The Suicide Collectors, David Oppegaard
The Suicide Collectors, David Oppegaard
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The Suicide Collectors

Author: David Oppegaard

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/09/2008


Synopsis

In one of the most stunning debuts to come along in years, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s best work and P. D. James’s classic The Children of Men, David Oppegaard gives us a world whose near future presents some terrifying realities.

The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world’s population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead.

In the crumbling state of Florida, a man named Norman takes an unprecedented stand against the Collectors, propelling him on a journey across North America. It’s rumored that a scientist in Seattle is working on a cure for the Despair, but in a world ruled by death, it won’t be easy for Norman to get there.

“The Suicide Collectors takes us to a startling theme we haven’t encountered before, with every page a thrilling new surprise.” ——Stan Lee, co-creator of Spiderman

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly (Maybedog) on April 17, 2010

There are some good things about this book and some really irritating things. I’ll start with the good because David Oppegaard is on Goodreads and will undoubtedly read this review. I think it’s well written, it flows well and it kept me interested. I wanted to know what happened next. The character......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on March 19, 2009

Some time in the not-too-distant future, everyone in a popular night club in Tokyo committed suicide. Not long after, suicide rates around the world started climbing. Tokyo was only the beginning of a world-wide Despair. Depression, hopelessness: it sends people hurtling from the tops of buildings,......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on September 21, 2023

This was really good for a first novel and quite excellent for a random grab off of a library shelf. I do enjoy post-apocalyptic/dystopian fiction, and this was an interesting entry into the genre dealing with, as the title states, suicides. Strong characters drive the story across the country as we......more

Goodreads review by Brad on May 29, 2009

When I read that The Suicide Collectors was the story of a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by “The Despair,” which drove billions of humans to death by their own hands, I thought, “Whiz! BANG!” And that’s exactly what I expected. I expected a world that went out with a bang. And I expected bangs to gr......more

Goodreads review by Erin on January 10, 2009

The Suicide Collectors is a good book full of horrible things. I mulled it over, and that's really the only way to describe it. In Oppegaard's dystopian world, the entire planet has been gripped by an epidemic called The Despair. Ninety percent of the Earth's population has committed suicide in the p......more