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Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: Call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. The story's four whip-smart narrators - idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda - are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too short
- De Paul en 05-31-24
De: Garth Greenwell
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Health and Safety
- A Breakdown
- De: Emily Witt
- Narrado por: Emily Witt
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bored voice
- De Amazon Customer en 12-20-24
De: Emily Witt
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- De: Jenny Odell
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 753
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 594
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book, voiceover is brutal
- De Anonymous User en 08-24-19
De: Jenny Odell
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Blue Ruin
- A Novel
- De: Hari Kunzru
- Narrado por: Hari Kunzru
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height—the greater public panicked in quarantine—and though he has returned to work, Jay hasn’t recovered from the effects of a recent COVID case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent dead ringer of the ridiculous depths of the art world
- De JLB en 11-15-24
De: Hari Kunzru
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,051
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,423
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,419
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love it...
- De Claudia Gallegos en 07-12-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Heart in Winter
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Road to nowhere
- De Glenda O'Rourke en 07-29-24
De: Kevin Barry
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Lapvona
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 729
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 614
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina’s ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina’s home in the woods is a godless place.
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3 out of 5 stars
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uncomfortable
- De Stetson en 07-04-22
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- De: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 905
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 742
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the listener, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the true heir w.g. sebald
- De Thomas en 12-23-21
De: Benjamin Labatut, y otros
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Shred Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Betsy Lerner
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. None of that explains what’s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy’s carefully constructed life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fairly common storyline
- De Placeholder en 10-22-24
De: Betsy Lerner
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Real Americans
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Khong
- Narrado por: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang, Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 564
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 522
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STELLAR STORYTELLING
- De Brenda C. en 05-02-24
De: Rachel Khong
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Gabriel's Moon
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: George Blagden
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes of Europe in the grip of the Cold War. When he is offered the chance to interview Patrice Lumumba, newly elected president of the People’s Republic of the Congo, he finds himself drawn into a web of duplicities and betrayals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best Boyd storylines, but...
- De WKB en 12-19-24
De: William Boyd
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Beautyland
- De: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 226
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-24
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- De: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 526
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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- De Ximena Enriquez en 08-31-24
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 473
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author should not have been the reader
- De Raj A. en 09-11-24
De: Rachel Kushner
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- De James en 04-06-24
De: Kaveh Akbar
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Ordinary Human Failings
- A Novel
- De: Megan Nolan
- Narrado por: Jessica Regan
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grim and luminous all at once.
- De M. Locher en 02-08-25
De: Megan Nolan
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I Cheerfully Refuse
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just Ho-Hum for me
- De Bailey Rose en 08-13-24
De: Leif Enger
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Private Citizens
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- San Rafael, CA
- 12-06-24
A draft, of sorts, for his masterpiece rejection
Quite interesting to see how the elements of Rejection, present here, are later polished into a much stronger work. This book does reflect his mastery of the language and his insights into human behavior. The story line and characters don't quite hit the mark.
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- Ceebsy
- 11-27-24
Fun, witty, self-aware writing.
Loved the writing but the plot was a little thin. It does a good job of capturing a slice of life in the early 2000s for a very particular group of young adults, but I came back for the writing, not the plot.
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- G. Plummer
- 12-12-24
I loved every word!
Tulathimutte’s debut novel is a depressing retrospective of San Francisco millennials traversing the technocratic hellscape of intimacy and identity. Fabulously narrated. Phenomenal story.
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- Ted
- 12-01-24
An amazing snapshot of SF at the time.
Four protagonists, none of which are particularly sympathetic, yet all very interesting.
Note to narrator: “marIN” not “MARin”.
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- Zanriel
- 01-18-17
Too dour and cynical.
I couldn't finish. The characters in this book are so disgustingly dour, cynical, self-absorbed, and pathetic that I couldn't bring myself to spend one more minute with them. The characters, being a reflection of the story itself really are the story, and it was just too painful. The writing itself is very good, and so is the narration. I just don't have the fortitude to keep going.
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