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Carrion Comfort
- Narrated by: Mel Foster, Laural Merlington
- Length: 39 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
"Carrion Comfort is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." (Stephen King)
"Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, Carrion Comfort spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." (Guillermo del Toro)
"Carrion Comfort is one of the scariest books ever written. Whenever I get asked the question Who's your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons." (James Rollins)
"One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot. (David Morrell)
THE PAST...
Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves...
THE PRESENT...
Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to "use" humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself...
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Rob
- 03-07-12
I could feel my life force being drained.
I'm deeply relieved to be finished with 'Carrion Comfort'. Not because I found it hard to handle or oppressively creepy, or because it got under my skin, all things which I'm sure Dan Simmons was aiming for, rather because it's frustratingly poor.
Whilst the concept is intriguing and the author releases much of its wicked potential, the words themselves limp out like wounded animals. Barely a passage went by without a sigh, shake of the head or roll of the eyes as another description or piece of characterisation clunked and died before me. It also displays a distastefully leering attitude to women and sex at various points.
Recommended, however, if you're a fan of lines which go 'This was the most [adjective] [noun] that [character name] had ever [verb]'. There are hundreds of them. Everything is 'the most' this or 'impossibly' that. Still, i've learned as i've progressed. Observe: This is the most frustrating, long-winded book I have ever read. It's unnecessarily long and, at times, impossibly annoying.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 02-11-11
Long, long, log... but good!
I really like Dan Simmons, even though I think he's got a serious problem with editing his books. Still, I think he's a good enough writer to get away with it, and he does it again in Carrion Comfort.
This is a sad, painful portrayal of power and corruption, and what it does to common people. Now blend in agroup of absolutely psychotic, sick minds and you have the makings of an excellent thriller.
If you enjoy long tales and not-so-happy endings, this book is for you.
If you've read Simmons before and didn't enjoy it, this is definitely not for you.
I, myself, loved it!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- sarahmoose2000
- 19-11-11
Compellers, but maybe not vampires...
A man and two women meet up congratulating themselves on their game prowess, one boasts at actually having killed John Lennon and JFK, compelling strangers to do their dirty work. An Auschwitz survivor is struggling to find the Nazi commander who compelled him in a sick sacrificial game of human chess during WW2.
Various individuals, having lost loved ones or been effected by the crazy trio, band together to stop them once and for all. A long, but brilliant listen.
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- Dean
- 09-03-17
Absurd!!
Utterly brilliant. To be honest I was skeptical to start it took me a while to get going but by the end it had me hook line and sinker! Brilliant writing by Mr Simmons and Narration does it justice!
A long haul but worth every minute!
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- Robin
- 24-09-13
Long, so looong
I wonder if the people who gave this a high rating simply are in denial; are they just refusing to not like it, since that would mean they've wasted 39 hours?
Up until the 35 hour mark I still thought that this book could turn out to be worth the time. A good, solid ending could make me walk away with a positive feeling about it. I was wrong. There are a couple of really intriguing ideas, but they're drowned by mediocre rest. You could easily have cut out half of this book. I wonder if there was no editor at all working on it. It's not that the book is totally aweful. A very much shortened down version of it could maybe be pretty enjoyable.
There is no way I'm going to listen to anything by Simmons unless it's under 10 hours now. I don't know if I'm going to listen to anything by him at all...
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- Sylvia
- 07-11-17
Page turner
Totally different to what I expected. Had this not been such a lengthy book I would have listened to t in one go! I'll look for more books by this author, and the narration was excellent too!
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- Andrew K.
- 02-11-21
Not scary and wwaaaaayyyyyyy too long!
Possibly the most drawn out and tedious book I've experienced. Endless, irrelevant dialogue and ruminations by the various characters makes one want to pull your teeth out. Especially as it often happens in the middle of faster paced action sequences. Several of the female characters are portrayed as helpless and are given iritating voices by the male narrator. Although portraying the bigoted nature of the characters, the endless use of racist language is excessive, unnecessary and becomes offensive. The plot meanders endlessly and is not in the slightest bit scary. My biggest emotion at the end of 36 hours of listening was relief it was finished.
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- Alan
- 03-06-21
Bit of a long one
I like Dan Simmons books and this one is OK, not the most terrifying book ever, or whatever Steven King said. It's OK, the performance is OK as well, took me a while to get into the book as a whole but one thing you have with this book is lots of time. It's quite long, bit more condensed and it could have been quite exciting. If you have 30 hours to kill and have read most of the other great horror, this book is OK.
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-08-19
Long but wow
Completely captivating from the start, great narration, and the story line kept me enthralled all through the 39 hours. Loved it
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- Klaus
- 04-08-19
Even better than Summer of Night
I can't believe I missed this masterpiece! I have read and reread Summer of Night several times over the years, and I always enjoy Simmons' story telling.
Then, through Audible's recommendations, I discovered Carrion Comfort. Some reviews say it is too long at just under 40 hours. I am almost sad it was over so soon! The characters are described so vividly you feel like you know them personally, no matter if they are good or bad people. And the plot has enough plausible connections to the real world to be believable and relevant. Although it would have been even more so had I read it closer to its original publication date.
Like Summer of Night, I am going to enjoy listening to this book again in a few years. The narrators also deserve credit for bringing the characters to life, both are excellent at that.
Thanks for the recommendation, Audible!
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