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Sarah Rose Etter
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A surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday - school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents - with the surreal-rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats - Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,413
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strange, unsettling, but engrossing
- De S. Yates en 01-09-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Ripe
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Rose Etter
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 44
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of unhoused people bathing in the bay. Start-up burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains, and men literally set themselves on fire in the streets.
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2 out of 5 stars
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EG, Sorry to say it doesn't get any better
- De Alexis_Vandew en 08-18-23
De: Sarah Rose Etter
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Agents of Dreamland
- Tinfoil Dossier, Book 1
- De: Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell, Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea, a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible - the Children of the Next Level - and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming, and they will help to usher it in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Really Enjoyed It
- De KC Miller en 10-22-20
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Geek Love
- De: Katherine Dunn
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,800
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,497
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
No one wants to be a victim, but most find the event too hypnotic to ignore. In order to save their traveling carnival from bankruptcy, the Binewskis are creating their own brood of sideshow freaks. Under Al's careful direction, the pregnant Lil ingests radioisotopes, insecticides, and arsenic to make her babies "special".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shudderingly Good!
- De reader en 08-22-09
De: Katherine Dunn
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Night of the Mannequins
- De: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 226
One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until is starts killing. Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He'll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll kill as many people as he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes - sometimes you have to become a monster first.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sad that it ended
- De Jason en 03-12-21
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Homesick for Another World
- Stories
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 315
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 279
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- De Sofia Macht en 06-13-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Dear Laura
- De: Gemma Amor
- Narrado por: Sasha Higgins
- Duración: 2 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend Bobby, but there's a catch: He'll only tell her what he knows in exchange for something...personal. So begins Laura's sordid relationship with her new pen pal, built on a foundation of quid pro quo. Her quest for closure will push her to bizarre acts of humiliation and harm, yet no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape her correspondent's demands. The letters keep coming, and as time passes, they have a profound effect on Laura.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Trigger Warning/Spoiler
- De T en 06-03-25
De: Gemma Amor
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The Ones That Got Away
- De: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. From prison guards making unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West doling out justice, these stories carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears and certainties, and there's no anesthetic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Use your credit somewhere else
- De Doug M en 05-22-22
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In the Dream House
- A Memoir
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Carmen Maria Machado
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,724
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,482
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope - the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devastatingly Beautiful
- De SeattleBookLover en 02-04-20
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 567
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 574
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 898
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 897
He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Wonder Of Kindness & Connection
- De Sara en 06-16-16
De: Yoko Ogawa
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- De: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrado por: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 245
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Splendid...
- De Paul Frandano en 02-07-23
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Devil's Creek
- De: Todd Keisling
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 179
About 15 miles west of Stauford, Kentucky, lies Devil's Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices - a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. And like most legends, there's truth buried among the roots and bones.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid horror let down by the narration
- De DP en 01-05-25
De: Todd Keisling
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The Starless Sea
- A Novel
- De: Erin Morgenstern
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman, full cast
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 7,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,281
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6,277
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues - a bee, a key, and a sword.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just couldn't make it
- De Richard E. en 11-23-19
De: Erin Morgenstern
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Our Wives Under the Sea
- De: Julia Armfield
- Narrado por: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 577
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 502
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Has stayed with me…
- De Maryanne T. en 10-05-22
De: Julia Armfield
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Perfume
- The Story of a Murderer
- De: Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,661
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,468
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,469
In the slums of 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects. Then one day, he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume" - the scent of a beautiful young virgin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an unusual, highly entertaining story.
- De Kay Tracy en 02-13-19
De: Patrick Süskind, y otros
But I loved it all.
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