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Rose Madder

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Blair Brown
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Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card.

Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, Rose Madder, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.

But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting....

A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, Rose Madder is Stephen King at his electrifying best.

©1995 Stephen King (P)2011 Penguin Audio USA Domestic Thrillers Fantasy Horror Psychological Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary
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Great reading by Blair Brown, passable reading by Stephen King, his genius is in the writing, not in the performance. But the music is just awful, jarring and out of place, drowns out the voices in some places. Definitely worth persevering through, but please, someone, give us a version without the music!

Great reading, terrible music

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At some points, the purposely grating music is louder than the narration. It's really awful.

story is great, could have ended a chapter earlier and lost nothing.

God awful music, pretty good story

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Why did they put that horrific music?? Over the top of the narrator’s reading?? I was constantly grabbing my phone to turn the volume down.

Rose Madder

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the best duo I've heard. very entertaining. the viscous Norman was an evil guy... and the painting with an ozimandius feel...

Great readers

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Absolutely love this story. The many idioms and the hidden meanings was so perfect. so Stephen King perfect!

Perfection!

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Such an amazing book. So many twist and turns and little connections. Amazing book. Narrated perfectly

Amazing

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Although this is often not in Kings fans top 10 favourites I absolutely adore Rose Madder

I love the courage Rose has and the slow build of fantasy

The narration is done spectacularly and I relisten often

Beautiful Retelling of a Haunting Novel

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What about Blair Brown’s performance did you like?

Loved her voice, love her Character, she suited Rose perfectly and Steven King's reading as Rose's Insane abusive husband...... perfect

Any additional comments?

Great Listen...........couldn't put it away

Fabulous....King at his best

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I loved the story! I loved how they use different voice actors (including Mr King himself) to portray the two main characters.

I HATED the intrusive musical accompaniments during the transition between characters. I think it was a good idea, and if the audio had been mixed differently it would have gotten 5 stars all round, but these parts ruined an otherwise very enjoyable audiobook.

Awesome performance ruined by overly loud music

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It was good until three quarters of the way through…when it wasn’t. Characters lost credibility. Plot didn’t hold up. But most of all, the intermittent MUSIC throughout was intrusive and totally out of place. Why?!!!

Good to start with…

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