• Ivyland

  • A Novel
  • By: Miles Klee
  • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
  • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Ivyland

By: Miles Klee
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
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Ivyland, narrated with ironic good cheer by Christa Lewis, is a sprawling science fiction story with a wild and inventive structure set in a drugged-out New Jersey in the near dystopian future.

The ominous tale involves an evil pharmaceutical company, a corrupt government, aborted space missions, cults, a deadly plague, and substance abuse; lots and lots of substance abuse.

Ivyland walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy and is a worst-case scenario for where America may be headed. Think Infinite Jest meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Brave New World.

Publisher's summary

It's spring in Ivyland... Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny: something only a few notable contemporaries such as Jeff Vandermeer and Michael Chabon have been able to do. Post-urban New Jersey is instantly recognizable in this interlinked series of short vignettes... and Lev's living room is puddles of water and sun, and a bunch of those furry caterpillars are hauling themselves from surface to surface.

Populated by a bumbling, murderous citizenry of corrupt cops, innocents, ravenous addicts, lovesick geniuses, and cynical adventurers, Ivyland operates in the shadow of a giant pharmaceutical corporation that thrives on people's weaknesses... and may have an even more sinister agenda. It's our world, only a bit more extreme, and lovingly, precisely depicted with the adept skills native to a master of dark humor.

©2011 Miles Klee (P)2013 Audible Inc.

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Rife with intriguing characters and rich storytelling

Miles Klee’s Ivyland is an engrossing novel about residents of New Jersey living under a pharmaceutical regime and the drug they’ve produced along with its deleterious societal effects. The storyline jumps around quite a lot and I think I may need a Cliff’s notes version to understand all of the characters relationships with each other, but the main heart of the novel are the two characters of Henry and Aiden, and I think the author does a wonderful job of narrative storytelling with their cross-crossing storylines. There are other characters and their journeys within this depiction of dystopia to explore, but their impact on the reader may vary.

Overall, I would recommend this audible narration as the narrator does a pretty good job of distinguishing between characters, especially as they characters grow and develop later into the story.

Definitely a story that you need to stick with to the end to get a full picture of what Klee was envisioning when he wrote this rich story.

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Confusing

I'm not sure why the narrator is a woman when the main characters are men. I found it confusing that the narrator was the same when the main character changed in each chapter.
It was hard to follow.
The writer likes to be vague and do a slow reveal of details which makes it difficult to get into the story.

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