2nd read : A more critical review on this after a second listen, I still love the hell out of this story and can't wait for the next season to drop. A must for anyone who loves audio horror. Stanley Tucci's Randalf Carter narration is a **standout** joy. The acting is absolutely spot-on, there are a stellar number of Lovecraftian characters reimagined. I stopped myself because I was enjoying it so much and wanted to draw out the experience if only a little longer. Out-freaking-standing Lovecraftian audio dramaġst read 16th Oct 2020: Out-freaking-standing Lovecraftian audio drama At the point of this writing, I'm 2 hours from the end of the book, picked it up yesterday morning and did nothing but cackle with glee for the rest of the day. But between the yelling and screaming and UTTERLY unbelievable dialogue, I will never find out There may be a great story buried in here. Time until I couldn't stand it any more? 16 minutes 21 seconds. Even in Arkham, a cop who Behaved this way toward the public would be out on his ear in a minute, not to mention the public screaming for his blood. Woman goes to police station as witness to murder.where the detective proceeds to abuse and insult everyone about everything. #Adams stanley hp lovecraft the whisperer in darkness driver#Bus driver proceeds to abuse the woman verbally. Woman on bus to Arkham (only after a lot of noise). Dialogue that is SO bad, that I stopped cooking dinner and left the room to return the audiobook. BIG NOISE, LOUD NOISE, NOISE INTENDED to make up for lame dialogue. How is this irritating? Let me count the ways. I made it 4 hours in before I had to call it quits. This production desperately needs a narrator, if only to announce the character names and the setting in which they find themselves. There's only so much that can be done to build a scene using sound effects and most of the effects do not convey whatever it is they are supposed to be conveying. I only understand part of the story because I don't know which characters are doing what at which times. #Adams stanley hp lovecraft the whisperer in darkness movie#Listening to this audio is like reading a book with every other line missing, listening to a phone conversation with bad reception, or watching a movie with your TV screen off. It's more that the production should have gone another direction. I have an issue with the performance as a whole, but not any particular voice actor does a bad job. Even Stanley Tucci, an absolute national treasure, cannot rescue this tale from mundanity. While I did not expect this book to be as creative and Wong's work, I was not ready for this level of the bland dialog and the poor story telling found throughout this story. Good for doing the dishes, or maybe yard work.Īudible recommended this book based on my enjoyment of David Wong's John Dies at the End series. At least it feels that way next to the pallid lines of every other character limply delivered into their own belly buttons. His dialogue is actually funny, and allows a good actor to deliver wit that actually is amusing in context. This script literally belongs in a spiral notebook under a teenagers bed. A scooby-doo mystery with some college intro-to-writing plot lines. It makes all of the dialogue about the situations cringey, predictable, boring, and unthreatening. The heavy solipsism puts the cosmic horror into a distant nosebleed seat, while the characters ponder how unfair it is to be a reanimated dead person, or the offspring of an elder god. It’s written with a heavy dose of tween naivete and a peppering of formulaic Lovecraft mythos. The dialogue is both heavily British-faking-American (“why do you think I’m stood here? I’m stood right here because.”) and very young. This HP Lovecraft-inspired tale will delight fans and those unfamiliar with his wild, surreal and terrifying horror stories.Ĭomes across as an obviously British young adult radio play In this Audible Original production, Stanley Tucci ( The Devil Wears Prada, Fortitude) leads a cast to introduce you to the horrific, bizarre and just plain weird world of Arkham County. Once you do find it though, you'd better get used to living there, as you may be there for however long you have left to live.įrom within the walls of Arkham’s asylum, reclusive writer Randolph Carter tells the story of orphan Violet Flintock, who arrives in Arkham County in search of her own history only to be instantly greeted by the bloody realities of this small town, whose foundations are built from the lore and mythology of HP Lovecraft. Lying northeast of Massachusetts, just south of Hell, Arkham County is somewhere you find yourself, not somewhere you ever mean to go. But that number’s dropping all of the time.
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