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Radio Free Albemuth
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that sounds like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Pistol to the Head
- By Darwin8u on 01-02-17
- Radio Free Albemuth
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Patrick Lawlor
Poor ol' Phil
Reviewed: 02-25-25
It's hard not to appreciate Phil Dick's talent and yet perceive how much he was manipulated by his inner demons - still I must give him a 4 and 1/2 rating. Give him a try. You won't be wasting your time.
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Prequel
- An American Fight Against Fascism
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,133
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,819
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,816
Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The fight to keep democracy alive
- By Rex on 10-19-23
- Prequel
- An American Fight Against Fascism
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
Wow! Read this!
Reviewed: 11-12-23
Rachel has managed to piece together a history of a past time that we ought not forget.
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Tristram Shandy
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: full cast, Julia Ford, Paul Ritter, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A full-cast dramatisation of this comic tale about an 18th-century gentleman who tries to tell his life story but continually finds that he must digress.... Featuring some of the best known and most well-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning (or attempting to begin) at the moment of his own conception, Tristram Shandy recounts his progress through the world and utterly fails to stick to the point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Linda on 10-14-23
- Tristram Shandy
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: full cast, Julia Ford, Paul Ritter, David Troughton, Neil Dudgeon, Adrian Scarborough
Quite Good
Reviewed: 03-19-23
What's not to love! An easy gentle intro to Tristram and his eccentricities! 15 WORDS!
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End This Depression Now!
- By: Paul Krugman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 260
The Great Recession that began in 2007 is now more than four years old - and counting. Some 24 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed, and at recent rates of job creation we won’t be back to normal levels of employment until late this decade. This is a tragedy. Do we have to accept it? "No!" is the resounding answer given by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in this call to arms. We have seen this situation before and we know how to fix it; all we lack is the political will to take action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen to this before you vote!
- By Michael on 08-30-12
- End This Depression Now!
- By: Paul Krugman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
Excellent -- worth your time
Reviewed: 05-30-12
If you could sum up End This Depression Now! in three words, what would they be?
hopeful
simple
non-political
What was one of the most memorable moments of End This Depression Now!?
Why it works to spend in a Depression -- i.e., why J.M. Keynes was right
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
a documentary of what we did wrong and what we might still do right....
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Before Lunch
- By: Angela Thirkell
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Published in 1939, Before Lunch is a portrait of the charming English community of "Barsetshire." When the erection of a tea shop and garage threatens to spoil the bovine pastures of Pooker's Piece, Lady Bond and Lord Pomfret unite with the Middletons and the Stoners to stop it. In the meantime, the young and the not-so-young all fall in love - though not always with the right person - and sort out their affairs in a hilarious welter of cross-purposes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Does a Body Get Into These Kinds of Scrapes?
- By Joseph R on 08-22-09
- Before Lunch
- By: Angela Thirkell
- Narrated by: Nadia May
Will listen to more
Reviewed: 12-12-11
If you could sum up Before Lunch in three words, what would they be?
witty, crowded, neoAusten
If you’ve listened to books by Angela Thirkell before, how does this one compare?
this is my first book of hers
Which character – as performed by Nadia May – was your favorite?
too many to pick one - a HUGE cast
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
an occasional chuckle
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