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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek

Written by: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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Publisher's Summary

From the authors of the number-one New York Times best seller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of the internet’s most-watched daily show, Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern town.

It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow - a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.

At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told - that the students’ strange demises were all tragic accidents. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry - and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment - Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents.

Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school grad Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find, with Alicia's life hanging in the balance, will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest teenage imaginations - one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core.

This Audible book includes an exclusive interview with Rhett and Link, conducted by Stevie Levine, host of the Good Mythical Morning recap show, Let's Talk About That. In this conversation, Rhett and Link dive into their childhoods in Buies Creek and how they influenced their lives and writing.

About the authors:

Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, raised in North Carolina and best friends since the first grade, are an LA-based comedy duo known for hosting the most-watched daily talk show on the internet, Good Mythical Morning, their narrative series Rhett & Link's Buddy System, the award-winning weekly podcast Ear Biscuits, and their instant number-one New York Times best seller, Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality. Their YouTube channels have a combined subscriber base of over 24 million people with seven billion total views. They have been featured on and in The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Live with Kelly & Ryan, The Conan O'Brien Show, Variety, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

©2019 Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

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Exceeded Expectations

Just because of the authors' YouTube friendly content and humour they are known to produce, don't write off this book! The book is full of humour and suspense, twists and turns. The narration is spectacular as well, very clear and with voices associated to each character. Expectations have been surpassed and I personally look forward to any further fiction works from the writers!

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Enthralled

I was captured by the story, characters, setting, and over all heart of this book. I can’t wait for the next one boys!

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Not expecting this cool of a book!

I like GMM a lot and I have already read the book of mythicality so I thought this book expecting maybe a silly laugh? But what I got was something which different it was somewhat comical in its own way but mostly it was mysterious which is not what I was expecting and it was slightly paranormal which is also much more in line with what I usually read.

a pleasant surprise that took me closer to my favourite Morning Show

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pretty good

he one with the reform school, cursed pond and "scooter leg."

I listened to this one. It was cute. It also made me laugh out loud at least once. Which was a little awkward, since I was at work. But the Ninja Turtle scene was just so funny I couldn't help it.
An entertaining entry into the children in peril/supernatural bildungsroman genre. The authors note that they took inspiration from the Hardy Boys (but in the south, in 1992, with inexplicable stuff/horror). Can't say I see it, at all, but hey, they came up with a fun (and very funny) story which I feel is probably suitable for the Hardy Boys age bracket. Yeah, the references and stuff were aimed at readers my age (those of a similar age to the protagonists in the early 90s), but it was written in a very juvenile-friendly way.
I wasn't sold on the mwah hah hah twist at the end, but otherwise, yeah, it was a fun little read that made me nostalgic for my own childhood.
I've read some scathing comments about the narration, but I listened at 3x speed and thought it was ok.

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The narration was a lost cause

The narration is absolutely awful; I cringed every few minutes. The audiobook should be avoided because of the corny, uncomfortable, unlistenable delivery of the narrative.

The writing was passable; some parts were better than others, but there was nothing really special overall. The plot could, at times, be both too realistic or too absurd, and the narrative pacing was poor; the first third of the book is almost irrelevant to the main plot, and while the middle is more interesting, the ending is lacklustre. The characters also don't really do much heavy lifting to drive the plot. There were some interesting attempts at character development in a few cases, but there was also a fantastic opportunity to explore competent and likable female characters, and these characters are all but ignored. The damesel in distress trope is so lame and tired. I expected better.

It feels like the book has a major identity crisis. The target audience could range from preteens to teenagers to younger adults to middle-aged adults, and the "moral of the story" is EXTREMELY heavy-handed. Rhett says in the introduction to never stop questioning authority, and the entire book seems to exist solely to beat the reader over the head with this idea. Don't waste your time listening to the horrible narration of the entire book—just stop after Rhett and Link's introduction and you'll get the message.

I do support the message, and I wholeheartedly support R&L or else I wouldn't have listened the entire novel when it felt like every minute was a struggle. I might have even enjoyed this had I not listened to it (although it does seem like a rather amateurish first novel), but the insufferable narration means a rating of 2 stars when the book itself might have been 3 or 4 stars.

The narration was abominable, so I cannot recommend this audiobook.

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Well that was fun

I found this to be a very charming and fun story. I wouldn't have minded if it went darker ;)

Recommending to my husband now to read. ❤️

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I could not get into this one...

I listened for a few chapters, but I found this story to be extremely juvenile and just not something that I was interested in or able to get into at all. I also found the narrators character voices to be extremely annoying making this not an enjoyable listen for me.

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Loved it

I loved the book and story line, the narrator was awesome. Must listen

Happy Listening

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Fabulous!

Just a wonderful book and fantastic narration. We were mesmerized and completely forgot that all the characters were played by the same person! We can't wait for the next one. :) Get busy boys!

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EPIC

This needs to be a movie. I LOVE IT I WANT MORE BOOKS. the horror aspect was the ultimate experience for me.

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