All My Colors, David Quantick
All My Colors, David Quantick
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All My Colors

Author: David Quantick

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2019

Synopsis

From Emmy Award–winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman, and Franz Kafka.It is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesn’t seem to exist.With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he can’t write. But the book—All My Colors—is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will “write” this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobody’s heard of it, how can he get into trouble?As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high—and painful—price to pay for his crime.

About David Quantick

David Quantick is a television writer and radio broadcaster with his own critically rated shows One, 52 First Impressions, and The Blaggers Guide. He has written TV comedies including Veep (for which he won an Emmy), The Thick of It, The Day Today, and more. He is the author of the novels Sparks, The Mule, and is the author of two writing manuals, How to Write Everything and How to Be a Writer.

About Chris Andrew Ciulla

Chris Andrew Ciulla, an Earphones Award–winning narrator with over 350 credits, is an on-screen actor, voice actor, host, boxing analyst, and radio personality. He has performed characters for the popular video game series Fallout and Mafia, and can be heard frequently voicing commercial campaigns. A versatile performer with over twenty-five years of experience, he produces original audio content under his own production banner, Leonardo Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn

If you like your main characters to be likeable, you might struggle a little with this to begin with, as the main character of David Quantick's All My Colors, Todd Milstead, is introduced on the very first page as not only being a "jerk" but a jerk who "was giving free rein to his inner dickhead." B......more

Goodreads review by Alisi ☆ wants to read too many books ☆

This just didn't work for me. It's horror and a "mortality tale" (I don't like them, I don't) but both seemed disconnected to the MC. Horror things happened but they happened to other people, and the MC didn't know about them until much later. The morality aspect fell flat because we spend like 95%......more

Goodreads review by Victoria

I remember reading Stephen King and he could take a mundane task and make it full of tension. It was the same for this book. It made me feel creeped out the whole way through. I wasn't even sure why! It grabbed a hold of me and wouldn't let go. I had to keep reading. I was reading late through the n......more

Goodreads review by Peter

This was a fun read, easy and light and with some intrigue and mystery. Unfortunately the book tries to make a point but doesn't understand what point it's trying to make, exactly. It's clear the story is INTENDED to be about toxic male artists using women and their pain as means for their own art an......more

Goodreads review by Runalong

Who doesn’t like a horror tale where the mediocre but very loud man gets his just desserts? Funny and pacy Full review - [URL not allowed]......more

Quotes

“David Quantick has a medical condition whereby he literally cannot be unfunny.” Caitlin Moran, New York Times bestselling author

“A morality tale, a comedy, a horror story rolled into one. All My Colors has it all.” Sun (UK)

“This twisting puzzle of a book stars Todd Milstead, a failed writer who…discovers there are consequences to his act of ‘victimless’ forgery.” Barnes&Noble.com

“By turns a supernatural revenge fantasy, a black comedy, and a self-abnegating parody. It is hysterical, shocking, and propulsive—leave the lights on for its end.” Foreword magazine

“Quantick ably sketches an unappealing but interesting protagonist swiftly out of his depth, and the slowly unfolding literary menace will appeal to fans of Jonathan Carroll’s The Land of Laughs or of literary-themed horror in general.” Booklist

“A caustic, unexpected comic horror story in which the villain, as always, thinks he’s the hero.” Kirkus Reviews

“A brilliant premise, executed with total confidence and authority.” John Niven, author of Kill Your Friends

“An unholy godchild of early Stephen King, Lovecraft, and Borges.” Stav Sherez, author of The Devil’s Playground

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