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Narrated by:
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Louise Brealey
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Margaret Atwood
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Toby Jones
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin
In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful “Benefactor”, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished only by a number assigned to them at birth. That is, until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. He can feel things. He can fall in love. And, in doing so, he begins to dangerously veer from the norms of his society, becoming embroiled in a plot to destroy OneState and liberate the city.
Set in the 26th century AD, We was the forerunner of canonical works from George Orwell and Alduous Huxley, among others. It was suppressed for more than sixty years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, as well as a powerful, exciting, and vivid work of science fiction that still feels relevant today. Bela Shayevich’s bold new translation breathes new life into Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal work and refreshes it for our current era.
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- Narrated by: Michael York
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 30,526
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26,518
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Story4 out of 5 stars 26,523
When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Michael York should stick to the stage and leave narration to the pros.
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By: Aldous Huxley
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The Recognitions
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- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
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By: William Gaddis
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Fahrenheit 451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,006
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
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By: Ray Bradbury
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Solaris
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- By: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A comment on negative reviews
- By Anonymous User on 09-20-11
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- By: Ralph Ellison
- Narrated by: Joe Morton
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,984
Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Did This Escape Me?
- By E. Pearson on 11-23-11
By: Ralph Ellison
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Amulet
- By: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry", hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read The Savage Detectives first
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By: Roberto Bolaño, and others
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Agents of Dreamland
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 116
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A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea, a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible - the Children of the Next Level - and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming, and they will help to usher it in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Really Enjoyed It
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The Early Ayn Rand
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rand's literary and intellectual growth, from a 21-year-old Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist and sophisticated philosopher she was to become in her mature work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want more Rand? Here it is.
- By John on 12-03-11
By: Ayn Rand
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The Gift
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A complex and rich Künstlerroman
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Third Policeman
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- Narrated by: Jim Norton
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 600
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Story4 out of 5 stars 415
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
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By: Flann O'Brien
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The Whispering Dark
- By: Kelly Andrew
- Narrated by: Nora Hunter
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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hauntingly beautiful dark academia
- By Anonymous User on 01-23-23
By: Kelly Andrew
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Anthem
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,912
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,686
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,691
“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” Deep issues of conscience are explored in Ayn Rand’s dystopian tale of a man who dares to fight against a system that invades his very mind and identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Triumphant! A beautiful molding of the mind.
- By Anonymous User on 02-17-16
By: Ayn Rand
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Set the Stars Alight
- By: Amanda Dykes
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories of the high seas led her to become a marine archaeologist. But when tragedy strikes, it's Dashel, an American forensic astronomer, and his knowledge of the stars that may help her unearth the truth behind the puzzle she's discovered in her family home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sweet but lacking
- By Anonymous User on 08-16-20
By: Amanda Dykes
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Three Parts Dead
- By: Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Claudia Alick
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,000
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 903
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Story4 out of 5 stars 900
A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- By John on 07-27-14
By: Max Gladstone
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Hellboy: Oddest Jobs
- By: Author Various
- Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale and China Miéville, cross-genre sensation Barbara Hambly, celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen, best-selling science-fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams, and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin a tale or two about the world's greatest paranormal detective. Some of the biggest names in horror, mystery, and fantasy come together to pay homage to Mike Mignola's Hellboy!
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5 out of 5 stars
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could go with more authors that know Source materi
- By bEnemy on 07-25-23
By: Author Various
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38,750
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34,561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34,446
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Prose style not to my liking
- By C.V. Cox on 10-18-20
By: V. E. Schwab
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 156
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Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.
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An entertaining audio
- By Barbara S on 07-09-23
By: Patrick deWitt
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The Magic Mountain
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 37 hrs and 27 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 875
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Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magical Journey
- By Paul on 08-20-20
By: Thomas Mann
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The Theory of Everything Else
- A Voyage into the World of the Weird
- By: Dan Schreiber
- Narrated by: Dan Schreiber, Jamie Morton, Ella Al-Shamahi, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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From the Silicon Valley tech billionaires currently trying to work out whether or not the universe is one giant video game simulation to the self-proclaimed community of Italian time-travelers who are trying to save the world from destruction; The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Yawn
- By Anonymous User on 08-18-23
By: Dan Schreiber
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Be Mine
- A Frank Bascombe Novel
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frank 4
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-23
By: Richard Ford
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Things in Jars
- A Novel
- By: Jess Kidd
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 882
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 775
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Story4 out of 5 stars 771
Bridie Devine - flame-haired, pipe-smoking detective extraordinaire - is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors in this age of discovery. Winding her way through the sooty streets of Victorian London, Bridie won’t rest until she finds the young girl, even if it means unearthing secrets about her past that she’d rather keep buried.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Don't Often Say This, But...
- By Kentucky Bohemian on 08-08-20
By: Jess Kidd
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- Brian H
- 03-06-24
Superior predecessor to Brave New World and 1984.
If you were made to read Brave New World by Huxley or 1984 by Orville in school you should read We. It is is many ways the superior source text for both books. While the story can be a bit disjointed, the imagery and imagination are expansive and compelling. Long live the imagination.
Listen to the commentaries from Orwell, Ursula Le Guin and the translator. The later is the best of the three but all are insightful and thought provoking.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-10-22
Hidden gem
I saw this book in Mark Steyn's recommendations and I was not disappointed. Rather I was amazed as to never heard of this amazing book before. A must have!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-18-22
Definitely See the Connection to Brave New Word
Unfortunately, like that book, I liked it but about halfway through the momentum of the story just dropped and I couldn't finish it.
I'm sure I could have gotten through it for a class but not for a casual read.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-06-23
Impressive trailblazer from a fan of the genre!
I have read 1984 a couple times as well as Brave New World and sorry I was not aware of this original inspiration in a genre I love! Because I’m in a play adaptation of We I am here. I would have lived it anyway but this edition I find especially valuable including the additional commentary. I also enjoyed the dark humor, as Zenyatin intended!!
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- Blake Burkholder
- 08-30-22
Truly perfection
Read this and fell in love but one of the greatest audiobooks I’ve ever heard. A true masterpiece.
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- Al pal
- 04-12-24
Great narrator
At first I was unsure if I would like the narrators accent but then I grew to prefer it.
Important literature for this time in America. As censorship increases its grip daily.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-09-24
Not an easy listen
The story might be easier to keep track of if read. Y’s use of alphanumerics instead of names made it easy to get mixed up, especially when returning to the audiobook after a pause of a couple days. Tobie Jones was a good choice as the narrator.
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