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Rose Madder

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Blair Brown
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Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card.

Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, Rose Madder, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.

But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting....

A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, Rose Madder is Stephen King at his electrifying best.

©1995 Stephen King (P)2011 Penguin Audio USA Domestic Thrillers Fantasy Horror Psychological Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary

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Overall I enjoyed the book, I prefer Blair brown's narration. As much as i enjoy stephen kings books, I do not enjoy his narration.
The music in this book is unecessery, doesn't do anything for the book.
Would recommend though.

Worth a listen

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This is an effective story and I was drawn into the narrative, however the music overlaid on the narration is distracting, jarring and unnecessary.

Enjoyed the story but the music was awful

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Loving the story but not the music - it’s really annoying me! It adds nothing and detracts from the brilliant narration - wish there was a way to turn it off!

Excellent story

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what an excellent read. Blair is an extraordinary narrator you get sucked right into the story of a battered housewife who from one drop of blood finds the courage to leave not a husband but the devil. It was a surprise to have Steven king himself reading along side as Norman you can't help but keep listening on.

real life meets fantasy

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gritty, couldn't stop listening as ever with Stephen king. looking forward to the next book

absolutely fantastic

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Packed with tension and horrifying in parts, I mostly enjoyed the book. However I found the ending a little dissatisfying.

Very Strange but Intriguing

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I haven’t read a Stephen King since I was a teenager but I’m totally hooked again since listening to this. Loved the characters and the narration was probably the best I’ve heard in a long time. Norman was terrifying but I loved the way he unravelled even more as they story progressed. I was almost put off from buying this after reading the reviews mentioning the music however I must be the only person that likes the music! It added to the sinister nature of the story and made me feel pretty uncomfortable so for me it was part of the experience.

Fantastic book

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Chapter 6 is mixed up. It skips a massive chunk of the story only to revisit it at the end of the chapter?!

Fab story and narration

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The story is typical Stephen King, mixing banal suburban violence and malice with a supernatural twist. Very enjoyable.

It's slightly let down by a recording glitch whereby the final four chapters are rolled up into chapter 5. Then, when you get into chapter 6 you find yourself thrown back to an earlier part of the story. At first I thought it was some sort of weird literary device, like cut up or something.

Great story but confused by a weird recording error.

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Love the story & think it is well performed apart from the unnecessary 'mood' music.

Annoying Music!

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