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People Who Eat Darkness
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
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In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21 years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever.
That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave. Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? What did her work, as a 'hostess' in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? And could Lucie's fate be linked to the disappearance of another girl some 10 years earlier?
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- Glen
- 31-10-18
Less of a Rollercoaster, More of a Runaway Train..
Both instances involve a fast-paced, exhilarating ride with twists and turns and highs and lows, but the former typically concludes with a smooth, controlled stop, whilst the latter instead culminates in a regrettable and devastating crash.
The writing is consistently good. Excellent even. Where the book falters is in the content and the editing. Most of the way through the book, I was thoroughly enjoying myself and had expected to wholeheartedly endorse it. Imagine how jarring the contrasting section must have been given that I must instead bestow it with the worst endorsement a book can receive. I couldn't finish it. I just didn't want to hear the rest.
The book has flaws, both large and small. It seems to have undergone a radical "Americanisation" to its detriment. Many chapters end with a reality-television-esque cliffhanger ending, as though the editors were paranoid the reader would lose interest in the intervening turn of a page to the next chapter. This seems to be par for the course, as far as true crime novels are concerned, but is still rather irritating.
The author seems to attribute far too much time to the inevitable, foreboding omens that seem to accompany all tragic events. Those along the lines of "two weeks before my daughter left, I had a dream where she was surrounded by sinister Asian men, and then when she went missing and I knew that it had been a sign all along." That sort of nonsensical hindsight bias is frequently indulged and my eyes roll harder with every incident.
By far the biggest issue is the Author's incessant need to interject himself and his opinions into the subject matter. The Author's role in the events of the story is evidently minuscule, yet entire chapters seem devoted to personal accounts and anecdotes about people and events only tangibly relevant to the narrative. He devotes enormous amounts of time to chastising the media for their biased depictions of the involved parties, defending the inept Japanese police force amidst a torrent of blunders and the eerily sycophant justifications for Tim Blackman's behaviour.
The events having reached their seeming conclusion, I found that I still had almost two entire hours left of the book and what followed was just an impassioned, yet hypocritical, sermon of the immoral sensationalization of the events and long-winded assertions such as that it's unfair to blame Japanese culture, and by extension, the entire Japanese nation for the actions of a few bad apples, and how we shouldn't be so quick to judge people faced with difficult choices we will likely never have to face, and the paralyzing waft of condescension and sanctimony because too much to bear.
It was at this point I decided to give up, satisfied that I had gleaned the meat of the story and that what would follow would simply be more of the same tripe.
The narration is excellent. The reader has an irritating habit of pronouncing silent h's in words like "which" and "when", but that seems to be shared by every audible narrator.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-17
incredibly sad story. but gripping
I'd heard of Lucie naturally. But didn't really know the story behind her sad death. This book gives incredible detail about her murder and that of her assailants other victims. a truly evil individual.
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- Calum Francis Dougan
- 15-04-18
A Tragic Tale And A Uniquely Brilliant Book
Instantly one of my favourite books and my favourite in the true crime genre. I bought the book on Thursday and finished it by Sunday afternoon. It's one of those books that is impossible to put down and complemented by great narration. It's also the saddest and most personal account of a disappearance and murder I've ever come across. Parry tells the story in a way that will knock the wind out of you at every turn. He brings Lucy and her family out of the newspaper columns and into a horrifying grim reality in a way that not many writers can.
Parry is very intimate in his coverage of the people involved, this is where the best part of the book is. Not like most true crime books which simply process through the background, murder and investigation, but in showing everyone involved in a way that makes them very real. You will relate with their real suffering, conflicts and faults in their search and bereavement. You will feel pain for Lucy and her family as you enter their shattered world and learn about their tragic story in a depth that leaves no question unanswered. Not for the faint of heart.
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- Dee
- 10-08-20
Not enjoying as much as I hoped.
Struggling to finish. Narrator performs well, but I find some parts of the story a bit off. I enjoy true crime, but I find the author is sticking to opinions more often than solid facts. The worst part I find is a couple parts of poor Lucie's diary entries. I'm sure the family must've given permission for their use, but obviously Lucie is unable to give permission. I doubt she would've wanted the world to know her most personal feelings. Considering her fate, I found her diary entry where she was attacking everything about her looks and personality sad and disturbing. I personally find it hard to listen to these parts and I'm worried about hearing more dark diary entries. I think the book would've been better if the author had left out her diary.
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- Andre
- 02-10-20
great book but a bit chaotically put togeter
the thing that makes it a bit strange to read is the order of the introductions of the people involved in this book.
the book is still great and understandable.
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- Mike Hursthouse
- 13-08-20
Unforgettable
One of the best books I have encountered in a long while, combining the fascination of a murder mystery brilliantly told with the sheer alien-ness of a society so very different from our own, and at it's core the epitomy of darkness itself, the perpetrator. This book will stay with me for a long time.
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- catherine ann
- 27-06-22
moving story
a very moving story that brought me to tears several times. read by probably my favourite audiobook narrator ever. compelling from start to finish.
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- siobhan brophy
- 13-06-22
all sides
what a horrific thing for any family to go through. i like how the writer took no sides and showed how differently everyone involved dealt with their grief.
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- Charli
- 04-06-22
A sad story that needs telling
This was generally a good listen but got a bit bogged down in politics towards the end.
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- teddycatcat
- 15-05-22
interesting story
I felt this was ultimately a very sad story about a broken family and how they dealt with loss, and also about a serial killer and another culture. I was less interested in the last few chapters as this was about grief and the hostility of her parents to each other but I was interested in the police procedural and the efforts of the father to actually get some interest in his daughters lost life.