculative fiction short story. It is not strictly poetry. It starts off surrealistic but reality returns somewhere midway. The message is less pessimistic than in Philip K. Dick’s works, the ambience more comfortable than H. P. Lovecraft’s, the outcomes completely different than what Strugatsky Brothers would choose. The action and associations remind of a comic book. My verdict is that the novel is brilliant, an entirely satisfactory weekend reading material.

Narration style is professional, lively, coherent and fun.

Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury audiobook novel

This cover is alright. A more comic book style would probably work better though.

Cover Photo by Katie Manning on Unsplash