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From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity.
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw each other, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?
And it's not just the weight. Imposing himself on Pandora's world, Edison breaks her husband Fletcher's handcrafted furniture, makes overkill breakfasts for the family, and entices her stepson not only to forgo college but to drop out of high school.
After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It's him or me. Putting her marriage and adopted family on the line, Pandora chooses her brother - who, without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an early grave.
Rich with Shriver's distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat - an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much we'll sacrifice to rescue single members of our families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.
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In 2029 the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency: the "bancor". In retaliation the president declares that America will default on its loans. With "Deadbeat Nation" being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains for savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.
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So that's what the left and the right have in common!!!
- De Moe en 06-30-16
De: Lionel Shriver
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Mania
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is ""the last great civil rights fight."" Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word (“stupid”) and encouraged to report parents who use it at home.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this
- De upgrayedd en 04-14-24
De: Lionel Shriver
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So Much for That
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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Shep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife”: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with “talking, thinking, seeing, and being” — and enough sleep. When he sells his business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet his wife Glynis has concocted endless excuses why it’s never the right time to go.
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A Long-Form Rant Saved By Narrator (Barely)
- De Jennifer en 05-06-12
De: Lionel Shriver
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Abominations
- Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us.
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Fearless thinker
- De Irene E Nunn en 12-03-22
De: Lionel Shriver
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over 10 years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early 50s, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal.
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Innovative storyline
- De Richard.odell en 08-20-21
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Laurence Bouvard
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise - which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life - an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.
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Very Good!
- De Tina en 06-01-20
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Mandibles
- A Family, 2029-2047
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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In 2029 the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency: the "bancor". In retaliation the president declares that America will default on its loans. With "Deadbeat Nation" being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains for savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.
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So that's what the left and the right have in common!!!
- De Moe en 06-30-16
De: Lionel Shriver
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his 16th birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.
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A smart, chilling story. Told in a very unique way
- De aaron en 01-09-12
De: Lionel Shriver
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Double Fault
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at 23, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, competition soon puts a strain on their relationship - and an accident sends Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.
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Nine hours of arguing
- De Pamela Harvey en 09-28-11
De: Lionel Shriver
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The New Republic
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate.
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Not as clever as it's trying to be
- De Sharon en 02-10-15
De: Lionel Shriver
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A Perfectly Good Family
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.
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"Po-TAH-toes"?!
- De Pamela Harvey en 09-22-09
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Post-Birthday World
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby Sirois
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid, until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton.
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A terrific examinination of relationships
- De Susan D en 12-04-10
De: Lionel Shriver
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Big Brother
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- DebaDeb
- 12-08-13
The story was a bit overweight too!
I decided to read Big brother, when a listener I follow recommended it. I was rather intrigued. A husband hell bent on health, his supportive wife and her brother who has fallen into despair and has gained an enormous amount of weight, and their battle of the bulge. I too battle the ups and downs of the scale, and reading a story about someone else and their journey into "normal" size, sounded wonderful.
The first part of the book was interesting, but it moved slowly. I found myself cringing whenever Edison, Pandora's brother, spoke. His constant usage of "jazz" lingo was repetitive, and after hearing Ms. Rosengard read "man" after nearly every sentence grated on me. Then, to make it worse, Cory, Pandora's step-daughter picked up Edison's habit of jazz lingo.
I can't say I totally disliked this book. There were many parts I enjoyed. However, I noticed I kept looking at the time remaining to see if the book was close to ending. I stopped reading when I had 2 hours remaining. I just wasn't interested anymore.
In my opinion, this book could have been much shorter. Perhaps the abridged version would have been better. I even tried speeding up the narration at one point, but the echo from the increase, made it difficult to understand the narrator.
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- OrcasInTheWild
- 07-15-20
This book messed me up
It’s a factional story, but deals with very difficult RL issues. I had to keep listening and can’t stop thinking about it now that it’s over.
Can’t ask for more than that in a book!
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- Mulan (Mongolia)
- 02-29-16
Truly worthy book
Would you listen to Big Brother again? Why?
This book...wow this book! It is one of few books that gave me a great deal to think about, not just a relationship with food but insecurities, ego, maturity and, most important of all, obligation to family.
The latter is something most adults struggle with (especially people like me from Asian families) but there seem to be precious few books that deal with it: Where does the responsibility end??? Are needs of your family a bottomless black hole that should be allowed to suck you dry?
It is not a book for easy consumption. I found myself cringing and flinching many times, while being unable to stop listening. You will probably hate most of the characters, especially Edison, who I completely despised. But you will also understand his struggles and the events that contributed to his downfall.
(excuse the atrocious grammar; not a native speaker)
Would you be willing to try another one of Alice Rosengard’s performances?
Pandora is a woman in her early 40's, but the narrator sounded to be in her late 60's or possibly early 70's. Not only the narrator sounded wrong for Pandora (despite her soft, agreeable voice), but also she seemed confused at times and unable to connect with her character, thereby resigning to simply rattling off the text. The intonation was off at times.
Example: The first time the husband hints that Pandora has to choose between him and her brother, Pandora (narrator) loudly squeals: "That's cra-aa-a-zy!!". It sounded like a woman reacting with gleeful mock outrage to something naughty her young man whispered to her.
That just plain ruined it for me and it was only downhill from there.
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- don
- 06-16-16
excellent
loved it. incredible narration. tale of hope and frustration and choice, and when enough is never enough.
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- Susie Felber
- 06-02-20
Interesting exploration of family and fatness
This was an engaging book. Not life-changing but very good. The author has some lines that really hit the mark. And then long stretches of stuff that did not. Didn’t find the characters believable, but sometimes her observations of relationships and life were wonderfully spot on. The narrator was good, but some characters seemed overplayed. Worth a listen.
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- Raven De
- 01-13-18
wow.
loved this story. really learned a lot about relationships with food and the human spirit!
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- Jackie
- 07-17-13
Well worth the credit--
This author is becoming one of my favorites. Starting with the deep, complex story of striving, grief and eventually a very satisfying ending in "So Much for That"--I have been hooked on her novels. If you have not tried her yet---you are missing out on a unique talent.
Big brother is completely enthralling from the first paragraph to the last. Told from the view point of Pandora who is married and the step-mom of two teenagers---the family is faced with making room in their lives when Pandora's obese brother moves in with them for a "visit" - and it soon becomes obvious he has no real plans to leave. Her brother had been a musician and quite fit last time she saw him-- about four years ago. Apparently he fell on hard times and decided to eat his way to feeling better. Lately he has been living on the couch of a friend, who has had all he can take of the freeloader.
Pandora's husband has an especially hard time as he is a health nut who is committed to eating only healthy food and exercising religiously. Just the presence of Pandora's brother seems to irritate him, and he encourages her to cut the visit short. As the families routines and relationships start to wear thin, Pandora decides to help her brother lose weight (so she won't feel guilty just sending him back home in his current condition) --thinking this will be kind of a new start to his life.
With the main story being the brother and his issues, the little sub-plots are all woven in expertly to bring everything together. A lot of dialogue goes on in Pandora's own head as she reasons with herself about her own actions and what she sees the end goal to be.
Lionel Shriver is always surprising, though, in how her novels all have some kind of twist that you don't expect. This was no exception. A complete pleasure to listen to this one.
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- JoAnn
- 12-15-13
Very Shriver, VERY good!
I am a huge Lionel Shriver fan, so this book was a wonderful addition to her collection. As always, I was very impressed with her in-depth character study. She is, almost to a fault, honest, and brings us characters that resonate both in their consistency and in their unique quirks. She never paints a clear "good guy" and "bad guy," but always provides a good story.
Alice Rosengard did a wonderful job narrating this story. I can still hear Ms. Shriver's characters' idiosyncratic phrases in the narrator's voice ("Panda-bear!").
If you are not used to Ms. Shriver's work, they are not sunny. They are, however, wonderful works of fiction.
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- Kenan Meyers
- 06-13-20
A Brother's Keeper
Thia story makes a person wonder about the nature of hunger, love, and familial responsibility. The struggle depicted will catch in the throat while reading, and like many good meals makes you question exactly what flavor your tasting. While the tone can vary from saccharine to bitter sweet, but still nourishes the soul.
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- Pamela Harvey
- 07-04-13
Shriver's Super-sized Best!
Once again Shriver treads the tough path through the weeds and delivers a novel that is so overstuffed and super-sized with conflict that every sentence is a gift that leaves us waiting eagerly for the next one. WIthin the novel she deftly embeds the issues of fame & notoriety, the role of food in our lives, the relative importance of family and loyalty, the role of addiction and the "addictive personality" - she gives us all of it!
Shriver's protagonist, Pandora Hafdinarsen, the almost-accidental but successful entrepreneur is jolted out of her comfort zone when her brother, a jazz pianist who is having a "rough patch", arrives in their home weighing 240 pounds more than he did the last time she saw him. This causes all manner of mayhem, particularly offending the aesthetic sensibilities of her husband, Fletcher, who is a designer and builder of art furniture in the basement of the home he shares with Pandora and his two pre-adolescent children. He is additionally an exercise maniac, riding his bicycle 50 miles per day, and a "nutritional nazi", shunning all white flour, white sugar and anything that's wrapped, packaged or processed, his primary meal consisting of brown rice and broccoli. His body is lean and spare, the perfect contrast to the excessively over-nourished-by-junk-food Edison, Pandora's brother, for whom all sorts of spatial and emotional accommodations must be made as they all attempt to deal with his extreme girth.
This is the main plot setup, but woven through the story are musings about food (she's also a former caterer) and its importance (and lack thereof), addiction, fame, loyalty, and what it means to be "successful". Pandora feels divided between her husband and her brother and this forms the fulcrum on which the novel balances perfectly, delicately, and with the precision we've come to love and admire in Shriver's writing.
I have read some reviews on other sites and there seems to be some discussion about the ending. As a reader I favor neither a 'perfect' resolution nor an open-ended plot line - what makes a novel work for me is the writer's attention to detail, characterization, layers of emotion and sense of place. It's more about the story itself, the process, rather than any particular event that signals "the end", and with "Big Brother", IMO ending is organic to the story.
Five stars all around!
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