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Mania
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Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.
In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word (“stupid”) and encouraged to report parents who use it at home.
A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah’s Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she’s also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children’s spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes.
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- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.
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"Po-TAH-toes"?!
- By Pamela Harvey on 09-22-09
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The New Republic
- A Novel
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate.
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Not as clever as it's trying to be
- By Sharon on 02-10-15
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Double Fault
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at 23, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, competition soon puts a strain on their relationship - and an accident sends Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.
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Nine hours of arguing
- By Pamela Harvey on 09-28-11
By: Lionel Shriver
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
- A Novel
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise - which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life - an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.
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Very Good!
- By Tina on 06-01-20
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Game Control
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.
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The Human Stain
- By: Philip Roth
- Length: 13 hrs
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America—a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Painful and drawn out
- By JR on 06-27-18
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Ordinary Decent Criminals
- A Novel
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Melanie MacHugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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For 10 years Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, and a lover and never tarries past the first signs of ennui.
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Big fan of Lionel Shriver, not this book
- By p on 05-09-16
By: Lionel Shriver
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Secret Origins
- Superhero Fantasy Action Adventure
- By: J. D. Brink
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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★★★★★ “Outstanding rendition of superhero genres everywhere. Not your typical caped crusaders in these hero stories.” A sinister funhouse, apocalyptic cultists, and a mutant crime war. Suit up, hero. It’s going to be a busy day. It’s a lovely day for a summer carnival. The sun is out, the Twinkies are deep-fried, and romance is in the air. Luke Gillis (a.k.a. Spitball) finally musters the courage to ask his lab partner out on a date. But with a shape-shifting villain on the loose, his timing couldn’t be worse... Red Mantis is determined to shatter a kidnapping ring, but ...
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The Female of the Species
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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World-famous anthropologist Gray Kaiser has almost everything. She is brilliance, self-sufficient, and beautiful. But at 59, one thing is still missing from her life. She has never been in love. Her assistant Errol McEchern has loved her for many years, but she doesn't know.
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Rare weak novel from the wonderful Lionel Shriver
- By F. Turner on 08-10-11
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Wyrd Gods
- Timelessness, Book 1
- By: Susana Imaginário
- Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Chronos, god of Time, and creator of the Universe, wants to destroy Eternity. A mysterious immortal seeks vengeance. And a reclusive Olympian deity does what no god should ever do: She answers a prayer. As punishment, she is stripped of her powers and trapped in a mortal's body. Now a Wyrd - a fated god - she is haunted by the memories and thoughts of her host and must hide her true identity in order to survive in Niflheim, the rival Norse Underworld.
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An interesting mythological romp!
- By superstardrifter on 01-28-21
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- upgrayedd
- 04-14-24
Thoroughly enjoyed this
Shriver envisions a world created by Ellsworth Monkton Toohey and it’s every bit as incompetent and frightening as one could imagine.
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- Patricia
- 05-03-24
Are We There Yet?
Ms. Shriver piles nonsense upon nonsense to provide a terrifying yet mesmerizing mirror to the "real" world. This book is every bit as frightening as "1984" but a lot funnier. Funny, yes, but it is very nervous laughter.
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- Tina
- 04-13-24
Lionel Shriver is back doing what she does best!
I highly recommend this refreshingly entertaining and thought-provoking listen...especially if you enjoyed Shriver’s earlier dystopian work, "The Mandibles.”
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- Paul
- 06-03-24
A must read
Mania is a fantastic book that is relevant to current events. Like academia, this book pushes ideas and theories to the extreme, but that’s what makes it so important in today’s world. It's also sharp and witty, with a huge dollop of humor.
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- Chris Esse
- 04-17-24
Fiction for non-fiction lovers
Going back and forth between listening to this book and listening to news and podcasts about the real world, I often confused one for the other. I love her clear avoidance of politics because the message is louder for it. I’m just buzzing right now… and a bit frightened.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-24
This is 2024
Loved this book, feels like we already live in it. Don’t agree with all of shriver’s assertions but very witty and extremely clever.
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- Sam Veltre
- 04-25-24
Great story if you are willing to be open to it
Not at all what I expected great stuff for regardless of what your political spectrum is. Even if some of the ideas don’t align with you is fictionalized version of America is something you need to listen to to know what we society of for good or bad.
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- J
- 05-17-24
a brilliant and timely novel
Cutting, insightful social commentary paralleling the manias of our day, And yet it manages to do more than just that; this is an insight into our best and worst traits though an exaggerating and absurdist lens.
a well narrated, gripping story
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- Ten
- 04-20-24
Boring
It was slow, unlikeable characters, no interesting twists or climax. I wouldn’t recommend. Maybe I’ll give one of her other books a try.
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- ÿrn Johnson
- 05-17-24
Could have been a short short story.
I agree on concerns regarding the insane wokeism drowning us today but I simply found this (parody?) on this mental illness to long, not funny (female humor) and repeditive.
And please, get a new narrator.
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