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    Ghost Radio
    Ghost Radio
    Ghost Radio
    Audiobook7 hours

    Ghost Radio

    Written by Leopoldo Gout

    Narrated by Pedro Pascal

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    The chilling first novel by filmmaker, composer, and graphic novelist Leopoldo Gout, performed by actor Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us; Narcos; Game of Thrones)

    “Ghost Radio reminded me of early Stephen King. The story sticks with you long after you’ve finished the final page.” —James Patterson

    From the cramped bowels of a dimly lit radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves. More than a call-in show to tell scary stories about vampires and poltergeists, Ghost Radio is a sanctuary for those sleepless denizens of the night, lost halfway between this world and the next.

    Joaquin, the hip, melancholy host, sits deep in a fog of cigarette smoke, fielding calls from believers and detractors alike. He is joined in the booth by his darkly beautiful girlfriend, Alondra, and his engineer, Watts. Soon what began as an underground cult sensation is primed to break out to mainstream audiences. When a huge radio conglomerate offers to syndicate the show and Ghost Radio becomes a national hit with an expanding legion of hardcore fans, neither Joaquin, Alondra, nor Watts is remotely prepared for what is about to happen.

    When Joaquin notices a curious and troubling phenomenon, he is inexplicably drawn further and further into the terrifying stories he solicits on the radio. As he slowly loses control over his reality and finds himself unable to distinguish between the real world and the world populated by the nightmares on Ghost Radio, he’s forced to confront his past and his own mortality in order to repair the crumbling wall between the living and the dead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 14, 2008
    ISBN9780061713408
    Author

    Leopoldo Gout

    Leopoldo Gout is a filmmaker, writer, and visual artist from Mexico City. He studied contemporary art at Central Saint Martins in London and has shown his sculpture and paintings in galleries and museums around the world. Leopoldo lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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    • 4/5
      This is narrated by Pedro Pascal which was the sole reason why I decided to listen to it and it did not disappoint! 5/5 for the narration, 3/5 for the plot.

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    • 2/5
      The story had potential but was all over the place to the point of incoherence.
    • 3/5
      Loved that Pedro Pascal narrated! The story was ok. Kind of choppy and all over. I was very confused by the end.
    • 4/5
      The narrator does a fantastic job. His voice was very soothing to listen to. The story is good as well. I enjoy an unreliable narrator in a book. With some of the things that were happening I certainly felt if I was going as crazy as the MC felt.
    • 4/5
      At first I was put off by the changing POVs, but slowly the story snagged me as it got more and more surreal. No spoilers here, you'll have to read it for yourself!
      ~Stephanie
    • 4/5
      Interesting, kinda hard to follow, at least in my opinion but a good story.
    • 3/5
      (#29 in the 2009 Book Challenge)Craziness. A host of a ghost/horror true story call-in talk radio show starts having his own supernatural experiences. There are A LOT of things wrong with this book. First, the dialogue is beyond the pale, it's so clunky. That was possibly the most horrific part. Second, the author seems to take gothiness seriously, as in he believes that adult women who choose to wear goth clothing and make-up have an inherent intensity and edginess and I almost hesitate to say it, also coolness to their characters. I had no idea that people over the age of 15 felt this way, ever. And I say that as someone who spent a lot of time, money, and energy in my misspent youth cultivating a fabulous goth wardrobe in the hopes that people would think I was intense and edgy and cool, and of course the reality is much more in the realm of Goth Talk. Third, and I'm not exactly sure about this so perhaps people could correct me, it's hard to tell as a non-musical person myself, but I suspect it's usually a bad idea to try to write about a fictional band and to describe the music as radical and, well, again with the cool and edgy, and expect readers to take it at face value. On the plus side, it actually passed the page-turning test with flying colors -- even with all these problems it was easy to commit to the story. And while the creepy factor was a bit uneven, the parts that were successfully eerie were very twitchy indeed. I even liked how the author handled the ending. From reading the back of the book, I learned the author is also an author of graphic novels, and that makes a lot more sense to me. I could imagine the terrible dialogue working much better in a graphic novel form. Oh, another good point about about the creepiness is that each chapter is fronted by a very sinister little pen and ink drawing, and they enhanced the tone so much -- so yeah, graphic novel probably a better idea.Grade: CRecommended: Not unless you are some sort of crazy horror enthusiast who will read anything ... but I do think it's a good idea to remember this author's name because I think he can only improve and the good parts of this book were good enough to make me want to keep this guy on my radar.
    • 3/5
      I began to read this book anticipating an exciting ghost story. I was disappointed. The whole premise of Toltec's and a portal between the living and the dead, somehow does not fit well into the whole story. At times it was hard to follow the sequence of events that led to the end (mercifully).... the best part of this book were the stories told by the people who called "Ghost Radio" the program. This book was quite the waste.
    • 4/5
      I found this book quite creepy in places, and very interesting throughout. It lost half a star from me for being a bit disjointed and hard to follow sometimes, but overall I found it a very good read.
    • 3/5
      Fantastic first novel
    • 2/5
      I did not enjoy this book. I found the format disjointed and distracting, the story without meat, and the ending contrived. Yuck.