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Title: The Eye of the Beholder

Author: Mark Behm

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanna Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, known simply as The Eye is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The story charts the development of the detective s dangerous obsession with a femme fatale, as he pursues her across the United States.

Members Reviews:

A strange noir cult classic

Nice edition. I like this as a love story, and I like something about the characters, which don't strike me as all that flat. I think this is pulp fiction with the soul of literature, and that's probably why it seems so disappointing. The general plot is not exactly revolutionary, the writing is somewhat clunky and seems to be trying too hard to fit itself in the genre when it should be blossoming into something unique. It's like a blurry photograph that *could* be some rare cryptozoological wonder... if only it had been clarified. As it is, I think the reader is left squinting their eyes and wishing it were true.

Mesmerizing

This novel is a hynotic journey that questions the definitions of love and compassion and presents a wasteland America seen through the eyes of one man who has stumbled on a woman who quickly becomes the center of his universe. All other questions become secondary when she walks into the lense of his camera. A tragic love story or a disturbing novel of obsession? The line between the two is cleverly blurred in this breathtaking novel.

Great psychological thriller

I read this book because, despite the 1-star rating I gave the film, I suspected that there was some at-least-decent material in the underflying source (the novel). My expectations were vastly superceded; it is clear that the movie was unintelligible because (a) too much was cut out and (b) there was an obvious effort to over-modernize it (the book was written almost 20 years ago).

"The Eye," a private investigator becomes obsessed with a woman after he witnesses her kill a man who he has been surveilling. Unlike the film (which takes place over a relatively short period of time), in the book he trails her for over a decade. Also, unlike the film, one begins to really "understand" both characters' motivations. The result is a fast-paced, tight psychological page-turner.

Bone-chilling suspense, almost more than I could handle

The books is amazing in every way. I wanted to read it after watching the movie, and certainly didn't regret it.

Although, not quite. The author paints a picture of a private investigator chasing after a woman he was paid and instructed to find. He does his job, successfully, but then gets mildly infatuated with her. Then simply obsessed. And he also has a daughter who helps him at it; what is unnatural about this daughter one will have to read to find out.

What I disliked about this book was its coldness, its cruelty. The book throws you into endless feelings of discomfort and fear; until the very end. Though the main character does, in a sense, get what he wanted, the book felt very unemotional to me. I think the author did an outstanding job at providing this feeling, but in the end I wanted nothing more than to read or watch something with a PG rating. Maybe it's just me.