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Chocky
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.
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- m
- 22-06-22
Loved it! came right here after Cuckoo's
Great, for it being set in the 60s, like a time capsule! Well read and a nice story
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- Josh
- 29-11-23
Quite good
No faults worth noting with the performance and the story was good. Just a little short and fairly uneventful.
I rather enjoyed the way it was portrayed, to keep you guessing about the nature of Choky. To be honest I expected a horror story from the description.
I was engaged from start to finish.
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- tracey cardew
- 17-12-22
Chocky
Apart from the obviously dated gender stereotypes, this was a lovely story, with Wyndham’s normal perceptive slant on human failings.
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- R A Parkes
- 20-01-23
A blast from the past
I remember this story from a tv program but was so long ago had almost forgotten.
Love the idea would have loved a sequel or series
Brilliant performance
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- Colin Peel
- 01-08-22
That little voice in your head might be real.
Written in the 1950's but still fresh.🤔
We were primitive then and still are 70 years later. The way it describes is squandering the world resources back then has not changed.😱
This should be on the school reading syllabus.
A good listen, well worth the time.😄
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- mary Tunley
- 24-04-24
Superb
It’s hard to believe that this was written in the 1960’s. Such a good story
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- Angus
- 16-09-22
An Enjoyable and Engaging Book
This is the second John Wyndham book I've listened to on Audible and I've really enjoyed discovering his work. His writing is excellent, and his characters are sympathetic, engaging and true-to-life. The story of Chocky was unknown to me and really kept me engaged wanting to know how things would turn out and what would happen to the leading characters. Very enjoyable and brilliantly read - Damian Lynch gave an outstanding reading, bringing every character to life.
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- JOD
- 16-11-22
Logical Fantasy
Another great science fiction story from John Wyndham, I love his kind of scary logical Fantasy.
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- K. Sewell
- 07-05-23
Great fun
Super little story… not unlike some other science fiction stories I’ve read over the years. But with Wyndham, even with sinister ploys, you can count on a satisfactory ending. In fact, this novel could be a little bit more sinister and threatening than it was… still…. No complaints on that score.
My astonishment was the way in which Matthew’s in other ways caring parents, were not at all worried about their twelve year old son cycling out for the day without any questions as to where. What! Weren’t there any paedophiles in those days??? Then he gets kidnapped for 10 days, and of course they are worried, and the police is looking out, etc. but there is nothing like the uproar and press coverage it would get these days. Mum finally has a first little cry when he’s found, brought home and tucked into bed. It lent a sense of unreality to an otherwise clever novel. Well read too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-07-23
Insightful and thoughtfully handled
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. John Wyndham often delivers some masterful ideas wrapped up in stories that preempt world events and this story is no exception. The narrator is top notch. I found some of the monologues thoroughly enthralling... and of course it is done so convincingly. It's like Wyndham can tap into what I have often thought as being true but haven't said it out loud... how does he do that??? Asking pointedly whether humanity has realised what its objective is...Dark matter as a source of infinite energy to enable us reach our full potential... and the power of the mind... Well of course it all makes total sense if you listen to a great story teller
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