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Villa Incognito
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's summary
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel--a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat.
On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about “the false mustache of the world”--but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito.
A female fan once wrote to Tom Robbins:
“Your books make me think, they make me laugh, they make me horny and they make me aware of the wonder of everything in life.”
Villa Incognito will surely arouse a similar response in many people, for in its lusty, amusing way it both celebrates existence and challenges our ideas about it.
To say much more about a novel as fresh and surprising as Villa Incognito would run the risk of diluting the sheer fun of reading it. As his dedicated readers worldwide know full well, it’s best to climb aboard the Tom Robbins tilt-a-whirl, kiss preconceptions and sacred cows goodbye and simply enjoy the ride.
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In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a 19-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul.
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A tender gift from far away
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Bangkok 8
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Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. - is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones....
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Very dissapointing
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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The performance is enchanting.
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Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel’s publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie’s comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
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B Is for Beer
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Once upon a time (right about now) there was a planet (how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed 36 billion gallons of beer each year (it's a fact, you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous kindergartner named Gracie; her distracted mommy; her insensitive dad; her non-conformist uncle; and a magical, butt-kicking intruder from a world within our world.
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Auntie Poldi, sassy, brassy, and 60, moves to Sicily for a quiet alcohol-fuelled retirement. A murder spoils her plans. This is the first novel in a charming new mystery series set in Sicily and laced with Italian sensuality and humor. It features an amateur sleuth, the sassy and foul-mouthed Auntie Poldi. Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view, but fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case.
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Auntie Poldi Rocks!
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
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N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
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Great! One quibble with the audiobook editing
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Gass’ new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life - futile, comic, anarchic - arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland....
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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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perfect audio experience
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"Better to look at the sky than live there"
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There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one such liaison.
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- tamiam
- 06-22-21
loved the book, narrator is a no
the print book is one my favorite tom robbins books. i thought i would enjoy it on audible. the preview clip seemed fine but within the first chapter the narrator starts making bad and garbled accents. these are supposed to be japanese i guess. they are just unacceptable. i immediately returned this title.
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- Badger McBadger
- 03-19-19
Relies on weirdness
I read Robbins quite a bit 10 years ago and it captured my imagination more as an early 20 something. Now, he seems to rely on sophistry and strangeness to make up for a lack of real substance. His prejudices are apparent in this one particularly and there is a fair number of new-liberal propaganda and cliches throughout. What is left after attacking politics and religion and tradition is basically sex, drugs, and rock and roll. I was left feeling uniformed and kind of hollow. I will say, he has some good metaphors though. And there are some funny parts in the details
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- Noah
- 12-09-06
Some great sentences, but an incomplete story
Many people would argue that Robbins never focuses very much on plot or story, but I have found his stream of consciousness adventures to be some of the most fun, clever and engrossing books that I have read.
That being said, Villa Incognito was a bit of a dissapointment. This novel follows the same formula as his other books, and it seems that half way through, he got bored with writing another novel about absurdity, gurus, and wahoo and decided to just end it. This really feels like a story that he just got tired of writing and so he tied it together at the end real quick.
Still, it is Robbins, so you'll find some of the most playful use of English and structure around. I still got a happy fizzy feeling reading this, but with the rapid conclusion of developing plots, the reader is left feeling a bit cheated in the end.
If you like Robbins and have read his other work. You will definitely enjoy this, but I would recommend reading his other titles first.
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- J. Houlding
- 05-18-03
More excellent Robbins
If you love Tom Robbins, then you will like this book. The narration is fantastic, and the story is compelling. The classic problem is that it is difficult to wrap up so many stories at the end, so he uses an epilogue to finish the book, which was a little bit of a let down. That being said, it has some great characters, storylines and made me laugh out loud.
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- Doug
- 07-15-19
Decent storytelling, stereotypical accents
I struggled through the terrible, dated, stereotypical Asian accents to appreciate this novel. my wife loves Robbins and knows my interest in stories of yokai, but man, the way that Asian accents are depicted in verbal yellowface was really off-putting.
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- randall Redy
- 11-15-23
Very wonderfully strange!
Thanks etc etc thanks again and more Tom Robbins!
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- Kate Barattini
- 04-08-18
Incredible narrator
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I mean, Tom Robbins, if you enjoy his books you're obviously going to enjoy this one...but THAT NARRATOR! I feel like he did a wonderful job.
Who was your favorite character and why?
All of them. Madam Ko was badass.
What about Barrett Whitener’s performance did you like?
He was a natural.
If you could take any character from Villa Incognito out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Hmmm...Either Stubblefield or the fox whose name I cannot spell.
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- Mike G
- 02-28-19
Fantasy creatues, smugglers and circus folk
Another fantastic, amusing, clever tale from the master of all things wonderful and profane. While not his best book IMO. Still a wild, fun adventure with clever and interesting characters. Second time through and just as fun.
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- Michael Hadley
- 08-31-22
Tom Robbins is both funny and insightful
Makes me want to run away to Eastern Asia! A mixture between his sardonic humor, quirky philosophy and apocalyptic view of modern American society makes this an , albeit short, instant classic! Loved this title! Can't wait to listen to more! Next is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues! I hope his other titles are added soon!
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- piers palmer
- 10-12-16
Slow to get going, quick to end
Rather slow to get going and then all of a sudden it runs out of steam and ends.
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