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The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter: one who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a cardinalship through the selling of indulgences. When Albrecht's ambitions increase his demands for grander and more marketable relics, Dismas and his artist friend, Dürer, conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble. Unfortunately Dürer's reckless pride exposes Albrecht's newly acquired shroud as a fake, so Albrecht puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth (the Shroud of Chambéry), Europe's most celebrated relic.
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Buckley is at the top of his game
- De Lisa en 04-15-06
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Boomsday
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Janeane Garofalo
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Cassandra Devine, a young Washington spin doctor and blogger, suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. This proposal catches on with citizens outraged about Social Security debt and a senator seeking the youth vote for his presidential bid. With the help of Washington's greatest PR strategist, Cassandra and the senator try to ride the issue of euthanasia to the White House.
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I wish Buckley picked lottery numbers!
- De Vikeh en 10-12-08
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The Judge Hunter
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored, and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar “Balty” St. Michel is 24 and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king’s navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I.
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Surprise!
- De mary j miller en 06-12-18
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Make Russia Great Again
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and best-selling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman - Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff - who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
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It feels like any other white house memoir
- De Debra Gore en 07-15-20
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Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man’s “lively and funny” (New York Journal of Books) journey through lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- De gege en 04-24-24
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No Way to Treat a First Lady
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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One of this country's leading political satirists dangles before us a tantalizing novel whose protagonist has a great deal in common with a recent First Lady. Beth MacIntyre, First Lady of the United States, has been charged with the murder of her husband, a Presidential Lothario of the first water. She is accused of throwing a historic Paul Revere spittoon during a bedroom spat, putting an unfortunately fatal dent in the President's lust-filled head.
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Buckley has no endgame
- De M. S. Cohen en 08-15-05
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Florence of Arabia
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Carrington Macduffie
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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Christopher Buckley's comic thriller takes readers to the Arab land of Matar, where a philandering emir allays his restless wife by allowing her to start a TV network for Arab women. She is joined in this endeavor by a maverick American State Department officer known as Florence, who wants to use the TV network to start a revolution among Islamic women.
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Buckley is at the top of his game
- De Lisa en 04-15-06
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Boomsday
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Janeane Garofalo
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Cassandra Devine, a young Washington spin doctor and blogger, suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. This proposal catches on with citizens outraged about Social Security debt and a senator seeking the youth vote for his presidential bid. With the help of Washington's greatest PR strategist, Cassandra and the senator try to ride the issue of euthanasia to the White House.
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I wish Buckley picked lottery numbers!
- De Vikeh en 10-12-08
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Little Green Men
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Mark Linn-Baker
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now, Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, DC, in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits...and how much they have in common. The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country-club golf course.
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Laughing Gas
- De A. L. DeWitt en 01-13-03
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Thank You for Smoking
- A novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: John Glover
- Duración: 3 h y 21 m
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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies - in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of Nick Naylor?
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Verbal Judo
- De A. L. DeWitt en 01-13-03
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Supreme Courtship
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Anne Heche
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her.
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Easily the funniest book on Audible.
- De Chip Atkinson en 05-02-16
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They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
- A Novel
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation, he and Angel put the Washington media machine to work, spreading a rumor that the Chinese secret service is working to assassinate the Dalai Lama.
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I love Buckley. This was not his best.
- De Adam Shields en 08-01-12
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But Enough About You
- Essays
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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Christopher Buckley at his best: an extraordinary, wide-ranging selection of essays both hilarious and poignant, irreverent and delightful. In his first book of essays since his 1997 best seller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a rare combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Listening to these essays is the equivalent of being in the company of a tremendously witty and enlightening companion.
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Generally interesting
- De Chief of Staff, ChowChow en 03-23-15
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Losing Mum and Pup
- A Memoir
- De: Christopher Buckley
- Narrado por: Christopher Buckley
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.
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Warm and Witty
- De Maureen Leach en 06-11-10
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- Merlyn
- 02-15-16
Fun
Twists and turns to the plot shot through with humor, Monty-Python-ish. It took me an hour to get into it, but then the characters came alive. Quite delightful!
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- Adam Shields
- 06-09-17
Relic hunter is forced into quest for True Shroud
Christopher Buckley has a history of writing smart comic novels, usually about political subjects. But his last couple novels have fallen a bit flat. However, I still picked up The Relic Master when I saw it on sale at a BOGO sale at Audible, especially since it was out of Buckley’s normal subject area.
The Relic Master is set 500 years ago as Martin Luther was writing his 95 Thesis and the reformation was beginning to dawn. This is historical fiction that is pretty historically accurate for the known characters. There were relic fairs and prominent people did buy and sell relics, which created markets for forgers.
The main character, Dismas has attempted to be an honest relic hunter, although he is real enough to know that many of the relics being sold are fakes and real enough to know that many of the miraculous proofs are frauds and cynical enough to want out of the business. After being robbed of his savings, he decides to attempt a grand fraud to give him enough to retire to the country and become a happy, stable farmer and family man.
The fraud is caught because of the pride of the artist (Durer). Dismas and Durer’s are then forced into a quest to steal the Shroud of Chambery.
Once the book is actually set up, it goes fairly well (although it starts slow). The main story moves along fairly well, but the ending is a bit too abrupt. There are a few areas where I was pretty sure historical inaccuracies were added (one of these involves a syringe, but evidently there were early plunger syringes back to the 1st century).
I like the characters, which is important to me in Buckley’s writing. And I liked the humor, although this wasn’t as comic a novel as many. Buckley is taking fairly easy pot shots for much of his humor. So the bite of the sarcasm is also not as sharp, although that may be at least somewhat because the subjects are 500 years old.
Historical fiction can be hard. It is easy to make the characters, especially the good ones, into modern characters that happen to be in a historical period. This was somewhat true with The Relic Master, but matters of faith were mostly taken pretty seriously.
I still have not enjoyed Buckley’s recent novels nearly as much as some of his early ones like Supreme Courtship and God is My Broker. But Relic Master was far better than They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?.
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- J. Schmitz
- 07-11-23
This book has it all
Mix together history, a sense of humor, a bit of Mission Impossible, and a tiny dash of romance and you have this wonderful book.
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- lorraine person
- 01-26-16
OMG Brilliant
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Revives my faith in Western Civilization. Perfect blend of history, drama, erudition, and wit. Buckley shows off his formidable upbringing, combined with contemporary charm
What did you like best about this story?
The fastidious narration of foreign and obscure references
If you could rename The Relic Master, what would you call it?
I wouldn't change a thing
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- Michael Russell
- 06-07-16
Indulge yourself!
Though it starts a little slowly, once the story gets going it is a marvelous tale. Set in the midst of the Lutheran Reformation it carries the listener into the world of relics and indulgences that sparked Luther into action. I loved it.
It is splendidly performed. One becomes entwined with the richly formed characters.
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- William
- 07-21-18
Enjoyed it a second time
I revisited this book and listened to it a second time. My rule is that if I listen to a book twice I have to give it 5 stars, so I upgraded my rating.
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- Robert
- 01-05-16
Intelligent and highly enjoyable
Funny, thoughtful, and offering a mostly credible picture of the time period. Very well done.
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- Phyllis
- 08-06-17
Clever
The story moves, and the characters engage. Charm and Wit mix with the brutality of the Middle Ages setting. Interesting historic references keep the story flowing, with twists from first to last chapter.
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- Peter MacLeod
- 04-15-16
Rollicking fun and less than suble pokes at relics
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, and did. Good fun and a good tale.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Not any as it holds the interest well.
Which scene was your favorite?
The theft of the .... but that would be telling.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, I wanted to try and predict the next stage, unsuccessfully.
Any additional comments?
This is just fun. Even though the Catholic church gets exposed for what it was and still is in many ways, as Martin Luther arrives on the scene, a pope might find it fun too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-23-16
Always Best to Do Religious Reformations Before TV
Reformations are much too nasty for the squeamish. Had we waited there would have been no WASPs. Buckley has written a splendid lampoon of the Shroud of Turin and attempts to steal it in the early 1500s. A sharp turn near the end is a bit of a surprise.
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