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A Children's Bible

By: Lydia Millet
Narrated by: Xe Sands
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel - her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven - follows a group of 12 eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.

Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group's ringleaders - including Eve, who narrates the story - decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.

As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.

A Children's Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide - and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

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Everything about this book is close to perfect, but I find it difficult to say why, exactly. It weaves together so many different strands seemingly effortlessly, and while it’s hardly cheery, it’s often funny and always whip smart. One of my favorites from the last several years.

Hard to describe but brilliant

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This production is the rare occasion when the reader and what is read are perfectly in sync. And it is true. Xe Sands is the only American voice I’ve listened to that isn’t a self conscious exercise in elocution. Rather, it is true to the novel’s characters, plot and spirit. Thank you both for giving us a glimpse into a future that truly is hard to comprehend for our grandchildren. But we must.

Synchronicity

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I loved this story, partly because it was a delightful adventure, but also because the narrator was so good.

crazy journey, but an fabulous read.

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struggled with the narrator's voice here. the story has its moments but eventually very fleeting at best.

Hard to follow

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This is a great book , read by my favorite narrator, but in these crazy times it strikes a little too close to home - def worth reading - but maybe wait till easier days are with us

Save for an easier time

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Precocious and world-weary kids, post-Apocalypse, Zombie free-love parents, all set against a Bible parable backdrop -- what's not to like? This is what The Goldfinch or Secret History could have been.

Better than Tartt

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Although I listened through to the end, I was a little disappointed overall. The performance and story we're bad, but both lacked excitement and enthusiasm.

seems more like a YA book

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Reads like a long poem, dreamy, and dark. The performance is compelling, if a bit monotone and a bit too quiet at times.

Beautiful, bleak

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Characters were underdeveloped and parents in all groups were stereotyped. Maybe this was how kids would write their version of things. Seemed too whiny even for a YA book, which I thought this might be. The biblical analogy was hit and miss and too much a dystopia without solutions. I really wanted to like someone in the book.

Meh Boring and pretentious but well written

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Original, thought-provoking take on a post-apocalyptic world … hope-infused that the children will save us—or at least themselves.

Narrator’s interpretation of this challenging material was fantastic.

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