Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky - the person who lived in his head.
Ariel Jardell, an adopted 12-year-old girl, is possessed, her mother thinks, by jealousy and by forces far more bizarre. An unnerving tale woven together with a fascinating, terrifying child at the center of each twist and turn it takes, this book gives new definition to the old conflict of good versus evil, sane versus insane.
The collapse of one of the six major rail bridges over the Mississippi stirs suspicions of foul play, but with a military train ferrying deadly, unstable material from Alabama to the West Coast and the collapse of a second bridge, a crisis quickly ensues.
A Pleasure to Burn Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Audiobook) Pleasure to Burn -- a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master's landmark novel Fahrenheit 451 -- is an indispensable companion to the most powerful work of America's preeminent storyteller, a wondrous confirmation of the inimitable Bradbury's brilliance, magic, and fire.
