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Narrated by:
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Patricia Rodriguez
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By:
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Marc-Uwe Kling
In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it.
In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself.
Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
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Critic reviews
"Kling's sharp observations target the economy, the law, xenophobia, relationships, security, and government, sparing few and exposing with delightful brutality how close QualityLand is to reality." (Booklist)
"A hilarious romp through an absurd hypercapitalist dystopia...This is spot-on satire." (Publishers Weekly)
"How much you enjoy this is in direct proportion to how much trouble you think we're all in. Sleep tight." (Kirkus)
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Great story very small issue with reader
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interesting take on Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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fantastic book and marvelous narrator
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Love this book!
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Dystopian Comedy
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My rate is to keep the algorithms happy.
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I loved it and wished there was more.
This book was a whole trip
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Very sterile world building, and didn’t much like the ending…
Satirical dystopia
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Patricia Rodriguez's performance is amazing!
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