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Kingsley Amis
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A hilarious satire about college life and high-class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954.
This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the audience through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.
More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh.
As Christopher Hitchens wrote, “If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable.”
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Tacky is about the power of pop culture - like any art - to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These 14 essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love - snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu - into kinder and sharper perspective.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good, no perfect - in the best possible way
- De Tom en 01-26-24
De: Rax King
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London Fields
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- De Sand en 08-21-14
De: Martin Amis
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The Green Man
- De: Kingsley Amis
- Narrado por: Joe Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Experience
- De Frankfort Fred en 05-10-23
De: Kingsley Amis
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Scoop
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Cadell
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- De Michael en 07-19-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Appointment in Samarra
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- De: John O'Hara, Charles McGrath - introduction
- Narrado por: Christian Camargo
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite good, but not a classic
- De Michael en 04-25-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- De: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 28 h y 27 m
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In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious 13-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece and A Good Novel To Start
- De Elif Kaya en 10-18-18
De: Haruki Murakami, y otros
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In Persuasion Nation
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables - all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Cynthia en 06-14-21
De: George Saunders
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City on Fire
- A Novel
- De: Garth Risk Hallberg
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, Tristan Morris, Bronson Pinchot, y otros
- Duración: 37 h y 54 m
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The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Incendiary "Bleak House" in 1977 NYC
- De W Perry Hall en 10-22-15
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The Cloister
- A Novel
- De: James Carroll
- Narrado por: James Carroll
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked when he sees a friend from his seminary days named Runner Malloy at the altar of his humble parish in upper Manhattan - a friend who was forced to leave under scandalous circumstances. Compelled to reconsider the past, Father Kavanagh wanders into the medieval haven of the Cloisters and stumbles into a conversation with a lovely and intriguing docent, Rachel Vedette.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reading Cadence
- De Barbara en 05-16-18
De: James Carroll
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All the World Beside
- A Novel
- De: Garrard Conley
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Garrard Conley
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister’s words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't listen to any more preaching!
- De Swellguy22 en 04-20-24
De: Garrard Conley
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The Betrothed
- A Novel
- De: Alessandro Manzoni, Michael F. Moore - translator, Jhumpa Lahiri - afterword
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos, Susan Vinciotti Bonito
- Duración: 22 h y 38 m
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The Betrothed is a cornerstone of Italian culture, language, and literature. Published in its final form in 1842, The Betrothed has inspired generations of Italian readers and writers. Giuseppe Verdi composed his majestic Requiem Mass in honor of Manzoni. Italo Calvino called the novel “a classic that has never ceased shaping reality in Italy” while Umberto Eco praised its author as a “most subtle critic and analyst of languages.”
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1 out of 5 stars
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How to ruin a masterpiece
- De McMurrab en 10-31-22
De: Alessandro Manzoni, y otros
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The Brothers K
- De: David James Duncan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 28 h y 7 m
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Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just couldn't go on
- De Susie B en 03-14-24
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The Zone of Interest
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet"—the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is amazing!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-22-24
De: Martin Amis
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Dog Soldiers
- De: Robert Stone
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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5 out of 5 stars
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intense narrative of a dark and complex time
- De gnudung en 05-05-12
De: Robert Stone
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Her Last Words
- De: Kim Kelly
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It’s 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she’s an old-fashioned girl. She longs only to tell the stories written on her heart. While her best friends, Penny and Jane, and her darling boyfriend, John, seem set for stellar careers in their chosen fields, Thisbe works nights as a hostess at a glitzy harbourside Sydney club - a job she despises but has paid the rent for the last three years since university graduation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De hansenfamily en 03-09-23
De: Kim Kelly
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The Fraud
- A Novel
- De: Zadie Smith
- Narrado por: Zadie Smith
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing
- De Happy purchaser en 09-10-23
De: Zadie Smith
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The Pavilion in the Clouds
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father Henry—owner of Pitlochry, a tea plantation—and her mother Virginia. The story centres around the Pavilion in the Clouds, set in the idyllic grounds carved out of the wilderness. But all is not as serene as it seems. Bella is suspicious of her governess, Miss White’s intentions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get Over It
- De SW Clemens en 12-28-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Lucky Jim
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- Peter W. Kalnin
- 01-18-24
University Life
University Life
A series of conversations and meetings that give us the flavor of university life among the professors..
Great narration
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- ian
- 11-13-24
A classic comic novel that everyone should read, very well read.
This is probably Kingsley Amis’s best known and best loved book, but they’re all pretty good. Not a bad one to start with, full of brilliant and often hilarious writing and some very candid observations about the sexes which might get him cancelled today. If you like this one, try “that uncertain feeling,” unfortunately not available on audible.
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- SandyK
- 07-18-23
Satisfactory, but a Bit Stale
I suspect this novel was a lot more pleasing to the reader in the 50s when it was written.
Amis likely well caught the mood and matters of life on English campuses back then, with the faculty and all that made up their lives.
It frankly felt mostly stale to me now in 2023. And so I believe it hasn’t worn particularly well. But, actually, I’m not sure it was ever that strong creatively or literarily.
I’ve long admired Amis. But I can’t offer much fresh testimony here for why.
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- murray
- 11-21-23
wonderful language
loved narration and though not much of a story kept me intensely interested throughout
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- P. C. Jorgensen
- 03-30-23
A fun romp
Listened to after John Cleese held it as the funniest book he’s ever read, I enjoyed the passage of Jim through the banalities of 1950s academia. Much was very funny and the performance is excellent.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-05-25
surprisingly boring story
Not only boring but mainly just about absurd romance. The reading was good but the story just wasn't.
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- Jenny Jenkins
- 07-08-23
Cuttingly funny, well read
Wonderful reader. Stinging satire of 1950s academia. Dated? Of course—it’s 1953 England. Jeeves books are also dated. But funny and cutting, diverting and engaging, great use of language. A different world but I don’t mind dipping into it for a few hours.
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- Ruth
- 01-31-25
Funny
A good listen, especially if you are a fan of Kingsley Amis and British academia
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- K. WILSON
- 01-06-25
narrative
it started out uninteresting, and it was hard to get into it.
Once I got into it. it was great
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- J. Capillo
- 03-06-23
All-time favorite!
This book has been a favorite of mine for years, and I was excited to see it finally available on Audible. Highly recommend it. The narration was tight and easy to listen to.
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