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The Peripheral
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling audiobook about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer
In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. One night, working a game set in a futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's unnervingly vivid. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after all—the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead. The story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures—pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London—to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now.
“Wild, richly satisfying . . . big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. What a glorious ride” - Guardian
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- mr g.
- 09-06-24
the story is good... narrator not so much
something about the voice doesn't work..
i persevered for 12 chapters but found i had to re-listen.. but couldn't get it. couldn't take it in.
not sure if it's a pitch/ tone thing..
but it sure didn't work for me.
audio book dnf.. I'll go old school and read this one.
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- Stuart Piper
- 23-01-24
Brilliant narration - incredible accents bravo
As prescient as Neuromancer was in the 80s - love the Amazon series - a crime it was cancelled. Gibsons prose is poetry
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- an italian in london
- 13-07-24
I really enjoyed the Scottish accent
this version compared to the previous adds some depth to the characters thanks to the use of accents.
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- Devourer of worlds
- 23-10-24
Great book let down my flat narration
The character voices are fine, but there's just no life and odd, stilted pauses that really ruin the flow for me
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- Mark Calvert
- 23-05-23
Enjoyable, informative and entertaining.
A fantastic story that the TV series very loosely follows. Great voice actor to boot who helped to bring the audible narration to life.
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- Joanna Howard
- 20-08-24
This was hard work
Made me realise just how much skill goes into making narration look effortless. The story was engaging, if lacking in character development. But so very hard to focus on through the obtrusively effortful accents and voices. Far too many sentences read with incorrect emphasis, making me listen to them over again to understand what the author actually meant. I'm not sure Gibson's dialogue is really as pedestrian as this made it seem, but I won't be rushing for print versions of other works, to check.
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- John
- 24-07-24
Great concept but weak plot.
A lot more good be done with the concept. The future characters lacked depth and number. Seemed like it was morphing into a solid whodunnit but the reveal was shallow and disappointing.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-24
Strong voicing and writing
Razor sharp rapid fire writing in Gibson's usual style. It took me a little while to really get into the story, but once settled it was obvious how deft the storytelling is. With a sci-fi plot like this it could've very easily become totally incomprehensible, but it was honestly fairly easy to follow. You're given tidbits of info along the way so that you can feel turning points coming, but not so much so that you can see every twist coming a mile away. The voice acting is about as good as it gets. Plenty variety in voices, and nothing that sounds annoying. Easy recommend.
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- Ross Kitson
- 12-08-24
Great concepts, average execution
I've only ever read one other Gibson book and that was Neuromancer which I generally enjoyed, but struggled with in sections. This was much the same.
The premises of the book is superb: namely we have a future post-apocalyptic society using tech to out-source work to the past, but in doing so create divergent pasts. Connection between the two allows the future to manipulate the past from a financial/resource/political way, as they have subsequent knowledge of events to use to their advantage. The past groups can access the future several ways: normal communication methods; via drones, initially in this through a computer game; or via controlling organic constructs remotely, called Peripherals. These constructs normally run via AI which is then superceded if another enters and controls. The Peripherals are used by people within the same time as well as a clever narrative device to bring the past characters into the future setting.
I can't fault the innovative world building. Both the 'past' (a moderator dystopian near-future of tech, drugs, and corruption, mainly in the middle of US mid-west) and the 'future' (a post-apocalyptic hi-tec London) are well detailed and immersive. The plot is okay- essentially a murder mystery, and there's some interesting twists thrown in. But the pacing is utterly askew, it never really seems to gain momentum for me, and the finale kind of went like a damp firework. The strange chapter structure didn't work for me either.
I'd listened to the audiobook, and must say the narrator Katie Leung was perfect. The varied accents helped distinguish characters in an, at times, convoluted narrative.
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- Kmadrid
- 05-03-24
good reviews but not to my liking
Story does not make sense, the way it was written (all over the place, in my opinion)
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