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Better Than Home audiobook

  • By: Joe Hill
  • Narrator: David Ledoux
  • Length: 49 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 16, 2007
  • Language: English
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Better Than Home Audiobook Summary

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story–from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn’t easy to make friends when you’re the only inflatable boy in town. . . .

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John Finney is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

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Better Than Home Audiobook Narrator

David Ledoux is the narrator of Better Than Home audiobook that was written by Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), and In the Tall Grass (Netflix).

About the Author(s) of Better Than Home

Joe Hill is the author of Better Than Home

Better Than Home Full Details

Narrator David Ledoux
Length 49 minutes
Author Joe Hill
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 16, 2007
ISBN 9780061552151

Additional info

The publisher of the Better Than Home is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780061552151.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Sungil

January 05, 2019

Re-read.A beautiful, heartwrecking story about Homer, a boy with special needs and the sad fact, that the only person in his world, that understands him (in some degree), is his father. This story has so many layers, and if you know about these childrens fight to fit in, be accepted & understood and their numerous battles, where the losses outnumbers the wins 99 to 1, it will break your heart. It’s not about baseball, or being weird, behaving badly, having bad manners. It’s about being different and misunderstood in a world, where being alike is a mantra. I pity people who doesn’t understand this story. So sad. (I apologise for bad grammar and typos. English isn’t my native language)

Maree Backhouse

November 10, 2016

Interesting but ended somewhere weirdI gave this short story 5 stars even though I was kinda unpleasantly surprised by the ending because it really grabbed me from the opening line. I'm Australian so not a baseball fan, so when I realised it was based around baseball I was a little put off but kept going anyway. I was loving the story as it shot along, & it really did shoot along quickly. I got so sucked in & had to know what was gonna happen. Then all of a sudden, it ended, weirdly. Cute, sweet ending but I felt kinda ripped off. I wanted to know what happened with the main characters mental health issues & what was gonna happen to him with his schooling (you'll read what I mean), but all I got was what felt like a love note to his dad. Sure it was a beautiful way to look back on a life well lived with lots of both good & bad memories of your childhood but not where I thought this story was going to end up. Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it but I really wanted more...but hey, maybe that was the point.

Carlos

October 22, 2021

** spoiler alert ** I think it's better when you realize that the father is dead. That's why no one responded to him when they took the tour of the school or why they never play their game at home. The only one who can see him apparently is Homer. It sounds like Homer has the ability to see dead people, as he does with the body on the bridge. This whole story is written in a really confusing way, so for all I know, I could be completely off base about everything here. If the father isn't dead, then this is a three star story and shouldn't be in this collection.

Fee

January 27, 2022

I enjoyed it. A memory from the past can fit in my definition of a ghost, and it was nice to have a decent Dad story after multiple crappy ones.

Kirk

July 12, 2022

In my opinion this story was very nice. Homer, the son deals with what is seems to be is autism, how he picks through his food and can’t stand noises like vcr tapes being rewound. His father is the only one who seems to give a shit about him, and caters to his child’s needs. Very great ending, the other reviewers who don’t get it must not see the impact of a son and father bond, and joe hill did a great job of cutting the ending off like he did.

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