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Gabra Zackman
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Kurt Vonnegut
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The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."
Previously unpublished, Slice of Life - about a college coed's winter-induced dream - is an early testament to Kurt Vonnegut's original voice and curious imagination.
©2016 Kurt Vonnegut (P)2016 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Timequake
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Arthur Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 341
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Arias only make hopeless situations worse
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Sinbad
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short and Sharp
- De Elle Gato en 07-30-24
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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We Are What We Pretend to Be
- The First and Last Works
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Colin Hanks, Oliver Wyman, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a place to start.
- De Robert en 11-02-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Armageddon in Retrospect
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Rip Torn
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
The New York Times best seller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of 12 previously unpublished writings. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor and outraged moral sense.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut should get the nobel peace prize
- De CHARLES en 05-07-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,343
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,278
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,253
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they've read all of Vonnegut's work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics - with an amusing yet insightful style that's instantly recognizable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut At His Best
- De Peter W. Kalnin en 12-09-23
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Timequake
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Arthur Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 341
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Arias only make hopeless situations worse
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Sinbad
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short and Sharp
- De Elle Gato en 07-30-24
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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We Are What We Pretend to Be
- The First and Last Works
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Colin Hanks, Oliver Wyman, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a place to start.
- De Robert en 11-02-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Armageddon in Retrospect
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Rip Torn
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
The New York Times best seller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of 12 previously unpublished writings. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor and outraged moral sense.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut should get the nobel peace prize
- De CHARLES en 05-07-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,343
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,278
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,253
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they've read all of Vonnegut's work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics - with an amusing yet insightful style that's instantly recognizable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut At His Best
- De Peter W. Kalnin en 12-09-23
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut is profound
- De Sarah en 02-03-20
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Breakfast of Champions
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: John Malkovich
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,392
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,956
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,947
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- De Dubi en 01-10-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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2BR02B
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Kevin Killavey
- Duración: 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was known for blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, and that is exactly what he does in this little gem of of a story from 1962. The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous pharse, 'To be or not to be" in Shakespeare's Hamlet. The story takes place in afuture when diseases and aging have been eliminated and, as a result, the government has taken measures to insure population control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My fovrite Kurt Vonnegut piece
- De Nemesis en 12-25-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slapstick
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 445
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 381
Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lonely No More!
- De Darwin8u en 11-16-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Deadeye Dick
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 368
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If I aimed at nothing..nothing is what I would hit
- De Darwin8u en 11-28-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Essential Vonnegut Interviews
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Kurt Vonnegut, Walter James Miller
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he has sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now the best of these interviews have been collected in an audiobook for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kurt can be very Curt!
- De Steven Ray Hill en 03-11-20
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Hocus Pocus
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 466
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 408
Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut Imitating Vonnegut
- De Joe Kraus en 08-06-18
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Bagombo Snuff Box
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Alexander Marshall
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
From the author of such classics as Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle comes this collection of unabridged short fiction originally published in some of America's most popular magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Vonnegut himself selected his best early works for this collection, and he reads the preface and afterword to boot!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut rediscovered
- De Douglas en 03-21-03
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Jailbird
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 252
Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a fool and his self respect are soon parted
- De Darwin8u en 11-18-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 720
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 719
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,321
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man Without a Country
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 403
One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process: "If you want to really hurt your parents...the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding."
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but uneven collection of essays
- De J. S. Koehler en 01-28-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Sinbad
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short and Sharp
- De Elle Gato en 07-30-24
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Look at the Birdie
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christopher E. Welch
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
American literary icon Kurt Vonnegut enjoys immense popularity - and an equally immense amount of critical praise - for such works as his absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five. A must-have for readers everywhere, Look at the Birdie adds further insight into the author's body of work with a riveting collection of his previously unpublished short fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories and performances to match
- De Jeff Lacy en 05-30-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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While Mortals Sleep
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Kurt Vonnegut made his mark as one of America’s most influential writers with novels such as Slaughterhouse Five, named one of the 100 best English-language novels by Time. Published posthumously, While Mortals Sleep is a collection of 16 short stories, written early in Vonnegut’s career, that further cements his status as an American literary icon.
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1 out of 5 stars
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old stories before he got to be the KV I've loved
- De Don Singletary en 10-29-11
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,517
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life advice from the ultimate cynic
- De Wayne en 12-05-18
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man Without a Country
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 403
One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process: "If you want to really hurt your parents...the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding."
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but uneven collection of essays
- De J. S. Koehler en 01-28-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Amber in the Moment
- De: Kirk Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Nominated for the Media Ecology Association's Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. SUMMARY When unrelated thoughts burst into his mind, a Customer Service Representative finds that he has been selected as the conduit of a famous author’s final novel as well as become the target of a sociopath with extraordinary means. Nearing the end of his life, Vonnegut volunteered to participate in a secret Thought Transfer Experiment. Given his age, he believed it would help him write his final novel more quickly. The Experiment stored his thoughts in bubbles that were unable to be ...
De: Kirk Vonnegut
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Sinbad
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short and Sharp
- De Elle Gato en 07-30-24
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Look at the Birdie
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christopher E. Welch
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
American literary icon Kurt Vonnegut enjoys immense popularity - and an equally immense amount of critical praise - for such works as his absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five. A must-have for readers everywhere, Look at the Birdie adds further insight into the author's body of work with a riveting collection of his previously unpublished short fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories and performances to match
- De Jeff Lacy en 05-30-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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While Mortals Sleep
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Kurt Vonnegut made his mark as one of America’s most influential writers with novels such as Slaughterhouse Five, named one of the 100 best English-language novels by Time. Published posthumously, While Mortals Sleep is a collection of 16 short stories, written early in Vonnegut’s career, that further cements his status as an American literary icon.
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1 out of 5 stars
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old stories before he got to be the KV I've loved
- De Don Singletary en 10-29-11
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,517
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life advice from the ultimate cynic
- De Wayne en 12-05-18
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man Without a Country
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 712
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One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process: "If you want to really hurt your parents...the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding."
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but uneven collection of essays
- De J. S. Koehler en 01-28-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Amber in the Moment
- De: Kirk Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Nominated for the Media Ecology Association's Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. SUMMARY When unrelated thoughts burst into his mind, a Customer Service Representative finds that he has been selected as the conduit of a famous author’s final novel as well as become the target of a sociopath with extraordinary means. Nearing the end of his life, Vonnegut volunteered to participate in a secret Thought Transfer Experiment. Given his age, he believed it would help him write his final novel more quickly. The Experiment stored his thoughts in bubbles that were unable to be ...
De: Kirk Vonnegut
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut is profound
- De Sarah en 02-03-20
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Jailbird
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a fool and his self respect are soon parted
- De Darwin8u en 11-18-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Sucker's Portfolio
- A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Available to listeners for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never-before-published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life’s obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hit or Miss, For Completists Only
- De Dubi en 06-11-14
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Quicker Than the Eye
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with 21 remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Nicholas Cassotis en 06-21-23
De: Ray Bradbury
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Sleeping Beauty
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Marty Ross
- Narrado por: Phoebe Dynevor, Stephen Fry, Adam Hugill, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Audible are delighted to present Sleeping Beauty, a unique listening experience for all the family to enjoy over the Christmas season. This exclusive new audio drama has been created in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet music. Marty Ross’s reimagining of the famous fairy story draws on the worlds of folktale and the Brothers Grimm, while the LSO's specially-commissioned new recording, conducted by Gavin Sutherland, weaves through the drama like a rich and majestic film score.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It's ok
- De Pandaek en 12-06-21
De: Marty Ross
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Breakfast of Champions
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: John Malkovich
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,392
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,956
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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- De Dubi en 01-10-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The Plague
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: James Jenner
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,090
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
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In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Translator Please!
- De Placeholder en 06-04-11
De: Albert Camus
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,343
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Captured
- The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover
- De: Christopher Wylie, Isobel Cockerell, Becky Lipscombe
- Narrado por: Christopher Wylie, Isobel Cockerell
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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AI has become the new religion. Are we going to follow it? Do we even have a choice? Or have the tech evangelists captured our future? Join Christopher Wylie and Coda Story’s Isobel Cockerell as they journey from exclusive crypto parties in Dubai, to the slums of Kenya where thousands of hidden workers are training AI models, to the hacker palaces of San Francisco where tech’s true believers talk about merging computers with our brains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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objective journalism!
- De H. en 04-08-25
De: Christopher Wylie, y otros
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The Downloaded
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6,239
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,969
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,969
In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor writing- agenda piece
- De Amazon Customer en 10-27-23
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection
- De: Stephen Fry, Washington Irving, M.R. James, y otros
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narration. Mediocre stories.
- De Michael Fuchs en 11-07-23
De: Stephen Fry, y otros
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Treasure Island
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson, Marty Ross - adaptation
- Narrado por: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37,362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33,448
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33,267
Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny. When weathered old sailor Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents, it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. When Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest, where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A reflective adventure
- De Tad Davis en 09-12-17
De: Robert Louis Stevenson, y otros