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And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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All roads lead to Underhill, where it's always winter, and never nice.

Harry Bodie has a famous grandmother, who wrote beloved children's books set in the delightful world of Underhill. Harry himself is a failing kids' television presenter whose every attempt to advance his career ends in self-sabotage. His family history seems to be nothing but an impediment.

An impediment . . . or worse. What if Underhill is real? What if it has been waiting decades for a promised child to visit? What if it isn't delightful at all? And what if its denizens have run out of patience and are taking matters into their own hands?

©2023 Adrian Czajkowski (P)2023 Tantor Fantasy Science Fiction Fiction
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a lovely twist on the old children's adventure trope. I really enjoy these smaller works Adrian have been writing. they're lovely little treats.

charmingly post apocalyptic and bleak

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The story is well paced at the beginning and pensive at the end. It's subversion of narina is mostly played for laughs, but it also allows the protagonist to going on arc that wouldn't be possible in most fantasy stories.

The narration is also generally good, but the reason I knocked a star was that there are few instances where it seems like a sentence of two was recorded separately from the main reading and spliced in.

Good story, but narration marred by a few bad edits

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Great author with a wonderful mind. Such great ideas in every book I’ve read or listened to.

Beautifully narrated

I just wish it was longer

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Unlike Service Model - which I found to be superb, and narration by Adrian Tchaikovsky entirely appropriate and a positive element - not so much with And Put Away Childish Things. Tchaikovsky produces an impressively diverse range of output - my absolute favourites being the Tyrant Philosophers series (books 1 and 2 so far) and also Service Model (his SF is, for me, more variable.) This title falls more in the fantasy/escapist genre and I think AT was not the right reader for it. A better narration may have lifted it significantly.

I am not sure why authors do their own narration. In many cases, it's excellent - for example David Mitchell is the only person who should ever narrate his own books - but of course he's a performer anyway. Generally speaking (no pun intended) if you're not a performer or the title is not a personally biographical rendition - better leave it to the professionals. Having said that, my previous positive comment about Service Model (story and narration by AT) stands - perhaps as the exception.

Slightly more than the sum of its parts...

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It is not a bad story, but compared to Tchaikovsky's magnificent science fiction this book has a poor plot and not a few unexplained hows, although of course there's a lot of humour stowed away.

Poor story, good humour

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