CD audiobook
The institute / Stephen King.
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did ... In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781508279068
- Physical Description: 16 sound discs (approximately 19 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio, ℗2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Santino Fontana. |
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| Subject: | Psychic ability > Fiction. Telepathy > Fiction. Missing children > Fiction. Child abuse > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. Compact discs. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. Suspense fiction. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 6 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creston Public Library | AUDIO FIC KIN (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100059461 | Fiction Audiobooks | Volume hold | Available | - |
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2019 October
Stephen King's newest audiobook is compulsively entertaining and features a dazzling performance by narrator Santino Fontana. After a seemingly unconnected prelude that is revisited much later, listeners meet 12-year-old telekinetic genius Luke Ellis. One night, Luke's parents are brutally murdered, and he's drugged, kidnapped, and brought to The Institute. There, he meets other supernaturally gifted children who have been taken. Fontana does wonders with this diverse lineup of young characters who band together to fight their captors. Each of them sounds authentic and unique. Meanwhile, the adult characters, with a few exceptions, are a nightmarish bunch. Through them, Fontana shows that evil can have many different voices. While this isn't King at his most original, his and Fontana's talents are a winning combination. A.T.N. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 January #1
King's gripping adventure/survival tale is ably served by Fontana's reading. While characters vary widely in age and regional dialects, he voices each distinctly. Twelve-year-old Luke is kidnapped to The Institute, isolated in the Maine wilderness, where kids as young as ten are being tested for paranormal potential in telekinesis and telepathy. They may never be seen again following brutal training and punishments, or conform and graduate from Front Half for development to Back Half. Fontana easily depicts the characters, some naïve; some venal, with suitably deeper voices suggesting hidden agendas; and some with varying depths of Southern accents. Boys range credibly from terrified to seemingly cavalier under the thumb of sinister Mrs. Sigsby, Director and villain, a ruthless âzealot,' her artifice so convincingly conveyed that listeners may wince. Orphan Annie, a small-town, homeless pseudo-psychic, is among the more engaging characters with her quasi-hillbilly speech and whip-smart capabilities a pleasure to hear. King's authorship will doubtless attract many. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 December
Narrator Santino Fontana brings King's (
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.The Outsider ) latest parapsychological thriller to life with dramatic skill that creates mood and tone. Late one night, a Minneapolis home is invaded. The parents are ruthlessly murdered; Luke, their precociously gifted tween son, is then kidnapped by a secretive government agency and taken to the Institute. There he will be the subject of torturous experiments designed to strengthen his mild telekinetic ability in order to weaponize him. The children and teens he befriends there and how they ultimately triumph make for a stay-up-all-night-to-finish read and prove yet again King's ability to create richly textured characters and a story featuring themes of conspiracy theory, child abuse, the occult, and Deep State malevolence.VERDICT Recommended for confirmed King fans and an excellent entry point to the author.âDavid Faucheux, Lafayette, LA
