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Title: Rustication
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Charles Palliser
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-12-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 76 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx. Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied.
It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged 17, has been sent down - "rusticated" - from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder.
Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication confirms Palliser's reputation as "our leading contemporary Victorian novelist" (Guardian).
Members Reviews:
Dark story with twists and turns
Would you listen to Rustication again? Why?
loved the story, did not like the narrator.
What did you like best about this story?
Was a very dark story ,no sugar coating. But a good story with twists
A mind bender
Any additional comments?
Definitely different but surprisingly engrossing. I thought the narration was good and since I like John Lee as a narrator- I am use to his pace and inflections. I thought he was perfect for this dark character and yes.... It is a Twisted story!
Great Mystery Story-right to the end!
It's one of those plots with lots of twists and turns. You will have to be a detective to figure out the ending.
Unusual and suspenseful
Difficult to catagorize, a very suspenseful story with an unsympathetic first person narrator.
Definitely kept my interest.
Make at least ONE of your characters likeable!
Dreary, dreary. But --- Bleak House was dreary, after all, and complex and Victorian, and we loved it, right? What's the difference? Bleak House had many admirable and wholly likeable characters. Rustication has only despicable or obnoxious persons, including the protag, an immoral, predatory, addicted and generally worthless young man. Remind me why I would want to identify with such a character??? Oh, because all these faults make him INTERESTING? No, they don't. They make him a failure and of no interest.
One sees that so often these days: Women writers, for instance, make their women characters irritable drunks, nervous and easily frightened so they'll be "interesting," as in the recent "The Dead Key" and "The Girl on the Train." Writers forget that if we cannot identify --- and who can identify with all that --- many will close the book in disgust. I lasted about halfway through.
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Title: Rustication
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Charles Palliser
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-12-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 76 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx. Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied.
It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged 17, has been sent down - "rusticated" - from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder.
Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication confirms Palliser's reputation as "our leading contemporary Victorian novelist" (Guardian).
Members Reviews:
Dark story with twists and turns
Would you listen to Rustication again? Why?
loved the story, did not like the narrator.
What did you like best about this story?
Was a very dark story ,no sugar coating. But a good story with twists
A mind bender
Any additional comments?
Definitely different but surprisingly engrossing. I thought the narration was good and since I like John Lee as a narrator- I am use to his pace and inflections. I thought he was perfect for this dark character and yes.... It is a Twisted story!
Great Mystery Story-right to the end!
It's one of those plots with lots of twists and turns. You will have to be a detective to figure out the ending.
Unusual and suspenseful
Difficult to catagorize, a very suspenseful story with an unsympathetic first person narrator.
Definitely kept my interest.
Make at least ONE of your characters likeable!
Dreary, dreary. But --- Bleak House was dreary, after all, and complex and Victorian, and we loved it, right? What's the difference? Bleak House had many admirable and wholly likeable characters. Rustication has only despicable or obnoxious persons, including the protag, an immoral, predatory, addicted and generally worthless young man. Remind me why I would want to identify with such a character??? Oh, because all these faults make him INTERESTING? No, they don't. They make him a failure and of no interest.
One sees that so often these days: Women writers, for instance, make their women characters irritable drunks, nervous and easily frightened so they'll be "interesting," as in the recent "The Dead Key" and "The Girl on the Train." Writers forget that if we cannot identify --- and who can identify with all that --- many will close the book in disgust. I lasted about halfway through.