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“Dizzying heights”
Author: Emily Brontë. Readers: Katarina Ewerlöf, Johan Rabaeus. Duration: 14 hours 16 minutes.
As usual, the new film hijacks half the action and all the depth, so there’s every reason to dust off this ambitious (and unexpectedly funny!) take from 2014, in which Rabaeus in particular shines as the interpreter of the scapegoat Heathcliff and his entire arsenal of rude insults. Otherwise, it’s a dark gem, so dark that the poet Dante Rossetti once described it as “a novel about hell – where places and people apparently have English names”. Also: so hot that your ears burn despite the sub-zero temperatures.
“Judas”
Author: Amanda Romare. Reader: Amanda Romare. Duration: 7 hours 52 minutes.
The mega-snack that made reviewers rage against female boundary violations and psychological abuse of men, while at the same time a large part of the novel revolves around a gross sexual assault – against a woman. One-sided focus aside: Romare is hilarious and an ambitious stylist who has completely mastered the No. 1 rule of humor (writing about crazy things in an understatement or vice versa). And she’s equally compelling in sound, with her horse’s indistinct interpretation sitting perfectly between P1 Scanian and Tomcat.
“The Dictator. From Caesar to Putin”
Author: Dick Harrison. Reader: Per Juhlin. Duration: 18 hours 12 minutes.
Cool 18 hour gift to all of us Cock lover who loves learning and the abundant presence of rigid glosses as “questions” and is therefore happy to ignore the fact that some passages seem slightly copied from the professor’s previous work. In addition, the topic of autocrats and their path to power is unfortunately very current. The most nerve-wracking and entertaining is the chapter about the British Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, whose Puritan revolution turns Harrison into a pure thriller.
“Everything you were”
Author: Emily Spurr. Reader: Nadja Mirmiran. Duration: 7 hours 52 minutes.
It shouldn’t be possible, but somehow this acclaimed Australian stretch listener manages to combine sultry feel-good vibes with pure horror movie setup and come away with its honor intact. Revolves around ten-year-old Rae, read delicately by Nadja Mirmiran, who is forced to take care of bills, cooking and dog walking alone when her beloved mother “disappears”. A foul smell comes from the house, but Rae buys air freshener and lies when the neighbors ask why Mom hasn’t been seen in weeks…
“The father”
Author: Monica Rehn. Reader: Magnus Roosmann. Duration: 13 hours 42 minutes.
The most read adrenaline rush of the winter comes into action when penniless lawyer Magnusson is entrapped by an unscrupulous YouTube journalist seeking to clear his life-sentenced father of his wife’s murder. At the center of the increasingly strange resurrection procedure is Paul, a writing teacher with a high sex drive who had a relationship with the murder victim and is now suspected of stealing her script. Slowly but surely, Magnusson begins to have the feeling that he has fallen into a trap – but then it is too late and the entire family is in mortal danger.
“The Cult. The Telemarketing Company That Became a Torture Cult”
Author: Marcus Ulvsand. Reader: Carina Ehrenholm. Duration: 8 hours 27 minutes.
A true crime in spooky school essay prose that will make you almost unable to stop listening because of its hair-raising, completely bizarre story. Lost young people are recruited by a Swedish telemarketing company in 2011 led by a new-age horror executive who has an overdose of inspirational lectures and is obsessed with the color purple. Soon the manager begins to manipulate, insult, and eventually even abuse and threaten death – all under the pretense that the salespeople need to release their “positive energy.”
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