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"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
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"As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
"Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
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Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.
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Compelling Start But Story Drags After Awhile
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Troubles
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Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.
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Absolutely delightful read
- By E. Kim on 02-25-20
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The Virginian
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- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
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In this romantic and raw adventure set in the untamed wilderness of Wyoming of 1886, an anonymous college graduate ventures out west where he encounters gun fights, lynching, cattle rustlers, high-stake poker games, Indian attacks, and a brave, honest and imposing cowboy known simply as the Virginian. Presented as the archetypal, ideal hero of the "western" genre (which was novelized for the very first time in this same book), the Virginian, a foreman at Shiloh Ranch, carries a strong sense of justice.
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A Good Book of Perpetual Period Small Talk
- By wbiro on 02-06-21
By: Owen Wister
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- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
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He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still.
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I could have read it better
- By Emily Adams on 09-29-20
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Stand on Zanzibar
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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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perfect audio experience
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Okay, Salmon, We get that you're a genious already
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Book of Secrets
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It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.
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Rating < 0
- By Sandra on 04-04-16
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Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early 21st-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter.
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A haunting, beautiful work...
- By M. Stephenson on 11-20-09
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The Satanic Verses
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
- By David Edelberg on 11-24-12
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Night Soldiers
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- By Placeholder on 04-27-11
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Driving on the Rim
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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Delightful
- By Roy on 01-05-11
By: Thomas McGuane
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- Terry
- 02-27-07
Palaver
I ordered Against the Day because so much fuss is made about Thomas Pynchon. I now wonder more than ever why so much is made about his rambling style. I could not become interested in any of the characters, and just when a plot thread starts to appear, it is abandoned. I do admit he has a command of the English language and that he is creative with names and factoids. However, that was not enough to keep my interest. Listening to it made me long for James Joyce - I left Against the Day, which goes on for years, and returned to Ulysses, which in my mind, accomplishes more in a Bloomsday.
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- Rod
- 05-20-07
Well crafted road to nowhere.
I loved the author’s literary style and use of language. He creates numerous interesting characters that he always abandons in mid-circumstance. After listening to over 5 hours I realized the book has no plot whatsoever and I gave up listening.
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- Louise
- 12-30-07
Dissapointed
After 4hours I simply had to give up. Sad I have no idea what this story is about nor can I name any characters.
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- Dan D.
- 04-07-09
Worst audio book I have ever purchased
I have perhaps listened to over 100 books over the years and have never failed to finish one. This one was so bad, so poorly written that try as I might, I couldn't get through more than about 20% of it. Yuck!
I generally love longer books (I read Mitchner's "The Source" three times), but this one is the exception. The narrative wanders aimlessly around, with so much useless blather, that I found myself yelling "Get on with it!"
This book needs to be deleted and the trash immediately emptied thereafter.
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- Marco
- 01-30-14
terrible reader...overacting, distracting
Would you try another book from Thomas Pynchon and/or Dick Hill?
Pynchon, YES! Dick Hill never again
Would you recommend Against the Day to your friends? Why or why not?
No by Dick Hill.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Dick Hill?
A serious and discrete narrator.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The writer.
Any additional comments?
It will be fantastic if you open two categories....
1) similar experience to read yourself ( beautiful tool)
2) similar experience to hear a terrible movie about the book ( caricaturesque version)
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- Dana Murdock
- 04-29-22
long winding and too much shock factor
I was half way through it (which is a monumental feat in itself) and just couldn't carry on anymore. It's boring, over written and the shock factor parts didn't lend anything to the story but made it that much more painful to endure. I hope the narrator was paid well.
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- chris
- 02-23-07
Against this book
I've awaited an audibook from this author for some time although I was a little hesitant to embark on a novel 50+ hours long. The reviews on here didn't help either since they were posted a few days after the audio became available and were most likely from a fan or someone who wanted it to look good with 5 stars without having actually read the thing. I gave this book two hours of my time, but none of it was compelling. I kept asking myself why I was being thrown into this story and could find no justification for remaining interested after two hours. I understand this is not a typical novel, but I think a published book should grab you somewhere within the first two hours (or in print, by at least the second chapter). Still, I was let down. I am giving it two stars because I thought the narrator was wonderful. I would not warn against reading it, but I think this was definitely the wrong place to start with Pynchon
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- nancy campione
- 05-31-09
COULDN''T LISTEN TO THIS BOOK
This is one of a very few books I haven't been able to finish, and I've read and listened to a great many books.
There didn't seem to be a plot, the characters were cartoonish, at best. Sorry to say, I thought it was awful, and after giving up the first time, I went back several months later and tried again.
I know Pynchon has a big fan base, but if this book is indicative of his style, I just dont' get it.
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- Malcolm
- 02-06-07
Anti-insomnia
I enjoy listening to just about anything so I find it hard to tell if this would be a better listen if not for the narration. However, the readers sing-song voice is hard to stay awake to, let alone pay attention to the story thread.
The narrator has an interesting repertoire of character voices but the one he has chosen to narrate the story between when the characters are speaking (and this encompasses the vast majority of the story) should be used to calm unruly children.
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- Susan
- 12-02-17
Ugh - Nonsense and boring
What would have made Against the Day better?
It would better if the discrepant storylines were better joined. This jumps around and is hard to follow. A single plot with spin-offs would work, or a single central character...
What do you think your next listen will be?
Anything but this. This suggested clever historical intrigue. Its not clever, its not historically credible, its just, blah and silly.
Which character – as performed by Dick Hill – was your favorite?
The story over-bore his narration. He's good. The story - 5 minute snippets that change fanciful direction - isn't a story, really. 2 hours into it, SOMETHING should be emerging as a worthwhile thread.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Against the Day?
Most of it. Stick to one clear thread.
Any additional comments?
So sorry to learn this has been in my library too long to return it.
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