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Title: Engleby
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Narrator: Michael Maloney
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-08
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a "traditional" school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, we are led to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?
©2007 Sebastian Faulks; (P)2007 W F Howes Ltd
Members Reviews:
Extraordinary
This is without any doubt the best work of fiction I have ever listened to. The book is fabulous, literate and pleasing in every possible way. The narrator does a first class job and clearly understands and enjoys playing Engleby. Memories of this book will stay with me for a very long time.
Really depressing
I love Sebastian Faulks' novels and I have both read other novels of his and listened to other audiobooks written by him which I thoroughly enjoyed. I loved his novels 'Charlotte Gray' and 'Birdsong', and I loved the audiobook of 'A Week in December'. I also quite enjoyed the audiobooks of 'Girl in the Lion D'Or' and 'Human Traces'. But the character in 'Engelby' was so dark and disturbed that I couldn't persist with this audiobook. The narration was probably fine, although I found the lisping cockney accent a bit annoying after a while, but the character of Engleby himself was so mentally unstable and isolated and weird (and he is the sole narrator in this book, so especially as an audiobook you feel yourself being drawn into his mindset which is a bit unsettling) that I couldn't finish this book. I wouldn't recommend it.
"Engleby (unabridged)"
An engaging & thought-provoking book, giving an in-depth insight into a disturbed mind. The story carries you along in an absorbing journey.
How to care about a mass murderer
Little by little Engleby reveals himself to be a killer. He also shows us quite bluntly and with no grabbing at the sympathy votes, what has set him on his path and what has kept him there. This rather black tale is told with such wit and self deprecation by Engleby that I could forgive him a great deal. Many thought provoking hypotheses are stumbled around to add stock to the stew of ideas, circumstances and facets of humanity. Gag... the previous sounds very 'uni debate soc' ... sorry. Start again .... I found it to be a rich thick story with a protagonist so totally self involved and honest that I was forced to like and care about an ugly stunted graceless minor crim and murderer. The writing style was concise, well crafted and fluid. It was a joy to find an author who didn't 'buy a car for his auntie with four seats' so to speak. This author obviously went through the ed. system when writing a clear sentence was a basic requirement. Thank you Mr Faulks !
Dark and a little disturbing!
Engleby is one of the most unique books that I have come across. At first I assumed it was about the life of a Oxbridge university student that has made his way from a lower class background.
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Title: Engleby
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Narrator: Michael Maloney
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-08
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a "traditional" school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, we are led to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth?
©2007 Sebastian Faulks; (P)2007 W F Howes Ltd
Members Reviews:
Extraordinary
This is without any doubt the best work of fiction I have ever listened to. The book is fabulous, literate and pleasing in every possible way. The narrator does a first class job and clearly understands and enjoys playing Engleby. Memories of this book will stay with me for a very long time.
Really depressing
I love Sebastian Faulks' novels and I have both read other novels of his and listened to other audiobooks written by him which I thoroughly enjoyed. I loved his novels 'Charlotte Gray' and 'Birdsong', and I loved the audiobook of 'A Week in December'. I also quite enjoyed the audiobooks of 'Girl in the Lion D'Or' and 'Human Traces'. But the character in 'Engelby' was so dark and disturbed that I couldn't persist with this audiobook. The narration was probably fine, although I found the lisping cockney accent a bit annoying after a while, but the character of Engleby himself was so mentally unstable and isolated and weird (and he is the sole narrator in this book, so especially as an audiobook you feel yourself being drawn into his mindset which is a bit unsettling) that I couldn't finish this book. I wouldn't recommend it.
"Engleby (unabridged)"
An engaging & thought-provoking book, giving an in-depth insight into a disturbed mind. The story carries you along in an absorbing journey.
How to care about a mass murderer
Little by little Engleby reveals himself to be a killer. He also shows us quite bluntly and with no grabbing at the sympathy votes, what has set him on his path and what has kept him there. This rather black tale is told with such wit and self deprecation by Engleby that I could forgive him a great deal. Many thought provoking hypotheses are stumbled around to add stock to the stew of ideas, circumstances and facets of humanity. Gag... the previous sounds very 'uni debate soc' ... sorry. Start again .... I found it to be a rich thick story with a protagonist so totally self involved and honest that I was forced to like and care about an ugly stunted graceless minor crim and murderer. The writing style was concise, well crafted and fluid. It was a joy to find an author who didn't 'buy a car for his auntie with four seats' so to speak. This author obviously went through the ed. system when writing a clear sentence was a basic requirement. Thank you Mr Faulks !
Dark and a little disturbing!
Engleby is one of the most unique books that I have come across. At first I assumed it was about the life of a Oxbridge university student that has made his way from a lower class background.