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Chocky

By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
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Matthew is a normal 11-year-old boy living with his parents and little sister in Surrey. He's too old and sensible to have an imaginary friend really. Yet when Matthew's parents keep finding him talking and arguing with a strange presence whom Matthew calls Chocky, that's what they believe it must be…at first. But Chocky is oddly sinister, and keeps asking Matthew all sorts of complicated questions about the world and making him behave in unusual and erratic ways. Then Matthew suddenly does something heroic, well beyond his capabilities; the media become interested and the interest in Matthew widens. His parents refer him to a psychologist. Who is Chocky? And what could he or she want with their son?

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I loved the tv serial chocky and later chocky;s children and chocky's challenge and decided to try to book,.
I wasn't disappointed. told by Mathew's father all the elements I had seen on the tv screen were there which shows how good the story is.
Daniel weyman did an excellent job of performing the book.

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I will read it again! That’s how much I love this book. First book I read and listen from this author. The dialogues are very well put together. The characters well defined from beginning to end. For a second, you can believe this story is real. Everyone exists! This is evidence of how good the story is. I don’t want to tell much about it. Other reviews have explained that. It’s unbelievable how this author wrote this book such a long time ago… it feels it could have been written now (ignoring some obvious details). This family, this society, Choky… will stay with me for a while. I found the beginning excellent, quickly you are captured inside this world. It carries you calmly, at a good pace… the end unfortunately comes far too soon… I feel sorry for Matthew and Choky. Beautiful. Thank You. An unexpected read for me that I will never forget. Everybody can read it and enjoy it. The Narrator is Amazing! Such a great actor! Just perfect. This author deserves more attention and credit for his work. Nobody knew him when I mentioned him and his work to my friends/acquaintances.

Highly enjoyable writing style and narrator.

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From the same author as "The Midwitch Cuckoo's"
most remember it as 1964 movie "children of the damned" - this one's different.
A child possessed by some kind of alien entity, schizophrenic voices, soft weird. bit of a slow start, but pretty good. Enjoyed it.

I remember this adapted on uk TV in the 80s.

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I read this story many years ago and was afraid it would lose something in translated. Not so, it was brilliant and the narrator excellent- I shall look for more stories read by him.

Excellent story

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This is probably the best audio book I’ve listened to. It’s such a great story and Daniel Weyman narrates it perfectly. He gives a wonderful impression of the period in his style of reading and has great subtle changes to represent each character. Highly recommended.

Brilliant book

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