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  • By: D.B.C Pierre
  • Narrated by: William Rycroft
  • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (59 ratings)
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Lights Out in Wonderland

By: D.B.C Pierre
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Summary

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Litle. Gabriel Brockwell wants to die, and his destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, and committed to the pursuit of pleasure, Gabriel's adventure include a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, and an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport.

©2010 DBC Pierre (P)2011 WF Howes Ltd

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Wonderful!

Books like this are the reason I keep renewing my Audible membership. DBC Pierre's best by a mile - totally original, compelling, funny, dark and brilliantly narrated. Wished it would never stop!

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Odd - in a good way

For the first part of this story I was half-thinking I might give it up but it grew on me. The second half is, I think, much better than the first. It is sort of up my street in that I like dark humour - this is pitch-black and amusing rather than actually funny. It's also wry, touching, crude (content - but not needlessly) and really beautifully written. Good narration, quite 'flat' especially in the first 1/4 - but then that reflects the state of mind of the story-teller. Brilliant accents. The ending was not at all what I expected - it was better.

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Cheap thrills

DBC Pierre is a bit of a one trick pony. Drug-fuelled psychosis is a bit of a drag really and although it is imaginative and pretty original it is not very enjoyable or interesting to read because it has no light and shade and no heart.

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A truly mad story

I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through the internal world of a rather disturbed mind. It took a little time to get into the story, mainly, I think, because I found the reader, William Rycroft, hard to get used to, but once the story gripped me I stopped hearing the things that irritated me, and I must say his german accents were excellent. I am looking forward to hearing another of D B C Pierre's books.

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Woosh

This book takes you into very unexpected territory and crescendos beautifully. Poetic and witty and “master chefy,” to boot

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