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The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories
by
Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
June Connor heeft nog één dag voor ze sterft. Eén dag waarin z de confrontatie aan kan gaan met haar verleden.
Audio CD
Published
March 13th 2012
by AudioGO
(first published 2010)
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Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite authors, so when I found this audiobook of short stories I was intrigued. Short stories can be very difficult to write well, and many novelists just can't tell a story adequately in fewer than 200 pages or so. This book shows that Karin Slaughter does well in both formats. Some of the stories were better than others, but all had well-developed characters and interesting plots, some with twists at the end. The narrator did a good job of bringing the character...more
Short stories are an aquired taste. The reader has a limited amount of time to get used to the characters and setting presented and try to guess where the author is taking you or what the zinger/twist ending is going to be.
This set of four or five stories have nothing in common with Slaughter's usual police procedurals but are still populated with a fairly broken and flawed cast of characters. Some of the endings are cringe worthy and sometimes entertaining. Some of the stories make you ponder...more
This set of four or five stories have nothing in common with Slaughter's usual police procedurals but are still populated with a fairly broken and flawed cast of characters. Some of the endings are cringe worthy and sometimes entertaining. Some of the stories make you ponder...more
Not impressed! Firstly, I didn't realise it was a short story until I got to 50%, but that was my fault I suppose. But then the story ended really abruptly at 55%. The rest of the ebook is an extract from another book... One of my pet peeves is when you think you've got 50 pages left and are expecting some action and then it ends suddenly and you discover the last 50 pages are 'additional material'.
The story wasn't great... I think the end of the story was supposed to be shocking, but maybe I h...more
The story wasn't great... I think the end of the story was supposed to be shocking, but maybe I h...more
A great short story by the best-selling thriller writer, Karin Slaughter!
June was the principle of her high school, where she had worked for over half of her life. She was extremely rigid with her discipline, and sick of teenage girls, always rebellious, always trouble, in her mind.
But June was dying, each breath harder than the last. Richard, her husband, was tending to her, administering the morphine she needed for the intense pain, giving her sips of water, reading the paper to her.
She hated...more
June was the principle of her high school, where she had worked for over half of her life. She was extremely rigid with her discipline, and sick of teenage girls, always rebellious, always trouble, in her mind.
But June was dying, each breath harder than the last. Richard, her husband, was tending to her, administering the morphine she needed for the intense pain, giving her sips of water, reading the paper to her.
She hated...more
there is no way to comment on this short story without spoilers, but I will keep it to the information released in the blurb used to describe the story on amazon.
June is dying of cancer and knows the end is near. Her last hours are spent searching through the past; her thoughts about her husband and her daughter, her career as a school head teacher.
Ms Slaughter writes without sentimentality as June considers her husband's past sins, remembering how his actions have destroyed their lives irrevoca...more
June is dying of cancer and knows the end is near. Her last hours are spent searching through the past; her thoughts about her husband and her daughter, her career as a school head teacher.
Ms Slaughter writes without sentimentality as June considers her husband's past sins, remembering how his actions have destroyed their lives irrevoca...more
Review Taken From The Pewter Wolf
Before I go any further, I must state this. This is a very clever marketing ploy. For less than a pound (when I got this, it was 40-odd pence but it was retail priced of 80-odd price), you get a exclusive short story (that only seems available in the UK as a eBook, according to Karin Slaughter's website) and you get a taster of Broken (her new paperback) and Fallen (her new hardback).
So, what is The Unremarkable Heart all about?
June is dying. She has lung cancer...more
Before I go any further, I must state this. This is a very clever marketing ploy. For less than a pound (when I got this, it was 40-odd pence but it was retail priced of 80-odd price), you get a exclusive short story (that only seems available in the UK as a eBook, according to Karin Slaughter's website) and you get a taster of Broken (her new paperback) and Fallen (her new hardback).
So, what is The Unremarkable Heart all about?
June is dying. She has lung cancer...more
Note: The description and reviews attached to this book make it sound like it's only one story but the audio CD set consists of 4 discs with various short stories.
These short stories are expertly narrated, very compelling (I couldn't wait to drive somewhere so I could continue listening to them), and very very twisted, but in a very very good way. Karin generally writes suspense thriller crime novels and while these had some elements of crime, most were more along the line of psycholgical studi...more
These short stories are expertly narrated, very compelling (I couldn't wait to drive somewhere so I could continue listening to them), and very very twisted, but in a very very good way. Karin generally writes suspense thriller crime novels and while these had some elements of crime, most were more along the line of psycholgical studi...more
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The Unremarkable Heart is quite a clever bit of marketing for Karin's full length novels, Broken (out in paperback in June) and her newest book, Fallen. You get a new short story for a few pennies and the first chapters of both books to whet your appetite.
Firstly, The Unremarkable Heart is a short story based around the last days of June's life who is dying from lung cancer. The story is a reflection on her life and upcoming death and is grizzly in true Karin Slaughter style. Like many of her ch...more
Firstly, The Unremarkable Heart is a short story based around the last days of June's life who is dying from lung cancer. The story is a reflection on her life and upcoming death and is grizzly in true Karin Slaughter style. Like many of her ch...more
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ik las het e-book zonder vooraf naar het aantal pagina's te kijken. Ook al omdat de titel net zo klinkt als alle andere verwachtte ik een volledige thriller..Ik was dus nogal verrast door het einde. Toch niet slecht geschreven, en precies de juiste lengte om in bad te lezen :-)
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This Is the second book of Karin Slaughter that I have read, and really enjoyed it.
The twist at the end shocked me, I never saw that coming.
I really felt for June, her remembering back to things.
I'd recommend this
The twist at the end shocked me, I never saw that coming.
I really felt for June, her remembering back to things.
I'd recommend this
I gave it three stars because it was very well written and she has managed to create some extremely well developed characters in such a small space. However I could see the ending coming a mile away. The story tries to be shocking but is quite pedestrian. It's also best not to give too much thought to some of the more obvious gaping holes in the story's time line.
I just received the unremarkable Heart about a woman dying of lung cancer, very good long story with a totally unpredictable ending.
I short story from Karin and a cracking short too... I so wish it had been long... the last line left me gobsmacked !
Very good for a short story not much more I can say about it really without giving anything away!
The Unremarkable Heart is Karin Slaughter’s latest short story, published exclusively as an e-book. June Connor is dying of lung cancer; her ex-convict husband Richard is caring for her on her death bed. As she thinks back on how she has arrived at this stage, she mourns her teen-age daughter, Grace, and tries not to allow her last thoughts in this life to be depressing and negative, but thinking back to the events of twenty-one years before makes it difficult. And her husband decides, on this,...more
short story where a dying bitter lady tells her story - and the ending what a payback
Great little short story. I love the way Karin writes. Intriguing right to the end.
Short but compelling, a little disturbing in parts but definitely worth a read.
Read in English. Karin Slaughter is just so talented!
Great short story, The Unremarkable Heart made me shudder, the last couple of paragraphs chilled me to the bone!
A short story that we all can relate to.
Very short story but still a good read.
Leuk verhaaltje voor tussendoor.
May 05, 2013
Carol Melanson kezel
marked it as to-read
a little to weird
yep, quite liked this. Creepy ending, as in creepy.!!
57 pages is too short!
Mmmh...not very good...x
Een dubbel gevoel bij dit boek.
Vanaf het begin, kan je het einde vermoeden, maar als het er dan eindelijk plots is, vond ik het precies "te goedkoop". Een te makkelijke oplossing. En ondanks dat het verwacht was, ook een shock.
Het hele stuk voor het einde vond ik best ok, de opbouw van het plot en de werking naar het einde toe... maar dan is daar plots dat einde en dan is het ook even plots gewoon "gedaan".
Ik bleef echter met een gevoel van teleurstelling, verraad... had iets "clever-der" verw...more
Vanaf het begin, kan je het einde vermoeden, maar als het er dan eindelijk plots is, vond ik het precies "te goedkoop". Een te makkelijke oplossing. En ondanks dat het verwacht was, ook een shock.
Het hele stuk voor het einde vond ik best ok, de opbouw van het plot en de werking naar het einde toe... maar dan is daar plots dat einde en dan is het ook even plots gewoon "gedaan".
Ik bleef echter met een gevoel van teleurstelling, verraad... had iets "clever-der" verw...more
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Karin Slaughter (born 1971), is a US author who debuted with her novel Blindsighted in 2001. It became an international success, made the Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001, and has been published in 23 countries.
Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia community, and now resides in Atlanta. She is widely credited with first coining the term "investigoogling" in 2006.
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Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia community, and now resides in Atlanta. She is widely credited with first coining the term "investigoogling" in 2006.
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