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Stinger

By: Robert R. McCammon
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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Summary

A relentless alien bounty hunter encloses a Texas town under a dome to isolate, hunt, and kill its prey in "the ultimate horror novel" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Ever since the copper mine closed, the West Texas desert hellholes of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. Snake River isn't the only thing that divides them. Racism, gang wars, and anti-Mexican sentiment have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them for now, at least in awe and wonder, it's the UFO that comes soaring out of the clouds like a flaming locomotive.

In the wake of the crash, a young alien named Daufin has arrived, too. A fugitive who has taken the form of a human, she knows the terror that awaits the inhabitants of this planet - because it is looking for her.

When Stinger, the monstrous alien bounty hunter, arrives, it's with a destructive fury and a devious plan to find Daufin - by entombing the residents in an impenetrable and inescapable dome. A relentless killing machine, Stinger has an infinite capacity for death and destruction. And over the next twenty-four hours, this town is going to bleed and burn. Now, the few remaining survivors must come together to protect Daufin, themselves, and the world beyond from total annihilation.

From the New York Times best-selling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Swan Song, Stingerwas called "one of the best suspense novels of recent years" by the Science Fiction Chronicle.

©1988 The McCammon Corporation (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

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Not one of Bob's best.

This is the kind of cliche riddled pot boiler that gave Bob the reputation of being the poor man's Stephen King. Nick Sullivan does the material no favours with a bored sounding performance which made for a very dreary audio experience. It's King's Under the Dome mixed up with The Thing and Predator and Alien etc. I love McCammon usually but this is his low point. Try his Matthew Corbett series if you want to read him at his best.

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OK, but not one of McCammon's best

It's your standard, scary alien shtick. McCammon's storytelling and characters hold the thing together but, in the end, it's just a rather silly, unconvincing tale. The narrator does a pretty decent job. I did listen to the whole thing but, by about three quarters of the way in, I was starting to wonder whether it was worth it. Frankly, it wasn't. They Thirst is a better book, and Blue World better still.

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I swear I recognise this voice...

I love the story, having originally bought the novel back in the late 1980s, and was looking forward to the audio book version.
What I wasn't prepared for, however, was Troy McClure from The Simpsons!!!
Now, I know Troy is voiced by Phil Hartman, so it's not a case if the same actor being used here - so it's just Nick Sullivan's overly sing-song and quite inappropriate reading.
Shame, really, because the tension and gravitas of the book is completely shattered by the performance.

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As good as I remember

Read this when I was in my late teens, now have a long drive to work and re- discovering these books and glad I did with this one. Loved it

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struggled at times.

overall the book was ok but not McCammons best work. found the characters to be a bit cliche and their reactions to certain parts of the plot totally unbelievable. The Narrator was just a little hard for me to enjoy and although the character voices were good the narrative sounded a bit wooden and detached from the story at times.

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Strong beginning then Tedious and exhausting.

This story starts well introducing the main characters but once the dome is in place the novel is just a series of fights and chases throughout one night. The residents of the town end up putting aside their differences to beat up the bad alien, and that’s it really. Oh and the guy gets the girl of course.
There is no reason whatsoever why someone can’t just shoot the alien by the way.
I found the narration tiring and skipped forward chunks to find nothing else had happened except another fight. There just isn’t enough story here and I have no idea why it’s so popular.
Swann song is immensely better.

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