Plan for Chaos
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Narrated by:
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Michael Obiora
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By:
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John Wyndham
About this listen
In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks identical to the victims, too—and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race....
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- Apocalypto
- 28-03-23
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good book, wobbly narration in my opinion, got a bit scattered towards the end unfortunately
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- Gavin Rees
- 20-02-24
Good listen
Interesting take of world could be considering when it was written! 1950’s and I’m listening to it 2024!
It has the background to a Bond villain threat lol
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- Josh
- 08-06-24
Shocking reading
Not a terrible book but certainly a terrible performance. Laughably bad characterisation and accents. I'm always surprised how some of these prime book performances made it through quality control. Surely someone listened to this before publishing it? How did anyone think this was acceptable?
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- A and K
- 25-10-24
Another John Wyndsm classic
written beautifully in his own particular style, another interesting before it's time yarn, loved it!
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- Artaine
- 10-01-23
Hilarious
Good story line, however the accents by the narrator are hilarious especially the Australian ones.
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- B. Hockley
- 29-01-23
avoid unless you're a Wyndham completist
Excellent performance by Michael Obiora couldn't make up for the so-so story, not so great characters and juddering plot.
Perhaps unsurprising that this never got published in Wyndham 's lifetime.
Nevertheless it's an interesting cultural artefact channeling the fears of Naxi resurgence that must have been extant in the middle of the 20th century.
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- Mr. M. Elsy
- 10-02-23
Not one of his best.
This is not one of John Wyndham's best stories started off quite intriguing then gets a bit boring later on and the narration by Michael Obiora is strange nothing wrong with his voice but the readining of the story is quite staccato, now I don't know if Wyndham wrote the story like that but I don't think so.
Then in Chapter 18 about 11m 17s in there seems to be a fault where a word disappears or is censored because it sounds like he's going to swear.
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- Jack Denz
- 20-06-22
Plan for disappointment
Story line had promise but developed too slowly.
The end was really underwhelming and needs a re-write.
Narration was "peculiar"!
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- Susan B.
- 23-03-23
Of its time
The story is very much of its time but mitigated by the occasional flashes of profundity and prescience that always characterise John Wyndham’s writing. However, if you want to read this book you should choose another method. The narration sounds like a child learning to read or somebody speaking English very slowly and clearly for the benefit of a non-English speaker. There is no fluency and the stresses repeatedly fall on the wrong parts of words and sentences. If you want to read about recreated Nazis I suggest you try ‘Boys from Berlin’. Equally unlikely but a lot shorter!
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- mouse
- 04-03-23
Nazi Master Race
Similarities to the Midwich Cuckoos; perhaps this is a deliberate link. To us in modern times this seems horribly old fashioned and obsessed with Nazism but at the time, Nazis hiding in the jungle was a relevant theme and so was UFOs. As always, there are strong female characters.
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