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Imaginary Friend

Auteur(s): Stephen Chbosky
Narrateur(s): Christine Lakin
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A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "haunting and thrilling" (John Green) epic of literary horror from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Christopher is seven years old.

Christopher is the new kid in town.

Christopher has an imaginary friend.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out.

At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six awful days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a tree house in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.

Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made audiences everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Listent to it with the lights on.

©2019 Stephen Chbosky (P)2019 Hachette Audio
Fantômes Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Psychologiques Récits initiatiques Surnaturels Épouvante Effrayant Hanté Paranormal Intéressant Psychological Horror
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"Imaginary Friend has been a long time coming. And like a fine Bordeaux, it rewards that wait in countless ways. This is a fearsome, remarkably ambitious novel that breaks through the boundaries of the horror genre to become epic - in all the best senses of the word." (Lincoln Child, number-one New York Times best-selling coauthor of Verses for the Dead and City of Endless Night)

"If you aren't blown away by the first fifty pages of Imaginary Friend, you need to get your sense of wonder checked." (Joe Hill, number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and NOS4A2)

"Imaginary Friend is a sprawling epic horror novel that hearkens back to the classics of the 1970s Golden Age, but, like Stranger Things, with a twinkle in its malevolent eye. Enormous, scary fun." (Dan Chaon, best-selling author of Ill Will)

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Couldn't finish it, too many similes!

I tried really hard to finish this book. I got about halfway through before the amount of similes that the author kept using got the best of me. I just couldn't bear another 10 hours of simile overuse. I'm pretty sure the book would be only about half the length if all of the similes were removed. The storyline itself was quite interesting, I think that's what kept me going for so long.

The narrator was wonderful though, she did such a fantastic job of all the different characters and her voice was absolutely a pleasure to listen to.

I wish that whoever edited this story had cautioned the author against the overuse of similes. It really would have made the book so much better and much more enjoyable. As it was I was just too irritated to finish it and had to return it.

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Excellent, pulled me right in!

Loved this book right from the start. The narrator does an amazing job! This is a definite must listen!

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Amazing until the last hour

Really enjoyed this book! The narration was great and the story was very well written. I was really into the book up until the last hour or two when it started to drag on I skipped to the end to know what happened because by this point I lost interest. The first 3/4 of the book were amazing and my favourite since the Institite by Steven King

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best story I've heard in a long time

Why has this not been made into a movie or a tv show would make a great horror mystery on netflix. the author needs to release more like this amazing couldn't stop listening.

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Too Long

I was going to give it 4-5 stars but then it kept going and going ad nauseum. The story could have been told in half the length.

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long book and holds you to the end

loved it. one of the best i have listened to.hoping he writes more books or they translate his other titles. the narrator was the best i loved the way she read the book. never once got lost like most of the narrators when doing multiple characters

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Just too long

I have been really excited to read this but I lost steam about 3/4 of the way through. The narration is amazing, but the story just got repetitive and every time I thought it was going to end there were hours left.

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Wow! Must read.

Different, really imaginative. Not for young kids, Really loved it. The narrator made it even more real. Stephen Kingish. Bravo 👏

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Narrator makes the story

The best part of this book by far is the narrator. Like other reviewers have said, this entire book could easily have been half the length and be stronger for it. The author seems to be immensely proud of his comparisons, because once one is made you will hear it at least once every chapter, which ends up being over 100 times (blue moon, frogs boiling, two-by-fours like baby teeth, floods, father son holy ghost,etc, etc). It has heavy Christian themes throughout, and in the final chapters leaves gaping plotholes in order to fully embrace the religion theme. I'm glad I bought this, just so that I can find more by the narrator, but I'll be skipping works by this author.

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Intense, scary and thrilling!

My new favorite book and a phenomenal performance by Christine Lakin. Loved every minute of it!!

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