
The Zero
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Narrado por:
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Christopher Graybill
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Jess Walter
From its opening scene, when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head, novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen, and real-estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy.
Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror or send him circling back to himself is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel.
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"A deliriously mordant political satire." (Publishers Weekly)
"Walter builds the hellish aftermath from scratch, transforming that day...into a noir page-turner with powerful social commentary about the marketing of a tragedy and the endless ways in which some citizens have profited by it....Walter is an immensely talented writer." (Washington Post)
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But once I realized what was going on, I just went along for the ride and found The Zero interesting and well written. The story continued to be somewhat confusing, but falling into a whatever-comes-next-I'll-just-go-with rhythm (sort of like Remy) I found a lot to enjoy and never once thought about not finishing. The comically flawed characters, especially Guterak (well, maybe he was more normal than Remy after all) and the insane situation where son Edgar is mourning the death of his (very much alive) father kept me chuckling at the absurd situations that seemed to come out of nowhere. On the other hand, the disjointed story (I don't care what it's a metaphor for or statement about!) and the unsatisfying ending prevent me from giving it more stars.
I love Walter's writing style and would recommend the book for that alone, but if this had been my first Walter read, it might have been my last.
OK, I was confused
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If you could sum up The Zero in three words, what would they be?
Very descriptive book.great job keeping the reader guessing but very good describing the overall mood of the bookIf you’ve listened to books by Jess Walter before, how does this one compare?
Not as good a book as beautiful ruinsHave you listened to any of Christopher Graybill’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
First timeDid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
NoAny additional comments?
Enjoyed it overallGood listen
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Wow ...
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Deadly, cold irony. Superb.
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frustrating
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Fragments get old after 200 pages
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Would you try another book from Jess Walter and/or Christopher Graybill?
i love Jess Walter's books....but not this oneWhat do you think your next listen will be?
another Walter bookWhat aspect of Christopher Graybill’s performance would you have changed?
he did fine with what he hadYou didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
the character was like Chauncey Gardner - out of itconfusing
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I don't get it
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