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Ambergris

By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Oliver Wyman
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From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.

Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch.

©2020 VanderMeer Creative, Inc. (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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Hits different

This book just hits different. It’s format is different. I didn’t feel like things got bows as much as they got more questions. So much is left for us to decide after the fact. But I loved every minute of it.

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Can’t recommend enough!

It’s a long listen but it’s worth it, as you discover the amazing city of Ambergris and the strange and thrilling stories that bring it to life.

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Wonderful & Imaginative

The whole Ambergris trilogy was fantastic. Each book is distinct and unique but the over-arching plot and story of the city is always present.
Ambergris is a beautifully crafted world with a very deep history. I couldn’t put the books down and wanted more stories from Ambergris when I was finished.

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Ambergris is a New Weird metropolis worth visiting

This collection includes most of the AMBERGRIS-related fiction by Vandermeer. A few bits are missing, but mostly they would be difficult to make work in this medium. Check out City of Saints and Madmen for the rest. Still, Shriek, the middle story, told in dueling first person, is fantastic as read, and the fungal-punk noir of Finch is well suited to hard boiled narration, even from an omniscient perspective.

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Very Good

I read it a second time the next week. I really hope there will be more stories set in this universe.

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Genius

Jeff VanderMeer is a genius of eco-horror. It’s as Lovecraft and Poe combined their writing powers and sent them as a gift to a kind and talented contemporary of ours.

Narration on this series is out of this world. I rarely enjoy the narrators’ craft so much - all folks on Finch and City of Saints, City of Madmen are incredible voice actors, each in a special way, capturing the heart and soul of a careening historian, a mysterious indigenous spy, and a tough noir detective.

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Deus ex mushrooma

Imagistic, vivid, vulgar, and artistic, this author's weak narrative is partially hidden by the spectacle of the imagery. I could not like or empathize with a single character, mostly because the reader isn't given any real reason for the loves or resentments, they are just dramatically and vividly displayed; kind of splatted there like... well, I am not the author. Extremely good and detailed imagery and feel, but what's described is rarely important to the narrative. If you enjoy looking through an extremely detailed kaleidoscope for hours, then you might like this series. It's not to my taste.

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Epic

The series starts out slow giving a history of Ambergris and I started to get a bit bored, but stuck to it. So glad I did. The history build a base to this crazy city and each story after builds and builds. Loved it. Ends with a noir style story to cap it off.

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Unexpected and Excellent

Unexpected and quite excellent, Ambergris is a a fabulous fever dream of a book; a wild ride that I enjoyed immensely.

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interesting point of view story telling

I really enjoyed the way the story was written, detailed and intricate world created. Switching point of views and times, the story truly comes to a head at the end, but despite the glory that should be there, I felt ultimately unsatisfied, which perhaps was the intention of the author.

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