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Congo

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.

Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642…a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition - along with Amy - is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death.....

Congo was adapted to the screen and directed by Frank Marshall.

©1980 CrichtonSun LLC (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Action & Adventure Fantasy Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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not the best I mean its quite dull in places and relates more to the safari (journey) then the mysterious destination zinch

not brilliant but okay

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was a great listen, had me gripped from start to finish. Good narration. some of the narrators sound effects had me in hysterics.

great listen

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great book
wonderfully read
will definitely listen to it again
top book top narrator

wonderfully read

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Early '80s reboot of the Boy's Own adventure yarn from that giant of the Top Gear blockbuster, Michael Crichton. Here, competing consortiums race to secure a priceless source of blue diamonds in the steaming jungle heart of Africa. Mercenaries, cannibals and witch-doctors lurk behind every baobab tree. Amy the signing gorilla paints the fabled City of Zinj and struggles with heights. There is a volcano; it does erupt.
I have a genuine fondness for the dopey, good-natured film adaptation of this novel: an unabashed z-movie piece of nonsense that is elevated by one of the most moving scenes in cinematic history ("Stop. Eating. My Sesame. Kek!"). Sadly, neither Delroy Lindo nor Tim Curry's devious Romanian "philanthropist," Herkemer Homolka, feature in the actual novel and it is much the poorer for it.
In fact, for all the action-adventure tropes, 'Congo' is surprisingly dry. Crichton appears to have been a writer who did not believe in the footnote, instead padding out his word count with large, undigested tracts of research. At one point I suddenly realised that I had been listening to a potted history of the home computer for the previous ten years! It made me genuinely angry. Despite this sort of thing, Crichton was an enormously successful novelist, so his brand of buccaneering didacticism must have resonated with a lot of people; to me, however, it just felt like there was a straight-ahead romp struggling to breathe beneath the excess of man-facts (and, of course, there was: it was 'King Solomon's Mines').
Happily, Julia Whelan's narration is excellent throughout and kept me onboard with the signifying monkey, all the way to the rather perfunctory conclusion.

Stop Eating My Sesame Cake!

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For me the appalling male voice of the narrator was the worst part of this narration. It didn't do much for the story.

Entertaining but not that memorable.

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