Book description
Dark Reading Matter (Thursday Next, #8) - Audiobook Review
There's something deeply unsettling about the silence between words-especially when you know that silence is listening back.
In Dark Reading Matter, Jasper Fforde drags Thursday Next once more into the shadowy corridors of the Bookworld, a place where stories are not read, but lived, and where the boundaries between narrative and reality unravel like a fever dream. This eighth installment doesn't just continue the saga-it descends deeper into the literary uncanny, where forgotten texts breathe and forgotten characters plot in the margins.
Fforde's prose has always danced on the edge of absurdity, but here it leans into something darker. The humor is still there, razor-sharp and sly, but it's draped in an atmosphere thick with unease. The audiobook format amplifies this perfectly-narrated with a controlled eeriness that makes you lean in, as if proximity might offer safety. It won't.
Thursday's latest case involves a haunting: a book that writes itself, rewriting its own ending with each telling. But the real horror lies not in the anomaly, but in what it reflects-the instability of truth, the fragility of narrative, the fear that stories might outlive their authors, or worse, remember their readers.
Fforde has crafted a mystery that gnaws at you long after the final chapter. It's a tale stitched together with literary theory, detective fiction, and a kind of existential dread that only someone who truly loves books could summon. To listen is to be complicit in the unraveling.
For those familiar with Thursday's world, this is a return to form-stranger, darker, and more introspective. For newcomers, it's a descent best taken with caution. The Bookworld is no longer just a playground. It's a prison of plot, and every page turned is a door closed behind you.
Beware the audiobook. It whispers too well.
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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