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A Naked Singularity
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A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender - one who, tellingly, has never lost a trial. Never.
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Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates.
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- De Diogenes en 08-06-23
De: Vladimir Sorokin, y otros
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Pay as You Go
- A Fable
- De: Eskor David Johnson
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide—a barber with an opaque past—embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods.
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Great story and narrator
- De N. E. H. en 02-01-24
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Inherent Vice
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with.
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Fun Pynchon, don't be afraid
- De Darryl en 08-21-09
De: Thomas Pynchon
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
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Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
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Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
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Telluria
- De: Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton - translator
- Narrado por: David Aranovich
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates.
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- De Diogenes en 08-06-23
De: Vladimir Sorokin, y otros
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Satantango
- De: László Krasznahorkai
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”
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Tone. Sound. Psychology. Humor.
- De Anonymous User en 12-19-23
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The Other Name
- Septology I-II
- De: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls - translator
- Narrado por: Kyle Snyder
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.
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Ear worms galore
- De ET en 10-10-23
De: Jon Fosse, y otros
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The Books of Jacob
- A Novel
- De: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator
- Narrado por: Allen Lewis Rickman, Gilli Messer
- Duración: 35 h y 37 m
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In the mid-18th century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.
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Dense & Difficult But Rewarding
- De Nick O. en 02-28-22
De: Olga Tokarczuk, y otros
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Tinkers
- De: Paul Harding
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating.
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Annoying and pretentious
- De William en 01-12-09
De: Paul Harding
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Solenoid
- De: Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 34 h y 4 m
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Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
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Believe the hype
- De gabe en 04-01-23
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
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Rayuela (Spanish Edition)
- De: Julio Cortázar
- Narrado por: Leandro Schnitman
- Duración: 44 h y 19 m
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En Rayuela (1963), Julio Cortázar supo condensar sus obsesiones estéticas, literarias y vitales a partir de un mosaico diverso, profundo, inagotable que, a su vez, refleja de forma maravillosa lo más esencial de su época. El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las impredecibles caminatas por París -la ciudad que promete el cielo pero puede conducir al infierno-, encuentran su contracara en la aventura protagonizada por Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en Buenos Aires.
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Hermoso
- De Anonymous User en 03-07-20
De: Julio Cortázar
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Same Bed Different Dreams
- A Novel
- De: Ed Park
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac, Dominic Hoffman, Shannon Tyo
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the tragic North-South split that remains today.
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Complex and dazzling
- De EP en 12-08-23
De: Ed Park
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Tree of Smoke
- A Novel
- De: Denis Johnson
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness.
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tree of smoke
- De ed spilka en 12-13-07
De: Denis Johnson
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- De: Marlon James
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, y otros
- Duración: 26 h
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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
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A Tough Read
- De KP en 05-07-16
De: Marlon James
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Jerusalem
- De: Alan Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 60 h y 42 m
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Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening.
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Neither Engaging nor Satisfying
- De Asha Ember en 12-20-16
De: Alan Moore
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Gravity's Rainbow
- De: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 37 h y 21 m
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- De Jefferson en 07-04-16
De: Thomas Pynchon, y otros
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2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, y otros
- Duración: 39 h y 15 m
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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
De: Roberto Bolaño
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Naked Singularity
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- George
- 08-02-16
I'm not sure what I listened to
I bought the because the narrator sounded good on sampling and the quick blurb about the book sounded interesting. I'm not sure what I just listened to the story was all over the place, I lost track numerous times. Also I'm not so sure how I'm supposed to take the ending either. In any case the story was a diversion but I'm not sure to or from what
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- Patrick Barney
- 11-30-18
Hilarious and moving, with caveats.
This book is truly an entertaining read. Hilarious satire combines with some heart-aching narrative developments. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read an amusing novel with philosophical depth. That being said, this book sits firmly in the poststructural tradition--which is to say, it rarely commits to any definitive theme without then undermining that theme. For example, after a really moving interview with a prisoner on death row, the novel's lawyer protagonist exits the cell only to be confronted by a guard with an anti-sympathy pamphlet showing the prisoner's brutal crime. I'm not saying that this is aesthetic failure. It certainly isn't--but it does follow most postmodern literature in being noncommittal as far as meaning is concerned. First we sympathize, and then we draw back, as if the sympathy should be reexamined. On the whole, I find the poststructural universal skepticism offered in this book to be extremely worn out and a little trite, not to mention unwarranted. Still a very good book on the whole.
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- Stryc9
- 09-17-21
A slow start builds to a compelling end
I really enjoyed this book. It is kind of all over the place, but I really enjoyed it.
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- Suramericana
- 03-20-17
Un libro normal y diferente
What made the experience of listening to A Naked Singularity the most enjoyable?
La vida de Casie el dedective privado, es tan real que un ve la gente con sus brazos dañados por la droga, la corruption del sistema juridico. Te sientes como si estubieras en la corte con el.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Casie el detective, inteligente, su filosofia, su forma de ver la vida y sus alrededores, sus historias.
Which scene was your favorite?
El plan para robar la plata de Escalante el vendedor de drogas
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Te ries constantemente, hay escenas que son increible mente graciaciosas
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- Matthew Dakus
- 07-25-16
This book isn't for everyone! But it is quite good
I'll start out by saying I enjoyed this book a lot, but that's because I'm an over the road trucker and have a lot of time to kill, and as a consequence books that ramble and spend a ton of time going into things that don't move the plot forward don't bug me in the slightest as long as it's entertaining and/or insiteful. This book rambles like crazy. It includes probably a full hour (if not more) of a biography of a boxer, and full transcripts of plenty of conversations overheard by the protagonist. One more thing, this book isn't nearly as narratively straightforward as you might think. Almost a literary 2001: A Space Odessey (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) except for way less boring. What I'm saying is that many parts of this book make no sense whatsoever and I still have no idea what happened, just like after I watched 2001: ASO.
Every (no exaggeration) character is a complete caricature of themselves, with their personality dialed up to 11 no matter what that personality may be. It's an interesting read, that's for sure.
But the book is also hilarious, entertaining, philosophical, scientific, educational (sorry I saved that for last De La Pava). I thoroughly enjoyed it, and if it sounds at all like your kinda book, I highly recommend it.
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- Joel
- 03-29-17
Tried & Failed to get through this meandering mess
What disappointed you about A Naked Singularity?
From the description I expected this to be focused on the legal system and the Public Defender's cases. It started out that way but it quickly became obvious that this was not focused on the legal system. Instead the author wanders into minute detail of everyday events in the life of the main character. I gave up about 6 hours into the 27 hour audiobook and that is extremely rare for me. If you want to hear inane conversations between the main character and his roommates, coworkers, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, etc. than this might be for you. Not sure how any of it relates to the main plot line because it was unclear what the plot was even after the hours that I endured.
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