Cancel anytime. One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. 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. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable. When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping.
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Internalized reading, like what you are doing right now, is a pretty comfortable pursuit. You guys make a great team. Attempt to read something aloud, however, and that quiet teamwork is torn to shreds. It's just three meager sentences, but your mouth is probably feeling a little dry. Now, think about reading a full page out loud. Are you psychosomatically parched? Keep going. Imagine doing that again. And again. Welcome to the life of an audiobook narrator—a voice inside your head for hire.
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Update: Audio end notes are on the way. I can't recommend the purchase of the what at first appears to be the amazing - I've heard good things about the audio, excellent vocal performance audio book of Infinite Jest. I received an email earlier today from a reader who had excitedly received their 'unabridged' audio book of Infinite Jest only to discover that in the 56 hours of recording none of the endnotes are part of the audio. Yes, a voice lets the listener know where endnotes appear, and a pdf with a typo making it difficult to download if you purchased online At best this is misleading presenting it as unabridged. The endnotes are essential to the enjoyment and understanding of this novel. For those of us who have read it, there is much significant material missing if the endnotes are excluded. Okay, okay, so you can cross-reference the pdf I was actually somewhat excited to be able to listen to this while commuting. But not now.
Cancel anytime. Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In this program, he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely mystifying. He discovers the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the Maine Lobster Festival and confronts the inevitable question just beyond the butter-or-cocktail-sauce quandary. David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford. Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Over the course of his career, David Foster Wallace recorded a variety of his work in diverse circumstances - from studio recordings to live performances - that are finally compiled in this unique collection. This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism.
