
Mount Chicago
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Dennis Boutsikaris
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By:
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Adam Levin
From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship.
"Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest."–George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city’s mayor must struggle to move forward while the world—quite literally—caves beneath their feet. With this polyphonic tale of Chicago-style politics and political correctness, stand-up comedy and Jewish identity, celebrity, drugs, and animal psychology, Levin has constructed a monument to laughter, love, art, and resilience in an age of spectacular loss.
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Critic reviews
“Mount Chicago is a bawdy, mournful, deeply funny, metafictionally ingenious, psychotic, ridiculous and majestic shaggy dog joy. When Levin leads the way, every rabbit hole is a glory hole for the mind, and a secret tunnel to provisional bliss and permanent wisdom. Also recommended for parrot lovers.”—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
"A vast new Chicago novel with the satire and raunchy pulse reminiscent of old-school Roth or Bellow."–Chicago Tribune
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Too Long
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Very entertaining
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Your killing me smalls
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Funny, annoying
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Killing me😂
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I found his prose in incredibly repetitive for example
"Apter liked fish for dinner which is to say he ate fish. the fish he ate lived in the ocean, these fish that came from the ocean tasted like the sea and apter usually loved fish especially fish that came from the ocean."
obviously not a direct quote however once I picked up on this it started driving me to the verge of annoyance. Maybe it's just me. overall it's decent and probably worth a listen. I really wish there was an audiobook for the instructions.
repetitive
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I really liked this story. It won't be for everyone, but you might, like me, really like it. The prose is nice, conversational, and vital in a refreshing way.
It's really bothering me that people are saying "it's too long/boring" instead of "I lost attention." It's ok to lose attention, in fact it's important to not get engossed by the texture of your bedroom walls every morning. Sometimes my bedroom walls look like a rich, textural universe-in-itself and most mornings I take that geography entirely for granted. This is not the fault of my wall texture.
Interjections are a literary technique
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Overall 4.13 stars
4.13 Stars
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great voice
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Absurd Metafiction for Those with Patience
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