Jenny Lindh tips on the best audio books right now
« Let the waves do the rest »
Author: Ulf Kvensler. Reader: Gerhard Hoberstorfer.
Length: 10 hours 59 min
The literary critic Ernst has written a suspense novel but obviously does not want to front the cover with his credit name. Can Old Bishop’s Arnö pole Marcus help him sprinkle the book under pseudonym? Or – can Marcus even pretend to be the author? Great storytelling, awesome musical reading, hopeless dysfunctional novel characters where the rumor Ernst – an irresistible mix of Ola Rapace and Victor Malm – becomes a favorite. In short: one of this year’s best sound splashers.
« The future promise. The story of how the Internet changed Sweden »
Author: Urban Lindstedt. Reader: Lars Winclair.
Length: 10 hours 4 min
Initiated and listening-friendly history without a tech bridge attitude but with the more nostalgia for us who grew up during the GIF-flashing 90s when the Internet represented freedom and democracy. The most entertaining is the book when it depicts the time before the web. The paragraph about the « hot line » is priceless: there is something so reconciled that Televerket refrained from closing down this jerking bubble’s legendary groan and stuna forum because it played such an important function for « old and sick ».
« In the middle of the night »
Author: Riley Sager. Reader: Björn Bengtsson.
Length: 14 hours 13 min
A boy is robbed of a tent and is never visible again, only thirty years later his traumatized best friend returns to the suburban idyll where the tragedy took place. Once there, the man barely has open the car door before new rags occur. From the unabashed Stephen King-inspired props, a mysterious « institute » is picked up, which most likely has an unsympathetic agenda. Described as a « popcorn thriller » by the publisher but is rather slow food – quietly cuddling excitement where reader Bengtsson’s humming sadness softens the slightly axish bestseller prose.
« The league. The Klara Quarter’s blood sisters »
Author: Fatima Bremmer. Reader: Cecilia Nilsson.
Length: 13 hours 41 min
DN’s Jan Eklund went with « Cultural History Reading Party », I myself avoid for stylistic reasons the word « listening party » even though that judgment is just as accurate. Bremmer’s acclaimed biography makes itself any fine as an audio book, not least because it contains so many well -written environmental descriptions. It is an experience to walk in Stockholm City, turning up the volume, feeling how sterile concrete views give way to horseshoes, typewriter nights and absintrilers in the turn of the turn of the century.
« The spirit of the machine »
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist. Reader: John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Length: 15 hours 50 min
A suicide bombers blast the drama in a start so pompous that even the deck hater should feel a vague trembling of empathy, then follows more terror and an exploding number of treads and 228 novel characters (!) In a mill that is really far from ear -optimal. The fact that the third part of the « Blood Storm » series still works is largely due to the fact that Ajvide reads with the Christmas host-in-TV pondus that comes to a truly popular writer. Swedish critics have – surprise -Calcerned that he is « funny », but scenes like the one where a police officer gets excited by his self-written Tolkien porn is of course belonging to the highlights of the book.
« Hitler’s death. Third Empire’s downfall »
Author: Olle Larsson. Reader: Per Juhlin.
Length: 4 hours 40 min
High -topical new part of the long -term « world’s dramatic history », the audio readers’ own mini university, which, with the help of, among other things, skilled reader Per Juhlin manages to squeeze out educational lessons (without the scary advertising that plagues the history pods). What do we know about Hitler’s last, sad days in the bunker for dot 80 years ago? What to say about the rumors that claim he survived, became Muslim converts or Dutch cafe owners?
