Famine
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Famine
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Narrated by:
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Russell Bentley
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By:
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Graham Masterton
About this listen
What happens when the richest nation on God's earth is driven to the outer limits of starvation?
When the grain crop failed in Kansas it seemed like an isolated incident and no one took much notice. Except Ed Hardesty. Then the blight spread to California's fruit harvest, and from there, like wildfire, throughout the nation.
Suddenly America woke up to the fact that her food supplies were almost wiped out. Her grain reserves lethally polluted. And botulism was multiplying at a horrifying rate.
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Critic reviews
“A true master of horror.” (James Herbert)
“One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” (Peter James)
A clever plot with a few twists and turns. It has all the elements you expect from one of Grahams novels. So be prepared for blood and guts as well as his usual sexual references. If that’s not your thing then I’d steer clear as this audiobook has more than usual.
I also enjoyed the narrator. He did an excellent job of bringing all the characters to life.
A Great Plot & Gripping Story
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From the protagonist/hero, Ed, referring to his penchant for idyllic plantation living with 'darkies' (obviously black American *slaves*) as part of the backdrop, to the repeated references to 'black' looters, it seemed Masterton didn't want us to forget for a minute that he has no respect for black Americans and considers them second class citizens.
I've read loads of Stephen King novels from the 70s and 80s and never once have I read such biased references to people of colour from him... or anyone else for that matter. To make matters worse, Masterton isn't even American, so I'd at least expect him to have put in a bit of research to make sure the references he was making to a whole culture of people wouldn't be rife with unnecessary stereotyping. The story was ok, if not surely old fashioned otherwise, but Masterton's overt bias really took away from the story and made his protagonist a lot less relatable. What a shame.
Very outdated
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I loved IKON, but this was awful.
How boring it was.
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