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A Lite Too Bright audiobook

  • By: Samuel Miller
  • Narrator: Michael Chamberlain
  • Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
  • Publish date: May 08, 2018
  • Language: English
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A Lite Too Bright Audiobook Summary

For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought-provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller about a loss shrouded in mystery with twists and turns down every railway.

Arthur Louis Pullman is on the verge of a breakdown.

He’s been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. It’s there that Arthur discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman, an iconic Salinger-esque author who went missing the last week of his life and died hundreds of miles away from their family home.

What happened in that week–and how much his actions were influenced by his Alzheimer’s–remains a mystery. But now Arthur has his grandfather’s journal–and a final sentence containing a train route and a destination.

So Arthur embarks on a cross-country train ride to re-live his grandfather’s last week, guided only by the clues left behind in the dementia-fueled journal. As Arthur gets closer to uncovering a sad and terrible truth, his journey is complicated by a shaky alliance with a girl who has secrets of her own and by escalating run-ins with a dangerous Pullman fan base.

Arthur’s not the only one chasing a legacy–and some feel there is no cost too high for the truth.

“A Lite Too Bright Theme” written and performed by Samuel Miller and Dylan Bauld.

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A Lite Too Bright Audiobook Narrator

Michael Chamberlain is the narrator of A Lite Too Bright audiobook that was written by Samuel Miller

Samuel Miller was born and raised in Vermillion, South Dakota, and now resides in Los Angeles, where, in addition to writing, he directs music videos and coaches Little League Baseball. He began writing his first novel while on tour in a fifteen-passenger van with the rock band Paradise Fears. A Lite Too Bright is his debut novel. Currently he attends graduate school at the University of Southern California. He credits his existence entirely to two spectacular parents, three brothers, one sister, and the best and sweetest puppy dog on the whole planet, Addison.

About the Author(s) of A Lite Too Bright

Samuel Miller is the author of A Lite Too Bright

A Lite Too Bright Full Details

Narrator Michael Chamberlain
Length 11 hours 39 minutes
Author Samuel Miller
Publisher Katherine Tegen Books
Release date May 08, 2018
ISBN 9780062841940

Additional info

The publisher of the A Lite Too Bright is Katherine Tegen Books. The imprint is Katherine Tegen Books. It is supplied by Katherine Tegen Books. The ISBN-13 is 9780062841940.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Justine

March 16, 2018

Astonishing! This novel is a very refreshing read. Quite ambitious that had live up to my expectations and beyond.It is about Arthur, going through a journey of dealing with loss, healing, family, friendship, with the added spice of mystery and bittersweet instances in life. And a literal journey too travelling through it all in search of answers. That surely will leave the readers with a lot of things to think about too.I love how balanced everything; how it is laid-out for the readers. How the story unfolds and where it goes. It's such a fresh breath of pages to devour upon. Definitely will watchout from Samuel Miller from now on.And now me leaving it with 5 bright stars.

Christy

September 11, 2018

Even after a few weeks of finishing this book, I still haven’t unpacked all of my thoughts about this book. But here’s a few of them:1. I picked up A Lite Too Bright because I love Sam Miller’s words. His poetical lyrics are what brought me to Paradise Fears and kept me there. I was hopeful that this would translate into his debut novel and he 100% delivered. This book is poetic and gorgeous.2. Part of the poetic nature of this book also makes it very literary. This is a book that you pick up for book club or as a buddy read or in English class. Good lord please substitute some of those outdated coming of age stories and add stories like this. 3. The transition to adulthood is strange. It’s arbitrary. The clock flips from 11:59pm to 12:00am and suddenly your whole life changes. A Lite Too Bright is Arthur Louis Pullman the Third’s exploration of that weirdness combined with wanting answers to questions that maybe we should have left alone and the complexity of our idols. 4. That said, I was really invested in figuring out what the heck happened in the weeks after Arthur’s infamous author grandfather (who had Alzheimer’s) disappears. I was going to really mad if the story didn’t pay off…oh, but it did.If you like journeys in contemporary, complex characters, and coming of age stories coupled with gorgeous writing, A Lite Too Bright is worth your listen or read!

Lisa

May 31, 2018

I breezed through this amazing story. It's big - loss, connections, time, memory, mystery, love and regret. I loved the progression and how information is parsed out over time. Plus, I love when books analyze other books - it's so meta and genius (if it's done well, which it is here).Bonus: it's a traveling/journey story, which I have a big heart for.

Cori

December 07, 2019

3.5 Stars!I really really liked this book and it would have been a 4 stars if not for a few throw-away lines here and there that made me kind of cringe. The only one I can actually remember is when our main character meets a librarian, for no plot reason whatsoever, and in a way that felt out of character, he thinks about how big her boobs are? It felt out of place and unnecessary. That happened a few times.Still, solid story!

Lindsay

June 04, 2018

“i am nothing but a mosaic of the people i’ve met & the things they’ve carried.”3.5 stars. Poignant, emotional, beautiful written, Sam Miller’s debut novel, A Lite Too Bright is a strange little book that unravels in unexpected ways and is perfect for fans of John Green. It follows Arthur Louis Pullman the Third as he travels on a cross-country train ride trying to piece together clues left behind by his deceased grandfather—a Salinger/Kerouac literary icon—during the last week of his life. But beneath it all is Arthur’s struggle with his grip on reality after the loss of his college scholarship and a difficult breakup with his longtime girlfriend. I was nervous going into this one because I haven’t read a contemporary in a long time, and in all honesty, haven’t had the most patience with them. But, this book surprised me in a lot of ways I’m still not entirely sure are good or bad. Before I say anything else, I do want to note that Arthur struggles with hallucinations and severe trauma, but because I haven’t had personal experience with either, I cannot speak as to how accurately they were portrayed in the novel. “i feel my body outside itself, looking in. some days i’m the passanger; some days i’m the captain; & some days, i let chemicals steer the ship.”The writing was definitely the best part of this book. Sam Miller’s prose was absolutely stunning and emotionally breathtaking. I found myself very much sympathizing for Arthur as he struggled and tried to grasp the world around him—all he had lost, the pain of moving forward, his desperation to find meaning in his grandfather’s “clues,” and his own realization that he was not a reliable narrator of his own life’s story. But, I can’t say I was gripped by this book or ever reached the magical moment as a reader where I couldn’t put the book down. A Lite Too Bright is meant to be a mystery, as both the reader and Arthur try to discover the missing pieces of his grandfather’s last five days, but so much of the plot felt too convenient—from meeting a girl who just happened to be a protest history expert and Arthur Louis Pullman super fan, to everything that ensued with a secret society devoted to Pullman’s legacy, and how easily Arthur was able to make sense of the “clues.” There were no dead ends and every “roadblock” was swiftly overcome with a tiny detail or story Arthur remembered from his grandfather. The convenience didn’t necessarily bother me, it just felt as though there wasn’t ever anything at stake, and because the mystery was set up as the main plot, I’d expected it to provide more of a challenge.“i feel like the main character in a stranger’s dream, standing at the helm of an unlikely & irrational revolution without any idea how i got there.”I think my biggest problem with A Lite Too Bright was that it didn’t know what it wanted to be. Was it a mystery? Was it a journey story filled with strange travelers and philosophical musings like Mosquitoland? Was it an exploration of mental health and mental illness? It tried to be all three, and as a result didn’t do justice to any. I wanted more of any of them, but it seemed to always just miss, leaving me dissatisfied and the book in a weird in between place. I was reminded of John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down in that the mystery was meant to be the main plot, but ended up taking a backseat to characters, themes, philosophies, and beautiful writing.Now I know it sounds like I didn’t enjoy this book, but I did. The prose was stunning and the characters were for the most part likable, or likable in their unlikability. Arthur was a fantastic portrayal of an unreliable narrator and I couldn’t decide until about 80% in if I was rooting for him or not, Mara never became a manic pixie dream girl—even though she frequently teetered on the edge of becoming one—and all the other supporting characters were fleshed out and developed in their own right, becoming more than merely players in Arthur’s story. “there are one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, and I’m a tiny, fractional, and insignificant part of one of them. I think it’s…confusing and beautiful.”Overall, I’m still not quite sure how I feel about this book, and this may be one of my most useless reviews yet. The writing was magical, the characters real, and yet I was never entirely gripped by this book. If you like John Green, then I can’t recommend this book enough. But, if you’re like me and tend to shy away from contemporaries, then maybe it’d be best to leave this one on the shelf for the time being…“I wasn’t sure if I was being brave or stupid. But to tell you the truth, the more I’ve lived, the less I’ve understood the difference.” Below I've left more of my favorite lines from this book because the writing is too beautiful not to include them:“so we worship at the altar of chemical alteration, baptize ourselves in liquor & perfume, drink the ideas of many in communities of few, preparing to converge on the grandest, most central stations, congregations of the damned. we’re the gods we pray to, we’re the righteous truth, & we doubt nothing.”“the curse of feeling everything, is that you’re painfully aware when you feel nothing.”“growing up was growing towards you, pieces of you in every word. learning the language just so i could speak it for you, learning words just so they could fall short with you.”“& you look on through all of this, sun-splattered, my great angel in the window, & we smile in secret like the world is one big laugh, no worry & doubt, just one big joke we tell each other, over & over again, every single day; a joke that only we know.”

Carlos

August 30, 2019

It was a good story mixed in with some good historical background, you get to experience everything through the eyes of the characters and the story hooks you with the clues the mc finds and the quest he embarks on , all while keeping an air of mystery regarding his mental health making you the reader what is real and what it is imagined.

Cassandra

May 07, 2018

*An ARC was provided by Edelweiss and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*“Would you rather live with miserable truth, or blissful ignorance?”Actual rating: 4.5There are so many things to say about this book. I don't even know where to start. I guess I will start with the statement that is almost impossible to say much about this book without spoilers. Why is that? Because this book is a chameleon: every time I labeled it as something, (like a dead relative mystery, or a contemporary family drama, or a find-yourself-in-your-youth road trip book) it morphed before my eyes into something new. This book cannot be labeled in any concrete way other than one of the most original, out-of-the-box YA novels I have read in years. It takes some troupes and enslaves them, while shamelessly tossing others aside and forging its own path.This book is in a genre and world all its own and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone looking for something new and raw to sell their soul to. This was amazing.

Kristen

July 02, 2018

4.5/5I struggled rating this book. I LOVED the writing and the concept. I enjoyed the family dynamics and teenage angst. I was obsessed with the journey narrative. My only issue was just the coincidence of it all. It seemed any time the protagonist needed something, it was there! I get that most, if not all of these moments, were intentional, but at times it was bordering on unbelievable. But even with all that, this book was a quick read that had me excited to read each section. It's split up into sections of about 50 pages, which is the perfect amount for me to read in one sitting (or to keep reading when it's 3am and well past your bedtime). Will definitely be recommending this to students this upcoming school year.

Cyn

June 16, 2018

Arthur follows the clues his late grandfather left behind to discover what happened in his final days.----4 stars. I loved a lot about this book. I loved Arthur and his family (although I was frustrated with his father). I loved the mental illness rep. I loved Arthur's journey on the train. I loved the journal entries. However, I did find myself bored at times.This book deals with Alzheimer's, as one of the main themes. Can I just say, that my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about a year ago. The first few months were really scary, but she is on medication and is doing much better than she was a few months ago.

Rachel

July 30, 2018

this is an absolutely beautiful novel. i loved every moment of reading this! it's a completely unique and refreshing story that is so wonderfully written. highly recommend!

Emma

June 07, 2022

I actually found myself really enjoying this book, which lately, that’s saying a lot. Really impressive for a debut novel - would recommend.

Olivia

July 03, 2021

UM WOAH. I didn’t have high expectations for this book but it was so beautiful the writting style and concept and the way everything is described is so perfect. Some things didn’t make sense but that was part of the Beauty of the book. The ending gave just enough closure and was so eye opening. Defiantly a MUST READ.

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