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The Mandibles
- A Family, 2029-2047
- Narrado por: George Newbern
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With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating US sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction.
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.
The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment but also - as the US economy spirals into dysfunction - the challenge of sheer survival.
Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt Nollie returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother now that an assisted living facility isn't affordable. Only Florence's oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets.
The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness - but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.
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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
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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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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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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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Big Brother
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Alice Rosengard
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw each other, he has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Imposing himself on Pandora's world, Edison breaks her husband Fletcher's handcrafted furniture, and entices her stepson 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.
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Shriver's Super-sized Best!
- De Pamela Harvey en 07-04-13
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Muse
- A Novel
- De: Jessie Burton
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Maria Elena Infantino
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery.
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Mixed narration
- De Amy Fleury en 08-05-16
De: Jessie Burton
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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
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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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Rare Objects
- A Novel
- De: Kathleen Tessaro
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Maeve Fanning is a first-generation Irish immigrant born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests, she's determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin - a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward, leading a double life.
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I loved this book!!
- De Traci J en 08-19-17
De: Kathleen Tessaro
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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 Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
- De: Phaedra Patrick
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest; waters his fern, Frederica; and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before.
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Disappointing.
- De BikeVON en 05-17-16
De: Phaedra Patrick
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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 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
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
- A Novel
- De: Tom Franklin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin - critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane.
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Riveting
- De Hansthedachshund en 07-05-21
De: Tom Franklin
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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
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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Dust Tracks on a Road
- An Autobiography
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors. Hurston's powerful novels of the South - including Jonah's Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching God - continue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality.
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Very nice!
- De Joi Wilson en 10-31-16
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The Dream Machine
- De: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 27 h y 16 m
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Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.
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Biographies, not technical
- De D. Garber en 01-16-20
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Neil Gaiman
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his fiction. Now The View from the Cheap Seats brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart.
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The very best View is from the Cheap Seats
- De Jessica en 06-20-16
De: Neil Gaiman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Mandibles
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- Norb
- 08-20-19
current statism extrapolated
spot on realistic outline.
a 'middle of the road' extrapolation, without any 'black swans' for or against.
obvious linear progression of current corrupt socialism (two words with the same meaning).
mixed execution.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-06-21
When reality is stranger than fiction
Read this book in 2021 (post-COVID-19 lockdowns and shortages), and let’s just say I don’t recommend falling asleep to this book. For a book written back in 2016, there may be opportunity yet for some of these scenarios to happen in real life. Entertaining, and informative to those who are concerned with global economic disaster.
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- Brian Q.
- 11-18-22
Good read!
It is definitely a interesting book and how it is very applicable to today’s political and social climate
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- HolographicFrog
- 05-07-24
Chilling look at a potential future
The most haunting thing is the logic is flawless and could pan out exactly like this. The only thing that really stood out was birth rates going up across the world.
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- Maursiam
- 01-29-17
Excellent Listen
Scarily realistic based on the current situation in the US. Alternative facts!! just became real - be vigilant.
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- james92307
- 09-05-19
Outstanding!
Compelling and very well written. The Mandibles is a peek into one possible future for an economy driven by a government bent on providing for every citizen. Instead of a Utopia, we find that there is no free lunch in the land of the free. This is a narrative of what happens when a central bank prints currency and renounces foreign debt. Filled with bleak realities punctuated by hope and leadership, this is a must read for anyone paying attention to the economic and political trajectory of the United States. Lionel Shriver is a master at storytelling who will make you laugh while simultaneously scaring the shit out of you. Read this book. Now.
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- Guy
- 05-04-20
Exciting chronicle of hyperinflation, tho story could be more compelling
I have to admit that there were a couple of odd turns in the story, specifically in regards to what arc we were chasing and who to focus on. It made the story of the characters themselves seem secondary, while their struggles and the contests over the state of the system seemed more the primary focus.
This didn’t take much away from its fun though, I gave it a 4/5 after all, but it’s something to consider before diving in. I particularly enjoy those topics already.
That said, I took this one to the end and don’t regret it. It was captivating in a variety of different ways even if a little winding along the way. A good listen, specifically if you are interested in the nature of money and society.
Also, Bitcoin fixes this 😘
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- Mr. DT
- 04-19-20
perfect for right now
very possible glimpse into what the future may just hold. entertaining, great character representation, and awesome ending
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- Anthony M.
- 05-29-22
Definitely a great read
This book is a good insight on what things could look like in the future for Americans. Lots of gems in here. It was very intricate in detalle and because of that sometimes a little hard to follow, but I’m going to buy the hard copy as well. Great read!
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- FRITZTA
- 01-22-21
INTRIGUING
In the beginning it took me a minute to get into this book, but after talking with a Prophet the book became more appealing, because it was so in line with His prophecy, the Toilet paper, the dying dollar and Gold, so many references in the prophecy were in a book written in 2016. I found in 2020.
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