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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
- Stories and a Novella
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Joshua Ferris
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’ debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world.
With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential listening for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice.
Praise for George Saunders and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline:
“It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Saunders’s satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it’s also ferocious and very funny.” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
“George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice. [CivilWarLand in Bad Decline] is scary, hilarious, and unforgettable.” (Tobias Wolff)
“Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless.” (Jonathan Franzen)
“Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.” (Zadie Smith)
“An astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic, and funny - telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times.” (Thomas Pynchon)
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Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why? Because Saunders’ words tap in to a desire in all of us to lead kinder, more fulfilling lives. Powerful, funny, and wise, Congratulations, by the Way is an inspiring message from one of today’s most influential and original writers.
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Great Speech
- De Lucas Samples en 09-23-20
De: George Saunders
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The Midwich Cuckoos
- De: John Wyndham
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears, and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed - except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others and brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside....
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Stephen Fry is a national treasure!
- De Nathaniel A Day en 12-05-21
De: John Wyndham
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Fox 8
- A Story
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders
- Duración: 37 m
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Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak Yuman by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people - even after danjer arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack.
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Sly Foxes, Wise Owls, Mean Dudes
- De Mel en 05-28-13
De: George Saunders
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The Devil's Dictionary
- De: Steven Kotler
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango, is the first of his kind—an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. The Devil's Dictionary finds Lion Zorn enmeshed with a strange subculture: polyamorous crypto-currency fiends with a tendency toward eco-terrorism. These crypto-eco-punks have executed the largest land grab in US history.
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Better than the first of the series
- De Michael en 09-09-22
De: Steven Kotler
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The Last One
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Oliva
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain, Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens—but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them—a young woman the show’s producers call Zoo—stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.
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I had to finish it and finish it fast.
- De Howard en 07-16-16
De: Alexandra Oliva
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- De Scott Garrioch en 01-14-21
De: George Saunders
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Salvation Day
- De: Kali Wallace
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr, Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya - the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.
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Engaging story, but;
- De Casey Beckstead en 03-08-21
De: Kali Wallace
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Admiral
- De: Sean Danker
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire - a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship's records confirm he is their superior officer. Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead.
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Admiral?
- De Kyle R. Bemis en 05-10-16
De: Sean Danker
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Universal Love
- Stories
- De: Alexander Weinstein
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 6 h
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Universal Love welcomes listeners to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed.
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Love it. As amazing as “children of the new world”!
- De Miguel D. en 02-22-22
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Harden
- Lee Harden, Book 1
- De: D. J. Molles
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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It’s been three years since Lee Harden emerged from his bunker into a world gone mad. Governments have fallen. And new ones have taken their place. In the United Eastern States, Lee and his team of battle-hardened operatives walk a tightrope of survival, keeping their fledgling society safe from the creatures beyond their gates - and from the enemies within. Then, an ambush in hostile territory reveals a traitor in their midst - and leaves Lee barely clinging to life. Wounded and on the run, Lee and his team race to uncover the leak before it’s too late.
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Truly Exceptional
- De smb072 en 10-27-18
De: D. J. Molles
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West of Eden
- De: Harry Harrison
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
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Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve into intelligent life? In West of Eden, best-selling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.
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Narration is flat and monotonous.
- De Sande en 06-28-17
De: Harry Harrison
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Good Morning, Midnight
- A Novel
- De: Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to evacuate, but Augustine stubbornly refuses to abandon his work. Shortly after the others have gone, Augustine discovers a mysterious child, Iris, and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent.
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Better than a sleeping pill
- De Chris en 07-31-19
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- Spam
- 08-25-19
Favorite author. Favorite narrator.
I have been waiting years and years for Saunders to read his earlier work. So happy to see both CWIBD as well as Pastoralia now available, read by the author. Thank you for taking the time to read these George. You are the best.
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- 01-04-23
Worthwhile
These are very stylized and heavy handed but engaging, clever, and funny. Stay for the authors note at the end if you are an aspiring writer
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- Mary K Foster
- 05-23-21
>>BUCKLE. UP.<<
George Saunders did not come here to play. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline is not here to enchant you with crisp prose (but the writing is unbeatably lean, clean, & deliciously wry), nor is it here to win you over with tart chuckles from firecracker sui generis characters (but each character is so rich with bizarre idiosyncrasies and strange hungers that you just keep leaning forward in your seat like, “How dreadful! Then what happened?”)— no, Saunders is here to serve up barely-there tales and to leverage the dry, hysterical, unhinged-cringe testimonies of the denizens of these collapsing twilight worlds and sundry dystopian theme parks; and in doing so, Saunders is here to participate in a tradition of his own design that shoves fabulist realism and grimed humor into the close quarters of short form fiction in such a way that (not unlike the mastery of Ursula K. Le Guin) we are viscerally dislocated from our own world grooves in a way that awaken and rattle us through the disarming power of comedy and (truly) sheer weirdness: and in the process, we cling to the only structures we understand and, in doing so, know them for the first time. (Be advised also that trigger warnings apply, as well as hefty allowances for cultural dialogues written in the 1990s that are clearly trying to rehearse and progress discussions of sensitive topics, including racial violence, PTSD, and disability.) If cringe and grime are not your jam, this George Saunders collection may not be your best fit— but! definitely your best bet if you’re a fan of the short fictions of Hemingway, Pynchon, and Vonnegut and cannot get enough richly imagined sardonic narrators writing from world after flawed world that makes so little sense, it’s glittering logic, welcome home, and hold onto something.
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- Hobbes in Dobbs
- 05-16-22
Author’s Note
The whole book is worth the price of admission with the addition of the Author’s Note, which describes his travails in getting to the point of publishing. It reads like one if his stories. I wonder how long he was able to keep his after the publication. He says he cut adjectives in his first unpublished book, so I will end here...good collection of short stories and a novella.
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- Kimmo
- 08-21-22
Great story, horrible narration
for a non-native speaker, the mumbling, partly unintelligible narration by George Saunders was maddening and took a lot away from the storyline nuances. please use professionals, hardly ever the author's own narration adds anything.
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- J. Johns
- 01-15-23
horrible narration
Saunders might be a great writer but he's a terrible narrator. I'm returning the Audible and ordering a hard copy.
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- Tom
- 04-21-21
Nope. Just can’t care.
I tried to read this collection to the end, but I just couldn’t care about anything he was writing. I don’t know what all the acclaim is about. He writes well enough, but his subject matter just doesn’t matter.
A waste of time.
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- Troy L.
- 06-02-21
Wha?
How anyone could enjoy this book, in particular this dry & monotone reading of it, is beyond me. I thought that, as a series of short stories, at least a few of them had to be good. Was I ever wrong. The only decent writing was in the forward, by another writer. And on that note, Mark Twain must be rolling over at any comparison between him and Saunders. Twain had more clever satire in his pinky toe than what can be found in this (IMHO) waste of an Audible credit.
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