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A Stir of Echoes
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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This eerie ghost story, by the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.
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- Roland Greaves
- 03-11-18
Damn you, David Koepp!
I first knew of this when I watched the film as a child. It immediately became a favorite. After finishing this book, I realize that the film massively missed the mark. The film is so narrow sighted and pointless by comparison.
Matheson is a master of the spine tinglers. A champi9n of suspense, and a grest one to make you think about life, society, and humanity in different lights. This book was deeply emotional, relatable in many ways, and a damn good read. One hell of a roller coaster, and worth every second spent on it.
I highly recommend it.
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- Marque Lintvedt
- 10-22-18
Clever title for an eye-rolling character development.
I had such great hopes during the first part of this book! The husband’s unexpected “gift” of reading minds and seeing spirits and the contrarian wife who borders on breakdown coming to terms with it grows tiresome LONG before the plot is allowed to develop any further. Then when it finally moves along, it’s over and you’re left with... REALLY?
Great reader performance and meh story.
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- KY CPA
- 10-17-20
Horribly repetitive
This book hurt my head to keep fighting through. I think I spent half the book rolling my eyes. You could listen to the last hour and a half and get the gist of the whole book and possibly enjoy the ending that way.
Performer did a good job. But he couldn't save the horrible writing
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- DAVinCHI
- 10-06-20
Story good. Performance bad.
The narrator reads like a Vincent Price wannabe reading an Allen Poe story. Everything is dramatic and intense. Even the simple task of returning milk to the refrigerator, somehow warrants dramatization. I could not finish the book because it too took much effort to separate the narrator’s over the top intensity from the actual story being told. From what I heard, it was similar to the movie with a few insignificant changes. This book would be much better read instead of listening to
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- Timeviewer
- 01-11-18
Great story
Narrator is perfect. Story was really good! S.King says this author influenced his own writing, after reading this I could feel the similarities. I recommend.
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- Ashley R. Axon
- 10-14-20
best Matheson book I've read yet
I've read three of Richard Matheson's books so far and this is my favorite. It might be personal preference but I like the mix of 50s Suburban Noir with ghost stories and Victorian Sensational mysticism.
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- Jeff G
- 04-21-18
Better Than The Movie
This is an extremely well written story and quite different from the movie. I found the book to be far better. The narrator was very effective and it was hard to stop listening. I will not hesitate to listen to this again.
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- Dennis Deems
- 10-20-20
Difficult listening
The narrator declaims every sentence as if he were Olivier performing Shakespeare. The book itself is a run-of-the-mill murder mystery disguised as a supernatural thriller.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-03-20
Underwhelming
It felt like a 3-star story the whole way through but the last 20 minutes were so anticlimactic it made it a 2. The “big reveal” end was pretty underwhelming. Narrator was quite good though!
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- Robbie
- 03-10-21
Superb...
Great story, great narration... While some reviewers disagree, I really enjoyed Scott Brick and will be seeking out other books read by him...
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-17-14
Scott Brick's brilliant narration of a Great Story
Would you consider the audio edition of A Stir of Echoes to be better than the print version?
Only seen the movie and listened to this
What did you like best about this story?
The descriptions of losing your mind to another power
What about Scott Brick’s performance did you like?
Excellent character voices and superb use of temprement and tone
and very good at first person narrative
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes it is one of the best stories in the ghost story genre
Any additional comments?
I consider the author to be one of the greatest writers.
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- Daniel James Chapman
- 09-15-21
Brilliant.
Every book I read, I always compare it to Richard Matheson. Another classic from the writer that always leaves you wanting more.
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- Ms. K. C. Cooper
- 09-26-21
Good story
Good story but the narrator read it with too many long slow pauses. I did enjoy the book and wanted to finish it .
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- Natalie_1973
- 08-04-21
Stick with it
Started off great but then I found my mind wandering about 2/3 way through. But stick with it.
Enjoyed the full story and the narrator does an excellent job.
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- dan smith
- 10-28-21
Classic well paced ghoststory
i enjoyed this more than I thought. pacing is great characters are good. very accessible. some people might find it boring but it surprised me. cant go wrong with scott brick narrating.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-24-21
Loved it!
I went in with an open mind and was really surprised. I love the film, (Kevin Bacon crush), and thought the book would be similar. No! The book has more characters and more scenes that would have been great on screen. The narrator was a little dull at first. Obviously finding his feet with the voices. Stuck with him and sure enough.....he got good 👍
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- dee
- 10-17-21
Interesting period piece.
I Am Legend is a favourite of mine, (I read it long before the Will Smith film and have seen all the film versions). I have also read and enjoyed other Matheson stories, including the Incredible Shrinking Man, so I was looking forward to this. However, it's not in the same league.
The typical Matheson hero, morally upright, (by 1950s American standards), isolated, but refusing to give up, whilst ploughing a lonely furrow, is front and centre here. However, whilst his other heroes have had me rooting for them, I found the agonising of Tom intensely irritating, as is the behaviour of his wife. I found the story dragged somewhat and the 1950s misogyny was hard to take.
The narrator was OK, but I found his voice irritating. Speeding up the delivery to 1.10 helped a bit.
If this was the only Matheson book I had encountered, I wouldn't have bothered with any others. If new to his work, don't start here. Die-hard fans may enjoy this, for me it was more of an interesting period piece rather than gripping and engaging.
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- Daniel Lee
- 03-22-22
Loved it!
Scott Brick is as excellent as always. Such a great book, and well worth a listen.
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- STEVEN
- 02-16-22
Narrator totally annoying and over dramatic.
probably a good read, I really tried to stick with it but the tone of the narrators voice, intending to express despiration and tragedy was, in the end, unbearable.
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- Patricia Davidson
- 11-21-21
A reading worthy of the story
I enjoyed the film with Kevin Bacon but this spoken version is worthy of an Oscar.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-20-21
Well done.
The story was good and narration was good. I did find it hard to stay interested however. This may have been due to the fact that I kept falling to sleep every time I listened to it but I got through it in the end.
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