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Cow Country

By: Adrian Jones Pearson
Narrated by: Therese Plummer, LJ Ganser
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When a down-on-his-luck educational administrator arrives at the makeshift bus shelter of Cow Eye Junction, he finds a drought-stricken town and its community college on the precipice of institutional ruin. Struggling to navigate this strange world of bloated calf scrota, orgiastic math instruction, and onrushing regional accreditors, Charlie must devise a plan to lead Cow Eye Community College through the perils of continuous improvement to the triumphant culmination of world history.

Idiosyncratic, wry, and ambitiously constructed, Cow Country is Adrian Jones Pearson's most American work yet, deftly blending the lunacies of contemporary academia with the tragic consequences of New World nation building. A must-listen for anyone who has ever worked at an institution of higher education or attempted to straddle partisan lines, this insightful novel offers a poetic requiem for the loss of our humanity - and our humanities.

©2014 Adrian Jones Pearson (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Outrageously Original

What did you love best about Cow Country?

This is a book for those who really can relish stream after stream of good sentences. It is filled with cultural satire that spares nobody and it contains a fun story that elicits a fair share of intrigue and sympathies. But it is the prose styling that kept flooring me page by page with this one. The sentences range from the highly complex to the short and simply funny. Most of them are brilliant combinations of everything in between. Know thyself and enjoy this book. What a fun surprise.

Any additional comments?

I'm very picky when it comes to how books are read, so much so that I typically wince my way through even my favorite narrators. These two readers are very strong.

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The biggest waste of time ever and believe me I've wasted time. Why was this published let alone conceived. I want my time back and even if this was free I WANT A REFUND!!!!!!!!!

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Weird book

This book was weird. With no point, start, middle or end. It's story was muddled between the telling of the story and the jumping back and forth between personal conversations. It's was difficult to follow.

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Hilarious satire about academia - very dry humor

I absolutely LOVED this book. It was so unique and was filled with great metaphors and descriptions, and it has become my new favorite. The characters were well developed, and this book was HILARIOUS! Granted, I think it takes a certain type of sense of humor to fully appreciate it, but my friends and I tend to have dry/deadpan senses of humor, and I know they would appreciate it, so I've been recommending it to all of them. The main character is a man who has "been many things, but never one thing entirely," who performs best while taking equal amounts of uppers and downs, and supports both sides of different issues/arguments so as not to offend one. The reviews on this book seem to be split between people who love it and people who hate it, but I am so glad that I was able to read/listen to this book because I am definitely one of the former opinion. I listened to the Audible audiobook, and I loved the narration. The main narrator had great expression, pacing, and character differentiation. If you enjoy satire and dry humor, I highly recommend this book. I'm already looking forward to listening to it again.

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mind numbing

Author must have been payed by the word. So glad it's over. I actually contemplated suicide towards the end.

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What A Dreadfull Waste !

Would you try another book from Adrian Jones Pearson and/or Therese Plummer and LJ Ganser ?

Certainly not.

Has Cow Country turned you off from other books in this genre?

What genre? Dull and repetitious? Tedious and unrealistic?

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The writer needed no help detracting from this story.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Reaction? I gave up listening to it by the second part. All the characters are cliches, single dimensional and uninteresting.

Any additional comments?

Yes. I will never, ever, rely on a suggestion or review from AUDIBLE on a book.

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Boring

This book moved so slowly after listening to half of it nothing had happened. Boring, boring, boring!

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The backwardness of educational administration

laugh out loud funny at parts but dull at others but enjoyable overall. unique in the age of teenage werewolves and remakes

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LONG book that didn’t need to be so long!

This book is humorous in a very dry, witty sort of way. It pokes fun at academia in general. The characters were very well developed, in fact too much time may have been spent as such! The Audible version is just short of 21 hours and I think it could have been done in 13 or 14 hours instead. It was just too long for not that much plot happening.

I received the Audible version of this book in exchange for an honest review and I do think that the narration enhanced the book.

I know there are many out there who absolutely love this book but I thought it was just okay. I guess it just wasn’t my type of humor and it was too slow paced.

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Yuck

Just yuck. Rambling, pointless, not entertaining in the least. I'm still trying to understand how this is an Audible recommendation.

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