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Children of the Revolution
- The 21st DCI Banks novel from The Master of the Police Procedural
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.
The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty more skeletons to come out of the closet….
The 21st novel in number one best-selling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series.
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- Gill in Gloucs
- 18-07-14
A slow burner but gets you in the end!
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I found that there was an unusually slow start to this book - to me it seemed to take some time getting off the ground. However, it was worth persevering as the plot eventually drew me in and made me want to get to the end.
Each of Robinson's books adds a little more dimension to the character of Banks and I like the way he manages to weave in compassion for victim - and sometimes 'villain' - in his narrative.
I'm less keen on the narrator as I find his style a little flat an lugubrious, with some frankly off inflections that I'd have thought would be better edited out.
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- Joseph
- 15-04-14
Another disappointment from Mr Robinson
After his last DCI Banks book, which I found so boring that I did not finish it, I was hoping for something better but alas it was not to be. I ploughed through to the end but I did not enjoy the book.
Perhaps he has run out of plots for Eastvale but after "Bad Boy" and "Friend of the Devil" I had hoped for much better.
It may be time for a rest for DCI Banks until the creative juices begin again and more books like "Before the Poison" (excellent read) could be produced.
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- John Summers
- 22-05-23
One of his best
I really enjoyed this book. The story was well paced and complex, and the ending very well done. The reader was excellent and I certainly will look for other things right by him.
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- J. Lloyd
- 15-08-20
Dull story - nicely read, good for going to sleep
Such a boring story with so little going on. I loved the narrator though and it was brilliant to listen to at night when going to sleep.
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- Lee
- 11-04-17
glad it's over
this was a real struggle to finish. the story was very thin and quite boring.
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- D Hollingum
- 14-08-14
Excruciating experience
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
Someone who was learning English as a foreign language and needed to hear a lot of repetition in order to grasp the basic story. Also, being a non-native speaker, they might not mind the inadequacies of the narrator.
What will your next listen be?
Nothing by Peter Robinson, and practically anything that isn't read by Simon Slater.
What didn’t you like about Simon Slater’s performance?
His inability to make any of the dialogue (and there's loads of it) sound as though it might have been spoken by a believable character. Any figures of authority were made to sound cuttingly supercilious, and he often had to give up on an accent half way through a conversation.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
None that I noticed, I tried hard to listen to the bitter end, but decided to get a life instead and abandoned it 2 hours and 47 minutes before the blessed relief of being able to consign it to a well-deserved oblivion.
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Haven't I said enough? This was a real disappointment, as it seemed okay for about the first chapter. Shall definitely avoid anything I might buy on spec mainly because it has had glowing reviews, in future.
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- Saffy
- 30-08-13
Disappointing
This started off pretty well and I was relieved as I have not listened to an Inspector Banks novel since the appalling 'Bad Boy'. I was pleased to hear the return of Banks and his team, and the plot - the murder of a college lecturer- sounded promising. Although, as with all Robinson's work, the quality of the writing is good, the narration is fairly monotonous and the plot moves far too slowly. As I wasn't gripped by it this became a very disjointed, confused listen. I really wanted to enjoy the work of one of my once favourite crime writers but unfortunately this does not live up to expectations or the pre 'Bad Boy' Robinson novels.
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- Nicola
- 18-06-23
Up to standard
The usual great story - and very good narration - set in the now and the 70s.
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- Mrs A Annan
- 30-05-23
Long but not boring at the end
A very interesting story, but you had to get to the end to find it. A very long time to get there. Maŷbe-I found the 70s vibe a bit dated
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- Di
- 09-01-23
Different from the other Banks stories
This was an interesting enough story, with a glimpse to the past going back to the early 70s. What was different was that Banks team seem to be going on a moral crusade, preaching to the suspects about the consequences of their alleged actions, going mostly on conjecture and so much on solid facts, that went a bit too far in some of the dialogues, which made it very unrealistic and judgemental. I have previously enjoyed listening to back stories, all the theories and speculations but in this book, there was too much of that, almost unnecessary overthinking, over speculating, right till the end and even after the mystery was solved, it was too much, thank you! Only that there is the hint of the beginning of a love story in the end which makes me curious to get the next book, but maybe not straight away.
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