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A decadent rock star A deeply religious radio host A disgraced scientist And a teenage girl who may be the world s last hope In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival.Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady She appears to be sleepwalking She cannot talk and cannot be woken up And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows But Shana and are sister are not alone Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey And like Shana, there are other shepherds who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.For on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it As the rest of society collapses all around them and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world. Free Download eBook Wanderers By Chuck Wendig – kino-fada.fr This audiobook is 32h long 32 HOURS Now let s see how the world endsThis reminds me a lot of The Stand In fact, the author admits to it within the novel What Wendig doesn t do is veer off into the cartoonish which King, at times, has a tendency to do Don t let its length deter you It reads quickly and I finished it within three days Wendig wrestles with potent questions here including the power of technology, extreme prejudice, the religious fa ade and violence of the Christian right, morality and the crumbling of society What she is able to inject i This reminds me a lot of The Stand In fact, the author admits to it within the novel What Wendig doesn t do is veer off into the cartoonish which King, at times, has a tendency to do Don t let its length deter you It reads quickly and I finished it within three days Wendig wrestles with potent questions here including the power of technology...This fucking book I love long end of the world books How it ends doesn t matter to me This book has many comparisons to other books Please, let that go The Stand, and Swan Song are different animals If you compare Stand to Swan, then you re a fucking idiot This story This fucking tale was bullshit I absolutely despised this crap I loved the rock star A.rock star I have been bored for 2 months now I quit Take this boring crap and Actually, I really don t believe that this fuck This fucking book I love long end of the world books How it ends doesn t matter to me This book has many comparisons to other books Please, let that go The Stand, and Swan Song are different animals If you compare Stand to Swan, then you re a fucking idiot This story This fucking tale was bullshit I absolutely despised this crap I loved the rock...It s the end of the world and I feel uuurkkkLet me tell you something, my fine folks I think I hadfun reading this book than I have for ANY apocalypse book That s including the Stand, Lucifer s Hammer, or The Power And perhaps a few others that I rank higher than the rest.But let me be clear I had the most fun with this I m not saying it has MORE to gloam onto than the Stand, but I had myself a few issues with the Stand The whole moralistic good vs evil, for example And I had It s the end of the world and I feel uuurkkkLet me tell you something, my fine folks I think I hadfun reading this book than I have for ANY apocalypse book That s including the Stand, Lucifer s Hammer, or The Power And perhaps a few others that I rank higher than the rest.But let me be clear I had the most fun with this I m not saying it has MORE to gloam onto than the Stand, but I had myself a few issues with the Stand The whole moralistic good vs evil, for example And I had a bit of a rough time with some of the 70 s sexism in Lucifer s Hammer.Wanderers, however, is leagues above most of the current runs of epic dystopias No, it s not a zombie apocalypse or a big meteorite spoiling everyone s day or the ultimate reversal of the sexes It is, however, quite free of rampant female humiliatio...Take a walk on the long side.The premise of this book immediately grabbed my attention a teenager, Shana wakes up to find her younger sister, Nessie, in trance, walking out of their home and along the road She does not respond, she does not blink, just keeps putting one foot in front of the other hmmmmSoon, Shana s sister is joined bywalkers who will soon become a flock Interesting things happen needles cannot pierce their skin, they shake violently when grabbed and let s not Take a walk on the long side.The premise of this book immediately grabbed my attention a teenager, Shana wakes up to find her younger sister, Nessie, in trance, walking out of their home and along the road She does not respond, she does not blink, just keeps putting one foot in front of the other hmmmmSoon, Shana s sister is joined bywalkers who will soon become a flock Interesting things happen needles cannot pierce their skin, they shake violently when grabbed and let s not forget the gore fest when one was grabbed, and the cop did not let go.Every flock needs a shepherd and soon this ever growing flock of walkers has family and friends called Shepherds following them, trying to keep them safe, etc.So why are they walking What has happened to them Is this an epidemic Is this the end of the world No one knows So, a disgraced doctor and members of the CDC attempt to find out just what ...If you re reading this review, it means that you re interested in my individual experience with this book WANDERERS I think it s safe to say that this is a highly anticipated release this year and it s certainly getting a ton of coverage So, I m going to honor the fact that you re taking a moment to see what I have to say about it among the countless other reviews out there available to you There won t be any plot details here just my reading experiences and feelings.I want to leave all you If you re reading this review, it means that you re interested in my individual experience with this book WANDERERS I think it s safe to say that this is a highly anticipated release this year and it s certainly getting a ton of coverage So, I m going to honor the fact that you re taking a moment to see what I have to say about it among the countless other reviews out there available to you There won t be any plot details here just my reading experiences and feelings.I want to leave all your own discoveries with this book intact, should you choose to go on this epic journey for yourself You ll find this book being compared to iconic apocalyptic novels such as SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon and THE STAND by Stephen King People will want to know, Is it as good as___ I d like to say that I will happily shelve this book right next to those two books as my favorite apocalyptic horror novels And I will recommend all three of them as such.It s impossible to compare them I think it s ridi...this was arcstack before i got this beautiful 800 page beast in a slipcase, no less fancy ARC, why you so fancy about a mysterious epidemic, societal breakdown, post event survival, journeys across a shattered american landscape i.e ALL OF MY JAMS sorry, arcstack, i think we have to have a talk.This was a mammoth book, and I feel a sincere sense of satisfaction for finishing I delayed reviewing, because I needed some time to wrap my head around ALL THOSE WORDS.Here goes Two guilty stars because I invested over a week into Wanderers and I have no OMG I HAVE TO TALK TO EVERYONE ABOUT THIS BOOK compulsion to show for my commitment to this huge, wandering novel.I don t quite know how to characterize my experience reading Wanderers The first two thirds of the book 500 pages feels This was a mammoth book, and I feel a sincere sense of satisfaction for finishing I delayed reviewing, because I needed some time to wrap my head around ALL THOSE WORDS.Here goes Two guilty stars because I invested over a week into Wanderers and I have no OMG I HAVE TO TALK TO EVERYONE ABOUT THIS BOOK compulsion to show for my commitment to this huge, wandering novel.I don t quite know how to characterize my experience reading Wanderers The first two thirds of the book 500 pages feels like setup for the story This is a LONG preface to the real action, and could probably be reduced to several chapters in a much desired for this reader, anyway abridged version.We meet the Walkers, who are basically regular people who hear some kind of calling, drop their lives, and in a zombie like trance begin a walking journey as a flock to an unknown destination west We also meet 1 their Shepherds family friends who volunteer to care for the walkers 2 the CDC scientists studying the walker phenomenon...A comet streaks across the night sky, and as it does, the lady who foretold the event dies in her sleep Sleepwalkers start to dot the landscape, flocking together as they move They are causing quite a stir, some call them the Devil s Pilgrims while others refer to them as God s Chosen Ones Before long, life is tip tilted to an alarming degree, shadows are long, time is slippery, and people are dying Opportunistic baddies try to take the reins even as the good guys attempt to figure out w A comet streaks across the night sky, and as it does, the lady who foretold the event dies in her sleep Sleepwalkers start to dot the landscape, flocking together as they move They are causing quite a stir, some call them the Devil s Pilgrims while others refer to them as God s Chosen Ones Before long, life is tip tilted to an alarming degree, shadows are long, time is slippery, and people are dying Opportuni... I received a free copy of this form NetGalley for review.I m generally rooting for the end of humanity most days any, but if the apocalypse is gonna involve this much walking then I ll be pretty angry about it because I d much rather sit on my ass while the asteroid hits or the nukes fly or the zombies start gnawing on me.A small group of people in rural Pennsylvania start walking in a trance like state one day They can t be snapped out of it, needles for sedatives won t penetrate their ski I received a free copy of this form NetGalley for review.I m generally rooting for the end of humanity most days any, but if the apocalypse is gonna involve this much walking then I ll be pretty angry about it because I d much rather sit on my ass while the asteroid hits or the nukes fly or the zombies start gnawing on me.A small group of people in rural Pennsylvania start walking in a trance like state one day They can t be snapped out of it, needles for sedatives won t penetrate their skin, and if you try to physically stop one of them things get awfully messy They don t need food or wa...My review of WANDERERS can be found at High Fever Books.Film critic Roger Ebert once said, No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough The same is certainly true of books Chuck Wendig s Wanderers, sure to be the man s magnum opus, clocks in at 800 pages and took me roughly two weeks to get through a longer than expected number of days for me, thanks to some very limited reading time while I was busy attending StokerCon 2019 Thankfully, it s every bit as good as I had expect My review of WANDERERS can be found at High Fever Books.Film critic Roger Ebert once said, No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough The same is certainly true of books Chuck Wendig s Wanderers, sure to be the man s magnum opus, clocks in at 800 pages and took me roughly two weeks to get through a longer than expected number of days for me, thanks to some very limited reading time while I was busy attending StokerCon 2019 Thankfully, it s every bit as good as I had expected, better in a lot of ways even, and I never felt bur...DNF page 300 Yes, I m still rating this book I slogged through a third of it I ve earned the right to give it my rating.What I need you, the reader of this review, to know is this book isn t bad Chuck Wendig has crossed his q s and dotted his t s The writing is fine Many of my friends have given Wanderers a perfect score, and I can understand why If you re a fan of big apocalyptic novels in which the author seems to jerk off to some sort of quasi Springsteenian sense of America you DNF page 300 Yes, I m still rating this book I slogged through a third of it I ve earned the right to give it my rating.What I need you, the reader of this review, to know is this book isn t bad Chuck Wendig has crossed his q s and dotted his t s The writing is fine Many of my friends have given Wanderers a perfect score, and I can understand why If you re a fan of big apocalyptic novels in which the author seems to jerk off to some sort of quasi Springsteenian sense of America you know, where most of the people who dot the landscape are white, moderate liberals and the only thing you have to fear is cornfed hicks in MAGA hats then maybe this will work for you As for me, I m done Chuck Wendig seems to play dress up here he s trying to look a little like Stephen King, a bit like...My two favorite genres are sci fi and apocalypse, so when I find a book that blends the two, I m in reading heaven My all time favorite books in this type of genre are The Stand, Swan Song, The Book of M, The Passage, and now Wanderers All are epic and most are behemoth books I couldn t get enough of Wanderers A teen girl sleepwalks out of her house one night, but can t be woken up Ever Eventually other sleepwalkers join in Their loved ones stay with them to watch over them and eventu My two favorite genres are sci fi and apocalypse, so when I find a book that blends the two, I m in reading heaven My all time favorite books in this type of genre are The Stand, Swan Song, The Book of M, The Passage, and now Wanderers All are epic and most are behemoth books I couldn t get enough of Wanderers A teen girl sleepwalks out of her house one night, but can t be woken up Ever Eventually other sleepwalkers join in Their loved ones stay with them to watch over them and eventually become known as Shepherds of the Flock This made for an eerie and disturbing picture in my head The premise was amazing As the miles pass by,andsle...Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.I don t know how I feel about this book I enjoyed much of it, and other parts of it really ticked me off It felt grand on an epic scale, but then certain parts made it feel small and not so epic.Pros good character development, interesting storyline, cool conceptCons twice as long as it needed to be, unnecessary rape scene, end with little to no closure whatsoever.Overall, I enjoye Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.I don t know how I feel about this book I enjoyed much of it, and other parts of it really ticked me off It felt grand on an epic scale, but then certain parts made it feel small and not so epic.Pros good character development, interesting storyline, cool conceptCons twice as long as it needed to be, unnecessary rape scene, end with little to no closure whatsoev...

Wanderers
  • English
  • 18 July 2017
  • ebook
  • 800 pages
  • Chuck Wendig
  • Wanderers