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Ash
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Series: David Ash, Book 3
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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- Mr. A. J. Bond
- 14-07-19
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I’ve not read any James Herbert for a long time so I thought I’d give this a go. The main character was immensely dislikeable and seemed to be more interested in Maglites, which are described at length, than the supernatural. The supernatural elements are mostly irrelevant to the story and the main character doesn’t really achieve anything.
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- vicki
- 12-04-13
Great!!
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- GW
- 24-06-20
It made me grim-ace, it was so bad....
The narrator's pronunciation of grimace is annoying.
The author's favourite word is grimace.
I genuinely started off thinking this was a 1970s book because the lead female character is so fragile and pathetic.
The sex was embarrassing.
The attempts to shock were desperate.
The 'story' could have been covered in a third of the time.
James Herbert's early books were fantastic. This was not. Repetition. Boredom. Wandering nonesense.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-08-20
Hilariously bad!
Are you a fan of Top Gear? Read the Daily Mail? Don’t understand why Alan Partridge is funny? Then this my friend is the audiobook for you! It’s got everything you could possibly want: it’s got the dashing hero (alcohoc, obviously) and the beautiful doctor who falls in love with him instantly. It’s got maglites. It’s overly long descriptions of cars and firearms. It’s got maglites. It’s got hot lesbian nurses. And it’s got maglites.
The plot, if you can call it that, revolves around a secret Scotish castle where all the world’s most evil people go to see out their days in luxury. When Lord Lucan turned up, I chuckled. When Hitler’s secret lovechild appeared I laughed so hard I had to rewind it because I missed what was said. By the time Colonel Gadaffi and Princess Diana’s ghost turned up I’d given up. The first two-thirds of the book are hilariously bad; the ending is just bad (how do you get a killer man eating spider out of your way? That’s right, you throw a rat at it. But a rat that’s ON FIRE). It’s like the author tried to write a serious version on Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace... and still ended up writing Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
A terrible book, but it had me laughing out loud all the way through, and I loved it!
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- patricia
- 14-08-13
Ash
Brilliant couldn not stop listening love James Herbert books read other books and always enjoyed narrator brought characters to life
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- Ariadne Jones
- 08-07-13
A good yarn!
Where does Ash rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I would rate Ash in my top 20 audiobooks so far.
What did you like best about this story?
I liked the supernatural aspect of the story but there were a few anomalies which I just ignored as it would have spoilt my enjoyment.
Which character – as performed by Steven Pacey – was your favourite?
I really enjoyed the narration but Ash was my favourite character - he was the typically flawed character which was ok as he wasn't filled with too much angst.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I don't think I'd manage it in one sitting as its too long but I did listen to it during most of my waking moment.
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- Wrensense.
- 07-04-13
Ash
Good storyline, Very well read, but the "horror" parts were too long and became tedious.
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- Savvas Kleanthous
- 21-05-20
Full of cliche, toxic conservatism, and porny bits
I didn't like it obviously.
1. Weird "erotic" scenes, clearly shoved in the story, for no obvious reason (well other than the obvious). This author's horniness reflects really badly in the story and I'm really disappointed when this happens. I am not prude btw, and have nothing against sex and descriptions of it, but it was forced in the story (and other stories of this writer btw), totally not natural
2. The actions of the main character make absolutely no sense at all.
2. Cliched character. Boring on top of not making sense
3. Can anyone spell conservatism? Irish are bad, Royalty always good, you get the picture. It doesn't affect the story, but I hated it.
4. Too loooong. The story doesn't progress at all.
Hated it won't get another book of the author ever again.
7 people found this helpful
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- Michael
- 13-04-13
Goes out with a bang!
Was really looking forward to this as I'm a huge James Herbert fan, and loved his previous books from this series, and now I'm gutted there will be no more as the great man has passed. This book was better than expected (and I expected excellence) I couldn't take my headphones out and was a little sad when the book was done. Great performance to go out on RIP Mr Herbert.
21 people found this helpful
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- Marg
- 20-05-20
Started so well!!
I so enjoyed the beginning, such potential ... I wanted ghosts, detective stuff and paranormal like clever psychologists.... But maybe it was too long a tale as I got very tired of everybody's eye colour being virtually their only description. Bits of sex, horrific body parts and weird half-truths flying aRound. Sorry it just didn't work for me... Too stretched out and at times the attempts at humour were silly and childish.
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- reg mountford
- 29-12-16
don't think this would have been the last
great story needed a follow on which couldn't happen great author brilliant storyline classic Herbert
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- Unzipt
- 12-12-12
What A Mess!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A better story with a comprehensible conclusion.
What was most disappointing about James Herbert’s story?
The most disappointing thing about ASH was the story itself. The book's beginning is interesting, with characters one quickly decides are likeable and unlikeable. The book then cascades into a series of inexplicable, and wholly unbelievable, occurrences that are never connected to one another in any meaningful way despite the constant intimation that there is some common explanation. Ash, the titular parapsychologist, never explains (perhaps, never understands) what is happening. The book's casst of ridiculous characters includes Hitler's bastard daughter, all grown up and crazy as hell, and the transparent (as in one can literally see his internal organs) prematurely born son of Princess Diana who comes to take her son into her loving embrace at novel's end. Oh, and did I forget to mention Qaddafi. 'Nuff said.
Would you be willing to try another one of Steven Pacey’s performances?
No.
What character would you cut from Ash?
Hitler's daughter and Louie, the son of Princess Diana
Any additional comments?
Save your Audible credit
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- DBF
- 19-01-20
Stupidity
Worst book of his I have read. I have read nearly all. Ridiculous happenings using bats rats spiders maggots flies. Easy seen through plot and those guilty. I want my money back on this one Audible.
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- Eff Ewe Leo
- 07-05-15
Great story
Story was great though strange catching throwback references to the "The Rats" series of books slipped in which is a very King style of writing that Aside it was a great listen
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- Patricia Lucero
- 29-03-15
Great great great
James Herbert's best as far as I'm concerned... Very spooky but yet believe able. The reader took you right there....loved it..
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- Don
- 04-03-13
Bilge
What would have made Ash better?
Ash dying of a flesh eating virus on 1st page.
Has Ash turned you off from other books in this genre?
Yes
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Ash
Any additional comments?
If an author chooses to write a plot involing a medical discipline such as Psychiatry, he should have the good grace to inform himself a little on the subject.
And certainly not refer to Psychiatric patients as Lunatics.
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- Mary
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A good story, it definately had some scary parts.
I would recommend this book, the fact that all the bad guys from the real world turned fictional got wasted was great. All though I was disappointed with Louis's end, to have gone through all the horror with such strength even though his illness was so severe and then to not be able to be with Ash and the doctor was sad, but to have gone to his mother was good and very tearful. This was a strange book, but I liked it.
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- N. R. Gawlak
- 29-11-14
Not even Pacey could save this turkey
I managed to get through to Chapter 7 and couldn't listen any further. Stephen Pacey is as good a British narrator as I've ever heard...but even his credible narration could not make this awful novel into something entertaining, mildly interesting or enjoyable. The author should do "graphic novels" and forget any literary ambitions, at least, in this genre. Listening to this brought back the memory of listening to another audiobook wherein the author attempted to describe his characters almost entirely, by describing or mentioning, the popular music they liked. This author, though, uses a very different method to achieve the same effect... by using untold billions of descriptive adjectives and adverbs to "flesh out" his characters, settings, etc. But every word "picture" he tries to paint seems drawn, in sets, from previous material that is ever so familiar. His literary "inventions" are so trite, so hackneyed, that, although one may not remember the exact,original source(s), one already knows them by heart, long before this author ever pasted them in. Like, "the castle". Think about every popular image you have of a dark and brooding manse, all the images that one has ever heard about, read about, seen in movies or tv, or video games, even. Now, if one selects the image one has encountered most frequently, that seems to be the most popular, the one that just pops up first, that's the one the author uses. He applied that method to the first 7 chapters of this book, at least. Call the method "Write By Numbers". The novel is supposed to be a mystery, I think. This author does not know a mystery from a flight of migrating Canadian geese.
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- Cathryn
- 14-12-12
Absurdity Unleashed
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A better book
What do you think your next listen will be?
The Mystery of Edwinn Drood by Charles Dickens
What does Steven Pacey bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He brings the English
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Ash?
No comment
Any additional comments?
Middle aged sex - no thank you