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Stinger

By: Robert R. McCammon
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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The basis for the Peacock TV series Teacup: An extraterrestrial bounty hunter turns a Southern community into its private hunting ground in “the ultimate horror novel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) .

The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now, it’s the UFO that comes crashing through the clouds.

It brings with it a young alien named Daufin, a fugitive who has taken human form. She knows the terror that awaits this planet—because it’s looking for her. Stinger is an alien bounty hunter with an infinite capacity for death and a devious plan to find Daufin. Entombing the region in an inescapable dome, Stinger unleashes a violent fury unknown to humankind. Now, the few remaining survivors must come together to protect Daufin, themselves, and the world beyond.

From Robert McCammon, the New York Times–bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author, Stinger is “one of the best suspense novels of recent years” (Science Fiction Chronicle). It has now been adapted into one of the most hotly anticipated horror series on television: Teacup, premiering on Peacock this October.

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First Contact Horror Science Fiction Fiction Scary Bounty Hunter

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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.

Strong beginning then Tedious and exhausting.

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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.

OK, but not one of McCammon's best

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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.

I swear I recognise this voice...

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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

As good as I remember

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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.

Not one of Bob's best.

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