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Eight Million Ways to Die

By: Lawrence Block
Narrated by: Lawrence Block
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Battling the bottle one day at a time, ex-cop, sometime PI Matthew Scudder finds that next to staying sober, staying alive seems easy. But in the mean streets of New York City it never is. Not for the prostitute who wanted out and got her beautiful self slashed to ribbons. Not for a pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken-down detective can find her murderer. And not for Matthew Scudder - just trying to stay alive in a city that knows nothing better than how to die. Winner of the Shamus Award!

©1982 Lawrence Block; 2012 AudioGO Modern Detectives Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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This would have been my 4th Matthew Scudder story, but the narration is appealing. apparently it’s Mr block himself. Tragic. I’d rather read this myself.

Any other voice but this

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This is my second Lawrence Block, Matt Scudder novel I’ve listened to and I’m enjoying it very much. I think his narration is very appropriate and good, I like that he’s reading his own book.
The book is dated but I think the words have been chosen wisely and it’s well done.
I haven’t guessed who dunnit yet and I’m near the end. I must say in a humorous way, if I drank as much coffee as the characters in the book, I’d be a gibbering mess!!

Another very listenable story

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Keeps you guessing. I like the writing and dialogue (even the reliance on AA meetings that generate pearls of lifes wisdom) but there was something altogether 'bored' about the narration. Maybe it's supposed to add Chutzpah? It didn't. Still a great 'free' listen 👍

Laconic delivery. Good story

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Listened to the audio while reading the book myself.
So interesting where the text was changed or he said, I said were inserted.
A real positive aspect here, above, that it was the best of the five Matt Scudder I have read, listened to was that the author Lawrence Block narrates his own novel.
It is his creation, it is his imagination that forged this wonderful character and terrific murder mystery and it is his voice that purrs with each word you read or hear.
Scudder is in crisis here and it is all of his own doing, his drinking too much.
His unravelling while trying to solve the murder of a high end prostitute is both fascinating, totally absorbing and full of tension.
It is a story that draws you in with the originality of plot, believable characters and realistic dialogue. This is New York in the early 1980’s raw and unapologetic. A story of a stubborn private detective who can’t give up, who knocks doors, jots stuff down and is incredibly human.
I love reading, but the best books in audio versions come alive with great narration. Eight Million Ways to Die is a fine example of that.

Dark and gritty

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Brilliantly narrated by one of the masters. Compelling Harrowing story about a tough and brutal old NYC.

Superb narration.

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