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These Violent Delights
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively enjoyable debut novel - a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm.
Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal — an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.
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- Joseph Fantetti
- 2021-11-11
Excellent, suspenseful, searing.
All the ingredients of a passionate tortuous love story with tragic implications and resolution. Calls to mind the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh and Edmund White.
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- Juno
- 2022-04-21
Wow!
My! This was so good and also so tragic. Holy toxic relationship, batman! They were fascinating and heartbreaking.
Looking forward to more books from this terrific author.
Also, the narrator was out of this world good. Seriously. Never did I encounter someone who could so perfectly embody eat character's voice. It felt like a full cast of performers.
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- Matthew
- 2022-09-17
An Intellectual Novel of Toxic Codependence and Unspeakable Violence
This is my favourite book of all-time. I’ve read it at least once a month since I bought a hardcover copy in June of 2021, and every time I read it, I still find something new within its pages, and always feels like the first time.
The audiobook, in its 14-hour glory is no exception. Micah Nemerever’s words are given new life by narrator Michael Crouch, who manages to give each character a unique voice, and he’s able to perfectly capture every emotion in each line of dialogue. I couldn’t have asked for a better narrator for this audiobook.
This story is completely all-consuming, from the knowing dread of the prologue to one of the most perfect final lines I’ve ever read. These characters will sear themselves permanently into your memory. There’s a reason I re-read or re-listen to this book every month.
Fans of V.E. Schwab and Donna Tartt especially, will definitely not want to miss this!
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