
The Golden Age
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Narrated by:
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Anne Twomey
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By:
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Gore Vidal
The Golden Age offers up United States history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power.
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I thought "Golden Age" excellent for its reflection on history/historiography, on America as Empire, and also as a novel in its own right - It seems to be both a modern novel and postmodern at the same time, by a novelist who was a minor actor in the events woven into novel.
One downside to the audiobook: I almost gave up on the listen in the first hours - the narrator seemed to have mastered neither the cadence of Vidal's sentences nor the voices of a couple of the characters, so she seemed to insert herself between listener and novel -- but that resolved by hour three.
Imagine! A novelist warning - in 2000 - about Presidents who trick the American public into supporting an unwanted war - not to mention the military-industrial-entertainment complex's use of drug wars and terrorism to maintain a constant state of mobilization for war - all related in an entertaining story. Vidal manages to relate not only the fictional elements but also the known history in a suspenseful manner.
Not everyone will agree with Vidal's ideas on American history, but he does argue for a view that is widely supported by professional historians.
remarkable novel, remarkable history
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Vidal's History is Good
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Wonderful
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Would you try another book from Gore Vidal and/or Anne Twomey?
Gore Vidal, great as always. The reading however, I couldn't get passed the first hour.What didn’t you like about Anne Twomey’s performance?
The benefit of audiobooks is being able to hear, clearly, not only the tone of a character but also be able to tell the difference between them. Especially when they are supposed to have British accents. Anne apparently CANNOT do a British accent.Good book, poor reading
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An excellent fictionalization of an important period
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Narrator
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Marvelous
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kind of odd
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Vidal writes beautifully, poetically but in the end depressingly as well. Life is coming to an end. And humanity is greedy and stupid. Hope is for fools.
The opposite of a suicide note--where the author mourns and the readers want to end their lives after reading it, from unrelenting tedium.
Series ends not with a thud but a poem
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A great writer, a difficult novel
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