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The Book of Lost Things
- Narrated by: Nick Rawlinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother.... As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves, and monsters, and begins his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-19
Great dark fairytale
A very good story although I felt that the narrator left to many long dramatic pauses so I listen to it at 1.10 speed and that fixed it.
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- Gallowglass
- 14-02-24
Reads like a fairy tail, stings like only real life can.
This was a beautifully haunting experience, with both dark old fashioned fairy tale motifs and all the hallmarks of a great coming of age story with moments both emotional, occasionally funny and often existentially terrifying. Highly recommend for any age, but will likely especially hit home for older children and teenagers. Solid performance from the narrator as well, with great range and command of characters.
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- Fran Turner
- 28-11-23
A fantastic tale. Couldn't put it down.
What a wonderful story which encapsulates fairytales, but not in the Disney sense, The book draws you and stirs the imagination. The feelings of grief and jealousy felt by a young boy and his anger is used to drag him into another world where his adventures cause him to grow up and deal with his emotions and realise his mistakes.The ending is wonderful.
Brilliantly narrated, great character definitions and very emotive.
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- Keoki
- 06-12-18
What a wonderful book.
This is a wonderful book that explores the nature of mankind. It contains both dark and light aspects of all humanity, both young and old. It has a chilling edge to it, coupled with humour that is almost silly at times.
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- Dmitry Taranov
- 10-08-24
Amazingly dark fairy tale
In the best traditions of Neil Gaiman, this is a masterpiece of magical realism. The narration is also great!
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- agata
- 30-11-19
ok
I just started to listen to the book. it's red quite slowly so if you read and listen at the same time it's frustrating... also it goes from normal voice to whisper a lot so it's hard to listen to it quietly without turning it up all the time and ending up with a loud boom.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-08-23
Great story with the flavours of dark fairy tales.
I loved this book.
A slow start but masterfully narrated, dark humour and a great tale.
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- Steve Wilson
- 31-10-23
Masterful enthralling, wondrous…
John Connolly is undoubtedly my favourite author, but even I was surprised at how gripping, magical and thoroughly satisfying this was. A proper grown-up story for children with a villain to rival all others.
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- Mrs. S. J. Caldwell
- 02-11-23
A traditional tale
A classic tale of good and evil - child with ‘wicked’ step mother journeying through a serious of challenges with various beasts and temptations, making friends and learning along the way to come to a full conclusion. I would have said it was more suited to YA apart from some of the dark themes around the baddie towards the end (won’t spoil the plot). Cleverly weaves in classic stories along the way. So a good neat story.
Narrator was good, deployed different accents for the various characters very well BUT MUCH TOO SLOW. After about 4 minutes in I switched it onto faster speed, something I have never done before, and listened to the whole thing at 1.3 x speed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-07-15
Wonderful stuff!
Anyone who enjoyed fairy tales as a child will love this, and it's performed beautifully.
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