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The Witches of Eastwick
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works.... [A] comedy of the blackest sort.” (The New York Times Book Review)
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream.
Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick - and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche.
“A great deal of fun to read...fresh, constantly entertaining.... John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
“Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.” (Newsday)
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- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 37 hrs and 21 mins
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- By Jefferson on 07-04-16
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- By: Leslye Walton
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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- By FanB14 on 07-24-15
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Outside Looking In
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- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- By Christopher Meeks on 05-25-19
By: T. C. Boyle
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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A must-read for every woman
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By: Sylvia Plath
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- By Terri Kirk on 07-13-12
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Homesick for Another World
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There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- By Sofia Macht on 06-13-18
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: Peter Riegert
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For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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Didn't finish...
- By Ann E O'Connor on 10-16-17
By: Michael Chabon
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- By: Joy Williams
- Narrated by: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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I sure tried.
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Stories
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- By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, and others
- Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, and others
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
- By Nicole on 05-24-17
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- C. Budden
- 05-15-21
Has Always Been a Favorite
There’s a little spoiler ahead: This has always been one of my favorite books. I really enjoy Updike’s prose and Kate Reading’s reading is wonderful. I must agree though with another commenter above—some of the segments seem to be out of order. The witches speak of Jenny’s death prior to a segment where Jenny is very much still alive. It had been so long since I read the actual book I thought perhaps at first it was like a flashback. But I don’t think that’s the case. I think it’s out of order. That’s the reason I gave the story a four star. Otherwise it would have been all fives.
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- Tracy Walters
- 04-26-12
I'm not really sure what I was wanting to gain....
....from reading this book.....I had seen the movie years ago and thought it was pretty good and I think Jack Nicholson is the PERFECT Darryl Van Horne....just what you imagine him to be while reading the book. The book...at times....made me feel a bit uncomfortable because of all the wanton sexual escapades between Darryl and the 3 women/witches (Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie. I really like the women when they were struggling with everyday life situations and I loved Sukie and her happy-go-lucky spirit. Jane was just a bit too brash for me to feel any kind of emotion towards her other than a bit of dislike. Alexandra was the typical reminder of how all women seem to be too hard on themselves and worry to much about weight.....illness......looks......children.....etc.
The book was funny in places but it was more of a heavy type read and the ending was really not that happy......I felt a bit sad and disheartened by it and it really wasn't what I thought would be a more light....quirky type of read. I guess I was just expecting more and so therefore I was letdown. Don't get me wrong......the writing style of John Updike is beautiful and so full of description that it is very easy to visualize what he wants you to see.....it just wasn't that amazing book that I was looking for....it was more of an okay book that you are neither happy or sad that you read it.
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- Frank Donnelly
- 02-04-19
A Very Unusual And Well Written Novel - Some Parts Out of Sync
This is an unusual novel about some twentieth century women in New England who do have witches capabilities. John Updike is at times very erudite and at other times crude and to me, distasteful.
Sometimes the story is painful. Having said that there is a episode wherein a character preaches in church and it is one of the funniest things that I have ever read.
As far as the audiobook, it is mostly excellent. However, I need to report that as I read and listened simultaneously, there was one point wherein the narration seemed to get pages out of sequence. This is late in the novel and I only noted it one time. I think if I had ONLY listened I would have been temporarily confused.
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- lisa
- 07-05-19
the grate of cone of power
the movie took snippets from the novel. In the movie it was another that was sick and 3 babes were born. If that Description is Cryptic check out the movie both were good but the book had more pagan references. I enjoyed the book very much
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- Clarence
- 08-18-09
"Enjoyed" the movie more
The novel is beautifully written with prose and imagery that, to me, provides new ways of looking at nature and fertility. Yet, the story is so languid and dry that it takes forever to get anywhere. This novel is brilliantly written, but I really enjoyed the movie more, although they are really two completely different things.
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- Elle W.
- 07-28-18
Two Thumbs Up!
Wonderful book! Takes a chapter or two to get into it, but stick with it. Completely different than the movie! Kate Reading REALLY makes those characters come alive. Felt like live theater listening to it.
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- Joseph Polson
- 09-08-17
Damn can this man write women.
Every sentence is like he's working a spell. I just stared out the window entranced. I only wish there were more than two. I love that he wrote the sequel 30 years later, in his life and in their lives. Remarkable.
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- FMS
- 04-07-17
Dated but still fun
The writing is nice but I can't decide if the author loves or hates women. The racism sprinkled throughout is a sign of the times I guess. I was not terribly enthralled with the read through but overall the narrator did well. Perhaps to have to be of this generation for it to really hold you.
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- I. Kissen
- 01-08-09
Bewitched!
This is a brilliant novel by one of the best contemporary writer. It is full of fun, sadness, wisdom, and deep understanding of life's desires.
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- Katherine Tyler
- 05-24-21
umm...ok
He has no idea how women's bodies work. You ever see that meme about it being hard for women to pee because our bodies are a maze? It comes from this book.
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