AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Institute by Stephen King
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
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Synopsis
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban
Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him
into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will
wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except
there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are
other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this
place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old
Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to
Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you
don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her
staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force
of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along,
you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is
brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and
more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from
the Institute.
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