Not wanting to leave his listeners in a lurch, Teel McClanahan III today drops the first two episodes of Forget What You Can’t Remember:
Featuring a zombie outbreak and a strange sort of doomsday, but really focusing on how coming through those experiences into utopia and freedom effects different people, Forget What You Can’t Remember is an exploration of the human mind under pressure. It’s about relationships, memory, opportunity, and dealing with their loss – and other kinds of loss. Forget What You Can’t Remember is a spin-off novel in the same universe as Lost and Not Found (also available on Podiobooks.com) which doesn’t require you to have read that book to understand it.
Ah… zombies. If you get a custom feed, you’ll get every episode of this book on a schedule of your choosing. Or if you want to let Teel be in control, grab the default feed. Either way, we hope you enjoy this free serialized audiobook, our first of 2009!
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March 13th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
nice to have a chapter that is not just an ongoing conversation. Finally some action. That seems to have been very light of late. I enjoy the story more when the plot is advanced with some actions and not just conversation that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere between numerous characters.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Bubble and Squeak
I didn’t know that this was the second part of “Lost and Not Found” and thought LaNF just ended strange with a lot of loose ends.
Teel is a very good writer. I mentioned to my wife how I listened to 5 min about a character eating breakfast and enjoyed it.
However the two book have way to many story-lines for my taste that don’t seem to fit.
Teel goes from a guy writing 3 different stories (that you get involved in and then the guy changes his mind to so you don’t get completion) to Zombies and now there in a floating city. All the while new character are introduced to the story. For me I get connected to a character and if simply ends with no reason I feel like a friendship ended.
However, that is not to say I not enjoying it. It’s like skydiving, something you do once just to say you did it but will not do it again.
Of Teel’s work “Untrue Tales” is his best work to date. In fact I could see this as new New and improved replacement for Harry Potter.
Thank you Teel
Keep smiling
May 4th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
It’ll cure insomnia. HOW do you manage to write a dull book including a Zombie Apocalypse?
May 6th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
This book isn’t meant to be a traditional zombie book, horror book, or other such thriller. It is slow, contemplative, and examines depersonalization disorder, memory loss, and post-traumatic stress through the lens of a zombie outbreak which is effectively resolved by chapter 8. (Well, and Chapter 23, though the zombies certainly represent no threat there.)
For a proper zombie book, with plenty of horror, death, et cetera, I recommend another of my Podiobooks, Cheating, Death: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/cheating-death
Cheating, Death is still concerned largely with the characters’ thoughts and relationships, rather than with the details of the zombies, but there is death in nearly every chapter, and enough gore that some people stopped reading. Plus, it’s only 13 chapters to FWYCR’s 31, so it’s not a huge risk or time investment. Thanks for trying my books at all!
November 14th, 2010 at 7:52 am
I’m finding myself begrudgingly enjoying this story. It is (as far as i’m concerned) pretty original and interesting.
I dont like the narration however, and the way some of the characters whine about everything can be hard to listen to. And the whistles in the background…wtf is up with the semi-constant whistling and, random ‘carnivale’ noises? That is SO distracting not only on a ‘there are whistles in my ears level’ but also on a ‘why the hell did he put a bunch of whistles in my ears?’ level, if that made sense.
I’m about 3/4′s through I think, and feel like more should be made about the ‘event’ and how it changed everything and people cant figure out what was different. So something came along and changed history, but it’s just sort of a working footnote, and only one character seems even remotely interested in finding out what happened. This seems like the most interesting thing in the story to me, and I wish you’d played with it a bit more. Of course, i’m not done, so maybe you do just that.
Anyways, I truly appreciate the effort and time to make the book and put it down in podiobook format, for free! It is an enjoyable read which deserves to be given a chance.