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FantasticLand: A Novel
Raconté par Angela Dawe et Luke Daniels
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Évaluation : 4.5 sur 5 étoiles4.5/5 (300 évaluations)
Longueur: 10 heures
- Éditeur:
- Brilliance Audio
- Sortie:
- Sep 5, 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781543606249
- Format:
- Livre audio
Description
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction?novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction?novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Informations sur le livre
FantasticLand: A Novel
Raconté par Angela Dawe et Luke Daniels
Notes:
Évaluation : 4.5 sur 5 étoiles4.5/5 (300 évaluations)
Longueur: 10 heures
Description
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction?novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction?novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
- Éditeur:
- Brilliance Audio
- Sortie:
- Sep 5, 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781543606249
- Format:
- Livre audio
À propos de l'auteur
Mike Bockoven writes thriller/horror novels while his kids are in gymnastics class or at piano lessons. He lives with his wife, Sarah, two daughters, Emaline and Tessa and an exceptionally dumb wiener dog named Sherlock. You can find him at his website, mikebockoven.com, on Facebook (facebook.com/Bockovenbooks), and on Twitter @mikebockoven. He lives in Grand Island, Nebraska.
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michael moon
It was different than any book I've listened to on her and I enjoyed it.
Rating: 5Sue Ellen Peck
I was surprised by this one! Wow! I loved the layout, the natgeo vibe! I couldn’t put it down! I highly recommend this novel. I hope to see more from this Author soon.
Rating: 5Emily Irion
This movie is as fantastic as fantasticland surely was before the hurricane. I'm someone who felt annoyed the whole way through Lord of the Flies but this novel did not feel nearly as pretentious. There's a few eye roll parts about kids with their phones but overall it was a fun read that also in the end justifies why the people did what they did, at least a little. I also loved how this was almost presented like an investigative podcast! Very much recommended. Also I definitely would've been part of the freaks tribe, cause I too am an artist stoner with an affinity for gore.
Rating: 5Tammy Adkins Sellards
If you like books that skip back and forth between a dozen or more people’s POV you’ll love this one, if not skip it. It truly sucks! I HATED this book so much:(
Rating: 1brad lukes
Great read. Disturbing at times,but paints a present day take on Lord of the Flies. Not a pretty picture, but a theme worth exploring
Rating: 4Selina
If you liked World War Z you will like this. It's written in the exact same style - it's brilliant!
I loved how the narrators really got into character and you can hear emotion in all of the performances. You can distinguish each character and they did a fantastic job.
Give it a listen. The story progresses nicely and I really got immersed, even when i was doing chores while listening.
Rating: 5I loved how the narrators really got into character and you can hear emotion in all of the performances. You can distinguish each character and they did a fantastic job.
Give it a listen. The story progresses nicely and I really got immersed, even when i was doing chores while listening.
Chad Jordan
This to me is failed attempt to retell Lord of the flies. Almost all of the conversation seems contrived and fake. Also many details are not even plausible. Having a real functional cannon, and gun powder. Having real swords and bows in a kids theme park. Hard to swallow.
Rating: 2Holly Mascaro
This book served well as an audiobook to listen to while running. It definitely comes with all the trigger warnings for violence, since it’s about a massive hurricane trapping a large group of people at an amusement park for two weeks as all hell breaks lose and everyone forms into factions (some more violent than others). I enjoyed the switch to various POVs, as the story is pieced together by a journalist interviewing various people involved after the fact. It’s nothing groundbreaking or even particularly interesting—nothing kept me guessing, it’s largely just descriptions of how things unfold until rescue eventually arrives. But it gave me fuel to keep running!
Rating: 3Dean Goff
Reminds me of an updated Lord of the Flies. Excellent premise! Solid insight into psyches raised on social media and the effects of having that ripped away and the fragile nature of “belonging” to a group. The character portrayals of both narrators were imaginative and extremely satisfying. I am certain that I will be listening to this tale again very soon. Thoroughly entertaining.
Rating: 5Jessica Warpup-Goodrow
This is a fiction title set up to feel like a non-fiction book. Approximately 300 young adults are left in an amusement park after a hurricane hits the coast of Florida. After a mere few days, they have formed factions and have begun to kill each other. This is Lord of the Flies meets the Hunger Games. This is not a book for sensitive people. This is not a book if you cannot handle every trigger warning that you could possibly think of. Violence, sexual content, creepiness, stalking, natural disaster… The list goes on.
Not only is this book a page turner, but it also makes you think about the human condition. I like to think that I am above killing my fellow humans, but I have never been tested or put into a circumstance or an environment that challenges (to the extreme) who I believe myself to be.
This book is almost an entertaining commentary on nature, nurture, environment, self-preservation, and even Maslow‘s Hierarchy of Needs. How far will we go to save ourselves, and to feel like we belong to something when everything feels unsafe? Additionally, the book discusses through the various interviews the ethics of killing fellow humans while in a state of self-preservation. It begs the questions, how do we humans change so quickly? How can we hug a duck so gently one day, then go on to hit a girl in the head with a baseball bat five days later? If what the leader did was “so terrible” why did no one stop him? Why did no one say anything? Why did they let it happen?
This goes into my last point— a lot of the violence was blamed on the lack of a good, competent leader at the beginning, a lack of adequate safety measures, and power hungry yet charismatic leaders at the head of the factions. Pay attention to who the leaders are because they make a huge difference in the way a situation will play out.
This book is a quick read, and it’ll make you think. Highly recommend...if you can handle it.
Rating: 5Not only is this book a page turner, but it also makes you think about the human condition. I like to think that I am above killing my fellow humans, but I have never been tested or put into a circumstance or an environment that challenges (to the extreme) who I believe myself to be.
This book is almost an entertaining commentary on nature, nurture, environment, self-preservation, and even Maslow‘s Hierarchy of Needs. How far will we go to save ourselves, and to feel like we belong to something when everything feels unsafe? Additionally, the book discusses through the various interviews the ethics of killing fellow humans while in a state of self-preservation. It begs the questions, how do we humans change so quickly? How can we hug a duck so gently one day, then go on to hit a girl in the head with a baseball bat five days later? If what the leader did was “so terrible” why did no one stop him? Why did no one say anything? Why did they let it happen?
This goes into my last point— a lot of the violence was blamed on the lack of a good, competent leader at the beginning, a lack of adequate safety measures, and power hungry yet charismatic leaders at the head of the factions. Pay attention to who the leaders are because they make a huge difference in the way a situation will play out.
This book is a quick read, and it’ll make you think. Highly recommend...if you can handle it.
Shane Hawk
2.5 stars
What’s cool about this book:
Interview-style narrative (akin to World War Z), descriptive language for strong visuals, interesting concept
What’s not cool about this book:
Difficult to suspend belief with lack of supernatural elements, interview narratives sort of got boring after a while, social commentary on my generation is far from accurate
Best interview was the second to last one with Brock Hockney, (what a name) leader of the Pirates gang.
Rating: 3What’s cool about this book:
Interview-style narrative (akin to World War Z), descriptive language for strong visuals, interesting concept
What’s not cool about this book:
Difficult to suspend belief with lack of supernatural elements, interview narratives sort of got boring after a while, social commentary on my generation is far from accurate
Best interview was the second to last one with Brock Hockney, (what a name) leader of the Pirates gang.
Cody Huisken
I enjoyed the style. I've never listened to anything quite like this before. Happened to find it cuz I love listening to Daniels (the male narrator.) If you haven't listened to his other stuff, check it out.
Rating: 5drm68
Both readers kept me interested even though I was already drawn into a unique story...
Rating: 5Kieran Beckford
great book. Like a modern "Lord of the Flies"
Rating: 4shannon mcnamara
This book was wild! My husband walked in on me listening to it. He’s not a reader. Has NO interest in books. Yet he overheard the readers, immediately got hooked, and he stayed and listened to the whole thing with me. He got so into it! The audio was PERFECT! The two people who read held different accents for all the characters and it made it so much easier to follow along. You can really picture everything happening. The detail was so good, I actually got scared at parts listening to it. Totally recommend.
Rating: 5Riley Koi
Good stuff! This novel is well paced and thought provoking.
Rating: 4librarycin
When a hurricane ravishes Florida, amusement park FantasticLand is left on its own for a while, as it’s a bit further inland, plus there is plenty of food to keep the few hundred staff who stayed behind going for quite a while. Most of the staff is young, in their late teens or early twenties. Little do they know on the outside that the staff have turned savage and are killing each other… We actually hear about the aftermath at the start of the story. The book is in the form of interviews, looking back at what happened. The start of the book is interviews with people about the storm itself and the people ready to go in to help, and the preparations within the park for disasters. The main part/middle of the book is interviews with the staff left behind in the park, as we get a look at how things went bad and the things that actually happened in the park while they were cut off from the outside world. The interviews at the end were with people associated with the rescue and aftermath. This was very suspenseful, though a little slow to get started, as it took a bit to find out what was going on inside. Every chapter was interviewing a different person, so there were a lot of characters to remember, but it gave insight into a bunch of different perspectives. Very creepy at times. But, for those who like creepy and horror, it’s one you want to keep reading.
Rating: 4Shawn
Fantasticland? Fantastic book!
My new favorite. This book has created a genre. It’s written in the style of a series of interviews surrounding the events that took place in the aftermath of a hurricane that trapped visitors in an amusement park in Florida. It’s a mix between “Lord of the Flies”, “The Hunger Games” & “Silence of the Lambs”.
What really sets this book above others is the narrators. There were multiple readers that played the characters perfectly. I’ll listen to this one again for sure. I’ve listened to hundreds of audiobooks through the years & this one is the best. Excellent story & narration.
Rating: 5My new favorite. This book has created a genre. It’s written in the style of a series of interviews surrounding the events that took place in the aftermath of a hurricane that trapped visitors in an amusement park in Florida. It’s a mix between “Lord of the Flies”, “The Hunger Games” & “Silence of the Lambs”.
What really sets this book above others is the narrators. There were multiple readers that played the characters perfectly. I’ll listen to this one again for sure. I’ve listened to hundreds of audiobooks through the years & this one is the best. Excellent story & narration.
DeTonio McColley
This is a very graphic and thrilling book. I usually don’t write reviews but this book was extremely compelling. It had me on edge all throughout. It executed the interview style of writing perfectly. The narrators made the book even more engaging. They were freaking phenomenal and they really made each scene even more intense.
Rating: 5Karla Savard
Amazingly written- loved the audiobook version. The only way to hear stories like this
Rating: 5Rebecca Wulff
I kept putting off listening to this book simply because of the title. I'm very glad I finally DID listen. This was a great story! Yes, graphic, but given the circumstances I imagine it would be. And what is terrifying is the fact that I don't think it is too far fetched if this scenario were to be realized. The narration was fantastic!
Rating: 5Rebakah Keogh
Good interesting read. Voice actors were excellent! Lots of interesting connections.
Rating: 5Carla Barnes
I was hooked for about the first hour. Then as the interviews went on, the story just dragged out and got a little confusing to me. I stopped listening at about an hour and a half in. I would have liked it much more had it not been all interviews. An amazing premise ruined by flawed execution
Rating: 3Leah Barton Tew
Pretty good! I had very low expectations for this book, expecting it to be the book equivalent of a slasher flick. I thought "What the heck? It'll entertain me for the weekend." What I got was"Lord of the Flies" meets "Black Mirror". This book is entertaining, shocking, and thought provoking and will make you tell yourself "That couldn't really happen. Could it?"
Rating: 5Irvin G. Torres
At this point, I've listen to 23 audiobooks on Scribd. This one is hands down the best one I've ever heard. Perfect voice actors, great pacing- loved it.
Rating: 5MichaelRShannon
Episodic but that works. Makes the reader for different reasons uncomfortable. One warning, the author worships in the Temple of Global Warming. Evidently, he missed reports on the devastating Galveston Hurricane zero around 1900, years before the Prophet Greta was born.
Rating: 4Abigail Larrick
The audiobook was extremely well done and very entertaining! I can’t say for sure I would’ve liked the book normally but the voice actors are top tier with multiple actors and accents. The author impressed me with the horror and entertainment of violence. Some of the conclusions seemed half baked and I would’ve enjoyed a better supernatural through-line (pigmen!). All in all highly recommended!
Rating: 5