• The Beach

  • De: Alex Garland
  • Narrado por: Michael Page
  • Duración: 11 h y 15 m
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (84 calificaciones)

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The Beach

De: Alex Garland
Narrado por: Michael Page
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The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."

The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.

Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck—the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man—and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents.

Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland—both a national bestseller and his debut—is a highly accomplished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.

©2005 Alex Garland (P)2022 Penguin Audio

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"A book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can only day-dream about. The Beach is ambitious, propulsive fiction."—The Washington Post

“What makes The Beach a truly awesome piece of work is Garland’s understated, assured depiction of the perils of pop."—The Village Voice

The Beach will astonish readers... Not since reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History has this reader been so impressed and taken with a first novel.”—USA Today

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Paradise is an Illusion

Very interesting, not at all what I was expecting, enjoyable and a fun listen. Ending was wild

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Mr. Duck knows

Seeing the movie first I had a rough idea what I was getting in to. Like any book I found it more detailed than the movie. In fact, there were subtle differences in this which I think enhanced the story line. Also I think narrator did a great job at making the listen interesting by articulating his voice to the character in the story.

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The Beach

This book was excellent. Gave me Lord of the Flies mixed with adventure vibes. The narrator is great as well. Would highly recommend.

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Ehh

Very indifferent feelings avout thjs book. Not bad, not good. Probably would not recommend.

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Wow

Gen Xers thought if everyone would just “be cool” everything would be OK. We are all seeing how that turned out. The Beach for-told in 1997.

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The Beach

I enjoy rereading this story from time to time. I don't have any real problems with this selection, but I think I prefer reading this over listening. I did have to slow the speed down to find a more enjoyable pace.

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The book is not soo much fun

Not fun at all simply boring don’t have much words for it any more thanks you

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