Book description
Bathing the Lion pulses with something electric. Something wrong. Five people dream the same impossible dream and wake to find their ordinary lives cracking at the seams. Carroll doesn't build worlds so much as he peels back the wallpaper of reality. What's underneath isn't pretty.
The audiobook narrator gets it right. There's no Hollywood polish here. Just the ragged edge of wonder. Voices carry weight. Silence carries more. You listen and something shifts in your chest. The kind of shift that happens when you realize you've been holding your breath for pages.
Gaiman called it brain-smooshing. He wasn't wrong. This isn't Updike meets Dick. It's Carroll meeting himself in a mirror that's been cracked down the middle. The prose moves like water finding its level. Quiet. Inevitable. Dangerous.
Dreams don't explain themselves. Neither does this book. It trusts you to feel your way through the dark. Through friendships that break like glass. Through marriages that were never real. Through the slow dawning that maybe you never were who you thought you were.
The surreal isn't special here. It's mundane. Which makes it terrifying. The apocalypse isn't loud. It's a whisper in a small New England town. It's a phone call from somewhere you've never been but somehow remember.
Carroll writes like he's telling secrets. Like he knows things he shouldn't. The audiobook format suits him. There's intimacy in the spoken word. In the spaces between breaths. In the way certain sentences hang in the air long after they've been said.
White Dragon
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StorySculptor
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Sir Squire
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GuTzd
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X-Dew
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Thumb Candy
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RedFeet
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Lime
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Steel Cut Toe
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TrinitySoul
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Bug Blitz
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Domino Combat
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Atlantic Rim
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Bom Crossed
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Old Felix
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Winter Bite
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MuseMaster
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience