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- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
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Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is.
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We Are All Completely Fine
- De: Daryl Gregory
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
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Harrison is the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-30s and spends most of his time not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by the messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. And for some reason, Martin never takes off his sunglasses.
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original and unique
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De: Daryl Gregory
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
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The Coincidence Makers
- A Novel
- De: Yoav Blum
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What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random occurrence? What if it's all part of a bigger plan? What if there's no such thing as a chance encounter? What if there are people we don't know determining our destiny? And what if they are even planning the fate of the world? Enter the Coincidence Makers - Guy, Emily, and Eric - three seemingly ordinary people who work for a secret organization devoted to creating and carrying out coincidences. What the rest of the world sees as random occurrences, are, in fact, carefully orchestrated events.
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Amazing!
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De: Yoav Blum
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The Ghost Writer
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- De: Robert Harris
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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Too close to the truth?
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The Lost Weekend
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It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he's in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. A classic tale of one man's struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson's best-known book - a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
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What a terrific audiobook!
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De: Charles Jackson
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The Tourist
- A Novel
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In the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this contemporary international thriller follows Milo Weaver as he is drawn into a conspiracy that links riots in the Sudan, an assassin committing suicide, and an old friend who's been accused of selling secrets to the Chinese. Once the CIA and Homeland Security are after him, the only way for him to survive is to return, headfirst, into Tourism.
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A book not for dummies
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De: Olen Steinhauer
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Dolphin Junction
- Stories
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: David Thorpe, Emma Powell, Gerard Doyle, y otros
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Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five stand-alone nerve-racking and thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.
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Wicked treats
- De A+A en 11-24-21
De: Mick Herron
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The Game
- The Game Is Life, Book 1
- De: Terry Schott
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
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What if life as we know it was just a game? What if instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death - multiple times? What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever?
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A good concept mired by lazy writing.
- De Khada en 01-03-17
De: Terry Schott
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The Heart
- De: Maylis de Kerangal, Sam Taylor - translator
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
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The Heart takes place over the 24 hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.
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Wow! What a story!
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De: Maylis de Kerangal, y otros
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In the opening scene of Falling Man, Keith Neudecker emerges from the smoke and ash of the burning tower where he worked, and makes his way to the apartment of his ex-wife and young son uptown. Throughout this bold and haunting novel, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships, reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world.
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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Zero K
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Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his 60s with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to lives of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body.
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In the opening scene of Falling Man, Keith Neudecker emerges from the smoke and ash of the burning tower where he worked, and makes his way to the apartment of his ex-wife and young son uptown. Throughout this bold and haunting novel, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships, reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world.
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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Zero K
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In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
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At 28, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream - and the dream making - become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.
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At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war - the language of end zones - become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course.
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Running Dog
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DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York City journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process, she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to “star” Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master's early career.
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"Imperialist lackeys and running dogs."
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Ratner's Star
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One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, a genius adolescent who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, and mathematical theories as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel.
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Sitting alone in a room isn't enough.
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Cosmopolis
- De: Don DeLillo
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It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end, those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments.
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De: Don DeLillo
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Silence
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- 12-25-20
Ere the sockson locked at the dure
"Ere the sockson locked at the dure."
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
"We were headed in this direction. No more wonder, no more curiosity. Totally impaired orientation. Too much of everything from too narrow a source code."
- Don DeLillo, The Silence
My father-in-law, 28 years ago, was the director of Information Warfare and Special Technical Operations Center (STOC), a part of the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. I remember, being a college student dating his daughter, talking to him about his work there. He was the first to introduce me to the idea that we are always electronically at war. Our information grid, our electrical grids, our servers, our systems are constantly being "attacked". It was a brave new world that only has gotten braver the last two-three decades I'd imagine.
DeLillo imagines the aftermath of an attack in 2022 (or is it a solar flare or aliens?) that disables our grids; downs everything. Leaving us in the dark. No Google. No phones. No Super bowl. Delillo isn't interested in the later part of this narrative. He isn't writing a Stephen King novel or a dystopian SF novel. He is really only after the texture of what we would THINK, what we would SAY right as it happened or shortly after. I guess we have one month left in 2020, so shit.
The other day COX CABLE was down for two hours. We had no internet service (for our phone or computers). TV was limited since it is all through TV. Our social lives were limited because so much of our "lives" happens through the internet. So much of who we are exists either in a reflection through these social media source or through these connections. What happens when that vanishes suddenly? For everyone? Where are we? Where do we go when the world goes silent? What happens when the noise we thought was in our head goes silent and we are alone listening to the void?
Update: I also LOVED the typewriter font the book was printed in, so there is also that. One really nice detail. Also, don't pay too much attention to the stars. This might be a 4-star DeLillo. It has haunted me a bit since reading it yesterday, but perhaps that is just the clouds of 2020 or the anticipation of what December will bring.
Update: One of the things that keeps me coming back to Don DeLillo (just finished my last DeLillo novel, excluding Amazons, the other day is his MOOD. It is hard to describe, but I read a couple paragraphs of DeLillo and you know I'm reading him. Imagine you are on the edge of a black hole and falling into it. Your body elongates. Stretches. Before you disappear into the void as your left arm gets pulled inside, you start to pluck that arm. The sound your naked arm makes, as you slip into infinity, THAT is the mood of Don DeLillo.
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- Ren
- 11-23-20
The Heck Did I Just Listen To
Maybe if I sat down and listen to it all in one sitting, or maybe if I read it in print... Maybe I'll get the deeper meaning of this story. But I listened to half on the way in to work and the other half on the way home, and I was utterly confused. SPOILER ALERT: The event that cut off the football game caused the plane to crash, so how did the passengers get to the watch party so quickly? And, if everyone is rambling about Einstein, physics, and having sex with each other in weird places, is that happening all over the place or just with these people?
I'm sure Don DeLillo is a great writer, but, man, was I confused at the end. The story just kind of ended with the protagonists rambling about life stuff. Or did I miss the denouement somehow?
Not my cup of tea. Your mileage may vary.
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- Martin Ljungqvist
- 12-04-20
Audio play with catchy academic dialogue
The catchy academic dialogue and characters catched my attention. How they interact before the blackout, then comes conspiracy theories and schock. Focus on the characters reactions to unknown cause. I like the academic touch with references to Einstein. It is more of an audio play than a novel, but it could potentially be the beginning of a thriller. I would have liked more substance to the plot.
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- 10-28-20
Was intrigued for a short time.
But it is a very strange short story and disappointing after I was intrigued initally. Left me flat and with too many questions and too little character development. I was hooked, but got away.
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- Nicholas G Lange
- 11-23-20
Albee for a broken society
Look, DeLillo isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. A common reason people don’t like his books is the characters don’t talk like actual human beings, and there is a *lot* of talking. The Silence is in the same vein as Point Omega but without the high art undercurrent, instead (and pointedly) the narrative is anchored to a Super Bowl Sunday in the not-too-distant future.
Because of the stilted dialogue and flat characters, the choice to go with a full cast is probably the best approach. It’s much easier to follow what’s happening and develop some sense of who these people are in this weird little story.
This is a fairly brief, but powerful meditation of this sad moment in history, our dependence and entanglement with our screens, our need for vapid entertainment, and our disassociated relationship with the natural, physical world and its inherent rules. Drink deep, and descend.
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- Tom
- 10-26-20
Amazing Horror Story
A Real World Horror Tale that crackles with the anticipation we all hold in our guts if we let ourselves ponder the real implications of the World that we’re building. There’s more at stake than missing the Super Bowl or the next episode of The Bachelor!
Think about it. Reflect on it:
Oh the Humanity! When The Machine Stops!
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- David Batcher
- 10-24-20
A minor Delillo work, (mostly) well performed
If you’ve read Delillo, you'll have some sense of what you're in for. If you haven't read Delillo, this isn't the best entry ramp. He's one of our greatest living writers but this is a fairly minor work.
The good: as usual, he's a sentence-to-sentence wonder and a first class muser, telescoping from the banal to the cosmic and back again in a single paragraph. Einstein, relativity, airplane food, Superbowl ads, World War III- all of that is here, and more, in a 115 page novella. And the narrator and 4 of the 5 actors bring his often bizarre cadences and idiosyncratic phrasings to life *brilliantly.*
The bad: Laurie Anderson, voicing Diane, almost tanks every scene she's in. Everyone else is acting with some degree of naturalism - but Anderson is doing her full-on crystal-clear voice of detached, lightly ironic observation (she's a titan in the world of performance art) and it sticks out like a sore thumb. She is grossly miscast here. Also, for a book that includes a plane crash and every piece of electronics in the world suddenly shutting down, things somehow feel a little uneventful.
That said, I liked it a great deal, and since it's so short, I'm likely to listen and/or read it again - when Delillo turns a phrase or knocks an offhand observation out of the park, there's really no one like him.
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- ben scotti
- 10-29-20
confusing
The only positive thing I have to say about this book was that the narration were spit on awesome. Past that I frankly did not know what was happening, it felt like the author was trying to combine a global disaster with a philosophical awakening and put so much emphasis on the philisophixal aspects that the disaster the characters were living through seemed utterly pointless and unimportant to the overall story.
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- Michelle L. LeBlanc
- 07-06-24
Take a Pass on This
A cast of insufferable pedants drag their performative ennui into a lackluster apocalypse. No. Don’t.
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- Angela
- 01-23-23
Don’t waste your time
A hour in and I’m bored. I’m at my desk and I almost feel asleep. Returning it asap.
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