Black Chalk
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Peter Brooke
About this listen
One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.
©2013 Christopher J Yates (P)2013 Random House AudioGoListeners also enjoyed...
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- stella
- 20-10-13
Unusual but worth a listen
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I enjoyed the book, but the narration wasn't great, some of the accents were dubious to say the least! Glad I stuck with it though.
How could the performance have been better?
Better narration, less trying to act the parts
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- Sylvia
- 04-02-21
Painful
I found the narrator’s voice extremely grating. The story may have been ok but I had to stop listening early on. I think this may be better to read as a book.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Úna
- 10-03-17
Not quite Tartt
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I wanted this to be more like The Secret History but it just wasn't as good at all, I found it a bit grating.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
Maybe, a director could possibly bring this story to life in a different way.
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- Gerard
- 29-05-22
Should be listed under young adult fiction, I think
Unsatisfying altogether. It takes a great deal of skill to carry off this kind of tale. Sadly lacking in this case. The representation of Oxford is very thin. All the rest quite dull.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Gillian
- 27-01-22
Black Chalk on my black list.
I finally got around to listening to this when searching through my library for an author that I haven’t tried before. I managed to listen for exactly three hours before giving up. There are a few narrators that I just cannot tolerate and I’ve added Peter Brooke to that list. I can’t place his accent but I assumed he’s from the USA, until UK vowel sounds appeared in the narration. The UK voice characterisations of Oxford students are ridiculous. As for the story itself, nothing of any interest or consequence happens in the first three hours. I’m not a fan of the c word and it just sounds jarring in this context and read by this narrator. I won’t be listening to anything else involving this writer or narrator.
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- Zoe86
- 09-09-24
DREADFUL
One of the worst books I have ever read. Nonsensical, stupid, badly drawn characters, terrible story and pace, full of drivel and bad, pointless dialogue. I love dark academia but this was just a dreadful book. Not even the best editor in the world could have saved this nonsense. It's so bad.
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