Nov 20 2007
Ted Dekker’s Showdown gives me chill
The latest book that I’ve read/listened is Showdown by Ted Dekker.
This is the first time I read a Ted Dekker’s book. Never heard of the author before. When I last shopped for audiobooks, I wanted to buy more from the seller to save shipping fees, so just browse around. I stumbled upon this Showdown and very curious to find more.
As usual, Amazon is my favourite place to check out the various reviews. I buy books mainly based on how many stars they get in Amazon. 
I know it can be very bias, but I also read those niche negative comments for those highly rated books. Just want to know what they find negative about those books.
For this one, the comments made me even more curious about it. Seriously, the cover isn’t attractive at all. Just a boring man in a boring background. I’m now even puzzled why I was interested about it in the first place!
When I played it, the 1st disc already made me chilled. I didn’t understand some scenes at first, due to the audio. Come on! English is not my native language, listening an audiobook is kind of tough and a training for me. So, I played the same disc twice. Whew! Still get the same chill.
I can only listen 30 min each day, as my journey to the office is quite short. Everyday, I have to sleep with my mind thinking about the story. If I had bought a book instead of CD, I would have stayed up late and finished it earlier. It is proven a page-turner (or CD turner in my case).
The story is about a project codename Showdown, happening in a monastery. And it links to a small town called Paradise. There are irrie connections between the monastery and the town, disgusting and disturbing scenes, fightings between evil and good, etc.
It is definitely not recommended for kids. It has some very ugly and disturbing violent scenes that represents evil, which gave me chills. Not to be read at night!
The only issue I had with the audiobook is the volume of the narrator. He speaks so lowly – not only soft but also in very low tone. So I have to tune the volume up. When I was listening to
Leven Thumps, I tuned to volume 20 is already loud enough. For this, I have to ture to volume 38 to be audible!
But, when the narrator speaks for some strong characters like Black and Billy, he speaks very loudly and nearly broke my ear drums! This is the part I dislike about audiobooks. Still, paper books are better. 
My Score:
Book/story = ****
Audio = **
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