The Cipher (Unabridged)
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3.8 • 18 Ratings
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an audiobook.
Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says "We're not." But they're not in control, not from the first moment, as those experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole.
THE CIPHER was the winner of the 1991 Bram Stoker Award, and was recently named one of io9.com's Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World by Storm. Long out-of-print and much sought-after, it is finally available as an audiobook, with a new foreword by the author.
Customer Reviews
This might have been good but the narrator!
I had 4 1/2 hours left of this book and couldn’t wait for it to be over. The narrator’s breathy, almost whispering, emotionless voice gets to be too much. I fell asleep so many times. The last 3 hours I had to listen at 1.5 speed just to get through it. It might be a good story but I couldn’t really tell because the narrator was insufferable.
Reality Bites
This is so…familiar to anyone who’s hung around disillusioned young adults. Especially those with artistic inclinations. But put those people into a Clive Barker leaning episode of the Twilight Zone.
My god, can she write a sentence, let alone chapter to put you on your head. I’d say perfect, if somehow perfection means losing one’s skin and staring at the gnarly tangle of meat left behind?
If you can handle being inside the (unreliable) head of a 20-something man obsessed with a woman who will never love him back while he (possibly) has a psychotic break, check it out!