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Time Enough

By: Jay Martel
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam
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Publisher's summary

Bobby N. Kowen is living his life to the fullest. He’s making friends, he’s learning new things all the time, he’s falling in love, he’s having adventures. He’s doing more in a single week than most of us experience in a lifetime.

But that’s the thing. That one week is all that Bobby has. Birth to death...in just seven days.

Bobby’s life is truly a race against time. No one who meets him will ever be the same. And they will each wonder: Do we live too long to really appreciate how precious life is?

©2022 Jay Martel (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

About the Creator

Jay Martel is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, director, and actor. For his work in TV, he's received Emmy, Peabody, and WGA awards. He recently adapted his previous novel, The Present (also available on Audible), into a movie, which will be released in 2023 starring Greg Kinnear and Isla Fisher. His first novel, Channel Blue, is also available on Audible and is being developed as a feature by Paramount Pictures.
Martel served as a showrunner, executive producer and writer for Key & Peele. He’s fulfilled the same functions on many comedies including Alternatino, Teachers, Halfway Home, and Strangers With Candy. He also cowrote the comedy Get Hard. Martel is a contributor to The New Yorker, where his humor appears regularly.

About the Performer

In addition to the over 450 genre hopping audiobooks Vikas Adam has recorded, he’s a classically trained actor and director as well as faculty at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. His audiobook catalog includes works from prominent authors including Salman Rushdie, Paulo Coelho, Yann Martel, C. Robert Cargill, Grant Morrison, and E.M. Forster. Other voiceover credits include recordings for Audm/New York Times and vApple News*, animation, dubbing, and podcasts. Vikas has won several of the industry’s most prestigious awards including the Audie Award (and is a 12 time nominee), a Voice-Arts Award, 19 Earphones awards, is on several "Best of the Year" lists, and has the distinction of being an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.

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Wow.

What an amazing short story that reminds us to appreciate the time we have and to make the most of it. I hope this book gets a well deserved movie adaptation.

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Unusually good

Hard to believe how good the book was.diamond in the rough. Hard to find a book that pulls the heart

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Weirdly amazing

I loved this way more than I thought I would. Had me laughing, thinking, and crying.

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Overall cute story

Surprisingly good story line. I could do without the swearing but it was minimal so I still enjoyed it.

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So Unexpectedly Great!

What an amazingly great little novella. I was invested before I knew it and could not stop listening. Just a wonderfully written too short story, but perfectly ended. If we could value each sunrise and sunset as Bobby did we would be better people. if we could do as much in our long life as Bobby did in his short few days , think about how much better the world would be. this is such a rewarding story I truly loved this and will listen again, probably more than just once.

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Wow

If you feel like you don't have time, embarrassed, too afraid, will do it tomorrow, procrastinate...read this story. it hits deep.

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Truly unique, exactly what I wanted

I loved this book. This is exactly what I want in an Audible Original. The length was perfect (one personal-sized jigsaw puzzle length). This story isn’t a mystery, isn’t a love story, isn’t any kind of “wash, rinse, repeat” trope. It’s the kind of story that you’ll kind of always just remember. I’m very happy to have found it. What a very cool story! It was fartastic. ;-) Worth every single minute.

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Compelling life story

I am in awe of this writer’s insight into humanity. This book could be a guide to living everyday life. I read a lot and this leaves me breathless.

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Listen with a child's wonder

Every person should probably listen to this book. Especially kids around puberty. It's an entirely made up, unbelievable scenario. The kind that makes you keep thinking "that's not even remotely possible, " but it doesn't matter to the story. If it makes you think differently about the time you have here in this lifetime, then it's done what it set out to do.

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Thought-provoking

What a special, meaningful, heart-warming and moving story! So much food for thought. My mind is still whirring. I got a jolt when one of my own key maxims (I even bear the tattoo) was mentioned - "perspective is everything". I have no doubt that this book will make you re-appreciate your life and look at it things differently - in a good way.
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