10 episodes
Electricity Myke Bartlett
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4.7 • 9 Ratings
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From the Author of How to Disappear Completely:
1999
Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he's looking for, he's seen him on the cover of the NME. Drawn across oceans by fame and fate, Aston is keeping his diary empty to make sure he's available. Won't commit to anything until it's everything.
London, however, has other ideas.
When a virtual stranger calls Aston a few hours before his death, fate catches up with him, derailing his barely-made plans. Amid a hundred boozy evenings and romantic deadends, a mystery unfurls.
Equally assisted and hindered by tremulous accountant Tom Hensley and dedicated loafer Steven Black, Aston uncovers a different London, one of murder, ghosts, dangerous emails and the second big bang.
As chaotic and random as the city it inhabits, Electricity gradually evolves into a mystery bigger than the universe itself. Being of a somewhat useless persuasion, Aston does his best to ignore it.
For more details: www.biggerthantheuniverse.com
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10 - Over My Dead Body
In Brighton with little more than a hired car and a hangover, Aston has some hard questions to answer. For one thing, there's the matter of the dead man wanting to chat about things he can't believe, let alone understand. For another, there's the impending destruction of the solar system. All hell breaks loose in this, the final chapter of 'Electricity', a Podcasted Novel by Myke Bartlett.
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09 - The Lazy Gene (Or "Charlotte Saves The World")
Christmas arrives and Steven gives the gift of love. Everyone in the flat is boozed to the eyeballs or high as a particularly reckless kite, but that won't stop Charlotte leading an expedition to Brighton in case the world is ending.
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08 - Proof
A funeral, a bedding and a long walk home in the rain. Tom falls in love but is too drunk to remember who with. With everyone too busy moping to notice, the world starts counting down to oblivion.
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07 - November Spawned A Monster
Aston falls in love, quite accidentally, while an old friend visits and has an utterly miserable time.
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06 - Brighton Rocks
Aston follows Steven to Brighton for a gig, some heavy drinking and a surprise reacquaintance. Shortly afterwards his heart is broken. Possibly.
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05 - The Same Deep Water As Me
Aston and Steven are hopeless cases, only helping each other to oblivion on the couch, more lost in London than either cares to admit. This is the story of their slothful friendship, a box from a ghost and a fatal computer program.
Customer Reviews
Just great
I just adore Myke Bartlett!!! Can listen to all his audio stories and books over and over because of their richness of characters, plot and perfect narration and music. I wish he would continue putting out more Salmon and Dusk episodes. For those new to Myke's work, Electricity is just brilliant, a deep layered story filled with life's tragedies, mysteries and love while managing to be a crazy fun ride to boot!
A must listen!!
Myke has a way with words... He has a knack for making a story about absolutely nothing, about absolutely everything. This book is well written, and extremely well narrated... The production value is definitely there, and there is no self indulgent chatter or annoying advertisements filling the header.
I have recommended this book and his others to several friends and they have all loved them. So thank you Myke for this book, and I look forward to what comes next.
The Best
I don't know what I'm going to do when I finish all of Myke's work. Withdrawal, then listen again. I rarely, ever read or listen to novels more than once but Myke's characters are so contagious, along with solid UNFORSEEN plots. His voice as narrator should alone win an Oscar! Shout-out to the various musical groups that work perfectly with Myke's storyline.
Listen. But BEWARE. You will become addicted.