A Dark-Adapted Eye Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Oh, 40 pages until book group tonight! I'm hooked now. "

" An oldie but goodie. Very nice. Barbara Vine is aka Ruth Rendell. "

" Damn, this one was tedious and depressing. I didn't make it past 30 pages. I couldn't get interested in any of the characters, nor in the story. "

" When reading the book jacket, I was intriqued & thought how creepy this book could be. The jacket was misleading. The beginning was good and the end was even better, however the middle was nothing to be desired & I found it very difficult to stay engaged. It seemed to ramble & go off on tangents that made it hard to follow past vs. present. The premise of the book was very good and the author did weave a tale, but it was all too boring in the middle and didn't come together until the very end - where you wanted to read the last chapter to figure out the story she tried to tell through the entire slow-moving book. I also have to say that I would not categorize this book as "creepy". Maybe a bit ahead of it's time, but not creepy. "

" Bleh. No idea why this won the Edgar Award. No real mystery (telegraphed throughout), no suspense. "

" Nice and eerie. Thanks, Angie, for the recommendation! I've got another of hers on my shelf and plan to read it as soon as I'm done with my Highsmith. "

" An interesting book. It is a PBS special. As I read it I thought it would make a more interesting special than a book but all in all entertaining. "

" A very different story from other books I've read by Barbara Vine. Took time, but worth the effort. "

" A fun book, well written but ultimately predictable. I found it somewhat annoying in the degree to which it wallowed in its own mysteriousness. "

" Complex, engrossing. "

" A great human desire driven gothic novel about a family. Vine (Rendell) has the ability to make the reader even feel sorry for the murderer. This is an incredibly well done book. "

" I adore all the Barbara Vine books. They are true 'psychological' thrillers. "

" Lots of summary makes for lots of boring. I wanted to know all the secrets, but if I wasn't reading this for school I probably would have discarded it before I got halfway through. "

" I loved this - definitely my favorite so far of the Barbara Vines I've read. "

" I loved this book. One of the best, if not the best, mystery-thriller I've read. "

" One of the most heart-wrenching books I have ever read. I was so deeply involved I couldn't read it before bedtimes because I was afraid of the nightmares I would have - as the mother of a small blond boy with brown eyes and olive skin. Extremely engrossing. It broke my heart. "

" This was my second reading. I just love the way this story unfolds. "

" This is one of Ruth Rendell's alternate pen names. I guess I'm on a Rendell streak "

" Suspenseful and mysterious, this well-written novel tells of a family ripped apart by secrets. "

" It took a while for me to get into this one, but it was worth the effort. "

" I'll write a review later, but holy crap, was this a good book. "

" one of my all time favorites "

" I can't remember if I read the book first, or watched the film first, and the two are now inseparable in my mind. "

" This was my second reading. I just love the way this story unfolds. "

" Exactly the page-turning story I needed while ill and tired. "

" Average Barbara Vine for me, although it won awards. I thought the 'mystery' part of it a bit weak, but Rendell-Vine's usual cast of quirky characters, dark mood. "

" Took a while to get into, far too many characters introduced at the start. Hard to put down once I got into it. Good tale of family secrets. "

" My first Barbara Vine book, though I've read lots of Ruth Rendell (Vine is a pen name). I like the way the story unfolds. Though not a mystery per se, it kept my interest while I tried to figure out not whodunit, but why-she-did-it. "

" I loved this - definitely my favorite so far of the Barbara Vines I've read. "

" Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine but the mystery is still rather grim, a story of family secrets that results in the hanging of one sister and the stabbing to death of another sister. Complex with psychological overtones. "

" An oldie but goodie. Very nice. Barbara Vine is aka Ruth Rendell. "

" The meandering prose of the author requires the reader to search in earnest through the words to find the story. Sheesh. Apparently, the prose was too complicated for me. I don't want to SORT through the words or WORK to find the meaning. I just wanna read... and enjoy the journey. "

" This book feels like somebody is writing about their family history. I think this would only be interesting for that family. "

" I know no more after reading the book, than before I read the book. Very slow then the last 50 pages or so were good, but did not answer most of the questions of the story line. Very hard to follow, especially in the beginning. "

" Very well written but the plot falls apart for me a bit at the end. "