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Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Smug

Author: Tom Holt

Narrator: Ray Sawyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

A new novel from a master of comic fantasy, Tom Holt.

New evil.

Same as the old evil, but with better PR.

Mordak isn't bad as far as goblin kings go, but when someone - or something - starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms, it puts his rule in serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms race with a species whose arms he once considered merely part of a calorie-controlled diet.

Helped by an elf with a background in journalism and a master's degree in being really pleased with herself, Mordak sets out to discover what on Earth (if indeed, that's where he is) is going on. He knows that the truth is out there. If only he could remember where he put it.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a must-read for those who grew up in awe of The Phantom Tollbooth ....Holt achieves near-perfection in his new comic fantasy." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

Members Reviews:

More donuts!

Another book about the donut time-warp thingee. This one is the best of the lot. Basic plot: the king of the goblins goes on a quest accompanied by a elf journalist.

Falstaff's Big Gamble

Don't Eat the Elves

Are you trying to fill the hole that Terry Pratchett left in this universe?

Maybe you were more into Doug Adams. Guess what? Heâs gone too.

Vonnegut? Long passed. My tears for him are dry.

You know who we do have? Tom Holt!

He likes to mix a fantasy and science fiction universe with jokes and magical doughnuts.

His books feel familiar in your mouth, light and fluffy with a bit of meat thrown in there - cut my own throat!.

What happens in this one? Well, an extended joke about Rumpelstiltskin and hard money monetary policy for one. Some other stuff too. Read it!

Chuckles abound

Funny, witty and intelligent. What more could you ask for from a multiverse joy ride?

Donuts Strike Again!

Another typical Tom Holt lampoon. Deft hand with literal humor skewers at ruling, economic growth, and business relationships...with a quest tossed in. Humor in Sci-fi/Fantasy is in such short supply. I hope more authors come into the forefront, because you need a break from dystopia, saving the earth, and saving the kingdom.

tom holt rocks

tom holt is a master storyteller

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Title: Underwood, Scotch, and Wry

Author: Brian D. Meeks

Narrator: Jack Nolan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-15

Publisher: Brian D. Meeks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Underwood, Scotch, and Wry is a humorous look at social media through the eyes of a Luddite college professor .

Arthur enjoys drinking, the company of his female TAs, and generally being a pain in the butt for the dean of the English department. He has tenure. He hates computers.

The dean hates him.

Watch as Arthur and the dean engage in an angst filled battle to end (or save) his job. This humorous fiction will keep you listening. If you like social media, blogging, and mockery, you'll enjoy my first satire novel Underwood, Scotch, and Wry.

Members Reviews:

Great match of writing and narrator!

humor, snark-fest, professor

Read from October 16 to 17, 2016

Imagine a total Luddite professor pushed into teaching a semester on social media. Snide and snarky from the git-go, the snickers and groans just keep on coming. If you're looking for anything serious here, you're in the wrong place! Loved it!

Jack Nolan is the perfect narrator for this farce.

Excellent Book

I just finished the book. That was fun! Looking forward to more from the author.

70% garbage, 20% insightful, 10% funny

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A less annoying narrator would have helped, but it needed a less awful main character, more interesting supporting characters, less sexism, and a plot worth caring about. Meeks needed to play to his strengths: spend less time forcing bad jokes, less time defending the ivory tower old boys club, and more time with the introverted, introspective scenes. His scenes writing about writing, talking about reading, and actually unpacking social media...those were good. Framing that commentary within this story and with these characters was not.

Has Underwood, Scotch, and Wry turned you off from other books in this genre?

I don't know what genre this falls under, and it hasn't turned me off from books in general, so...no? I certainly won't be reading any sequels, but I would be willing to give Meeks another shot at something different.

Would you be willing to try another one of Jack Nolans performances?

Maybe if he stopped trying to be bouncy and chipper, and learned the value of pacing. He kept trying to make things more lively and funny, but I think it would have fit the author's tone a little better if he had been more straight-faced. Short pauses and deadpan delivery can be great devices for humor, especially the dry, ironic humor so many academics are prone to--as a grad student, I know firsthand. Sure, your average American probably won't get a lot of it, but your average American probably also isn't going to get all the literary references, so since they've already lost the broadest audience, Nolan and Meeks should be playing to the audience they have.

So I would have to listen to a sample first, before getting anything Nolan did again.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Boredom and irritation, for the most part. Arthur constantly made me roll my eyes, and the only character even vaguely dissimilar to a caricature was Eric. The dialogue was also pretty bad.

However, there were some really great comments about literature and social media that made me smile and made me think, so this book isn't a complete write-off.

Any additional comments?

The female characters are all either stupid, sex toys, enablers, incompetent, or any combination thereof.

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Title: Summerlong

Author: Dean Bakopoulos

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-15

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

One night Don, a father of three, leaves his house for an evening stroll only to wake up the next morning stoned and sleeping in a hammock next to a young woman he barely knows. His wife, Claire, leaves the house on this same night to go on a midnight run - only to find herself bumming cigarettes and beer outside the all-night convenience store. As the summer lingers and the temperature rises, this quotidian town's adults grow wilder and more reckless while their children grow increasingly confused. Claire, Don, and their neighbors and friends find themselves on an existential odyssey, exploring the most puzzling quandaries of marriage and maturity. When does a fantasy become infidelity? When does compromise become resentment? When does routine become boring monotony?

Members Reviews:

Funny, Quirky, Poignant

Yes, its a book about suburban angst. It is a GOOD book about it, however. It is funny and poignant. There are a lot of great insights into life and love. The character of Ruth, the pot-smoking old lady, was especially enjoyable. She seemed like the Greek chorus of the book, delivering many of the meaningful passages about life and love. BUT then shed break out with something really funny or quirky, especially considering she is almost 90 years old:

(Be aware = adult language )

I would see him out there every morning and our nods and hellos soon became friendly exchanges. It was summer. Hed just arrived, hadnt taught his first class yet, and one day, I just . . .

Ruth smiles.

What? ABC says, still brushing.

I blew him, Ruth says.

ABC shrieks with a kind of shock and begins to laugh. Ruths slender shoulders shake with laughter too, silent laughter. It takes ABC almost five minutes to recover.

In some ways, its terrible, but now, its just, well, its just a fact.

Where did you blow him? Right there on the path? Oh my God!

Thats what they said then. It was 1982. They said blow job. They said, She blew him. Isnt that still what they say?

I guess so. Sometimes we say oral sex.

Oral sex? Sounds clinical.

(Kindle Locations 2796-2803).

I do have to say that the first half of the book was kind of slow. That is why I only rated it 3 stars instead of 4 or 5. In the second half, the plot really comes together and it becomes a compelling read. SO, its definitely worth the time!

Loved!

I loved this book. It was like Richard Russo meets Jonathan Tropper meets American Beauty. I often spend hours on Audible looking for a good book. I've either read or listened to so many that it's difficult to find another that catches my attention. This one was buried deep within the list and I'm so glad I kept digging until I found it. I highly recommend it.

Please don't waste a credit on this

What disappointed you about Summerlong?

The story was about a writer (wife) and another writer (deceased professor) and another kind of writer (the deceased professor's son), and an English major, plus a cheesy real estate agent. They smoked a lot of weed and acted totally immature. Writers writing about writers, especially ones using drugs is nothing new, so that was boring, but then there was a bizarre twist about trying to reach a dead loved one. And the mixed up love triangles...

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Title: The Man That Time Forgot: Book 1

Author: Alan Mechem, Paul Mitchell

Narrator: Richard Ridings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-15

Publisher: Alan Mechem

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Amazon's number-one time travel tale is now an audiobook narrated by one of the world's most iconic voice artists and acclaimed actors, Richard Ridings!

Richard is best known as the beloved voice of Daddy Pig on TV's Peppa Pig. His work on videogames such as Dungeon Keeper and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West have led Richard to receive critical acclaim.

Richard brings a mesmerizing performance to The Man That Time Forgot.

The story:

History is a great big lie.

Just open any book or talk to any history professor and they'll tell you that history is filled with nothing but glorious battles, great leaders, plagues, large fires, earthquakes, famous inventors, Egyptians, and Louis Pasteur.

This couldn't be further from the truth. History, in fact, is filled with a whole lot of nothing.

Andrew Adams knows that only too well.

He's an ordinary man living his life in the all-too-abundant and mundane spaces between those great moments. His life follows a daily routine much like that of many others: he wakes up, does the minimum required to get himself through the day - careful not to learn too much or create a lasting impression on anyone - and then he goes back to bed. There's only one ever-so-minor inconvenience that continually stands in the way of Andrew's ignorantly blissful life....

Time travel.

Since before he can remember, every time Andrew sleeps he's randomly flung through time and space, never knowing where or when he'll wake up, clueless to how it all started or how it can be stopped .The only things he can be certain of are that the location he arrives at won't be anywhere exciting, and he'll have to stay there until he loses his fight against sleep.

Andrew Adams has all but given up hope and given up on life. That is, until he meets someone like him.

Members Reviews:

Loved this story!

Where does The Man That Time Forgot: Book 1 rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

My first audiobook! I loved the narration by Richard Ridings.

What did you like best about this story?

I like the clever story and the sarcastic tone.

What does Richard Ridings bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Richard Ridings makes the characters come alive and adds to the sarcastic tone of the narrator and main character.

Acted, not just read. Intriguing.

If you could sum up The Man That Time Forgot: Book 1 in three words, what would they be?

Intriguing, spellbinding, funny.

What did you like best about this story?

The mystery of where he came from and why his time jumping is different.

What does Richard Ridings bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Like in my headline, Richard Ridings does not just read the story he acts it out. I see not just hear the books conversations.

If you could rename The Man That Time Forgot: Book 1, what would you call it?

Wouldn't change the name.

Any additional comments?

Where is Book 2!

Amazing!

One of the best time traveling books I've read/listened to. Reminds me of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

no spoon feeding here

Where does The Man That Time Forgot: Book 1 rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Top 60

Would you be willing to try another book from Alan Mechem and Paul Mitchell ? Why or why not?

Yes, depending on who read it.

Which character as performed by Richard Ridings was your favorite?

All, he really brought them to life.

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Title: Muse

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jonathan Galassi

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-15

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both.

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures on its list. Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the ins and outs of the book trade - how to work an agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he adores.

But Paul's deepest admiration has always been reserved for one writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose audacious verse and notorious private life have shaped America's contemporary literary landscape and whose longtime publisher - also her cousin and erstwhile lover - happens to be Homer's biggest rival. And when Paul at last has the chance to meet Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret - one that will change all of their lives forever.

Studded with juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, written with both satiric verve and openhearted nostalgia, Muse is a brilliant, haunting audiobook about the beguiling interplay between life and art and the eternal romance of literature.

Critic Reviews:

"Galassi conveys the thrill of being dazzled by literature.... He also has fun with the language of reviewing while delivering a casual seminar on American poetry; an extended riff on the Frankfurt Book Fair bespeaks years of painful firsthand experience.... A worthy psalm on the pre-Amazon, pre-digital days of publishing that anyone might appreciate. Galassi rates praise especially for choosing to have some knowing fun with his years in the business." (Kirkus)

"In poet Galassi's first novel, a book editor navigates the world of 21st-century publishing while unraveling the secrets of his lifelong hero, a poet named Ida Perkins.... The fun of this book is watching Galassi weave his fictional characters into real literary history and put his considerable gifts as a poet to good use." (Publishers Weekly)

"Charming.... A novel about a world that exists in memory: an industry still spoken of reverentially as a noble calling rather than a business. Its hero is a bookish young man from upstate New York who is drawn to the down-at-the heels glamour of book publishing. Muse is two parts valentine, one part satire, a loving send-up of a very specific culture. [Here] is a world where intrigue takes the form of a decades-long battle over who gets to publish a charismatic, talented and audacious poet, a writer of sensual poetry with an outsized popular appeal. A reader would not be wrong to see parallels between the characters in the book and industry legends." (Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, New York Observer

Members Reviews:

Wit, poetry, profundity--and delicious nostalgia

What made the experience of listening to Muse the most enjoyable?

Every poet (or every person with a poet's soul) who has even a hint of nostalgia for a poetry world that is almost gone by should read Jonathan Galassi's MUSE, a roman a clef novel about a young man in the publishing world and a poet of such fantastic renown she'd be Edna St.

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Title: Superstar

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Viva

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

A bold and uncensored fictional account of the wild life at Andy Warhol's world-famous Factory by a real-life superstar who witnessed it all.

Author, video artist, underground film actor, and superstar, the incomparable Viva is arguably the most famous of Andy Warhol's protégés - a mainstay at the enigmatic artist's Factory. In her riveting, revelatory, totally uncensored, and scandalously entertaining novel, the Factory doors are blown wide open, exposing a world of sex, drugs, and genius.

Based on Viva's own life, Superstar is the story of Gloria, a repressed, convent-educated aspiring artist who escapes the strictures of her stifling existence and flees to New York City. Falling in with an iconic artist referred to as A. and his coterie of outrageous, beautiful, avant-garde acolytes, transvestites, boy toys, and hangers-on, Gloria is reborn, undergoing a remarkable transformation from sheltered young innocent to sexual athlete, film star, and media darling. Over the course of her reawakening, she sheds her every inhibition as she experiences what ordinary people only dream about in their most secret fantasies...or worst nightmares.

Though the names have all been changed, the real stars of Warhol's factory are scandalously recognizable. Viva injects her own unique style and personality into a story at once outrageous and brutally honest: the unforgettable making of a superstar.

Members Reviews:

An unfinished life

This book begins wonderfully with Viva's superb evocation of what it was like to grow up Catholic in upstate NY, and then follows her to the big city where her objective view of the Warhol world is enormously revealing. She is a part of it all, a star, but she always manages to stand aside as an intelligent observer.However, when in later chapters all she is doing is transcribing tape recordings, her great charm soon disappears, and we are asked to witness what happens when a first rate mind gets into drugs and other stupidities. A disappointing book and ultimately a disappointing life. We expect more of someone who's started off with so much more than most.

This is a must !

This is a must for your enlightenment!

A look into the personality of a star of her

time; and into a starring time of our era.

Wonderful!

very entertaining

even though Viva doesnt name names its very easy to see who is who in this tell all. Very entertaining, and funny and sometimes dirty. A very fast and easy read.

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Title: Awaken Your Perfect Self

Subtitle: How to Become Better Than Everybody Else

Author: Brian Haigh

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Told in a deadpan style, this Kindle Single skewers the self-promoting, self-loving worst of the self-help movement, offering several nuggets of "wisdom" such as "The journey of life is like climbing a mountain. You may have to push people off to reach the top, but the view makes it all worthwhile."

Based on a series of interviews with self-perfection guru Jim Hoenfhmfjn (pronounced "Hinfmfn"), Awaken Your Perfect Self introduces the listener to Jim's philosophies in 15 easy-to-digest life lessons. Learn how to put yourself before others, take instead of give, and stop being a follower and become a leader. Propel your life forward and achieve ultimate success - start perfecting yourself today!

Members Reviews:

Weird.. Funny.. Crazy.. 3 Stars. * * *

Well.. 3 Stars.

The title of the book is not exactly what it says. I thought it teaches you something about yourself. How to become.... Whatever.. But Instead, It has many little interesting stories about an experience of a man who escorted Some other man. a very Trickey man who take advantage of people and using them for his every need.

The whole idea of the book is how that man was watching the other man in action and learning from him how to use people and so on..

What does it mean for us, The readers? I am not sure. I don't think none of us would like to be rude or take advantage of people like that man in these stories. Not at all! -So.. I don't really know..

Anyway, I gave it 3 stars because after all it's not a bad book. It's kind of interesting. I would not use ANY of this man's behaviour's as an example for my life, But it was interesting to read it.. Sometimes Crazy.. Sometimes funny.. Just a nice book. :)

Hilarious!!!!

It's about time someone wrote a piece like this. It's a first rate comic slice and dice of the great conning of the American people that is the so-called self-help movement.

I laughed my butt off reading this Kindle Single. The author does a great job showing up the inane platitudes of the self help movement for what they are -- dumb!

Though the author doesn't mention the lines specifically, he shines a light on the idiot philosophies that "Everything happens for a reason" and "It's all good."

Of course, Americans don't get satire as a general rule, and these days too few of them can get in touch with their sense of humor through the pharmaceutical haze.

Anyway, this is laugh out loud funny and right on the mark. Best 99 cents I ever spent.

Uke Jackson

Very interesting, unsettling, compelling, odd...

I thought this was a really affordable self help book with an odd title. But for the price and the fact I was new to ebooks, I decided to give it a try. As I read, I continued to go back to the front of this book and try to determine where this book was coming from... Who wrote it? Where? Anything to give me more clues... I eventually read it, although I was very aware of where this was going..... or so I thought.... It is short. It is odd to say the least. To this day, I have no idea if this is a true story or if someone faked it like a mocumentary. Every time I see the cover in my ebook collection, I stop and consider it.... It is eerie... It makes me wonder.... Is this real? Could it be? Read it and share your thoughts please. I need others opinion.

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Title: Star Island

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug-fuelled disaster. Her 'stunt double', Ann, travels everywhere with her, throwing paparazzi off the scent when they get too close. But one night, Ann's resemblance to Cherry Pye proves too convincing - she is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo who only realises his mistake once it is too late to go back....

Critic Reviews:

"Bright, breezy and hectic, Star Island wears its pessimism lightly. It is, in fact, a blast." (Financial Times)

"The funniest crime novelist to put pen to paper." (The Evening Standard)

Members Reviews:

One of his best

Hiaasen has developed an amazing cast of grotesque characters and fitted them into a slick and witty storyline that had me smiling throughout and laughing out loud at times. Loved it.

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Title: Beautiful You

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Carol Monda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-14

Publisher: Jammer Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a law firm with no love life. So it comes as a shock when shes invited to dinner by C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire. After dinner, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris where Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the development of new sex toys. So effective are these devices that women lock themselves in their room and stop coming out...

Critic Reviews:

"Palahniuk continues to push limits... His cheeky wit is at its best in this grotesque novel" (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Not sure how to rate this.

On the one hand, I really enjoyed this and zipped through the story - a sure sign it is going well. At times though, some of the things happening had me shaking my head. I'm no prude, but some of the occurrences seem to be titillation for its own sake and distracted to a point from the bigger, excellent political message which is delivered with Chuck's characteristic aplomb. Great listen, great warning and slight on our consumer culture, but too often succumbs to its pulpy side.

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Title: Russell Brand's Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Author: Russell Brand

Narrator: Russell Brand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-06-14

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Once upon a time, a mysterious time that exists through a window in your mind, a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now does to us, except their teeth weren't so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin . . .

In the first in his series of Trickster Tales, Russell Brand retells the classic children's story "The Pied Piper of Hamelin".

You'll be enchanted and revolted in equal measure by the host of characters you meet along the way: the anarchic rats, the arrogant townspeople, sharp-eyed Sam, and of course the Pied Piper himself, all brought to life in Brand's inimitable style.

Members Reviews:

kids will love it and grown ups too!

I'm 38 and still loved it!great storytelling brand! found myself giggling at his step toe impression too!